Joe Flynn

Joe Flynn plays Capt. Wallace B. Binghamton on McHale’s Navy, the apoplectic commander who cannot win an argument with Ernest Borgnine’s sneaky skipper or Tim Conway’s Ensign Parker. WWII as PT-boat farce; the crew of PT-73 as a conspiracy of comfort. Borgnine’s post-Marty comedy turn is the engine; Flynn is the steam the engine blows. Service sitcom with a movie-star harbor. McHale's Navy ran on ABC from 1962–1966.

Joe Flynn clocks Capt. Wallace B. Binghamton at s01e01. An Ensign for McHale is the PT-boat contract: Borgnine's sneaky skipper, Tim Conway's Parker, Joe Flynn's Binghamton already apoplectic. s01e35 still shows the turn. The Monster of McHale's Island — first-season closer energy, service sitcom comfort with a movie star in the skipper's chair. McHale's Navy on ABC (1962–1966) is the workplace.

The yelling is the music. On TV Flash Flynn is 1960s farce craft: Binghamton as the authority figure sitcom needs so the sneak can sneak, a face that photographs as rank and plays as the weekly loss, still the reason the PT boat feels like a sitcom set instead of a war story.

Flynn filed Capt. Wallace B. Binghamton as weekly labor on McHale's Navy, ABC 1962–1966. Capt. Wallace B. Binghamton is supporting, not optional — filed as 1960s command-comedy steam. Rewatch s01e35 without apology. The Monster of McHale's Island — first-season closer energy, service sitcom comfort with a movie star in the skipper's chair.

s02e01 is extra weather, not a fake finale. The Day the War Stood Still opens season two on a title that admits the farce: WWII as argument McHale keeps winning.