Broadside

📊 Series Specifications

Network ABC
Episode Runtime ~ min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 32
Original Language EN

Broadside (1964)

Created by Edward Montagne
⭐ 3.5 / 5 (2 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 32 Episodes 🏷️ Comedy 📡 Canceled
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Series Status:

Currently airing weekly on international broadcast networks.

Canceled

Synopsis

Lt. Anne Morgan and her fellow Waves are posted to the backwater station on Ranakai, much to the displeasure of Commander Adrian. So his South Seas idyll, including gourmet cook, isn't disrupted has Adrian scheming to transfer the women.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Don't Make Waves

A quartet of WAVES takes over the motorpool on the South Pacific island of Ranakai, with animosity developing immediately.

E2 The Non-Permanent Wave

Marion Botnik playfully snaps pictures of the girls violating Navy regulations, but Commander Adrian locks the pictures in a safe so the admiral can see them.

E3 Kill 'Em with Kindness

Adrian offers the WAVES delicious, high-calorie foods so that they will be unable to pass the upcoming fitness test.

E4 Annie Shoots Down the Cupid

Dissension among the WAVES breaks out after each of them has dated a muscular sailor.

E5 Lt. Morgan's Secret Marriage

Adrian's visiting nephew ends up causing more trouble for him than the WAVES.

E6 The Great Lipstick War

Adrian cuts off the WAVES' makeup supply in the hopes that they will leave, but Morgan quickly sets up a lipstick still.

E7 Adrian Gets Nipped

Adrian and the crew pose as the enemy to frighten the WAVES into leaving the island.

E8 The Morale of Molly McGuire

Molly falls in love, so Adrian schedules a psychological test for her in the hopes that the entire motorpool will be shipped stateside.

E9 Adrian's Anniversary Waltz

Someone is making off with gourmet food from Adrian's private supply.

E10 Anne Bugs the Enemy

Adrian sabotages the motorpool to get them flagged for inefficiency. Anne fights back by planting a tape recorder in the commander's headquarters in the hope that he will make a damaging admission.

E11 Ranakai Flips Its Wig

The WAVES are tricked by Adrian into thinking that they are victim of a rare tropical disease known as 'galloping baldness'.

E12 My Son, the Egg

Adrian gets the mistaken idea that one of the WAVES is pregnant.

E13 Selma, the Love Trap

Rough-and-ready Selma is too forthright to snare a boyfriend, so the WAVES coach her to be more demure. When Selma goes AWOL, Anne has to cover for her.

E14 The Obstacle Course

The WAVES compete against three trained Marines in running a jungle obstacle course, and end up using their ingenuity to come out ahead.

E15 Behind the Eight Ball

After undergoing involuntary hypnosis, Adrian's attitude toward the WAVES swings wildly between love and hate.

E16 The Stowawaves

The WAVES stow away on a cargo ship and are shocked to see that Adrian is aboard.

E17 The Wolfman Cometh

A war correspondent uses the power of the press to wangle a date with Anne.

E18 Taurus to Aries to Chance

After Roberta destroys Adrian's croquet court while trying to warn him about ominous astrological signs, the other WAVES have to make Adrian believe in astrology to avoid having Roberta court-martialed.

E19 Adrian Goes Gung-Ho

While Anne is on leave, Adrian uses sleep-teaching records to try to get the WAVES to leave. After Anne returns, she tries the same thing on him and plants the idea that he should volunteer for dangerous duty.

E20 The Arrival of Stanley Stubbs

World-famous chef Stanley Stubbs comes to Ranakai after Adrian begs to have him assigned there.

E21 Follow That Pigeon

After spotting coded messages being sent by carrier pigeon, Adrian becomes convinced that the WAVES are guilty of espionage.

E22 Three Little Wishes

Adrian acquires a monkey's paw, unaware of the caveat.

E23 Lieutenant Love, Sir

After calling a Navy hearing to charge the WAVES with inefficiency, Adrian then has them arrested by Brisbane police so they will not be present to defend themselves.

E24 Adrian's Phantom Staff Car

Stanley and Selma allow Adrian's Rolls-Royce staff car to roll off a cliff and into a tree. They have to scramble to limit the consequences.

E25 Adrian Gets the Boot

Adrian orders the WAVES to undergo boot-camp training while continuing with their motorpool duties. The WAVES fight back, faking an order for Adrian to take basic training as well.

E26 Filet on the Hoof

Adrian smuggles a steer onto the island. After discovering that Morgan is allergic to animal hair, he assigns her to fatten up the steer.

E27 The Great Ranakai Mutiny

When the WAVES convince Adrian that he's headed for a nervous breakdown, Ens. Beasley eagerly takes command of the base.

E28 Anne Morgan's Home Movies

Adrian has movies of the WAVES taken during an unguarded moment so he can use them as evidence that they are neglecting their duties.

E29 Witchcraft a Go-Go

Roberta develops extrasensory perception, which causes Adrian to use him to contact his wife, an 18th-century Hawaiian king, Napoleon's cook, and a Chinese emperor who reigned in 6 AD.

E30 Once Upon an Island

During the flight to Brisbane for the WAVES' court-martial, the hatch inadvertently opens, which causes Adrian, the WAVES, Beasley, and Trotter to sail out over the South Pacific.

E31 Miss Ranakai

Adrian stages a beauty contest to create discourse among the WAVES.

E32 Operation Clip-Joint

When Molly needs money for her nephew's operation, Adrian suggests a fund-raising party. He then arranges to raid the party in the company of Admiral Bradford.