McHale's Navy: Ensign Parker, E.S.P. (1964)
Season 2, Episode 31
4/10
Writers made Parker too obnoxious to take.
6 November 2014
As the title of the program indicates, this is about Ensign Parker having some sort of mental acknowledgment about things that are to happen. In the script, it is a long stretch to come up with much that would warrant Parker having the ability but the writers used the ruse to combine a story about a possible buried treasure.

The main part of the plot involves a map, written in Japanese, claiming the whereabouts of treasure buried on the island. From the notes on the map the place where the treasure is buried just happens to be under Captain Binghamton's quarters. Now the men of the 73 are going to move the living quarters of Binghamton while he is away at a meeting. But when he returns unexpected, the plan is going to have to get more complicated. They have to make Binghamton believe that Parker has ESP and that he needs medical attention.

The show got uninteresting very fast as the writers made Ensign Parker's character so obnoxious that the viewer felt overcome by the fumes. We know that Parker is the bumbling Ensign but why make him so inane that his character is disliked for all his objectionable behavior. Plus throw in that the story never had an ending and you are left with a show that was dissatisfied. This show was weak.
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