After watching, this is going to be a difficult episode to review. The story could have been so entertaining but the writers inserted so much blundering antics that by the end of the show it became sad to watch. It felt like getting an early Christmas present only to find that the gift box contained underwear. What a disappointment.
The plot began when Binghamton gets a wire saying that the base payroll needs to be picked-up at the payroll unit in New Caledonia. It just so happens that the PT 73 is in New Caledonia for a conference but Binghamton believes that the crew of the 73 would somehow screw up the payroll and refuses for them to get the money. But after re-thinking, he lets them receive the payroll money hoping they mishandle the transaction and he will be rid of them for the rest of the war.
Of course, Ensign Parker gets the call to pick up the payroll. But on the way back to the boat, Parker loses the money and now the entire crew is out looking for the only evidence in the situation which happens to be a birthmark. Binghamton already has word something is amiss and is on his way to New Caledonia to arrest the crew for stealing the payroll. Unless the money turns up, the crew could be facing prison.
This makes the show sound like an interesting offering that could have been a heck of a show- and yes it could have been. But the writers made the character of Ensign Parker so much of a dufus that it was painful to watch. It was not so bad when Parker pulled a gun on a bush, nor was it so bad when heard a noise and ran around until he knocked himself out over a stationary park bench, but when he gave the money back to the crook that he was chasing (did not even recognize the person) it became so painful you just have to turn away. But it did not even end there. There is so much obnoxious behavior that the show was ruined. Tim Conway is an excellent comedic actor but sometime less is more. This time 'more' was utterly ridiculous.