McHale's Navy: Season Three (1962)

ALL 36 EPISODES FROM THE THIRD SEASON STARRING ERNEST BORGNINE TIM CONWAY AND JOE FLYNN Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale Ernest Borgnine Ensign Parker Tim Conway and the rest of the misfit crew of PT73 are back in action on the Taratupa Island Naval Base setting sail for 36 more adventures in hilarity. From 1962 through 1966 McHale s Navy was a mustsee staple of ABC television. By the show s third year on the air the nowfamiliar crew had become a classic embodiment of American culture an unforgettable gang of funloving guys who were constantly at odds with authority. System Requirements:Running Time: 900 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: G UPC: 826663107203 Manufacturer No: SF10720 Product Description

Still Funny After All These Years

This was a season that was a bit tame compared to the first two seasons, but still fun to watch. Can't wait for the fourth and final season. Tim conway and Borgnine still shine as the best duo in television history. July 14, 2008

My favorite season

Even though Gavin McCloud is missing from this season some of the single best scripts from the season are here. Watch the Ghost of McHale's crew haunt old Leadbottom. Watch the newly promoted Admiral Parker try to get a treaty signed. Watch one chimp begin a crime wave while another fearlessly goes after a Japanese Sub.

Sit back and enjoy one of the funniest bits of comedy you will ever see. Joe Flynn & Tim Conway.

Buy it. June 10, 2008

season four! season FOUR! ! ! !

shout factory, they did rare neat cartoons like milton the monster show! and batfink! ok, so these people get rights to rare great shows otherwise no other company would ever give a crap to ever even think about releasing. but look at this company, their gonna be lolligagging and dragging this series back to season one just to come out with it AGAIN by the volume to squeeze as much juice out of MCHALE as they can, when instead they should finish the damn series up and get that fourth season out by september, like the would should and BETTER do! THEN they can focus on getting rights to other obscure shows, great ones that nobody cares about, like SUPER PRESIDENT! thats such a killer, yet obscure cartoon. and then howabout the beatles cartoons? just give yoko ono a big iron boot, and get those beatles cartoons free from her CLAWS! then the barkleys.. theres so many great ones they can be putting energy towards releasing. thats how i feel, howabout all you other mchales navy and milton the monster show fans? find shout factory email address, bombard with complaints and ideas to stop this VOLUME lolligagging nonsense! ! ! May 25, 2008

All three are well done

I have all three seasons now of McHale's Navy and I think they are all well done. I have had none of the audio out of sync or other issues some have complained of. The only annoying thing is that on the first DVD in each season you have to watch a bunch of ads each time you use it. There are 5 DVD's and this only applies to the first one. So if I can't insert the DVD 5 min before I'm ready to watch I just watch something from discs 2-5. Otherwise I would have given it 5 stars.

There are about 35 episodes so you are only paying about $1 per episode. May 4, 2008

Avoid Mchales Navy at all costs!

While this is one good series,I am not happy at what I have learned and what I have to pass on to you all out there.
If you have read any of my past reviews on these sets you will know I have brought to your attention picture problems associated with them.Those problems,coupled with three more that appear in this set compelled me to finally write to Shout Factory to get to the bottom of things and they more than confirmed suspicions I have had about these sets.
Along with those past problems I have always noticed that when a scene fades in it is terribly out of focus until the film reaches its' proper illumination point.Come this Season Three set,two more problems were in evidence.First was on an ep early on,on Disc three when all figures suddenly develop severe jagged edges.It comes and goes until it finally disappears.This is something I have seen in conjunction with video tape.The second but most glaring problem occurs right off the bat on Disc One,ep#1.Throughout the ep there are numerous appearances of VIDEO TAPE LINES.Yes,I said video tape lines! They also appear to a lesser degree in other eps on Disc one but the first ep is the worst by far.
This did it for me,so I contacted Shout Factory and to their credit I got two responses from a David Landau and Melissa Boag.My questions to both and their subsequent answers were virtually the same so I'll give you an answer from both.To Mr.Landau I asked about the video lines I was seeing.His response:
"Hello
We used the best available masters given the nature of this release.
These little tape rolls were noticed and we were unable to find an
alternate source. Most of the time we can find something to replace
these, but in some instances we had to use a master with one or two
minor glitches to replace an episode that was unwatchable. Hope this
information helps. Thanks
-Shout!
Factory"

My second querie was to confirm then that indeed Shout factory had NOT gone back to the original film elements and had not remastered the series.Melissa Boags' response was:
"Hi Bob,
Yes you are correct in your assumption. I checked with production and
here is what I understand:

"What they are experiencing are brief tape rolls that exist on the video
source. I, along with NBC, sourced the best masters. Unfortunately,
there was no other source for ep 1."

"Yes, this means these have not been remastered, but rather best source
available used. We felt it better to include these rather than cut down
the shows."

I hope that clarifies your situation and explains the history. Please
let me know if you have any additional questions.
Regards, Melissa"

So there you have it folks.To satify yourselves,look on all of your three sets of Mchale's Navy and no where will you see the words "Remastered". However never in my wildest dreams did I ever think they would ever release something of such low credibility and standard.Tape lines!!?? Why this is the very same issue I took Hallmark video to task on in one of my earlier reviews of their release of a Laurel and Hardy compilation on DVD.
Melissa's answer that "We felt it better to include these rather than cut down the shows" makes it sound like we,as consumers,should be grateful that our hard earned money was plunked down to buy such junk.Sorry Melissa,I respect your answer and honesty,but this kind of product is the kind that should never see the light of day.It is Mickey Mouse,pure amateurism,and NO one should have to accept this.It is totally unforgiveable.
As an aside,it should be stated(to be fair)that Shout isn't the only company that releases product that hasn't been remastered from original source elements.Many times DVDS are released just using the available masters,which at the time the company deems "acceptable".You will also see later that a company will pull that release and issue a newly remastered one."Acceptable" is a relative term,depending on your point of view.Another point here is cost.Remastering,when done properly,does adds to the cost of a release.Priorities?
There you have it friends.
My recommendation,if it isn't obvious by now,is to AVOID this,past and future releases of Mchale's Navy at all costs.It has NOT been remastered and the video lines extant here in Season Three,along with the other problems I have listed here and in previous reviews,pretty much tell the entire sorry story by themselves.There is no way we should accept or encourage such releases by purchasing sub standard product such as this.
The responses by Mr.Landau and Ms.Boag of Shout are appreciated but they are just icing on a cake that is bad to begin with. April 22, 2008

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