McHale's Navy is an American sitcom first aired in the 1960s, featuring the exploits of a PT boat crew during World War II. Ernest Borgnine starred as Lt Commander Quinton McHale. The series resulted in two movies, McHale's Navy (1964) and McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force (1965), and a Distaff Counterpart spin-off series, Broadside (1964, one season). A new McHale's Navy movie was released in 1997, starring Tom Arnold as Quinton McHale Jr.