< A Purple Heart for Gruber (1962)

EPISODE 1.2 (McHale's Navy) | 30m | Open in IMDB | WL | ? / 6.8 (96)

Comedy, War | Trouble follows, when Gruber - In competition with a hometown neighbor, for the greatest War Hero - Is awarded a Purple Heart, for a small cut on his finger, which he got while doing laundry.

• Director: Sidney Lanfield
• Writer: Danny Arnold
• Ernest Borgnine (45) - Lt. Cmdr. Quinton McHale
• Joe Flynn (38) - Captain Wallace B. Binghamton
• Tim Conway (29) - Ensign Charles Parker
• Carl Ballantine (45) - Lester Gruber
• Gary Vinson (26) - George Christopher
• Billy Sands (51) - 'Tinker' Bell
• Edson Stroll (33) - Virgil Edwards
• Gavin MacLeod (31) - Happy
• John Wright (20) - Willy Moss
• Yoshio Yoda (28) - Fuji Kobiaji
• Bob Hastings (37) - Lt. Elroy Carpenter
• Dale Ishimoto (39) - The Japanese Commander