Operation Petticoat

(1977-1979)

Comedy / Sitcom

Directed by Norman Abbott and William Asher

Writers: Gil Grant and Coslough Johnson

Cast:

John Astin as Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Sherman 
Richard Gilliland as Lt. Nick Holden 
Yvonne Wilder as Major Edna Howard 
Richard Brestoff as Yeoman Hunkle 
Christopher J. Brown as Ensign Stovall 
Kraig Cassity as Seaman Dooley 
Wayne Long as Chief Herbert Molumphrey 
Richard Marion as Pharmacist's Mate Williams 
Michael Mazes as Radioman Gossett 
Jack Murdock as Chief Machinist's Mate Tostin 
Peter Schuck as Seaman Horwich 
Raymond Singer as Lt. Watson 
Jim Varney as Doom & Gloom Broom 
Melinda Naud as Lt. Dolores Crandall 
Jamie Lee Curtis as Lt. Barbara Duran 

Operation Petticoat was an American sitcom that was adapted from a 1959 comedy movie, starring Tony Curtis and Cary Grant, by the same name.  The premise of the show was similar to the film in that a group of female Army nurses finds their way onto a Navy combat submarine, and the comedy that ensues onboard, with the submarine somehow being painted pink.

An interesting connection between the film and the series was the casting of Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Curtis' daughter, as one of the female nurses on the submarine. 

32 episodes aired on ABC from September 17, 1977 to October 26, 1978