Friday, October 20, 2023

From Primetime to Daytime: Before she was a Bat, she was a nurse (McHale's Navy, 1965)

 Talk about boosting morale!!

In season 3 of McHale's Navy, Yvonne Craig guests as Lt. Susie Clayton, an exotic dancer-turned-nurse who not only turns the crew's heads, but that of Captain Wallace Binghamton (Joe Flynn), and that's despite Mrs. Binghamton (Ann Doran) being on the base. Oh, the hilarity!!!


Before Yvonne joined the cast of Batman 2 1/2 years later, she'd already logged an impressive resume, with The Man From UNCLE, Perry Mason, The Wild, Wild West, & Dobie Gillis on her resume. This episode had previously been posted over at The Land of Whatever.

Ann Doran would land a recurring gig the following fall on The Legend of Jesse James, which, like McHale & Batman, aired on ABC.

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