Broadside (television series)

Broadside
Kathleen Nolan with Sheila James, Joan Staley and Lois Roberts, 1964.
Genre	Sitcom
Written by	Frank J. Gill, Jr. George Carleton Brown Si Rose Ray Brenner Barry E. Blitzer Benedict Freedman Earl Barret Robert C. Dennis Jack Harvey Bruce Howard Bud Nye Elroy Schwartz Irving Taylor Sam Locke Joel Rapp Stan Dreben Howard Merrill William Raynor Myles Wilder
Directed by	Frank McDonald Sidney Miller Edward Montagne Hollingsworth Morse Don Richardson Jean Yarbrough E.W. Swackhamer Charles Barton
Starring	Edward Andrews Dick Sargent Sheila James Kathleen Nolan Joan Staley George Furth Arnold Stang Jimmy Boyd
Composer(s)	Jerry Fielding
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	32
Production
Producer(s)	Edward J. Montagne
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Universal Television
Distributor	MCA Television NBCUniversal Television Distribution
Release
Original network	ABC
Picture format	Black-and-white
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	September 20, 1964 (1964-09-20) – May 2, 1965 (1965-05-02)

Broadside is an American sitcom that aired on ABC during the 1964-1965 TV season. The series, produced by McHale's Navy creator Edward Montagne, starred Kathleen Nolan, formerly of The Real McCoys (her character, Lieutenant Morgan, had first appeared on McHale's Navy the previous season).

The series centered on the women of the Navy (WAVES) circa World War II, who found themselves transferred to an island in the South Pacific to run the motor pool in an otherwise all-male environment. Their nemesis was Commander Adrian, who liked things just fine the way they were and felt that having women around would just louse everything up. Fortunately for the WAVES, the other men liked them just fine and often helped the girls foil Adrian's latest scheme to get rid of them.

The series starred Kathleen Nolan, Edward Andrews, Dick Sargent, Sheila James (in her last regular television series role), Lois Roberts, Joan Staley, George Furth, Arnold Stang and Jimmy Boyd (whose character was erroneously assigned to the unit based on his having a normally-female first name, Marion). The series ran for just a single season. Though ratings weren't bad, Universal felt the tropical exteriors being used by it and McHale's Navy—and nothing else—were taking up too much space on the backlot, so Broadside was cancelled and McHale was relocated to Italy (and the studio's more frequently-used European facades).