"Ensign O'Toole" Operation: Sabotage (TV Episode 1963) Poster

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Operation: Sabotage
Prismark1015 November 2023
Ensign O'Toole returns from shore leave. He is told by Commander Stoner that a training exercise is to be held. Someone on the crew is a saboteur with a bomb.

Stoner wants O'Toole to seek out the saboteur as it cannot be him. O'Toole was away. Also Stoner has $500 bet riding on this.

That is not good as in previous training exercises he has lost. Even now O'Toole finds out that Stoner had handcuffed himself to his attache case and thrown the key away.

O'Toole narrows down some men to help him out and also wonders which men have been placing bets. He also has one big trick up his sleeve.

I did like the twist as O'Toole uses his brains to figure out the saboteur. I just find the humour really mild.
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Unmasking a Mock Saboteur
JordanThomasHall1 May 2017
Naval commanders are holding a training exercise in which the crew of the USS Appleby must uncover a mock saboteur on the ship to test security. Commander Stoner (Jack Albertson) feels he can only trust Ensign O'Toole (Dean Jones) who has just returned from Tokyo and couldn't be the plant from Lt. Commander Dickery (character actor George Petrie). O'Toole proceeds to screen crew members individually to try and narrow down a suspect. He clears enough men to form a security detail to cover vital spots on the ship where the mock bomb could be placed. Lt. St. John (Jack Mullaney) keeps setting traps that Stoner ends up getting caught up in. Despite the premise, this episode lacks suspense and comedy in my view.
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My Favorite episode
LSTHNSTMAN15 June 2018
Warning: Spoilers
For me this is a pleasure. I used to always enjoy this show and watching Jack Albertson who would eventually win an Oscar buddle and fuddle his way through this sit com still brings a smile to my face. I would rename it long odds and great payoff! The Appleby and it's crew always messed up in the security competition. The crew know they are a long shot to win, JC Flippen as the crew bookie is best. O'Toole wishes to end the losing streak of poor security Albertson who is overall charge only trusts O'Toole to discover the saboteur. O'Toole screens and checks everyone and to Albertson's dismay O'Toole in the end arrests him as the spy. This of course using great TV dialogue. The part that made me chuckle and still chuckle is at the end when Flippen is leaving for "shore leave" with the money the crew won betting on themselves at 40-1!!! Bravo a latter long shot player known as Han Solo; "Never tell me the odds sweetheart" as he told that to Carrie Fischer in Star Wars!!!!
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