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    Comedy TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    CPO Sharkey

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    1 9 7 6 – 1 9 7 8 (USA)
    37 x 30 minute episodes

    This NBC sitcom starred acid-tongued Don Rickles as Chief Petty Officer Otto Sharkey of the US Navy – A 24-year veteran stationed at the Navy Training Centre in San Diego, California.

    Sharkey was responsible for making sailors out of a diverse ethnic group of raw cadets, most of whom had never been away from home before.

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    The various ethnic stereotypes were all targets for Sharkey’s verbal assaults, but underneath his brash exterior beat a heart of gold, especially when he sensed that a recruit was having a problem handling his insults or was suffering the problems of adjusting to sea life away from home.

    Lieutenant Whipple was Sharkey’s overbearing and long-winded supervisor while Captain Quinlan was the attractive female base commander.

    When CPO Sharkey returned in October 1977, to replace the short-lived The Sanford Arms, Sharkey had a new, male commanding officer – Capt. “Buck” Buckner.

    The show can claim to feature one of the first depictions of punk rock and moshing on American television, as The Dickies turned up in the 1978 episode ‘Punk Rock Sharkey’.

    CPO Otto Sharkey 
    Don Rickles
    Seaman Pruitt 

    Peter Isacksen
    Daniels 

    Jeff Hollis
    Kowalski 

    Tom Ruben
    Skolnick 

    David Landsberg
    Captain Quinlan 

    Elizabeth Allen
    Chief Robinson 

    Harrison Page
    Mignone 

    Barry Pearl
    Apodaca 

    Philip Simms
    Rodriguez 

    Richard Beauchamp
    Shimokawa 

    Evan Kim
    Lieutenant Whipple 

    Jonathan Daly
    Chief Gypsy Koch 

    Beverly Sanders
    Captain “Buck” Buckner 

    Richard X. Slattery

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