Mister Roberts

The Captain sinks a washtub planted by Pulver thinking it was a Japanese submarine.

Roberts finds Doc at the end of the sick call line, depressed because he feels unneeded. Roberts gets Pulver to fake an appendix attack. Doc examines Pulver and decides to operate.

Roberts is stunned to find that a beautiful woman is part of the cargo he is suppose to load on board.

Congressman Cooper visits the Reluctant intending to make it a bond selling shrine in the U.S., due to the heroic exploits Pulver wrote about that were published in his hometown newspaper.

The Captain is in an unusually good mood and is granting all sections liberty when they dock in Azalia. Pulver, Roberts and Doc discover Captain Morton is in love with a woman named Leona.

Pulver pretends his girlfriend is royalty in order to explain why she is on board the ship.

Captain Morton forces the crew to watch the movie The Crawling Glob With the Bedroom Eyes every night even though a musical with girls in bathing suits is available. When Roberts learns it's the Captain's birthday, he gets the crew to throw the Captain a party in an attempt to soften him up.

Frustrated at not being able to get a transfer Roberts has been snapping at the men. Doc diagnoses it as an acute attack of self pity. The crew is preoccupied with finding a phonograph and needle to listen to recently received records from wives and girlfriends.

Roberts orders a reduction gear installed for the Reluctant which will give it the speed it needs to allow it to join a convoy headed to combat. The new part causes some damage which at first is misinterpreted as being hit by the enemy. The gun crew directed by Pulver shoots down their radio tower while firing at a zero.

A Japanese pilot helps the crew when they get stuck in the middle of the ocean.