Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'C.P.O. Sharkey' from 1970-1982:
- David Landsberg as Recruit Skolnick (1976-1978)
- Don Rickles as C.P.O. Otto Sharkey (1976-1978)
- Harrison Page as Chief Robinson (1976-1978)
- Jeff Hollis as Recruit Daniels (1976-1978)
- Jonathan Daly as Lt. Whipple (1976-1978)
- Peter Isacksen as Seaman Pruitt (1976-1978)
- Richard Beauchamp as Recruit Rodriguez (1976-1978)
- Tom Ruben as Recruit Kowalski (1976-1978)
- Barry Pearl as Recruit Mignone (1976-1977)
- Elizabeth Allen as Capt. Quinlan (1976-1977)
- Phillip Simms as Apodaca (1977-1978)
- Richard X. Slattery as Capt. Buckner (1977-1978)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'C.P.O. Sharkey':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: Ted Lang, Aaron Ruben D: Peter Baldwin
With James Callahan (Captain), Dennis Kort (Fletcher), Jeffrey Kramer (Recruit), Richard Kuller (Yeoman Bradshaw).
Debut of a comedy series starring Don Rickles as a crusty, acid-tongued Navy chief petty officer. In the first show, the chauvinistic chief must adjust to the fact that his new commanding officer is a woman.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Gene Farmer, Aaron Ruben
With John Fujioka (Mr. Shimokawa), Evan Kim (Recruit Shimokawa).
An enlisted man thinks Sharkey is discriminating against him because he's Japanese.
Season 1, episode 3
W: Gene Farmer, Aaron Ruben
With Stanley Bennett Clay (Crawford).
While helping a recruit write a "Dear Marsha" letter, Sharkey is interrupted and Chief Robinson sees the unfinished note and misunderstands.
Season 1, episode 4
W: Ted Lang, Aaron Ruben D: Peter Baldwin
The men try to hide an inflatable female doll in the barracks without Sharkey's knowledge.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Richard Freiman, Stephen Young, Aaron Ruben
With Bea Silvern (Mrs. Skolnick), Susanne Zenor (Jackie).
Chief Sharkey arranges a date for a reluctant recruit with the local cocktail waitress and it leads to a marriage proposal -- and the wrath of the young sailor's mother.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Ted Lang, Aaron Ruben, Gene Farmer, Larry Siegel
When Sharkey hears that a recruit is using a hair dryer, he orders the drill instructor to confiscate it, an action that upsets the entire company.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Ted Lang, Aaron Ruben, Mort Scharfman
With Dick Van Patten (Psychiatrist).
Chief Sharkey is confronted with a sleepwalking recruit whose antics disrupt barracks life and are outright insubordinate.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Ted Lang, Aaron Ruben
With Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. (Prison Guard), Sosimo Hernandez (Burn).
Sharkey tries to bail his recruits out of the Tijuana jail, where they are being held on a charge of cheering for the bull at the bullfights, but is instead locked up by the Mexican guards for being a sympathizer.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Ted Lang, Aaron Ruben
Sharkey seems to be guilty of ignoring Capt. Quinlan's orders about female company in the barracks.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Ted Lang, Aaron Ruben
With Anna Pagan.
Depressed over gag birthday presents hinting that he is getting old, Sharkey accompanies Chief Robinson to a disco where he suddenly becomes the life of the party.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Ted Lang, Aaron Ruben, Rick Mittleman
With Merie Earle (Landlady), Phillip Simms (Apodaca).
Seeking privacy and place to entertain his lady friend, Sharkey rents an apartment off base, only to be harassed by his men when they discover his hideout.
Season 1, episode 12
W: Ted Lang, Aaron Ruben, Jim Rogers
With Rhonda Bates (Evelyn), Christina Hart (Helen), Wes Stern (Plunkett), Deborah Harmon (Cousin Mildred), Richard Dillon (Cousin Frank).
After Sharkey discovers that recruit Plunkett's nasty nature is related to his marriage breakup, he arranges separate dates for the pair.
Season 1, episode 13
W: Ted Lang, Aaron Ruben
With Jack DeLeon.
Sharkey becomes the object of considerable speculation in the barracks as the result of his long talk with a wig salesman.
Season 1, episode 14
W: Ted Lang, Aaron Ruben
With Vito Scotti (Vito).
Sharkey refuses to allow a celebration at the end of boot camp, then is forced to reconsider when the goodies are delivered.
Season 1, episode 15
W: Ted Lang, Aaron Ruben
With Larry Storch (Wino).
A bum somehow gets into the barracks and Sharkey is unable to get rid of the pesky intruder.
October 21, 1977: The New Captain
Season 2, episode 1
W: Tony Webster
Season premiere. Sharkey's happy expectation of a new commanding officer is terminated when the "old salt" orders the chief to jettison his beer belly -- in 10 days.
Season 2, episode 2
W: Arnie Rosen D: Mel Ferber
Sharkey and his hefty crewmen volunteer for a secret submarine mission in which they must share closet-sized quarters to test the effects of stress.
Season 2, episode 3
W: Gary Belkin D: Russ Petranto
With Dean Santoro (Mr. Dean), Steve Franken (Dr. Simon), Jack Dodson (Dr. Savage), Harvey Jason (Hunt), Happy Hairston (Barton).
During Sharkey's routine physical, he's mistaken for a patient given to frequent bouts of paranoia.
Season 2, episode 4
W: Arnie Rosen
With Beverly Sanders (Chief Gypsy Koch), Betty Thomas (Seaman Daley).
When a detachment of WAVEs is quartered in Sharkey's barracks, he attempts to get their leader into a compromising position so they will be moved out.
Season 2, episode 5
W: Arnie Rosen, Aaron Ruben D: Mel Ferber
With Herb Voland (Clerk), Bob Duggan (Ralph).
When his longtime girlfriend agitates for a fixed wedding date, Sharkey panics at the thought of abandoning his bachelor days.
Season 2, episode 6
W: Arnie Rosen
With David Spielberg (Director), King Moody (Sherman).
A star-struck Sharkey gives himself the full glamour treatment, complete with toupee, mudpack facials and padded shoulders, when he is cast as "the everyday CPO" by a documentary film crew.
Season 2, episode 7
W: Arnie Rosen, Aaron Ruben, Sol Weinstein, Howard Albrecht
With Pat Carroll (Bagley), Edith Diaz (Maria).
A tough, anti-Navy congresswoman embarks on a base inspection tour just as Sharkey's barracks are being turned into a maternity ward for a pregnant Mexican stowaway.
Season 2, episode 8
W: Arnie Rosen, Aaron Ruben, Myles Wilder, William Raynor
With Buddy Lester (Duke), Claude Earl Jones (Tiny).
Unknowingly, Sharkey becomes a sucker in a floating crap game that preys on gullible servicemen.
Season 2, episode 9
W: Aaron Ruben
With John Fujioka.
Sharkey's absurd fear of a Japanese sneak attack on the base intensifies when a Nipponese Navy CPO arrives for an official visit.
Season 2, episode 10
W: Michael Lalor Brown, Andy Ruben
With Beverly Sanders (Chief Gypsy Koch), Christian Grey (Greg), Jacque Lynn Colton (Thelma), Fred Kareman (Dr. Pasternak).
Sharkey, unable to muster the courage to express affection for his girlfriend, attends a group sensitivity session and is transformed into a veritable pussycat.
Season 2, episode 11
W: Arnie Rosen
With Rhonda Bates (Evelyn), Betty Thomas (Seaman Daley).
Squatty Chief Sharkey breathes fire when he discovers his drill instructor is sneaking out nights to dance with tall women.
Season 2, episode 12
W: Aaron Ruben D: Russ Petranto
With Maureen Arthur (Laura Lee).
Desperate to find a candidate for his barracks to enter in the base's "Miss Topside" beauty contest, Sharkey becomes awed by the physical assets of Pruitt's sister.
Season 2, episode 13
W: Michael Lalor Brown, Andy Ruben
With Sondra Currie (Madeleine).
Worried that a back injury will invalidate his nomination for "CPO of the Year", Sharkey heads for a Turkish bath, unaware that it is now a massage parlor.
Season 2, episode 14
W: Aaron Ruben, Bruce Kalish, Philip John Taylor
With Beverly Sanders (Chief Gypsy Koch).
When a late-night bomb threat forces Sharkey to share his quarters with a group of evicted WAVEs, the chief has difficulty in keeping his eager seamen separated from their new-found lodgers.
Season 2, episode 15
W: Arnie Rosen
With Eddie Barth (Fowler), Tom Reese (Hannigan), Tony Burton (Scotty), Gerald Berns (Marine), Leslie Ackerman (Stewardess).
Flabby Chief Sharkey prepares to defend the Navy's honor against a hard-nosed Marine sergeant, confident he will be able to dance rings around his boxing opponent.
Season 2, episode 16
W: Aaron Ruben
With Hector Elias.
Sharkey must instruct a visiting South American sailor in the ways of the United States Navy.
Season 2, episode 17
W: Michael Lalor Brown, Andy Ruben D: Russ Petranto
Chief Sharkey is on needles and pins -- literally -- when he breaks up a brawl between his seamen in a punk rock hangout.
Season 2, episode 18
W: Aaron Ruben
Pruitt infects Sharkey and most of the company with Russian flu, and Sharkey is overwhelmed with home-spun remedies.
Season 2, episode 19
W: Arnie Rosen
With David White (Admiral Holland), Paul Sylvan (Henderson), Jane Connell (Mrs. Holland).
A sentimental Sharkey bids farewell to his seamen after Captain Buckner reluctantly follows orders and allows the senior CPO to be his aide.
Season 2, episode 20
W: Arnie Rosen, Aaron Ruben, Sol Weinstein, Howard Albrecht D: Mel Ferber
With Philip R. Allen (Capt. Erickson), Leslie Ackerman (Stewardess), Richard Libertini (Hypnotist), Bryan O'Byrne (Priest).
When ordered to fly overseas with his men, Sharkey, who is mortally afraid to be airborne, desperately tries to get rid of his phobia.
Season 2, episode 21
W: Aaron Ruben
With Merie Earle (Mrs. Finch), Louisa Moritz (Marlene), Sarina Grant (Lorilei).
Sharkey and Chief Robinson rent an off-base bachelor pad for their respective romantic rendezvous and rediscover an old scientific principle -- that two sailors and their dates cannot occupy the same space at the same time.
Season 2, episode 22
W: Bob Booker, George Foster
With Alan Oppenheimer (Ernest).
Honest Ernest, a slippery used car salesman, hoodwinks the seamen into buying a sputtering heap, but Sharkey convinces him that the lemon really contains a cool cache of hot diamonds. (Last show of the series.)