Pretty good episode, and technically the first but the fifth episode shows Lt. Bill Rice showing up to Camp Pendleton to lead his squadron (guess that's a prequel), and in this case he's been there long enough to be asked to help his old friend, and what a flake Bixby's character is, and he plays it effectively, if a bit overdone...
It's fun watching him con his way in and out of the barracks, and then romancing while establishing the pretty brunette bar owner, who'd be a regular throughout the show...
Not Bixby, though, who had and would appear in several Elvis Presley movies like our man Gary Lockwood, with a sore on his bottom lip that's kind of distracting in this, the first episode that feels very lived in and experienced, a good thing actually. Here we get to see the difference between a real marine and a rebellious one. Lockwood is fantastic in this series.
It's fun watching him con his way in and out of the barracks, and then romancing while establishing the pretty brunette bar owner, who'd be a regular throughout the show...
Not Bixby, though, who had and would appear in several Elvis Presley movies like our man Gary Lockwood, with a sore on his bottom lip that's kind of distracting in this, the first episode that feels very lived in and experienced, a good thing actually. Here we get to see the difference between a real marine and a rebellious one. Lockwood is fantastic in this series.
