Operation Petticoat (1977-Pilot Movie) (John Astin, Jamie Lee Curtis)

The 1959 WW2 comedy movie “Operation Petticoat“, starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis was remade in 1977 as a TV series on ABC that lasted a fraction over one season. It’s pilot movie was a near-remake of the original movie and starred John Astin, Richard Gilliland, Jim Varney (later of “Ernest“ fame) and in one of her early roles, Jamie Lee Curtis (just 19 at the time!) as one of the four Army nurses stranded aboard a rickety pink submarine. After the show’s first season, almost the entire cast was fired and an attempt was made to retool the show with a new cast that proved unsuccessful. While a number of episodes have aired on TV Land in the years since its cancellation and can be found on YT, the pilot movie remake is harder to come by. This was something I recorded from the WCBS “Late Late Show“ in June 1985, where it aired under its syndicated title “Life In The Pink.“ I don’t often upload this kind of material, but because of its