A maverick Navy officer is elated at being given his own submarine to command - until he finds he is in charge of a ramshackle diesel-powered Second World War rust-bucket crewed by a motley selection of misfits who do not know one end of a periscope from the other. Comedy, starring Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Holly, Harry Dean Stanton, Bruce Dern, Rip Torn and William H Macy.

Maverick Navy Lieutenant Commander Tom Dodge will never be a textbook officer, but he's a brilliant seaman who's always wanted to command a nuclear submarine — he's been given one last chance to clean up his record. Unfortunately, Admiral Graham, his nemesis, would rather sink the fleet than give Dodge his own boat. So, Graham stacks the deck against him and assigns Dodge to the Stingray, a diesel-powered WW2 submarine that can barely keep afloat. To make matters worse, Dodge's crew is a collection of maladjusted, mistake-prone misfits. Then, he's tagged the "enemy" in a crucial war game, and ordered to take on the U.S. Navy's best.