On Saturday, March 16 at 10 am ET, MeTV will air "The Night of the Kraken." Original air date November 1, 1968.
The above recap is from tvtropes The Night of the Kraken.
Our male villain is none other than Ted Knight, who played broadcaster Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Marj Dusay, who plays Dolores Hammond, Adm. Hammond's wife turns out to be part of the plot to kill Adm. Farragut. Dusay is best known for her work on soap operas.
The waterfront area is a well disguised Dodge City set from Gunsmoke.
The show says the new ironside ship is the USS Missouri. The Navy did not have a ship named Missouri during the Grant administration.
This is the second episode of the series that deals with killing Admiral Farragut. The first was Season 2 Episode 9, The Night of the Watery Death.
In the last scene, the agents remark that the owner who gave them a little black book, who is getting married, is Irving Moore. Irving J. Moore directed 26 episodes of WWW (but not this one) and 14 episodes of Hawaiian Eye, a series that featured Robert Conrad.