Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1964)
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. is an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964, to May 2, 1969. The series was a spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show, and the pilot was aired as the finale of the fourth season of The Andy Griffith Show on May 18, 1964. The show ran for five seasons and a total of 150 episodes. In 2006, CBS Home Entertainment began releasing the series on DVD. The final season was released in November 2008. The series was created by Aaron Ruben, who also produced the show with Sheldon Leonard and Ronald Jacobs. Filmed and set in California, it stars Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle, a naive but good-natured gas-station attendant from the town of Mayberry, North Carolina, who enlists in the United States Marine Corps. Frank Sutton plays Gomer's high-octane, short-fused Gunnery Sergeant Vince Carter, and Ronnie Schell plays Gomer's friend Gilbert "Duke" Slater. Allan Melvin played in the recurring role of Gunnery Sergeant Carter's rival, Sergeant Charley Hacker. The series never discussed nor addressed the then-current Vietnam War, instead focusing on the relationship between Gomer and Sergeant Carter. The show retained high ratings throughout its run.
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Episode 1 - Car For Sale
Release Date: 1968-09-27Hacker plans to get even when Carter sells his car to Gomer instead of to him.
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Episode 2 - Corporal Duke
Release Date: 1968-09-04Duke is promoted to corporal, but finds his old reputation getting in his way.
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Episode 3 - The Booty Prize
Release Date: 1968-10-11Gomer and Carter are the victims of the lead boot, the battalion's booby prize.
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Episode 4 - The Return of Monroe
Release Date: 1968-10-18Lou Ann's old boyfriend visits.
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Episode 5 - Just Move Your Lips, Sergeant
Release Date: 1968-10-25The platoon's chances to sing in a movie are almost spoiled by Sgt. Carter -- he can't carry a tune.
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Episode 6 - All You Need is One Good Break
Release Date: 1968-11-08Gomer and Carter clash as they vie for an actress.
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Episode 7 - A Marriage of Convenience
Release Date: 1968-11-15A movie star tries to get Carter to marry her -- after Gomer refuses -- in order to avoid being deported.
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Episode 8 - A Star is Not Born
Release Date: 1968-11-22Carter appears in a Hollywood movie, but finds acting harder than he thought.
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Episode 9 - Come Blow Your Top
Release Date: 1968-11-29Sgt. Hacker bets Carter that he can't go 24 hours without losing his temper, and then enlists Gomer's aid to win his bet.
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Episode 10 - A Little Chicken Soup Wouldn't Hurt
Release Date: 1968-12-06Lonely widow Molly Gordon feels old and useless until Gomer and his appreciative buddies eat her wonderful home cooking.
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Episode 11 - Gomer, the Perfect MP
Release Date: 1968-12-13Gomer is assigned to guard duty at a back gate of the base and refuses to let Carter pass through.
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Episode 12 - The Wild Bull Returns
Release Date: 1968-12-20South American General Cortez looks up his old friends, and falls in love with Carter's girlfriend Bunny.
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Episode 13 - Hit and Write
Release Date: 1968-12-27When Carter scratches a parked car and offers to pay for it, the owner shows up with a bill for a completely demolished fender.
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Episode 14 - Two on the Bench
Release Date: 1969-01-03Carter won't believe that Gomer really knows football star Moose Lewis.
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Episode 15 - A Tattoo For Gomer
Release Date: 1969-01-10Gomer's practical joke backfires when Lou Ann appears to like his fake tattoo.
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Episode 16 - Win-A-Date
Release Date: 1969-01-17Gomer and Carter are contestants on the ""Win-A-Date"" televised program.
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Episode 17 - Marriage, Sgt. Carter Style
Release Date: 1969-01-24Carter decides that Gomer might not re-enlist if he were married, so he tries to push the private into a quick wedding.
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Episode 18 - To Save a Life
Release Date: 1969-01-31Sgt. Carter saves Gomer's life and almost comes to regret it as Gomer suffocates him with gratitude.
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Episode 19 - Dynamite Diner
Release Date: 1969-02-07Gomer and Lou Ann pitch in to help open a new diner, not realizing the owners are in fact planning to rob the bank next door.
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Episode 20 - Freddy's Friendly Computer
Release Date: 1969-02-14Gomer and Carter again fall prey to con man ""Friendly Freddy,"" now running a computer dating service.
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Episode 21 - Gomer Maneuvers
Release Date: 1969-02-21Gomer inadvertently reveals the position of his platoon to the ""enemy"" during camp maneuvers.
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Episode 22 - Gomer Tends A Sick Kat
Release Date: 1969-02-28Gomer overhears a conversation about Bunny's sick cat and jumps to the conclusion that it's Sgt. Carter who is critically ill.
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Episode 23 - I'm Always Chasing Gomers
Release Date: 1969-03-07Carter decides he must get away from Gomer to avoid a nervous breakdown, but continues to be haunted by him.
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Episode 24 - The Short Voyage Home
Release Date: 1969-03-14Carter takes charge of Gomer's life savings for safekeeping and has his pocket picked by a little old lady.
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Episode 25 - Proxy Poppa
Release Date: 1969-03-21A Marine buddy breaks his leg and Gomer and Carter have to take his expectant wife to the hospital.
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Episode 26 - Flower Power
Release Date: 1969-03-28Three hippies help Gomer paint a truck for maneuvers, but the results are not standard military camouflage.
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Episode 27 - Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow
Release Date: 1969-04-04Carter allows a pet rabbit to escape before he learns that it belongs to a general's son.
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Episode 28 - Show Time With Sgt. Carol
Release Date: 1969-04-18Sgt. Carol wants Gomer to sing in the Marine camp show she is organizing, but Sgt. Carter won't agree to her plans.
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Episode 29 - My Fair Sister
Release Date: 1969-04-25Gomer must escort Sgt. Carter's sister to a dance.
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Episode 30 - Goodbye Camp Handerson, Hello Sergeant Carter
Release Date: 1969-05-02Carter learns Gomer is being sent to another base.