Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Synopsis
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.
Season 3 Episodes
EP 1
Gomer tries to convince his friends that a movie star has invited them all to a barbecue at her house.
EP 2
Carter plans to use Gomer to win the inter-squad competition.
EP 3
Gomer and Carter are the only ones who don't come down with German measles.
EP 4
Sgt. Carter sets out to expose a fraud by proving to Gomer that the man who sold him a cheap watch is a crook.
EP 5
Gomer is accused by a drunk's wife of turning her husband into an alcoholic.
EP 6
Carter sabotages Gomer's garden by putting vodka in his prize watermelon.
EP 7
Carter sends Gomer to a psychiatrist when he claims he has seen men from outer space.
EP 8
Gomer is arrested after wrecking Sgt. Carter's car.
EP 9
Carter bets Sgt. Hacker that he can't teach Gomer to cook a meal.
EP 10
Gomer dates a girl with similar interests, then discovers that she considers them engaged after the first date.
EP 11
Carter gives his girlfriend a puppy only to find himself competing with it for her affections.
EP 12
Gomer and Carter are captured by smugglers.
EP 13
Sgt. Carter learns Bunny was seen with another man.
EP 14
Gomer can predict the weather better than the weather bureau.
EP 15
A songstress applauds Gomer's song with a kiss.
EP 16
Gomer unwittingly signs up a fugitive bank robber as a new recruit.
EP 17
Carter suspects Gomer has been spending his Sundays at the beach; then tries to meet the beauties Gomer appeared with in a magazine.
EP 18
Carter tries to transfer Gomer to the Marine band.
EP 19
Gomer holds a farewell dinner in a Chinese restaurant, not knowing it is a front for a gambling operation.
EP 20
Two shyster lawyers try to get Gomer and Carter to file a false damage suit after a near miss from an automobile.
EP 21
Carter and Duke use Gomer to expose a card cheat.
EP 22
Sgt. Carter attempts to keep Gomer from re-enlisting.
EP 23
The Marine's favorite nightclub singer returns: Lou-Ann Poovie, who looks like a dream and sings like a nightmare. Sgt. Carter fights for h…
EP 24
Gomer's love for Welsh rarebit causes him to sleepwalk -- and to tell off Carter.
EP 25
A club owner wants Gomer to sing every night.
EP 26
Carter volunteers Gomer for a parachute jump.
EP 27
Gomer loses the colonel's daughter at a go-go club, then tracks her to a beatnik den.
EP 28
Gomer's new friend, a crow, turns out to be a thief, plundering everyone -- and stashing the loot in Gomer's locker.
EP 29
Carter and Gomer hunt for a live mortar shell which the private lost during practice.
EP 30
When Lou-Ann is about to be fired from her job as a nightclub singer, Gomer finds her a job as a salesgirl.
