Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. ''Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.''The show (and CBS) renders the title as ''Gomer Pyle – USMC''. is an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964, to May 2, 1969. The series was a spin-off of ''The Andy Griffith Sho ...

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situation comedy A sitcom, a portmanteau of situation comedy, or situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use ne ...

created by Aaron Ruben 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

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was introduced as the final fourth-season episode which aired on May 18, 1964. The show ran for five seasons, with a total of 150 half-hour episodes, 30 in black-and-white and 120 in color. Despite the series' positive reception (the show remained in the Top 10

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for all five seasons), Nabors quit because he desired to move to something else, 'reach for another rung on the ladder, either up or down'.Jim Nabors finished with Gomer
/ref> In 2006, CBS began releasing the show on DVD; the last season was released in November 2008. Set in California (originally in North Carolina), it stars Jim Nabors as sweet-but-naive

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Gomer Pyle, Frank Sutton as Gomer's hard-nosed and irritable

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Vince Carter, and Ronnie Schell as Pyle's best friend, Duke Slater. Though military-themed, the show never discussed the Vietnam War and instead focused on the relationship between Gomer and Sergeant Carter. The series is episodic in format; self-contained plots play out before the episode concludes.

Series overview

Episodes

Pilot (1964)

''The pilot was an episode of The Andy Griffith Show. "No. overall" and "No. in season" for the pilot indicate the airing and location of the episode within the parent series.'' The pilot was shot in black-and-white.

Season 1 (1964–65)

* All episodes of the first season were shot in black and white.

Season 2 (1965–66)

* All episodes from the second season onwards were shot in color.

Season 3 (1966–67)

Season 4 (1967–68)

Season 5 (1968–69)

References

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