The platoon throws a big birthday party for Carter, but it just makes him feel "old".Ĭarter has to pick four men from his platoon as honor guards, and hopes that one of them is not Gomer. Sergeant Carter takes the Officer Training exam, then Gomer decides to take the same test - and actually passes! Sergeant Carter's adopted Korean daughter announced her engagement to a Marine, whom the sergeant assumes is Gomer. "Sergeant Carter Gets a "Dear John" Letter"Ĭarter thinks it's bad enough that he's gotten a "Dear John" letter - then finds out that Gomer is the "other man". Sergeant Carter is unaware that Gomer is the one sending him anonymous love notes. Gomer befriends a country boy from near Mayberry, but discovers that their families are feuding. The troops hope a sexy lady Marine can talk Sergeant Carter out of quitting the Corps. "Sergeant Carter's Farewell to His Troops" Gomer is convinced the good luck charm given to him by his grandfather will make him a great leader.Ĭarter tries everything to get him and Gomer out of a contract for dance lessons. Gomer and Carter become accomplices in a rather ingenious robbery scheme.Ĭarter thinks Gomer is dying so he tries to make the recruit's "last days" the best of his life. Forrest Compton debuts.Ĭarter gives Gomer a lift on his way to pick up a date and ends up spending the evening babysitting.
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Gomer comes up with astounding tactics on the field when the platoon participates in war games. Gomer takes the Colonel's daughter to an enlisted men's dance, but the Colonel's overprotective wife does not approve. Gomer and Carter surprise everyone as the oddest pair in a five-day wilderness survival test. This episode is the first set entirely in the fictional Camp Henderson in California. Notes: Stuart returns in Seasons 2-5 as Carter's girlfriend Bunny. But it's Carter himself that yields the punishment when she beats him up instead, while Gomer gets a kiss from "Dragon Lady". Gomer just can't help liking Sergeant Carter, no matter how much the sergeant tries to get the recruit to hate him.Ĭarter pits Gomer against the alluring, yet unkissable, "Dragon Lady" ( Barbara Stuart) as revenge for fouling up an exercise. Gomer refuses part of his paycheck when he's caught loafing, over the objections of the Pentagon. Gomer encourages a strict, no-nonsense lady Marine ( Pippa Scott) to be more feminine.Ī troublesome new recruit is transferred to Sergeant Carter's platoon and makes Gomer his patsy. Gomer sneaks a recruit's girlfriend into the barracks, causing Sergeant Carter to lose his temper.ĭespite the protests of Sergeant Carter, Gomer adopts a pet skunk, which he uses as a secret weapon for the Marines to pay back Sgt. Gomer goes above and beyond the call of duty to conquer the obstacle course and please Sergeant Carter.
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Gomer Pyle leaves Mayberry to join the Marine Corps under the command of Sergeant Carter. in season" for the pilot indicate the airing and location of the episode within the parent series.
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The pilot was an episode of The Andy Griffith Show.
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GOMER THE CARD SHARK SERIES
The series is episodic in format self-contained plots play out before the episode concludes.įurther information: List of The Andy Griffith Show episodes § Season 4 (1963–64) Though military-themed, the show never discussed the Vietnam War and instead focused on the relationship between Gomer and Sergeant Carter. Set in California (originally in North Carolina), it stars Jim Nabors as sweet-but-naive private Gomer Pyle, Frank Sutton as Gomer's hard-nosed and irritable sergeant Vince Carter, and Ronnie Schell as Pyle's best friend, Duke Slater. In 2006, CBS began releasing the show on DVD the last season was released in November 2008. Despite the series' positive reception (the show remained in the Top 10 Nielsen ratings 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'. The show ran for five seasons, with a total of 150 half-hour episodes, 30 in black-and-white and 120 in color. The series was a spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show, and the pilot episode was introduced as the final fourth-season episode which aired on May 18, 1964. is an American situation comedy created by Aaron Ruben that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964, to May 2, 1969.