Gomer Pyle: USMC
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964, to May 2, 1969. The series was a spin-off of The Andy Griffith Show, and the pilot episode was aired as the season finale of the fourth season of its parent series on May 18, 1964. The show ran for a total of 150 half-hour episodes spanning over five seasons, in black-and-white for the first season, and then in color for the remaining four seasons. In 2006, CBS Home Entertainment (distributed by Paramount) began releasing the series on DVD. The final season was released in November 2008.
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| No. of seasons | 5
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| No. of episodes | 150, 30 in black-and-white, 120 in color (list of episodes)
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| Producer | Edward H. Feldman
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| Cinematography | John Finger
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| Original release | September 25, 1964 –
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- It helped kill off 'Star Trek.'
After CBS's Gomer slipped to tenth in the ratings, NBC saw an opportunity to schedule its struggling Star Trek against it. The network moved Kirk and Spock from Thursday evenings to Fridays, head-to-head with Gomer in the 8:30PM slot, thinking Star Trek would find an audience. The competition only helped to give Gomer its second wind, as it climbed back to No. 3. After the drubbing, Trek voyaged to the "graveyard slot" on Fridays at 10PM for its third and final season. - The production had full access to genuine military equipment.
Southern California's Camp Pendleton served as the location for the show's fictional Camp Henderson. Because of its positive portrayal of the Armed Services — the show consciously avoided any reference to the Vietnam War — the production was granted use of whatever military gear it might need. No wonder those mortars look so real. - It was a spin-off of a spin-off, of sorts. The characters from The Andy Griffith Show were first introduced to American audiences in a 1960 episode of The Danny Thomas Show (Make Room for Daddy), "Danny Meets Andy Griffith." It was more of a marketing maneuver, but technically that makes Andy Griffith a spin-off. The pilot episode of Gomer Pyle arrived as the season four finale of Andy Griffith in 1964.
- It also had roots in an Andy Griffith movie. Griffith first explored the relationship between a Southern rube and a tough sergeant in the 1958 film No Time for Sergeants, which co-starred Don Knotts. While not directly related to Gomer Pyle, there is definitely DNA shared between
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