Gomer Pyle USMC

While I liked the show, OP, it doesn’t hold a candle to the b&w, Barney Fife years.

[quote]Who had Jim Nabors?

Who didn’t? He was a pass around bottom.

Good God, what trash.

"So much better than Andy Griffith." I don't know about that, OP. Andy had so many funny shows and characters. Like the 2 blonde floozies Daphne and her friend who liked Barney and Andy. Ernest T. Bass, and Aunt Beas Kerosene Cucumbers. The one with Mr McBeevy who Opie met and he turned out to be real, Andy thought he was making him up. That show never ever gets old.

The relationship between Andy & Opie is what separates the classic Andy Griffith Show from the merely good.

I love Gomer Pyle and watched the entire series a few years ago. I have a funny fetish for quonset huts and military settings. I made photo caps of all the interiors and exteriors of the huts.

What if I opened up a little gay hotel on the designs of the Gomer Pyle quonset village? Would you come stay?

Speaking of “Opie” I recently watched the movie version of The Courtship of Eddie’s Father.

Ronny Howard plays Eddie and Shirley Jones plays the nurse across the hall. In one scene, Eddie is sick and the nurse takes his temperature via the rectum method.

Mrs. Partridge sticking a thermometer up Opie’s butt. Ewwwwwww. 🤢

[quote]Mrs. Partridge sticking a thermometer up Opie’s butt. Ewwwwwww.

I assume she used Vaseline.

[quote]I assume she used Vaseline.

No she did not.

Gomer Pyle set looking south.

Apparently Gomer Pyle was based in Atlanta since they were just a few yards away from the Gone With the Wind train station

The Gomer Pyle set in its surroundings.

I love the nightclub in Gomer Pyle, the bamboo and woven wallpaper and the little box things with plants in them.

One of the reasons for the success of "Gomer Pyle USMC" was said to be that that never once did they mention the ongoing Vietnam War.

R15 - wow, that's really interesting, but true - I didn't even notice it while watching the series.

And the 50 Foot woman herself, Allison Hayes, played Sgt. Carter's girlfriend Rose Pilchik in a two part season four arc. Her last appearance on film.

Gomer and Sgt. Carter outside a quonset.

With Allison Hayes as his girlfriend no wonder his heart exploded.

[quote] He could not pass the US Marine Corps physical during World War II, and ended up serving in the U.S. Army. During his service he distinguished himself by taking part in 14 assault landings, including Leyte, Luzon, Bataan and Corregidor. Sutton was a sergeant who served from 1943 to 1946 in the 293rd Joint Assault Signal Company. He was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart.

I want a table like this in an episode of Gomer Pyle. They used to be everywhere.

Interior of a Gomer quonset.

I like the old-style metal office "furniture" from the '60s (?) or maybe even the '50s. I have an old, metal bookshelf in my work office. I like it. You don't have to worry about the shelves bowing or warping.

Sgt. Carter and some of the heavy metal filing cabinets. Notice the metal light switch.

Entrance to one of the quonset huts.

The movie theatre that I went to Saturday matinees as a kid was a quonset hut.

Not trying to hijack this post, but I just wanted to point out that that was the second time Shirley Jones and Ron Howard worked together. He played Marian the Librarian's little brother Winthrop in the film THE MUSIC MAN:

Typical quonset "yard".

One of the Gomer Pyle actors had a nice ass.

How come they never had any shower scenes on Gomer Pyle?

Shazam, R28.

The bathroom/shower room at my Gomer Pyle resort.

Rare view of the back room on the right. Did the quonsets have kitchenettes?

As a child, I remember bring grossed out by the deformity of one of the ears of Sgt. Carter (Frank Sutton).

His ears look OK to me.

R34, the issue was with the rear side of one of his ears.

Well, apparently not this one, so we've narrowed it down.

[quote]Who had Jim Nabors?

*wink*

I was walking down Burton Way in Beverly Hills one morning and there was a small gas station there and Jim Nabors was standing in front of his car (Rolls Royce convertible) while it was being gassed up, just a'starin at all the boys walking by. He had on a floral print Hawaiian shirt and seemed thirsty (mostly because he was staring at me, and I'm not much to look at but I was 19 and slim). This was decades ago and I was too embarrassed to cross the street and ask for an autograph so I just looked over and went "Well Golly!" and kept on walking.

I bet all those Quonset huts smelled like balls and poppers!

Gomer doesn't *look* gay.