Jim Nabors, Full Episode, How to Succeed in Farming Without Really Trying, Gomer Pyle, USMC, 1966

▶ Storyline: "Gomer Pyle, USMC 1966"
Season 3, Episode 06: "How to Succeed in Farming Without Really Trying" Sergeant Carter spikes a watermelon with booze when Gomer starts gardening. This item is the same watermelon that Gomer offers to the Colonel.

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The character of Gomer Pyle originated with the writers of The Andy Griffith Show, Everett Greenbaum and Jim Fritzell. Greenbaum encountered an "incompetent" gas station worker and named the character after Gomer Cool (a writer) and Denver Pyle (an actor on The Andy Griffith Show). Andy Griffith found Jim Nabors while he was working at The Horn, a nightclub in Santa Monica, and cast him as Gomer. Gomer was only supposed to be in one episode, but he was so popular that Nabors got his own spin-off show made by Aaron Ruben after appearing in seasons 3 and 4. The first episode of Gomer Pyle was filmed in 1963 as part of The Andy Griffith Show, but it didn't show until 1964, at the end of the fourth season of The Andy Griffith Show. In this episode, Andy goes with Gomer to the Marine recruitment base at Camp Lejeune.

▶ Genre: Sitcom, Television Series

Director: Coby Ruskin
Writer: Rick Mittleman
Starring Jim Nabors, Frank Sutton, Roy Stuart
Release date: Oct 19, 1966, USA
Season 5: Episode 150
150 (30 in black-and-white, 120 in color)

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