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Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.' from 1970-1982:



1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.':


(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)





November 5, 1965: Gomer Captures A Submarine
Season 2, episode 8
W: Jack Elinson   D: Christian Nyby

With Forrest Compton (Col. Edward Gray), Ted Bessell (Frankie), Tige Andrews (Chief Petty Officer Simpson), Michael Barrier, Rex May (Captain), Ron Doyle (Ensign), Brendon Boone (Sailor).
Sgt. Carter's men are assigned to make a reconaissance landing during sea maneuvers, but Gomer keeps sinking the rubber landing rafts.

January 21, 1966: Arrivederci, Gomer
Season 2, episode 19
W: Harvey Bullock, R.S. Allen   D: Peter Baldwin

With Forrest Compton (Col. Edward Gray), Ted Bessell (Frankie), Gigi Perreau (Rosa Lombardi), Lillian Adams (Mama Lombardi), Ed Guardino (Leo), A.G. Vitanza (Uncle Julio).
Gomer spends a weekend at the family home of his Marine buddy Frankie Lombardi, and makes the mistake of singing a romantic song to Frankie's sister Rosa.

March 4, 1966: Duke Slater, Night Club Comic
Season 2, episode 24
W: Bill Idelson, Sam Bobrick   D: Coby Ruskin

With Forrest Compton (Col. Edward Gray), Ted Bessell (Frankie), Buck Young (Sgt. Whipple), Roy Stuart (Corporal Charles Boyle), Milton Frome (Night Club Emcee), Richard Sinatra (3rd Sergeant), Alan Dexter (2nd Sergeant), Janell Alden (Exotic Dancer).
Duke, one of Gomer's buddies, tries his hand as a nightclub comic.

March 18, 1966: Opie Joins The Marines
Season 2, episode 26
W: Aaron Ruben   D: Coby Ruskin

With Forrest Compton (Col. Edward Gray), Ted Bessell (Frankie), Ron Howard (Opie Taylor), Andy Griffith (Sheriff Andy Taylor), Tommy Farrell (Reporter).
Opie runs away from Mayberry to join the Marines. When he arrives at the base he announces that he wants to join Gomer's platoon.





January 11, 1967: The Secret Life Of Gomer Pyle
Season 3, episode 17
W: Bill Idelson, Sam Bobrick   D: Coby Ruskin

With Forrest Compton (Col. Edward Gray), Hope Summers (Clarice), Dave Willock (Mike), George Tyne (Wendell), Tim Herbert (George), Allison Parks, Suzy Marlin, Phyllis Davis, Carol Dupre.
Gomer, who likes to spend Sundays in an elderly women's rug-hooking class, gets a reputation as a swinger after his picture appears with a bevy of beauties in a men's magazine.

March 1, 1967: Gomer, The Welsh Rarebit Fiend
Season 3, episode 24
W: Rick Mittleman   D: Coby Ruskin

With Forrest Compton (Col. Edward Gray), Richard Bull (Dr. Franklin), Lucy Landau (Waitress).
Gomer's overindulgence in Welsh rarebit, his favorite dish, turns the humble private into an angry sleepwalker who reads the riot act to Sgt. Carter.

March 8, 1967: Sing A Song Of Papa
Season 3, episode 25
W: Aaron Ruben   D: Coby Ruskin

With Forrest Compton (Col. Edward Gray), Anthony Caruso (Nino), Milton Frome (Emcee), Sammy Shore (Joe), Frank Puglia (Papa), Doreen D'Arcy, Bobby Winters (Juggler).
Gomer wins an amateur contest singing in the Jade Club and is invited back the next night to sing for Nino, owner of the bistro.





September 22, 1967: Corporal Carol
Season 4, episode 3
W: R.S. Allen, Harvey Bullock   D: John Rich

With Forrest Compton (Col. Edward Gray), Allison McKay (Waitress), Carol Burnett (Corporal Carol Barnes), Melinda Plowman (Girl Marine #1), Jeanne Vaughn (Girl Marine #2).
A woman Marine Corps corporal misinterprests Gomer's excitement over his date with Lou Ann Poovie.

October 31, 1967: The Show Must Go On
Season 4, episode 9
W: Norman Paul   D: Coby Ruskin

With Forrest Compton (Col. Edward Gray), Roland Winters (Dan Merrill), Marcia Mae Jones (Waitress), James B. Sikking (Col. Richardson), John Gibson (Guard), Hal Dawson (Stage Doorman), Edward Smith (Cab Driver).
Sgt. Carter pits his complete lack of knowledge of the theater against the superior knowledge of veteran Broadway producer Merrill, who is staging a Navy relief show in Washington, D.C.





December 6, 1968: A Little Chicken Soup Wouldn't Hurt
Season 5, episode 10
W: Aaron Ruben   D: Aaron Ruben

With Forrest Compton (Col. Edward Gray), Molly Picon (Molly Gordon), Dave Ketchum (Sol Gordon), Roger Til (Waiter).
Motherly Molly Gordon comes across Gomer sitting on a bench, tells him he's too skinny and insists that he let her fix him a little lunch at her apartment.

April 18, 1969: Show Time With Sgt. Carol
Season 5, episode 28
W: Aaron Ruben   D: John Rich

With Forrest Compton (Col. Edward Gray), Ed Rice, Carol Burnett (Sgt. Carol).
A woman Marine clashes with Sgt. Carter when she attempts to recruit Gomer for a camp show she is putting on. (Last show of the series.)


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