Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23342 in DVD
• Brand: Paramount
• Released on: 2008-11-25
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 762 minutes

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Gomer Pyle, a naive country boy, leaves his home in Mayberry, NC to join the U.S. Marine corps. His perpetual wide-eyed innocence frequently gets on the nerves of his tough, loudmouthed sergeant. A successful spin-off from The Andy Griffith Show.

Customer Reviews

Sorry To See It End
As A Die-hard Andy Griffith Show fan,Gomer Pyle,USMC just completes the wonderful experience of great comedy that sort of ties in both shows...Frank Sutton is just fantastic and I feel often overlooked as one of the great character actors of his time..When you have seen these episodes as often as I have,the characters,actors and story lines really are funny.If your a great fan of Mayberry,this series really belongs with that collection.In a way its like having 13 seasons of a time period that all ties together for lots of laughs and memories....I AM alittle upset that some of these episodes have been edited and some of Jim Nabors musical numbers have been ommited.Also,I feel there should have been more commentary from Jim Nabors and maybe some of the surviving cast members.It would be great to hear about the filming of some of these episodes from the actual actors and writers....Great shame that the series ended when it did without any conclusion..Unfortunately,though the show was in the top 20 for its entire run,times were changing for television and like many light-rural comedies of the time,all were canceled to make room for more political and social commentary-like shows that would take tv into the 70s

Final Season for Gomer
I just loved this show and its great to be able to finish off all 5 seasons on dvd!

There are 30 Episodes for Season 5. It really contains some great episodes: My Two favorite season 5 episodes are: Car For Sale and Come Blow Your Top!

Come Blow Your Top had it all. By the fifth season Jim Nabors and Frank Sutton had perfected their roles as Gomer and Sgt Carter respectvely. This storyline exemplified what the entire series was about. Well respected and tough as nails Sgt Carter trying his best to maintain a top notch platoon while the often clumsy but good natured Gomer seemed to always find a way to make waves and get under the Sergeants skin. This episode featured Alan Melvin as Sgt Hacker who put in one of his best performances of the series as he enlisted the help of Gomer to make Sgt Carter blow his top and win a bet at the same time.

121 Car For Sale 9/27/1968
122 Corporal Duke 9/4/1968
123 The Booty Prize 10/11/1968
124 The Return of Monroe 10/18/1968
125 Just Move Your Lips, Sergeant 10/25/1968
126 All You Need is One Good Break 11/8/1968
127 A Marriage of Convenience 11/15/1968
128 A Star is Not Born 11/22/1968
129 Come Blow Your Top 11/29/1968
130 A Little Chicken Soup Wouldn't Hurt 12/6/1968
131 Gomer, the Perfect MP 12/13/1968
132 The Wild Bull Returns 12/20/1968
133 Hit and Write 12/27/1968
134 Two on the Bench 1/3/1969
135 A Tattoo For Gomer 1/10/1969
136 Win-A-Date 1/17/1969
137 Marriage, Sgt. Carter Style 1/24/1969
138 To Save a Life 1/31/1969
139 Dynamite Diner 2/7/1969
140 Freddy's Friendly Computer 2/14/1969
141 Gomer Maneuvers 2/21/1969
142 Gomer Tends A Sick Cat 2/27/1969
143 I'm Always Chasing Gomers 3/7/1969
144 The Short Voyage Home 3/14/1969
145 Proxy Poppa 3/21/1969
146 Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow 4/4/1969
147 Flower Power 3/28/1969
148 Show Time With Sgt. Carol 4/18/1969
149 My Fair Sister 4/25/1969
150 Goodbye Camp Handerson, Hello Sergeant Carter 5/2/1969

So long Gomer, it was great 5 years!

Not every song butchered
It is with some relief that I can report at least two episodes from Gomer Pyle fifth season that are plot reliant on songs appear on the DVD set unchanged. The extended musical number between Carol Burnett and Nabors is there and "Blowing In The Wind" miraculosly survived in the hippie episode. I still don't approve of what CBS/Par did to this series, but the episodes I was worried about came through largely unscathed.

(I was also relieved that earlier the climax to the Washington two-parter "Impossible Dream" is there).