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Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. Episode Guide (Season
5)
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Hacker plans to get even when Carter sells his car to Gomer instead of to him.
Duke Slater comes back as a Corporal to
run the platoon in Sergeant Carter's absence. The men see
Slater as a buddy and take advantage of his kindness. Gomer
rallies the troops to show Duke respect.
Gomer and Carter are the victims of the lead boot, the battalion's booby prize.
Lou Ann's old boyfriend visits.
The platoon's chances to sing in a movie are almost spoiled by Sgt. Carter when it's discovered he can't carry a tune.
Gomer and Carter clash as they vie for an actress.
After Gomer refuses her, a movie star tries to get Carter to marry her in order to avoid being deported.
Carter appears in a Hollywood movie, but finds acting harder than he thought.
Sgt. Hacker bets Carter that he can't go 24 hours without losing his temper, and then enlists Gomer's aid to win his bet.
This episode 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.
Lonely widow Molly Gordon feels old and useless until Gomer and his appreciative buddies eat her wonderful home cooking.
Sergeant Carter puts Gomer on guard
duty and orders him not to let anyone enter the base without
identification, no exceptions. Then Gomer refuses the
sergeant entry when Carter comes back for his forgotten
wallet.
South American General Cortez looks up his old friends, and falls in love with Carter's girlfriend Bunny.
Sergeant Carter hits a new car while
parking and slightly scratches it. Gomer insists that the
Sergeant leave a note. Then the new car turns up with a
badly crashed fender which Carter is blamed for.
Carter won't believe that Gomer really knows football star Moose Lewis.
Gomer's practical joke backfires when Lou Ann appears to like his fake tattoo.
Sergeant Carter goes on a dating game,
Gomer ends up pulled into the show as contestant #3 and
wins. Both Miss Bunny and Lou-Ann are upset that their men
went on a dating show.
Carter decides that Gomer might not re-enlist if he were married, so he tries to push the private into a quick wedding.
Sergeant Carter saves Gomer from a live
grenade that Gomer dropped during exercises and Gomer
becomes a pest repaying the sergeant for the deed so Carter
sets it up for Gomer to save his life.
Gomer and Lou-Ann find a diner closed
without customers and try to help them build business but
the only thing the restaurant owners are interested in is
robbing the bank next door through the basement wall.
Gomer and Carter again fall prey to con man "Friendly Freddy," now running a computer dating service.
The Marines send Carter's and Hacker's
platoons to maneuvers. Hacker tricks Gomer into giving the
location of Carter's tents, so they have to move in the
middle of the night. Carter accidentally raids a girl scout
camp, due to faulty information from Pyle. Carter sends Pyle
back to the base. Pyle is captured by Hacker, and then
escapes. Pyle visits the girl scouts, Hacker's platoon
raids. Carter platoon right behind them, capturing Hacker
platoon. Hacker back at the base, pays the $50 lost the bet.
A surprise twist at the end leaves Gomer smiling, and both
Sargeants.
Gomer overhears a conversation about Bunny's sick cat and jumps to the conclusion that it's Sgt. Carter who is critically ill.
Carter decides he must get away from Gomer to avoid a nervous breakdown, but continues to be haunted by him.
First aired: 3/14/1969
Writer:
Jack Elinson,
Norman Paul
Director:
George Tyne
Guest star:
Ellen Corby (Mother),
Jim Begg (Chester),
Jay Novello (Sam Wiggins),
Ray Kellogg (Bus Driver),
Maudie Prickett (Miss Paisley),
Frank Gerstle (Plainclothes Man),
Joseph Mell (Taxi Driver),
Elmer Modling (Man #1),
Orville Sherman (Sheriff),
Olan Soule (Man #2)
Global rating:
9.5
Gomer heads home with $1,600 to buy a
gas station with his cousin Goober. Worried about
pickpockets and con artists, Sergeant Carter goes with him. Carter takes charge of Gomer's life savings for safekeeping and has his pocket picked by a little old lady.
A Marine buddy breaks his leg and Gomer and Carter have to take his expectant wife to the hospital.
Gomer finds a white rabbit, gives it to
a General's son and the Sergeant lets it loose thinking
Gomer is keeping an unauthorized bunny. The rabbit must be
found and the search is on but there are many white rabbits
on base.
Three hippies help Gomer paint a truck for maneuvers, but the results are not standard military camouflage.
Carol Burnett co-stars as a visiting
Sergeant putting on a talent show at Camp Henderson. She
wants Gomer to sing, Sergeant Carter says no until she uses
her ladylike charm on him.
Sergeant Carter's sister arrives and
the Sergeant is embarrassed by her looks so he gets her a
make-over that just isn't her. Gomer talks her into going
back to her old self and he takes her to a dance.
Gomer decides to paint Sgt. Carter's
office as a present to celebrate their 5 years together in
the Marine Corps. Sgt. Carter come into his office and gets
mad at Pyle for 'stinking up the place', etc. Gomer is very
upset and goes to the company Chaplain to ask for a transfer
to Camp Lejune so that Sgt. Carter won't be mad at him
anymore. When Sgt. Carter finds out Pyle is getting
transferred, He is overjoyed because he has had to endure 5
years of screw ups by Gomer Pyle. He's happy to be finally
be getting rid of Gomer. Sgt. Carter and Corporal Slater
start talking about some of Gomer's biggest screw ups, and
these are re lived via flashback using scenes from two older
episodes. Sgt. Carter is reminded by Corporal Slater that
Gomer did some GOOD things for him, and Carter gets a little
sentimental and secretly cancels Gomer's transfer.
Gomer never finds out who changed his transfer orders, and
in the epilogue of this episode he promises Carter that he
will do better and not cause Carter so much trouble in the
future. Gomer had been shellacking Carter's desk chair.
Carter asks Pyle if he's really sincere about doing better
in the future, and Pyle tells him yes, so Carter asks Pyle
to shake on it, and their hands get stuck together because
Gomer's hand has shellack on it. One last screw up for Gomer
Pyle....Gollll--eee! The episode ends....,
The series was canceled in the spring of 1969 and Jim Nabors
got his own variety show on CBS called 'The Jim Nabors Hour'
in the fall of 1969 and took Frank Sutton along with him as
a co-star.
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