Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1964)

Episode list - season 1

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Show generally1
1Gomer Overcomes the Obstacle Course0
2Guest in the Barracks1
3Private Ralph Skunk0
4Captain Ironpants1
5Gomer Learns a Bully0
6Pay Day0
7Nobody Loves a Sergeant0
8Gomer and the Dragon Lady1
9Survival of the Fattest0
10A Date for the Colonel's Daughter1
11They Shall Not Pass0
12Sergeant Carter, Marine Baby Sitter0
13The Case of the Marine Bandit0
14Sergeant of the Week0
15Grandpa Pyle's Good Luck Charm0
16Dance, Marine, Dance0
17Sergeant Carter's Farewell to His Troops0
18The Feuding Pyles0
19Love Letters to the Sarge0
20Sergeant Carter Gets a Dear John Letter0
21Daughter of the Sarge0
22Officer Candidate Gomer Pyle0
23Old Man Carter0
24Gomer Makes the Honor Guard0
25My Buddy, the War Hero3
26Double Date with the Sarge0
27The Jet Set0
28Sergeant of the Guard0
29Gomer Dates a Movie Star0
30Gomer the M.P.0

Sergeant Carter Dates a Pyle - S2-E20

Other mistake: Private Duke Slater's utility uniform shirt is different from the other Marines. Duke's uniform has square pocket flaps with the button exposed, an exposed button front shirt and the sleeves do not have button cuffs. The other Marines' uniforms have tapered pocket flaps with a hidden button, a hidden button front shirt and the sleeves have button cuffs. (00:05:00 - 00:06:00)

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Question: Throughout the whole show Gomer Pyle's rank stays as Private First Class. With how long he had been in the Marines, why was he never given a promotion to a higher rank?

Answer: If you saw the whole series run, you know that Gomer was a country bumpkin. He fumbled, stumbled and tumbled his way into one disaster after another. There was an episode that questioned why he was never promoted. However, a few years before Jim Nabors died, the real Marine Corps, gave him a ceremonial promotion to the rank of Lance Corporal, which Jim gladly accepted.

Unfortunately, I never saw all the episodes. Only a few episodes and a clip of the episode where he sings "The Impossible Dream" which made me wonder why he was still a PFC. Thanks so much for the info.

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