It's my last night to stay up late before Elementary School and my job starts back on Wednesday. Gonna enjoy some mindless GOMER PYLE entertainment. Just finishing "THE DYNAMITE DINER" where Gomer and Lou Ann Poovie help out two seemingly "down on their luck" guys who are actually recently out of prison con men who move into an abandoned diner with an adjoining wall to a bank, to pull a bank job. Gomer and Lou Ann blow it for them as they open the diner for business to everyone in town.
Coming up later: "A TATTOO FOR GOMER!" Also coming up "TO SAVE A LIFE" which is the recycled script from THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW where Andy saved Gomer's life and Gomer was forever indebted to him, but this time Sgt. Carter saves Gomer's life and the Gomer is indebted to him. Some scenes are carbon copies of each other. How creative. Also in line "FLOWER POWER" featuring a pre-Meathead Rob Reiner as a Hippy who with his hippie friends give Gomer's Command Post Truck a Psychedelic and Flower Power paint job. Comedy Hi-Jinx is sure to ensue.
Gonna be a wild night folks! Will be good for my mind. Mindless entertainment!
I hadn't watched an episode of Gomer Pyle in decades, but happened upon a few recently. I was surprised at how shite their base camp was--just a bunch of Quonset Huts. I misremembered them having a proper brick-and-mortar base, but that was perhaps just my wishful thinking.
Zooba, your Gomer Pyle, USMC (and Andy Griffith Show) threads are among my favorites here at FSM. You've inspired me to revisit these shows after so many years of not havng watched them.
Thanks.
Personal Trivia: Frank "Sgt. Carter" Sutton and my paternal grandfather were both born on October 23, 1923.
It wasn't. Only Sony colorized B/W seasons with Bewitched and I Dream Of Jeannie. CBS/Paramount doesn't do that kind of thing.
However, there are music edits as the seasons progress including moments of Gomer singing etc. due to the dreaded clearance issues that CBS/Paramount was notorious at doing (as fans of "Odd Couple", "My Three Sons" and "The Fugitive" also discovered).
It wasn't. Only Sony colorized B/W seasons with Bewitched and I Dream Of Jeannie. CBS/Paramount doesn't do that kind of thing.
However, there are music edits as the seasons progress including moments of Gomer singing etc. due to the dreaded clearance issues that CBS/Paramount was notorious at doing (as fans of "Odd Couple", "My Three Sons" and "The Fugitive" also discovered).
Like when they didn't want to pay for that song in THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER for VHS STAR TREK TOS Release. I think on the box it said something like: SOME OF THE MUSIC IN THIS EPISODE HAS BEEN EDITED OR CHANGED FROM THE ORIGINAL BROADCAST.
Cheap bastards. They don't care about the audience at all.
Good Night Sweetheart and screw the paying and supporting audience.
It wasn't. Only Sony colorized B/W seasons with Bewitched and I Dream Of Jeannie. CBS/Paramount doesn't do that kind of thing.
However, there are music edits as the seasons progress including moments of Gomer singing etc. due to the dreaded clearance issues that CBS/Paramount was notorious at doing (as fans of "Odd Couple", "My Three Sons" and "The Fugitive" also discovered).
That tells me just how long it's been since I've watched Gomer Pyle for any length. I must have been watching on a black & white set. Gomer was part of my after-school TV routine circa 1977-79 when it was aired along with the likes of Green Acres and Petticoat Junction.
I was a kid in 1979, but even then those 1960s shows--and even early '70s--seemed like an eternity ago. The '70s of, say, The Brady Bunch, compared with Three's Company make the decade out to be quite different than what came before it.
Eric: Condolences on the World Series. No one should have to see that.
I never watched it so as far as I'm concerned, it never happened! (Hatred is too mild an epithet for what I think of that team)
I know what you mean about how in the late 70s, shows from the 60s seemed "long ago" in ways that you can't say in later years. But the personalities in them were still active and around the place on other shows or on the game shows that so that's why they still seemed to fit in with the current programs as I watched.
