

The show retained high ratings throughout its run.Follows the lives of six 20-something friends living in Manhattan. The series never discussed nor addressed the then-current Vietnam War, instead focusing on the relationship between Gomer and Sergeant Carter. Allan Melvin played in the recurring role of Gunnery Sergeant Carter’s rival, Sergeant Charley Hacker. Frank Sutton plays Gomer’s high-octane, short-fused Gunnery Sergeant Vince Carter, and Ronnie Schell plays Gomer’s friend Gilbert “Duke” Slater.

Filmed and set in California, it stars Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle, a naive but good-natured gas-station attendant from the town of Mayberry, North Carolina, who enlists in the United States Marine Corps. The final season was released in November 2008.The series was created by Aaron Ruben, who also produced the show with Sheldon Leonard and Ronald Jacobs. In 2006, CBS Home Entertainment began releasing the series on DVD. The show ran for five seasons and a total of 150 episodes.

The series was a spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show, and the pilot was aired as the finale of the fourth season of The Andy Griffith Show on May 18, 1964. is an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964, to May 2, 1969.
