Gomer Pyle

Gomer Pyle is a simpleminded, gentle, rural auto mechanic character played by American singer/ television actor Jim Nabors. Gomer Pyle became a character on the TV sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, when actor Howard McNear, who played Floyd the barber, suffered a stroke and took a respite from acting. Jim Nabors was contracted to play Pyle, and did so for 23 episodes from 1962–1964. After two years of appearances on The Andy Griffith Show, McNear returned and Andy Griffith went to the producers seeking a vehicle for a show based on Nabors' Gomer Pyle. In 1964 the character was spun-off into a sitcom akin to the movie No Time for Sergeants. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., ran until 1969. Gomer Pyle was depicted as a good-natured, naïve hay-seed from...