The opening scenes were shot at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California, using real Marines.
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The show received full cooperation from the Marine Corps. During its five seasons, the word Vietnam is never mentioned. NCOs and officers wore combat decorations, but none related to service in Vietnam. The Vietnam War cost the Marine Corps 101,600 combat casualties, of which 13,607 were fatalities, yet any reference to the war was conspicuously absent from the show. This creates endless comedic scenarios, making for a lighthearted comedy within a military context, but one totally out of touch with its time. He’s the square peg Carter must fit into a round hole. Country bumpkin Pyle drives Carter crazy. Paired with Frank Sutton as Gunnery Sergeant Vince Carter, we follow Pyle to Boot Camp and beyond. Jim Nabors introduced the character on “The Andy Griffith Show” and studio execs gave him his own series by having him join the Marines. Gomer Pyle took place in contemporary times. With Americans fighting and dying overseas, military-themed TV shows were a hit with audiences back home. While Vietnam was proving to be the country’s most unpopular war, a strange phenomenon was occurring.
“Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.”ĭuring the 1960s and early 1970s, television’s evening news brought the Vietnam War home to America, in real time and in living color. Jim Nabors, in a 1964 episode of Gomer, U.S.M.C., getting chewed out by Frank Sutton as Gunnery Sgt.
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