Ok, if you're reading this you probably are already an Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle fan, and so need no further convincing that this set is well worth buying. Just some notes of special things to watch out for:
1. "Gomer the M.P."-features Robert Emhardt, the "Man In A Hurry" from the TAGS episode of the same name.
2. One of the early shows of this season, "A Date With The Colonel's Daughter" features Karl Swenson, who played "Mr. McBeevee" in the TAGS episode of the same name. In this episode he plays COL Harper, and his daughter's name is Jane, played by Suzanne Benoit.
3. Later in this season, the episode "Gomer Dates A Movie Star" is something of a continuation of "A Date With The Colonel's Daughter", except in this episode the COL is played by Forrest Compton (who later became a semi-regular playing the COL) and his name has been changed from COL Harper to COL Gray. Suzanne Benoit is still on hand as the COL's daughter, and also featured in this episode is Ruta Lee, who TAGS fans will recognize as the "college kid" reporter from the TAGS episode "Andy On Trial".
4. "Old Man Carter"-features Alvy Moore (Hank Kimball from Green Acres).
5. The award for the most TAGS alumni in a single episode of Gomer Pyle goes to "Love Letters To The Sarge". Keep your eyes open for no less than four Andy Griffith characters: Jean Carson ("Daphne", the sultrier half of "the fun girls" who likes to sidle up to Andy and purr "Hello doll" in his ear), Jackie Joseph (the object of Ernest T. Bass's affection, his darling "Romeena" in the TAGS episode "My Fair Ernest T. Bass"), Mary Lansing (who appeared in numerous TAGS episodes over the years including the saleslady who sells Opie the stockings for Helen in "Opie Loves Helen" and also played Emmet's wife in the last season), and Charles Thompson (who played Asa, the hotel clerk, bank guard, night watchman in Weaver's dept store, etc. in numerous TAGS episodes).
6. But the most bizarre connection between this first season of Gomer Pyle and TAGS is the episode "The Case Of The Marine Bandit". This episode is something of a mirror image of the TAGS episode "Barney's First Car" in that in both episodes the old lady "bad guy" is played by Ellen Corby (as running a car chop shop on TAGS and using Marines to rob liquor stores on GP), and the nice little old lady who shows up in the epilogs of both episodes is also played by the same actress, Hallene Hill. Watch "Barney's First Car" and then watch "The Case Of The Marine Bandit" and you'll see what I mean, it's interesting and makes you wonder how it could have happened by accident, or if the casting directors engineered it this way intentionally.
Long live The Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.!!!!!
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Kinda disappointing to find one part missing!
Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2020
No # 2 disc at all.... #1 and #3 discs in first one you take out, I guess they hoped I wouldn't notice and assume #2 disc is mixed up and in another sleeve? Nope, nothing but #4 in the next by itself. And #5 is in it's right sleeve.
Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2020
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