Gomer Pyle USMC Closing with Original Sponsor Tag & Elements

[kduideo]

why was this not not not on the dvd's i bought?

[jed6271]

Do you have the original opening in B&W or Color? Or maybe the original Color closing? thanks!

[cmulwee001]

Someone at Viacom. or whoever owns the show now needs to put forth a restoration effort to restore these end credits, as they are much more entertaining than the boring "barracks" closing used for syndication. Surely there must be a version of these credits without the sponsor logo.

Someone had the original color end credit sequence up at one time, and it's even more crazy than this one! Anyone agree that these credits should be restored? I think so myself.

[terentii]

Thank you so much!

[jed6271]

Again, I have to say, this original closing is a pure gem. Thanks for posting it Chuck!

[chuckcollins]

@jed6271 You're so welcome and thanks for your own terrific postings.

BTW, I'll be putting up another rarity shortly that I hope you will like.

[bybeert]

I'm truly enjoying these old clips! This is classic tv at it's best. I'm too young to remember this closing of Gomer Pyle. it's cool how they did their own commercials too. Keep posting!

[cmulwee001]

Did The color episodes also end this way originally?

[fromthesidelines]

These credits are from the episode "The Feudin' Pyles" [January 22, 1965].

[vividwatch47]

This was replaced in syndication by the version from Season 2, along with a slightly different opening with Nabors and Sutton, in the early '90s.

[terentii]

I appreciate the nostalgia of the old commercials, but I really wish someone would post the "longer" Gomer Pyle closing, which contained the full-length version of the march. It is a really snappy tune, one I'm surprised the USMC hasn't adopted.

I know there have been veterans' parades where the "Hogan's Heroes" theme, another great march, was played, and the theme from the second season of "F Troop" is a brilliant cavalry march!

[chuckcollins]

I would post the longer version, but it's sitting undernearth my tapes of "Faraway Hill".

[jed6271]

@terentii I've recently posted the longer "syndicated" version of the Gomer Pyle closing theme if you are still interested.

[luvthoseclips]

I remember this classic closing scene, I was only 9 yrs old at the time!

[jed6271]

This version of the closing credits is one of the most "lost" of any show!! Again, so much better than the barracks version, thanks. This version is hilarious and should have been retained for syndication, but sadly wasn't.

[sexymama1966]

this one should have been kept because it was shorter than the barracks one, afterall the stations want to squeeze more commericials..lol

[chuckcollins]

I'm not sure if they went with the barracks closing because it didn't involved having to mask the sponsor logo or if there were soldiers featured that were possibly killed in combat and it would have been a downer. After all, in the world of Gomer Pyle, there WAS no war!

[sexymama1966]

u know..i didn't think of that and i read on wikipedia that it was hard on mr. nabors that some of the men that marched with him in the opening titles got killed in Vietnam.

[pegbars]

This print is from the original network run in prime time. The "barracks" endings, without sponsorship logos, were the syndicated versions.

[sexymama1966]

the original closing..wow..thanks:)

[fromthesidelines]

General Foods sponsored the series throughout its original run (1964-'69), and usually had its logo [or various products] in a lower corner of the closing credits, as was the custom of most sponsors at the time. In CBS daytime repeats (1969-'72) and syndication, it was decided to use a scene of the barracks {and courtyard} behind a one minute version of the closing credits...

[BeagleRAK55]

A CLASSIC! I've not seen this original closing for 44 years now!!! Why did a different closing (actually much longer and more boring) replace this original one? Kudos to you for putting it on here!

[chuckcollins]

The closing you've seen for all these years is the syndication closing.