High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. is an American situation comedy created by Aaron Ruben that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964 to May 2, 1969. The series was a spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show, and the pilot episode was introduced in an episode which aired on May 19, 1964. The show ran for five seasons, which each had 30 episodes, making a total of 150 episodes. Despite the series` positive reception (the show remained in the Top 10 Nielsen ratings for all five seasons), Nabors quit because he desired to move to something else, `reach for another rung on the ladder, either up or down`. In 2006, CBS began releasing the show on DVD; the last season was released in November 2008.