Ronnie Schell

Ronnie Schell plays Duke Slater on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., barracks comic weather while Mayberry's gas-station innocent bounces kindness off Frank Sutton's volcanic Sgt. Carter. Jim Nabors's vocal comic timing powers the last great military-innocent sitcom; Schell is the pal in the bunk. It was a ratings machine that never let Vietnam into the barracks joke. The platoon still needed a roommate with a punchline.

Ronnie Schell's Duke Slater sits in the CBS window (1964–1969) on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.. Viewers who want a door more than a recap still use s01e01: Gomer Overcomes the Obstacle Course is the spinoff contract: Mayberry's gas-station innocent in the Marines, Nabors versus Sutton's Carter.

Kindness as a gag that refused the news. On TV Flash Schell is 1960s sitcom craft: the buddy who made a Marine hour photograph as a cartoon with a heart, then left the war off the lot.

Ronnie Schell plus Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. is the filing; go to s01e10 when you already know the door — A Date for the Colonel's Daughter — early-run manners farce, kindness bouncing off volcanic rank without leaving the base. s02e01 keeps a sideways coordinate — PFC Gomer Pyle opens season two on a promotion gag: the ratings machine already in dress greens. Supporting, and load-bearing. Duke Slater is not the logo of Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.; Ronnie Schell is why the marquee still has a world. The extras are noise.

Ronnie Schell is here because Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. still needs Duke Slater in the shot — 1964–1969 on CBS, 1960s craft that photographs as a person instead of a pitch. s01e01 shakes hands; s01e10 still shows the turn. That is the whole passport.