The other day someone was counting the number of different TV shows which
specific Mayberry characters appeared on (not the actors, but the characters).
George Lindsey did indeed appear as Goober Pyle in TAGS, GP-USMC, MRFD and The
New Andy Griffith Show. On Hee-Haw, he was a mechanic called Goober, however
I'm not sure if the last name Pyle was ever used. We watched that show fairly
regularly when I was a kid, and it seems to me he was always just called
"Goober."
Back around 1970 or so, George did a pilot for a show called "Goober and the
Trucker's Paradise Cafe" or something like that, but unfortunately it didn't
sell. In it, he played Goober Pyle, and he operated a truck stop with his
sister Pearl Pyle. No copies of this pilot are known to exist anywhere. If
anybody should happen to have a lead on this, I'd love to have a look at this
film someday. Last time I checked, George himself was trying to track down a
copy as well.
So anyway, if you count that one, then George played Goober in SIX different TV
series. That's got to be a record.
Paul Mulik
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