The sitcom was a hit spinoff of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and focused on the eponymous character played by actor and singer Jim Nabors Character actor Ronnie Schell has died Schell played Pvt. Duke ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jim Nabors, who gave popular culture its most enduring image of a wide-eyed, good-natured if none too bright hayseed in a ...

Though he wasn’t one of the original characters of The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle is just as notable as the other characters. In fact, the character was such a hit, he got his own spinoff of the ...

Pyle was an oafish, childlike employee at the local Mayberry gas station. Thanks to Nabors’ comedic chops, however, he quickly became one of the most popular characters in the series. When Pyle wasn’t ...

The characterization of robots as cold, unfeeling objects doesn’t seem quite as accurate as it may have a few decades ago — at least, not from a personality perspective. After all, the introduction of ...

If there’s any sort of trend in robotics this year it’s soft hands. Robots with soft pincers are quite useful in picking up – and not breaking – objects and now you can enjoy a soft-handed robot at ...

Prof. Emeritus Robert Gomer, a chemical physicist who pioneered techniques for studying molecules and taught at the University of Chicago for nearly a half-century, died Dec. 12 of complications ...

Ronnie Schell, who played Gomer Pyle's best friend on the CBS sitcom, has died at the age of 94. The veteran actor passed away from natural causes at UCLA Medical Center, according to his family.