![]() King continuously tries to thwart Stockdale, especially since he thinks our simple country bumpkin will put his unit to ridicule. As he tells his commanding officer in the Air Force, "Air Force ain't nothing but helpers," having earlier been told by his only real friend, the slightly less dim but still bit crabby Ben (Eddie LeRoy) that the infantry is where the real fighters are. ![]() He's always willing to help, which makes sense since to Stockdale. King, convinced Stockdale is an idiot who can easily be pushed out of things, gives him the position of Permanent Latrine Duty, which Stockdale takes as a high compliment. He carries on, oblivious to how what he says or does drives his commanding officer, Sergeant King (Harry Clark) to distraction and horror. He finds the military endlessly fascinating, taking on whatever is given him with a cheerful disposition. Will Stockdale (Andy Griffith), our narrator and protagonist, is a sweet, simple country boy who finds himself drafted. In that long route, our first of two stops will be the United States Steel Hour adaptation of Mac Hyman's novel. ![]() It began as a novel, then adapted as a one-hour live television play for the United States Steel Hour anthology program, then shifted to a Broadway play, and after that it shifted to a feature film based on that play, and ends up as a weekly television series. ![]() The story of No Time for Sergeants is a most fascinating one. ![]()
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