No Time for Sergeants came to the small screen in the fall of 1964.  It starred Sammy Jackson who had had one line in the film version.  When Jackson read that Warner Brothers was going to produce a television sitcom version of No Time for Sergeants for ABC he wrote directly to Jack Warner saying that he was the best choice for the role and asked Warner to watch a certain episode of the series Maverick as proof.  Ten days later Jackson was told to come to the studio to test for the role.  Jackson won the role over several actors including the better known Will Hutchins, a Warner Brothers Television contract star who formerly played the sympathetic Sugarfoot and had also been in the No Time for Sergeants film.

Part of the William T. Orr-produced stable of Warner Brothers television programs, the series was produced by George Burns’s production company.  It preceded Burns’ own Wendy and Me sitcom (which starred Burns and Connie Stevens) on ABC’s Monday night schedule, but unfortunately opposite The Andy Griffith Show, the series headlined by the original star of all the earlier versions of No Time For Sergeants.  It was trounced in the ratings and only lasted one season.  It was also shown in the UK on ITV from 1965 to 1969.