Onionhead

Guest host Alicia Malone introduces Onionhead, 1958.

TCM's new Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces Onionhead, 1958.

A social failure on his Oklahoma college campus, Andy Griffith as title character Alvin Woods decides on a career in the services, into a perhaps obligatory training sequence, meeting fellow recruits O’Neal and Berger (Joe Mantell, Tige Andrews) early in director Norman Taurog’s Onionhead, 1958.

Having blown it again attempting a rendezvous with a local girl, Coast Guard cook Woods (Andy Griffith, title character) decides to drink it off and is surprised to meet his previously hostile boss, plenty intoxicated Chief Wildoe (Walter Matthau), in Onionhead, 1958, from a novel by Wendell Hill.

Annoyed and still-training Coast Guard assistant chef Woods (Andy Griffith) demands help from underlings Gutsell (Joey Bishop) and Poznicki (Claude Akins), in Onionhead, 1958.

Seasick Coast Guard chief cook Wildoe (Walter Matthau) is not happy with the praise coming to his new assistant Woods (Andy Griffith), in Onionhead, 1958.