The Phil Silvers Show(1955)
Comedy
First Air Date: 1955-09-20
Average Runtime: 30m
Rating: 7.0
Votes: 23
Seasons: 4
Episodes: 144
The Phil Silvers Show, originally titled You'll Never Get Rich, was a sitcom which ran on CBS from 1955 to 1959 for 142 episodes, plus a 1959 special. The series starred Phil Silvers as Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko of the United States Army. The series was created and largely written by Nat Hiken, and won three consecutive Emmy Awards for Best Comedy Series. The show is sometimes titled Sergeant Bilko or simply Bilko in reruns, and is very often referred to by these names, both on-screen and by viewers. The show's success transformed Silvers from a journeyman comedian into a star, and writer-producer Hiken from a highly-regarded behind-the-scenes comedy writer into a publicly recognized creator.
Keywords
us armykansas, usamilitarysitcomsmall time crook
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 34E01
New Recruits
Air Date: 1955-09-20
During a poker game the other sergeant's cheat and clean Bilko out of his bankroll so he has to look around for some...
E02
The Empty Store
Air Date: 1955-09-27
Bilko is still broke and can't find a way back into the big poker game. When the three sergeant's win again, by beati...
E03
The WAC
Air Date: 1955-10-04
A job comes up for a sergeant that has a jeep allocated Bilko applies for it only to find that he is beaten by a Sgt ...
E04
The Horse
Air Date: 1955-10-11
Bilko loses the platoon welfare money on a horse only to find out that it is suffering from a minor leg injury, with ...
E05
AWOL
Air Date: 1955-10-18
Pvt Steve Nagy goes awol so Bilko has to go and fetch him back only to find himself caught up in the middle of a fami...
E06
The Boxer
Air Date: 1955-10-25
Bilko discovers that one of the platoon Claude Dillingham is a boxing champ so Bilko enters him for the interplatoon ...
E07
The Hoodlum
Air Date: 1955-11-01
After several transfers a young tough guy is moved to the motor pool platoon and it is left to the Bilko to cut him d...
E08
Mardi Gras
Air Date: 1955-11-08
When the platoon ask local socialite Miss Joy Landers to be their Mardi Gras queen she laughs and turns them down fla...
E09
The Eating Contest
Air Date: 1955-11-15
In an eating contest between the platoons Bilko puts his money on a new member of the platoon nicknamed 'The Stomach'...
E10
The Centennial
Air Date: 1955-11-22
Bilko organises a pageant to celebrate 100 years of Camp Baxter but after some investigation finds that it does not s...
E11
Bivouac
Air Date: 1955-11-29
When maneuvers come round again the Colonel is interested in which illness Bilko has in order to miss out on the joys...
E12
The Singing Contest
Air Date: 1955-12-06
Bilko hears of a singing contest in Miami and to get away from the bitterly cold weather he enters the platoon but on...
E13
The Twitch
Air Date: 1955-12-13
Colonel Hall tells Bilko to provide an audience for a lecture on music. He finds that nobody wants to come until they...
E14
The Reunion
Air Date: 1955-12-20
When Bilko meets up with his old army buddies, he thinks that they are going to be so short of money, that he is goin...
E15
The Rich Kid
Air Date: 1955-12-27
Bilko gets an idea to buy the local bar and grill, but he is stumped for cash, until he learns that one of the platoo...
E16
Hollywood
Air Date: 1956-01-03
Hollywood plans a film of the ' Battle of Kabuchi' and they hire Bilko as the technical adviser, but after a couple o...
E17
The Investigation
Air Date: 1956-01-10
A Congressional committee visit Fort Baxter to investigate waste and high living but Bilko has other ideas, he wants ...
E18
Kids In the Trailer
Air Date: 1956-01-17
While babysitting for a member of the platoon Bilko panics when he finds that he can't change the baby's nappy
E19
The Revolutionary War
Air Date: 1956-01-24
Bilko's aunt sends him a diary showing him that his great uncle Joshua was on the staff of George Washington so Bilko...
E20
The Transfer
Air Date: 1956-01-31
When the Colonel makes life difficult Bilko decides to bluff and puts in a transfer, but the Colonel calls the bluff ...
E21
The Rest Cure
Air Date: 1956-02-07
During a heat wave Bilko discovers that the army have a rest centre in the Rockies but the trick is trying to persuad...
E22
Dinner at Sowici's
Air Date: 1956-02-14
When Bilko thinks that Joan is trying to trap him into marriage, he takes her to dinner at Sgt Sowici's to see how ba...
E23
Army Memoirs
Air Date: 1956-02-21
When Sgt's Pendleton,Grover, and Sowici get Bilko busted to private, he gets his own back by pretending to write a bo...
E24
Miss America
Air Date: 1956-02-28
When Bilko asks for pictures of the platoons girlfriends Pvt Honnagar shows them a photo of a beautiful girl taken ye...
E25
The Court Martial
Air Date: 1956-03-06
When Zippo the ape is accidently inducted into the army the only way to get the army off the hook is to get Bilko as ...
E26
Furlough in New York
Air Date: 1956-03-13
Bilko and Joan Hogan go separately to New York and keep missing each other but when they meet up again at Fort Baxter...
E27
The Big Uranium Strike
Air Date: 1956-03-20
Bilko suspects that there are large deposits of uranium underneath Fort Baxter but he has to get rid of the Colonel b...
E28
Bilko and the Beast
Air Date: 1956-03-27
When a new drill sergeant known as ' The Beast ' takes over at Fort Baxter Bilko and the platoon come up with a schem...
E29
The Physical Check Up
Air Date: 1956-04-10
When Bilko tries to get out of a 20 mile hike the Colonel preempts him and allows him to miss the hike Bilko is so sh...
E30
The Recruiting Sergeant
Air Date: 1956-04-17
When Bilko gets a tip from a jockey on a horse he persuades the Colonel to take him on a recruiting drive to Topeka s...
E31
Hair
Air Date: 1956-04-24
Bilko's head is constantly being used by his barber to find a cure for baldness. The other three sergeants know this ...
E32
The Con Men
Air Date: 1956-05-01
When Doberman gets a $500 windfall from an insurance policy, he loses it in a poker game with three con men. Bilko ge...
E33
War Games
Air Date: 1956-05-08
Bilko is asked to be best man at a friends wedding but it coincides with a war game battle between the army and the n...
E34
Bilko on Wall Street
Air Date: 1956-05-15
Thinking his friend is a big man on Wall Street Bilko goes to stay but when he discovers that his friend is just a cl...
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