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The Phil Silvers Show
The Phil Silvers Show

The Phil Silvers Show

★ 7.0•1955•4 Seasons•ANIME
Comedy

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.

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Top Cast

Phil Silvers

Phil Silvers

Ernest Bilko

Harvey Lembeck

Harvey Lembeck

Rocco Barbella

Paul Ford

Paul Ford

John Hall

Allan Melvin

Allan Melvin

Steve Henshaw

Billy Sands

Billy Sands

Dino Paparelli

Maurice Gosfield

Maurice Gosfield

Duane Doberman

Episodes

New Recruits

1. New Recruits

30m

During a poker game the other sergeant's cheat and clean Bilko out of his bankroll so he has to look around for some more money. Just when it looks like he will miss out a new squad of rookies arrive for basic training. With a new source of cash the platoon think he can get back into the game but Bilko's conscience will not let him.

Aired: 9/20/1955
The Empty Store

2. The Empty Store

30m

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Herbie Faye

Herbie Faye

Sam Fender

Terry Carter

Terry Carter

Private 'Sugie' Sugarman

Bilko is still broke and can't find a way back into the big poker game. When the three sergeant's win again, by beating one of the new recruits, Bilko decides to get even by renting an empty store and getting the sergeant's to invest in it

Aired: 9/27/1955
The WAC

3. The WAC

30m

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 Joan Hogan. (1st appearance by Elisabeth Fraser As Joan Hogan)

Aired: 10/4/1955
The Horse

4. The Horse

30m

Bilko loses the platoon welfare money on a horse only to find out that it is suffering from a minor leg injury, with the last of the platoon's money he buys the horse and has to keep it on the post until it is fit to run Then a visiting general comes on a surprise visit

Aired: 10/11/1955
AWOL

5. AWOL

30m

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 family feud

Aired: 10/18/1955
The Boxer

6. The Boxer

30m

Bilko discovers that one of the platoon Claude Dillingham is a boxing champ so Bilko enters him for the interplatoon championship only to learn that Dillingham refuses to fight

Aired: 10/25/1955
The Hoodlum

7. The Hoodlum

30m

After several transfers a young tough guy is moved to the motor pool platoon and it is left to the Bilko to cut him down to size. Meanwhile Bilko is after the ' Soldier of the Month' competition. Little does he know that the tough guy will spring a surprise.

Aired: 11/1/1955
Mardi Gras

8. Mardi Gras

30m

When the platoon ask local socialite Miss Joy Landers to be their Mardi Gras queen she laughs and turns them down flat, so Bilko finds a way to change her mind.

Aired: 11/8/1955
The Eating Contest

9. The Eating Contest

30m

In an eating contest between the platoons Bilko puts his money on a new member of the platoon nicknamed 'The Stomach' only to find that he can only eat when he is depressed

Aired: 11/15/1955
The Centennial

10. The Centennial

30m

Bilko organises a pageant to celebrate 100 years of Camp Baxter but after some investigation finds that it does not show the camp in a very good light

Aired: 11/22/1955
Bivouac

11. Bivouac

30m

When maneuvers come round again the Colonel is interested in which illness Bilko has in order to miss out on the joys of marching through the countryside. In order to make him go the colonel uses reverse psychology

Aired: 11/29/1955
The Singing Contest

12. The Singing Contest

30m

Bilko hears of a singing contest in Miami and to get away from the bitterly cold weather he enters the platoon but on hearing them sing he puts a bet on for them to lose. While he is putting on the bet a new platoon member is found to have a beautiful singing voice

Aired: 12/6/1955
The Twitch

13. The Twitch

30m

Colonel Hall tells Bilko to provide an audience for a lecture on music. He finds that nobody wants to come until they learn that the lecture will be given by a friend of the Colonel's wife and they can bet on the number of ' twitches' that she will give during the lecture

Aired: 12/13/1955
The Reunion

14. The Reunion

30m

When Bilko meets up with his old army buddies, he thinks that they are going to be so short of money, that he is going to have to help them out , but it turns out that they have all been very successful.

Aired: 12/20/1955
The Rich Kid

15. The Rich Kid

30m

Bilko gets an idea to buy the local bar and grill, but he is stumped for cash, until he learns that one of the platoon's new recruits, is heir to a steel fortune. So they play up to him in order to get him to invest in their scheme, but Bilko's conscience wins out in the end.

Aired: 12/27/1955
Hollywood

16. Hollywood

30m

Hollywood plans a film of the ' Battle of Kabuchi' and they hire Bilko as the technical adviser, but after a couple of days he has taken over the whole production, and the film people want shot of him.

Aired: 1/3/1956
The Investigation

17. The Investigation

30m

A Congressional committee visit Fort Baxter to investigate waste and high living but Bilko has other ideas, he wants a pay rise instead

Aired: 1/10/1956
Kids In the Trailer

18. Kids In the Trailer

30m

While babysitting for a member of the platoon Bilko panics when he finds that he can't change the baby's nappy

Aired: 1/17/1956
The Revolutionary War

19. The Revolutionary War

30m

Bilko's aunt sends him a diary showing him that his great uncle Joshua was on the staff of George Washington so Bilko applies to become an officer but on reading the diary he discovers that Joshua was a traitor so Bilko keeps quiet and withdraws his application

Aired: 1/24/1956
The Transfer

20. The Transfer

30m

When the Colonel makes life difficult Bilko decides to bluff and puts in a transfer, but the Colonel calls the bluff and Bilko is on his way, but at his new camp life is to easy and Bilko hopes he can find a way to get back to Camp Baxter

Aired: 1/31/1956
The Rest Cure

21. The Rest Cure

30m

During a heat wave Bilko discovers that the army have a rest centre in the Rockies but the trick is trying to persuade the doctors and the Colonel to let him go there

Aired: 2/7/1956
Dinner at Sowici's

22. Dinner at Sowici's

30m

When Bilko thinks that Joan is trying to trap him into marriage, he takes her to dinner at Sgt Sowici's to see how bad marriage can be, but they are in for a surprise.

Aired: 2/14/1956
Army Memoirs

23. Army Memoirs

30m

When Sgt's Pendleton,Grover, and Sowici get Bilko busted to private, he gets his own back by pretending to write a book on his army life

Aired: 2/21/1956
Miss America

24. Miss America

30m

When Bilko asks for pictures of the platoons girlfriends Pvt Honnagar shows them a photo of a beautiful girl taken years ago. they think it is his girl but they have a surprise in store

Aired: 2/28/1956
The Court Martial

25. The Court Martial

30m

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 defense council and court martial the ape before anybody finds out

Aired: 3/6/1956
Furlough in New York

26. Furlough in New York

30m

Bilko and Joan Hogan go separately to New York and keep missing each other but when they meet up again at Fort Baxter they find that they have somehow ended up with each others dog tags

Aired: 3/13/1956
The Big Uranium Strike

27. The Big Uranium Strike

30m

Bilko suspects that there are large deposits of uranium underneath Fort Baxter but he has to get rid of the Colonel before he can start digging

Aired: 3/20/1956
Bilko and the Beast

28. Bilko and the Beast

30m

When a new drill sergeant known as ' The Beast ' takes over at Fort Baxter Bilko and the platoon come up with a scheme to get rid of him

Aired: 3/27/1956
The Physical Check Up

29. The Physical Check Up

30m

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 shocked that he thinks the Colonel might be trying to get rid of him

Aired: 4/10/1956
The Recruiting Sergeant

30. The Recruiting Sergeant

30m

When Bilko gets a tip from a jockey on a horse he persuades the Colonel to take him on a recruiting drive to Topeka so he can get to a bookie and get a bet on

Aired: 4/17/1956
Hair

31. Hair

30m

Bilko's head is constantly being used by his barber to find a cure for baldness. The other three sergeants know this and while Bilko is asleep decide to play a trick on him, but Bilko has the last laugh

Aired: 4/24/1956
The Con Men

32. The Con Men

30m

When Doberman gets a $500 windfall from an insurance policy, he loses it in a poker game with three con men. Bilko gets it back by conning the con men, but then Doberman loses it again by being conned into buying the hotel from another con man

Aired: 5/1/1956
War Games

33. War Games

30m

Bilko is asked to be best man at a friends wedding but it coincides with a war game battle between the army and the national guard

Aired: 5/8/1956
Bilko on Wall Street

34. Bilko on Wall Street

30m

Thinking his friend is a big man on Wall Street Bilko goes to stay but when he discovers that his friend is just a clerk, Bilko sets out to get him a better job.

Aired: 5/15/1956