The Phil Silvers Show: Season 1
Episodes
New Recruits
Sep 20, 1955 · 30 min
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 sq
The Empty Store
Sep 27, 1955 · 30 min
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 rentin
The WAC
Oct 4, 1955 · 30 min
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)
The Horse
Oct 11, 1955 · 30 min
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 ke
AWOL
Oct 18, 1955 · 30 min
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
The Boxer
Oct 25, 1955 · 30 min
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
The Hoodlum
Nov 1, 1955 · 30 min
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 Mont
Mardi Gras
Nov 8, 1955 · 30 min
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.
The Eating Contest
Nov 15, 1955 · 30 min
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
The Centennial
Nov 22, 1955 · 30 min
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
Bivouac
Nov 29, 1955 · 30 min
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 t
The Singing Contest
Dec 6, 1955 · 30 min
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
The Twitch
Dec 13, 1955 · 30 min
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 Colone
The Reunion
Dec 20, 1955 · 30 min
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 al
The Rich Kid
Dec 27, 1955 · 30 min
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 t
Hollywood
Jan 3, 1956 · 30 min
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 peo
The Investigation
Jan 10, 1956 · 30 min
A Congressional committee visit Fort Baxter to investigate waste and high living but Bilko has other ideas, he wants a pay rise instead
Kids In the Trailer
Jan 17, 1956 · 30 min
While babysitting for a member of the platoon Bilko panics when he finds that he can't change the baby's nappy
The Revolutionary War
Jan 24, 1956 · 30 min
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 disco
The Transfer
Jan 31, 1956 · 30 min
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 an
The Rest Cure
Feb 7, 1956 · 30 min
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
Dinner at Sowici's
Feb 14, 1956 · 30 min
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.
Army Memoirs
Feb 21, 1956 · 30 min
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
Miss America
Feb 28, 1956 · 30 min
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
The Court Martial
Mar 6, 1956 · 30 min
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
Furlough in New York
Mar 13, 1956 · 30 min
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
The Big Uranium Strike
Mar 20, 1956 · 30 min
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
Bilko and the Beast
Mar 27, 1956 · 30 min
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
The Physical Check Up
Apr 10, 1956 · 30 min
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
The Recruiting Sergeant
Apr 17, 1956 · 30 min
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
Hair
Apr 24, 1956 · 30 min
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 Bi
The Con Men
May 1, 1956 · 30 min
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 a
War Games
May 8, 1956 · 30 min
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
Bilko on Wall Street
May 15, 1956 · 30 min
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.