The Phil Silvers Show

During a poker game the other sergeants 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 Bilkos conscience will not let him.

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)

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

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.

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

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

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 Colonels wife and they can bet on the number of twitches that she will give during the lecture

Bilko gets an idea to buy the local bar and grill, but he is stumped for cash, until he learns that one of the platoons 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 Bilkos conscience wins out in the end.

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

Bilkos 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

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

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

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

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

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

Bilkos 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

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

The platoon is chosen to make a film about the correct use of the spark plug.

When a local gangster insults the army Bilko takes a bet of 1000 -1 That the local College Schmill can beat Notra Dame in a football game. Nobody gives them a chance, but when Bilko gets to work on the press they start to believe that Schmill can win.

Bilko hopes to get a handsome young recruit noticed by Hollywood so he tries to get the soldiers face on the new army recruiting poster. But first he must pass a test on the army and with Doberman coaching him a surprise is in store.

Bilko looks for a song that the motor pool can adopt. He hears Paparelli singing one in the shower but it turns out that someone thought of it first

Fed up with losing to Bilko all the time Mess Sgt Ritzik is leaving the army having saved up $400 to open a snack bar So Bilko devises a plan to repay all the money that he has won off Ritzik.

A member of the platoon is cheated out of his share in his uncles will. The only thing he gets is a parrot so Bilko starts a rumor that the parrot holds the clue to a hidden treasure map.

After Bilko loses 100 dollars of the platoons welfare fund on a horse, he tries to get the money back, by starting a mink farm, but the minks refuse to breed.

Unable to sleep Bilko goes to the camp psychiatrist for advice. He is told to give up gambling and women.

After winning 1500 dollars in Las Vegas, Ritzik is desperate to play poker with Bilko, so the Colonel locks him up in the guardhouse for his own protection.

Bilko comes up with a foolproof method of winning at roulette, so all the camp come up with a bankroll and send him off Monte Carlo to try it out.

When T.V. star Buddy Bickford come to Fort Baxter to research background for a new television show. Bilko tries to sell him a T.V. idea of his own.

When singer Elvin Pelvin joins the platoon, Bilko sees a way to make money but he cant get him to sing.

During a cold spell the platoon think that they are entering a singing contest which will be held in Florida, but instead they take part in a dangerous medical experiment.

Bilko has dinner at a French restaurant and finds an old recipe that will win a prize in a competition to find a brand new American recipe.

When the local radio station is to close down Bilko sees a good way to make money using army equipment

When Bilko thinks that the camp is being enlarged he buys swamp land next door hoping to make a killing only to find that the camp is being slimmed down. Trying to recoup his money he tries to sell it as building land but first he has to kill all the mosquitoes in the swamp and he gives the job to Doberman with unfortunate repercussions

For once everything goes right for Bilko, from hot showers in the morning, to picking all the winners in a horse race, but by the time he realizes it the day is over.

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When the platoon lose again in a baseball game Bilko is desperate to find new players. Then a recruit from the south Hank Lumpkin turns up and Bilko can hardly believe his luck, as Lumpkin is a baseball star in the making. Bilko then contrives to have a New York Yankees scout to accidentally find Lumpkin so he can traded, but as a Southerner Lumpkin doesnt want to play for the Yankees

When two men (who have been employed by a soldier who is looking for the man who saved his life during the war ) come looking for Bilko, he comes to the wrong conclusion, why they want him, until he recognises the name of the soldier, but when the two of them finally meet, Bilko has changed so much, that the soldier fails to recognise him.

Unable to raise the necessary funds to back Pt Hugo Lockmans play Sharecroppers Summer, Bilko persuades the army to run a playwriting competition.

Bilko goes on leave with Cpl Charlie Whiteagle, a Cherokee Indian, to Tulsa for a poker game, but he gets caught up in a legal fight when a document is found stating that the Indians still own most of Oklahoma.

Bilko decides to leave the army until he learns that during the war he was promoted to Lt . and due to a foul up he is still a Lt, and he is owed over $14,000 in back pay.

Bilko and the platoon go to Detroit to get the new trucks, the Colonel orders him back in two days, but he has other plans to stay on.

When the Colonels secretary gets posted, Bilko make sure that the right WAC is posted in, but this posting takes her away from her fiance, When she learns that Bilko was responsible she makes his and the platoons life hell, until Bilko gets rid of her and brings in another secretary only to find that he is her boyfriend and the same thing happens all over again.

Movie star Kay Kendall visits Roseville to promote her film & Bilko gets her to appear in a show hes producing. Bilkos hoping to make a bundle of dough but Miss Kendall soon proves to be more than a match for the wily Sgt.

When an order banning the use of pigeons comes through from Washington, Bilkos source of income dries up.

The Colonel goes all out in his fight against the gambling, so Bilko gets the Colonel to leave the camp to go to a class reunion, but just when he thinks he has a free hand to carry on the Colonel decides it would crazy to leave him at the camp, so Bilko has to drive the Colonel to the reunion.

In New York, Bilko stays with an old buddy who is a prospective artist, but he falls out with his father, until the father realises how good his son is.

When Bilko is caught in a photograph taken in a night club when he should be elsewhere, an advertising agency spots his potential and tries to sign him as a male model.

When Paparelli wins a competition for a holiday to Florida, he is overjoyed, until he learns that it is for newlyweds, then Bilko has an idea.

Fort Baxters WACs are fed up with their boyfriends gambling with Bilko, instead of taking them out, so they get themselves transferred.

Colonel hall hires a professional card player, to beat Bilko at cards. He is so upset at losing that he gives up gambling

A car accident near the camp gives Bilko the idea of starting an insurance company.

Bilko learns that a new training camp is to be opened at Fort Baxter, Just when it looks like a new source of cash has presented itself, he finds that it is for M.P.s not trainees.

During the war Bilko befriends a French family. Years later, the daughter of the family calls to see ‘ Papa Bilko ‘ as she calls him. Meanwhile the platoons lady killer Pearly trying to find dates for the platoon falls for her.

When Ritzik starts watching horror films instead of playing poker, Bilko tries to scare him off

When offered a $20,000 wage Bilko leaves the army for a firm making potato sacks, but it is not long before he is back in the army.

When word of a big crap game for sailors only gets around Bilko Paparelli, and Zimmerman join the navy to take part but somehow they all end up at sea and have problems getting back ashore.

Bilko dreams of what life would be like if he and not Bing were the father of the Crosby Sons.

The Chaplin and Bilko get back at a crooked real estate agent, who wants to close a boys home and open a parking lot.

When Ritzik is accidentally given a dose of electricity it makes him magnetic. He doesnt realise it, but it helps him control the ball in a roulette wheel. He thinks he has come up with a foolproof method of winning at roulette.

Hearing that Ritziks have won $500 ,Bilko tries to borrow the money to open a pool hall.

A film stars agent decides that a romance with a soldier would be a good public relations exercise. Bilko gets chosen but in next to no time he becomes to powerful.

Bilko signs up the camp to his credit card scheme, the men like the idea, but when it comes time to settle their bills, the camp leave on manoeuvres.

When a promotion he expected doesnt happen Colonel hall goes to Washington and gets to play golf with Eisenhower.

When applejack is accidentally mixed with crankcase oil, Bilko finds that they have discovered a formula for anti wrinkle, which Bilko tries to sell to the cosmetic firms.

Bilko gets Paparelli promoted, but he turns into a monster, so Bilko has to think of a way to demote him.

Bilko takes a tranquilliser and loses his love for gambling, but the Colonel cant stand the change and tries to shock him out of it.

Sgt Ritzik leaves the army, and sets up in roadside diner.But in no time he discovers that he has been swindled and calls for Bilko to help get his money back.

Lord and Lady Rockford think they have discovered Doberman as their long lost son and heir, then they find it is all a mistake.

With the Colonel away on a second honeymoon, Bilko and Zimmerman who has won a prize in a competition find that they are staying at the same hotel

Tired of the way Bilko is fleecing the platoon, Cpl Henshaw sets up a gamblers anonymous organisation, so with his source of money drying up ,he starts on the WACs

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