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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...
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Season 1

  • New Recruits
    8.1/1081 votes
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    New Recruits

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1955

    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.

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  • The Empty Store
    8.7/1068 votes
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    The Empty Store

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1955

    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

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  • The WAC
    7.9/1068 votes
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    The WAC

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1955

    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)

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  • The Horse
    8.3/1064 votes
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    The Horse

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1955

    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

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  • AWOL
    7.6/1049 votes
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    AWOL

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1955

    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

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  • The Boxer
    8.5/1055 votes
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    The Boxer

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1955

    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

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  • The Hoodlum
    8.2/1052 votes
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    The Hoodlum

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1955

    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.

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  • Mardi Gras
    8.2/1054 votes
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    Mardi Gras

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1955

    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.

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  • The Eating Contest
    8.6/1079 votes
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    The Eating Contest

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1955

    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

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  • The Centennial
    8.0/1047 votes
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    The Centennial

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1955

    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

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  • Bivouac
    8.6/1065 votes
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    Bivouac

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1955

    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

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  • The Singing Contest
    7.9/1042 votes
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    The Singing Contest

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1955

    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

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  • The Twitch
    8.5/1065 votes
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    The Twitch

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/1955

    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

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  • The Reunion
    7.5/1042 votes
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    The Reunion

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/20/1955

    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.

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  • The Rich Kid
    8.0/1043 votes
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    The Rich Kid

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/27/1955

    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.

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  • Hollywood
    8.5/1056 votes
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    Hollywood

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/3/1956

    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.

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  • The Investigation
    7.8/1054 votes
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    The Investigation

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/10/1956

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

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  • Kids In the Trailer
    7.4/1044 votes
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    Kids In the Trailer

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/17/1956

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

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  • The Revolutionary War
    8.0/1057 votes
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    The Revolutionary War

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/24/1956

    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

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  • The Transfer
    8.1/1051 votes
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    The Transfer

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/31/1956

    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

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  • The Rest Cure
    8.2/1043 votes
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    The Rest Cure

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/7/1956

    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

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  • Dinner at Sowici's
    8.7/1065 votes
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    Dinner at Sowici's

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/14/1956

    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.

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  • Army Memoirs
    8.2/1051 votes
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    Army Memoirs

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/21/1956

    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

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  • Miss America
    7.9/1046 votes
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    Miss America

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/28/1956

    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

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  • The Court Martial
    9.2/10114 votes
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    The Court Martial

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/6/1956

    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

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  • Furlough in New York
    8.1/1043 votes
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    Furlough in New York

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/13/1956

    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

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  • The Big Uranium Strike
    8.3/1042 votes
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    The Big Uranium Strike

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/20/1956

    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

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  • Bilko and the Beast
    8.1/1049 votes
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    Bilko and the Beast

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 3/27/1956

    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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Nat Hiken

  • The Physical Check Up
    8.0/1046 votes
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    The Physical Check Up

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/10/1956

    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

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  • The Recruiting Sergeant
    8.1/1044 votes
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    The Recruiting Sergeant

    Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/17/1956

    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

    Director: Al De Caprio

    Writer: Tony Webster, Nat Hiken, Terry Ryan

  • Hair
    8.1/1042 votes
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    Hair

    Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 4/24/1956

    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

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  • The Con Men
    8.4/1063 votes
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    The Con Men

    Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/1/1956

    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

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  • War Games
    7.5/1037 votes
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    War Games

    Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/8/1956

    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

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  • Bilko on Wall Street
    8.2/1046 votes
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    Bilko on Wall Street

    Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/15/1956

    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.

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