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The Best Episodes of The Phil Silvers Show Season 1

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 25 - The Court Martial
    9.3/10(125 votes)

    S1:E25

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 2 - The Empty Store
    8.8/10(72 votes)

    S1:E2

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 9 - The Eating Contest
    8.8/10(82 votes)

    S1:E9

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 11 - Bivouac
    8.8/10(66 votes)

    S1:E11

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 22 - Dinner at Sowici's
    8.8/10(67 votes)

    S1:E22

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 13 - The Twitch
    8.7/10(68 votes)

    S1:E13

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 6 - The Boxer
    8.6/10(57 votes)

    S1:E6

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 32 - The Con Men
    8.6/10(63 votes)

    S1:E32

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 7 - The Hoodlum
    8.5/10(55 votes)

    S1:E7

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 16 - Hollywood
    8.5/10(62 votes)

    S1:E16

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 8 - Mardi Gras
    8.4/10(57 votes)

    S1:E8

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 21 - The Rest Cure
    8.4/10(45 votes)

    S1:E21

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 27 - The Big Uranium Strike
    8.4/10(44 votes)

    S1:E27

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 4 - The Horse
    8.3/10(69 votes)

    S1:E4

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 23 - Army Memoirs
    8.3/10(53 votes)

    S1:E23

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 28 - Bilko and the Beast
    8.3/10(52 votes)

    S1:E28

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Nat Hiken

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  17. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 31 - Hair
    8.3/10(44 votes)

    S1:E31

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 34 - Bilko on Wall Street
    8.3/10(47 votes)

    S1:E34

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 20 - The Transfer
    8.2/10(53 votes)

    S1:E20

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 26 - Furlough in New York
    8.2/10(47 votes)

    S1:E26

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 29 - The Physical Check Up
    8.2/10(50 votes)

    S1:E29

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 30 - The Recruiting Sergeant
    8.2/10(47 votes)

    S1:E30

    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
    Writers:Nat Hiken, Tony Webster, Terry Ryan

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  23. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 1 - New Recruits
    8.1/10(86 votes)

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 10 - The Centennial
    8.1/10(50 votes)

    S1:E10

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 19 - The Revolutionary War
    8.1/10(59 votes)

    S1:E19

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Court Martial" is the best rated episode of The Phil Silvers Show season 1. It scored 9.3/10 from 125 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on March 6, 1956. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "The Empty Store".