7.5/1035 votes#1 - Bilko's Merry Widow
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1957
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Director: N/A
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7.8/1034 votes#2 - Bilko's Boy's Town
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1957
When the army go on maneuvers the Colonel orders Bilko to stay in camp, so with Fort Baxter empty he uses the time to form a boy's camp.
Director: N/A
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8.5/1067 votes#3 - Hillbilly Whiz
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1957
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 Yankee's scout to 'accidentally' find Lumpkin so he can traded, but as a Southerner Lumpkin doesn't want to play for the Yankee's
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/1033 votes#4 - Bilko's Valentine
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1957
When Bilko forgets valentines day, Joan Hogan leaves the army, When Bilko realises what he has done, he follows her and tries to get her to reenlist
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1035 votes#5 - The Big Man Hunt
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1957
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.
Director: N/A
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8.3/1044 votes#6 - Bilko's Double Life
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1957
When his money problems start to close in on him, Bilko departs for New York, but while there he is mistaken for a millionaire. Meanwhile the real millionaire is in Roseville sorting out Bilko's problems.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1044 votes#7 - Sergeant Bilko Presents
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1957
Unable to raise the necessary funds to back Pt Hugo Lockman's play 'Sharecropper's Summer', Bilko persuades the army to run a playwriting competition.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1035 votes#8 - Bilko Talks in His Sleep
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 12/19/1957
Sgt's Grover,and Ritzik overhear Bilko talking in his sleep and he gives away all his betting secrets. Bilko soon realises what is happening and gets his own back.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/1032 votes#9 - Cherokee Ernie
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1957
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.
Director: N/A
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7.3/1033 votes#10 - Bilko Buys A Club
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/1957
When Bilko learns that a new member of the platoon is a merchant banker, he tries to get him to invest in a club that Bilko wants to set up.but he asks the wrong man of advice.
Director: N/A
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8.0/1035 votes#11 - Lieutenant Bilko
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/1957
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1033 votes#12 - Bilko At Bay
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/17/1957
Trying to get to New York, and to save money Bilko and the corporals arrange to stop off at the homes of members of the platoon for free meals.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1031 votes#13 - Bilko F.O.B. Detroit
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/24/1957
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1039 votes#14 - Bilko and the Flying saucers
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/31/1957
In order to go Washington for a date with a young singer, Bilko has to report to the Colonel that he has seen a U.F.O. and has to go to Washington to be debriefed.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1034 votes#15 - Bilko and the Colonel's Secretary
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/1/1958
When the Colonel's 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 platoon's 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.6/1041 votes#16 - Doberman the Crooner
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/10/1958
Bilko discovers that Doberman has a beautiful singing voice but only when he has a cold. So Bilko gets him to make a record, but by then the doctors have cured his cold and his real voice returns.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1029 votes#17 - Bilko Presents Kay Kendall
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/17/1958
Movie star Kay Kendall visits Roseville to promote her film & Bilko gets her to appear in a show he's producing. Bilko's hoping to make a bundle of dough but Miss Kendall soon proves to be more than a match for the wily Sgt.
Director: Al De Caprio
Writer: Neil Simon
7.7/1039 votes#18 - Bilko's Cousin
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 1/24/1958
When the Colonel hears that another Bilko is about to arrive he hopes that he is no relation to Ernie because with two Bilko's at the camp life is going to be worse that ever but he turns out to be Ernie's cousin Swifty, but there is a surprise in store for everybody.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1030 votes#19 - Bilko's Pigeons
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 1/31/1958
When an order banning the use of pigeons comes through from Washington, Bilko's source of income dries up.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1033 votes#20 - Cyrano De Bilko
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/11/1958
Bilko helps out one the platoon when he is to shy to ask for a date with a local girl called Natalie. But complications arise when it turns out that there are two girls called Natalie.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1033 votes#21 - The Colonel's Reunion
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/17/1958
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1030 votes#22 - Bilko Saves Ritzik's Marriage
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 2/22/1958
When Sgt Ritzik plays one too many poker games with Bilko, his wife leaves him, so Ernie has to find a way of bringing them back together.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1049 votes#23 - Bilko The Art Lover
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/5/1958
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/1044 votes#24 - Bilko The Genius
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/14/2001
In a mix up over test results, Bilko is told that he has a genius rating and he goes on a course with other test winners. They try and come up with a foolproof method of predicting the result of any horse race.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1030 votes#25 - Bilko the Male Model
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 3/19/1958
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Phil Silvers Show Season 3
Every episode of The Phil Silvers Show Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Phil Silvers Show Season 3!
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...
Genre:Comedy
Network:CBS
Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Bilko's Merry Widow" is the best rated episode of "The Phil Silvers Show" season 3. It scored 7.5/10 based on 35 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/17/1957. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Bilko's Boy's Town".