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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 a 1959 special. The series starred Phil Silvers as Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko of the United States Army. The series was created and largely written by Nat Hiken, and won three consecutive Emmy Awards for Best Comedy Series. The show is sometimes titled Sergeant Bilko or simply Bilko in reruns, and is very often referred to by these names, both on-screen and by viewers. The show's success transformed Silvers from a journeyman comedian into a star, and writer-producer Hiken from a highly-regarded behind-the-scenes comedy writer into a publicly recognized creator.

Genre:Comedy
Network:CBS

Season 3 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "The Phil Silvers Show" season 3 is "Bilko's Merry Widow", rated 7.5/10 from 35 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Bilko's Merry Widow" aired on 9/17/1957 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Bilko's Boy's Town".

  • Bilko's Merry Widow
    7.5/10 35 votes

    #1 - Bilko's Merry Widow

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1957

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bilko's Boy's Town
    7.8/10 34 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

    Writer: N/A

  • Hillbilly Whiz
    8.5/10 67 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

  • Bilko's Valentine
    7.1/10 33 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

  • The Big Man Hunt
    7.6/10 35 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

    Writer: N/A

  • Bilko's Double Life
    8.3/10 44 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

  • Sergeant Bilko Presents
    7.3/10 44 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

  • Bilko Talks in His Sleep
    7.3/10 35 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

  • Cherokee Ernie
    6.7/10 32 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

    Writer: N/A

  • Bilko Buys A Club
    7.3/10 33 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

    Writer: N/A

  • Lieutenant Bilko
    8.0/10 34 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

  • Bilko At Bay
    7.8/10 32 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

  • Bilko F.O.B. Detroit
    7.4/10 31 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

  • Bilko and the Flying saucers
    8.0/10 39 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

  • Bilko and the Colonel's Secretary
    7.3/10 34 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

  • Doberman the Crooner
    8.6/10 41 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

  • Bilko Presents Kay Kendall
    7.9/10 29 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

  • Bilko's Cousin
    7.7/10 39 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

  • Bilko's Pigeons
    8.0/10 30 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

  • Cyrano De Bilko
    7.6/10 33 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

  • The Colonel's Reunion
    7.8/10 33 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

  • Bilko Saves Ritzik's Marriage
    7.9/10 30 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

  • Bilko The Art Lover
    8.1/10 49 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

  • Bilko The Genius
    8.2/10 44 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

  • Bilko the Male Model
    7.5/10 30 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