The Best Episodes of The Phil Silvers Show Season 4
Every episode of The Phil Silvers Show Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Phil Silvers Show Season 4!
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.
Season 4 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Phil Silvers Show" season 4 is "Gold Fever", rated 6.9/10 from 30 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Gold Fever" aired on 9/23/1958 and is rated 1.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Bilko's Vampire".
6.9/10 30 votes#1 - Gold Fever
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1958
Bilko finds an old map of a secret gold mine near Grove City and investigates the site.
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8.0/10 34 votes#2 - Bilko's Vampire
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1958
When Ritzik starts watching horror films instead of playing poker, Bilko tries to scare him off
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7.6/10 32 votes#3 - Bilko's De Luxe Tours
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1958
When they have problems getting to town, Bilko goes into the transportation business, by joining the PTA and getting hold of one of their buses.
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7.4/10 33 votes#4 - Bilko the Potato Sack King
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1958
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.
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7.9/10 30 votes#5 - Bilko v's Covington
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/1958
Bilko is getting beaten at his own game by a Sgt Covington, so he starts a rumour about a big money making opportunities in Japan, but the plan backfires when Covington learns the truth.
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8.3/10 44 votes#6 - Bilko Joins the Navy
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1958
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.
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8.0/10 31 votes#7 - Bilko's Big Woman Hunt
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1958
Cpl Henshaw falls in love and ruins Bilko's business,so when the same thing happens to Bilko, when he gets trapped in a lift with a girl, she then disappears and he has to go to the police in order to find her.
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7.1/10 23 votes#8 - Bilko and the Crosby's
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1958
Bilko dreams of what life would be like if he and not Bing were the father of the Crosby Sons.
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7.8/10 28 votes#9 - Bilko's Allergy
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1958
Bilko develops an allergy to playing cards which prevents him taking part in poker games.
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7.9/10 30 votes#10 - Bilko and the Chaplin
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/1958
The Chaplin and Bilko get back at a crooked real estate agent, who wants to close a boys home and open a parking lot.
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7.6/10 27 votes#11 - Bilko Presents the McGuire Sisters
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/3/1958
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7.8/10 32 votes#12 - Bilko's Secret Mission
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/10/1958
When Ritzik is accidentally given a dose of electricity it makes him magnetic. He doesn't 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.
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7.8/10 29 votes#13 - Bilko's Giveaway
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/17/1958
In Hollywood with no money, Bilko teams up with a child genius to win big prizes on a TV game show. but no cash.
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7.7/10 30 votes#14 - Bilko and the Medium
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 12/22/1958
Hearing that Ritzik's have won $500 ,Bilko tries to borrow the money to open a pool hall.
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7.7/10 29 votes#15 - Bilko's Bopster
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/1/1959
When jazz drummer Skinny Sanders joins the platoon, Bilko dreams of forming a band and touring Europe.
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7.5/10 30 votes#16 - Bilko's Hollywood Romance
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/9/1959
A film star's 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.
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8.6/10 16 votes#17 - Bilko's Grand Hotel
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 1/28/1959
Bilko opens a pizza stand,But it burns down with Paparelli and Zimmerman in charge. So he tries again with a cheap hotel but the same thing happens again.
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7.6/10 31 votes#18 - Bilko's Credit Card
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1959
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.
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7.6/10 25 votes#19 - Viva Bilko
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 2/11/1959
Bilko and three of the platoon are on holiday in Mexico, when they are robbed of their clothes by Mexican bandits, who use the clothes as a disguise to rob a bank. Later when Bilko gets their clothes back, they are arrested, until he can explain what happened.
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7.0/10 32 votes#20 - The Colonel's Promotion
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 2/18/1959
When a promotion he expected doesn't happen Colonel hall goes to Washington and gets to play golf with Eisenhower.
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8.2/10 31 votes#21 - Bilko's Sharpshooter
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 2/25/1959
Bilko discovers a WAC sharpshooter and starts to promote her as a new Annie Oakley, until she falls for another contestant in a competition.
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7.5/10 28 votes#22 - Bilko's Formula Seven
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 3/4/1959
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.
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8.0/10 29 votes#23 - Bilko's Ape Man
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 3/18/1959
Bilko hopes to launch Pvt Forbes in a film career, by entering him in a Mister Universe contest
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7.9/10 31 votes#24 - Warrant Officer Paparelli
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 3/25/1959
Bilko gets Paparelli promoted, but he turns into a monster, so Bilko has to think of a way to demote him.
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7.7/10 28 votes#25 - Bilko's Godson
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 4/3/1959
When he is named as the godfather to the son of a G.I. friend, Bilko tries to get the boy enrolled at Stanford University.
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