- 6.7/1032 votesLoading...
#1 - 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.
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- 6.9/1030 votesLoading...
#2 - 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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- 7.0/1032 votesLoading...
#3 - 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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- 7.0/1029 votesLoading...
#4 - Guinea Pig Bilko
Season 4 Episode 26 - Aired 4/17/1959
Bilko takes a tranquilliser and loses his love for gambling, but the Colonel can't stand the change and tries to shock him out of it.
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- 7.1/1033 votesLoading...
#5 - 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
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- 7.1/1023 votesLoading...
#6 - 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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- 7.2/1029 votesLoading...
#7 - Bilko's Insurance Company
Season 3 Episode 33 - Aired 5/30/1958
A car accident near the camp gives Bilko the idea of starting an insurance company.
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- 7.3/1037 votesLoading...
#8 - Show Segments
Season 2 Episode 35 - Aired 6/4/1957
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- 7.3/1044 votesLoading...
#9 - 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.
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- 7.3/1035 votesLoading...
#10 - 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.
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- 7.3/1033 votesLoading...
#11 - 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.
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- 7.3/1034 votesLoading...
#12 - 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.
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- 7.3/1030 votesLoading...
#13 - Bilko's Prize Poodle
Season 3 Episode 34 - Aired 6/3/1958
Doberman gets attached to a poodle, and Bilko sees a chance of winning $10,000 in a dog show.
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- 7.4/1044 votesLoading...
#14 - 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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- 7.4/1038 votesLoading...
#15 - Mink Incorporated
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1956
After Bilko loses 100 dollars of the platoons welfare fund on a horse, he tries to get the money back, by starting a mink farm, but the mink's refuse to breed.
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- 7.4/1039 votesLoading...
#16 - His Highness Doberman
Season 2 Episode 36 - Aired 6/11/1957
Doberman is dating the daughter of a Roseville millionaire, but when her parents find out that he is just another soldier they refuse permission for them to marry.
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- 7.4/1031 votesLoading...
#17 - 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.
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- 7.4/1033 votesLoading...
#18 - 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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- 7.4/1025 votesLoading...
#19 - Ritzik Goes Civilian
Season 4 Episode 28 - Aired 5/1/1959
Sgt Ritzik leaves the army, and sets up in roadside diner.But in no time he discovers that he has been swindled and calls for Bilko to help get his money back.
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- 7.5/1042 votesLoading...
#20 - 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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- 7.5/1037 votesLoading...
#21 - 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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- 7.5/1044 votesLoading...
#22 - The Girl From Italy
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1956
Rocco's brother refuses to marry a girl brought over from Italy so Bilko sets out to make him jealous and to change his mind
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- 7.5/1035 votesLoading...
#23 - Bilko's Merry Widow
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1957
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- 7.5/1030 votesLoading...
#24 - 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.
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- 7.5/1029 votesLoading...
#25 - Bilko's Honeymoon
Season 3 Episode 27 - Aired 4/9/1958
When Paparelli wins a competition for a holiday to Florida, he is overjoyed, until he learns that it is for newlyweds, then Bilko has an idea.
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The Worst Episodes of The Phil Silvers Show
Every episode of The Phil Silvers Show ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Phil Silvers Show!
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
Worst Episodes Summary
"Cherokee Ernie" is the worst rated episode of "The Phil Silvers Show". It scored 6.7/10 based on 32 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/26/1957. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Gold Fever".