The BEST episodes of The Phil Silvers Show season 3
Every episode of The Phil Silvers Show season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Phil Silvers Show season 3!
Classic military comedy set on the fictional Army base of Fort Baxter in Kansas and starred Phil Silvers as Sgt. Ernest Bilko, a fast-talking sharpster who would do anything to make an extra buck. Paul Ford co-starred as Colonel Hall, Bilko's harried commanding officer who often found himself stuck in the middle of Bilko's schemes.
#1 - Doberman the Crooner
Season 3 - Episode 17 - 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.
#2 - Bilko's Cousin
Season 3 - Episode 19 - 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.
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#3 - Bilko the Art Lover
Season 3 - Episode 24 - 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.
#4 - Bilko the Genius
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/12/1958
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.
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#5 - Bilko's School Days
Season 3 - Episode 36 - Aired 6/10/1958
Bilko learns that a new training camp is to be opened at Fort Baxter, Just when it looks like a new source of cash has presented itself, he finds that it is for M.P.'s not trainees.
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#6 - Joan's Big Romance
Season 3 - Episode 37 - Aired 6/24/1958
Joan Hogan is fed up waiting for Bilko, so she takes off for Chicago, and meets up with a wealthy playboy on the train. When her picture appears in the paper, she sees a way of making Bilko jealous.
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#7 - Lieutenant Bilko
Season 3 - Episode 12 - 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.
#8 - Bilko Talks in His Sleep
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1957
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.
#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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#10 - Bilko Buys a Club
Season 3 - Episode 11 - 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.
#11 - 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.
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#12 - Bilko at Bay
Season 3 - Episode 13 - 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.
#13 - Cherokee Ernie
Season 3 - Episode 10 - 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.
#14 - Operation Love
Season 3 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/30/1958
Fort Baxter's WAC's are fed up with their boyfriends gambling with Bilko, instead of taking them out, so they get themselves transferred.
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#15 - Bilko Saves Ritzik's Marriage
Season 3 - Episode 23 - 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.
#16 - The Colonel's Inheritance
Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/4/1958
When the Colonel is left $5000 Bilko gets hold of it and invests it on the stock market. When he gets wiped out, he is desperate to replace the money before the Colonel hears about it
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#17 - Bilko the Male Model
Season 3 - Episode 26 - 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.
#18 - Bilko's Pigeons
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/31/1958
When an order banning the use of pigeons comes through from Washington, Bilko's source of income dries up.
#19 - The Colonel's Reunion
Season 3 - Episode 22 - 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.
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#20 - 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.
#21 - Bilko F.O.B. Detroit
Season 3 - Episode 14 - 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.
#22 - Bilko's TV Pilot
Season 3 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/6/1958
A cowboy joins the platoon, and Bilko gets the idea of building a TV show around him
#23 - Bilko's Vacation
Season 3 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/23/1958
When he wants a free holiday at Dimmeldorf lodge, Bilko convinces the platoon, and the Colonel to go as well. But after they realise what has happened, the Colonel gets his own back.
#24 - Bilko's Merry Widow
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1957
Bilko borrows the Platoon Welfare Fund to bet on a horse that loses. When he reads about a $500 bonus to anyone who can stage a professional musical in Roseville Bilko decides to take on the challenge.
#25 - 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.