The BEST episodes of The Phil Silvers Show season 4
Every episode of The Phil Silvers Show season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Phil Silvers Show season 4!
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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - Bilko in Outer Space
Season 4 - Episode 33 - Aired 6/5/1959
Sgt's Ritzik and Grover win $600 but are terrified of losing it to Bilko, so they hide out in a space capsule mock up, but Bilko finds them
#4 - Bilko's Deluxe 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - Bilko the Butler
Season 4 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/24/1959
While helping out as a waiter, Bilko overhears a stock tip so he phones Cpl Henshaw to invest their money, but before Henshaw can act the Stock falls and Bilko thinks that their money has been lost.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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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#9 - The Colonel's Second Honeymoon
Season 4 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/29/1959
With the Colonel away on a second honeymoon, Bilko and Zimmerman who has won a prize in a competition find that they are staying at the same hotel
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#10 - Bilko's Casino
Season 4 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/20/1959
Bilko discovers an old document saying that the Grove City USO is exempt from California's Gambling laws. So Bilko opens a gambling club, but the mob muscle in on him so Bilko reverts the club back to the USO
#11 - 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.
#12 - Bilko vs. 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Doberman Missing Heir
Season 4 - Episode 30 - Aired 5/15/1959
Lord and Lady Rockford think they have discovered Doberman as their long lost son and heir, then they find it is all a mistake.
#20 - Bilko's Small Car
Season 4 - Episode 29 - Aired 5/8/1959
When the police seize the Colonel's sports car Bilko converts a jeep and takes an order for ten from a local motor dealer.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - The Bilko Boycott
Season 4 - Episode 34 - Aired 6/12/1959
Tired of the way Bilko is fleecing the platoon, Cpl Henshaw sets up a gamblers anonymous organisation, so with his source of money drying up ,he starts on the WAC's
#24 - Weekend Colonel
Season 4 - Episode 35 - Aired 6/17/1959
CCTV set up by the Colonel cleans up the gambling, so Bilko finds a double of the Colonel who then orders the removal of the camera's.
#25 - Bilko and the Chaplain
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.