The WORST episodes of The Phil Silvers Show
Every episode of The Phil Silvers Show ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Phil Silvers Show!
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 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.
#2 - Bilko Goes to College
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1956
When a local gangster insults the army Bilko takes a bet of 1000 -1 That the local College Schmill can beat Notra Dame in a football game. Nobody gives them a chance, but when Bilko gets to work on the press they start to believe that Schmill can win.
#3 - Bilko Goes Around the World
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/2/1957
After watching ' Around the World in 80 Days ' Bilko calls the producer Mike Todd and suggests that to publicize the film he offer a prize to the first person who can do the same.
#4 - The Mess Hall Mess
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/9/1957
Bilko has dinner at a French restaurant and finds an old recipe that will win a prize in a competition to find a brand new American recipe.
#5 - Bilko's Perfect Day
Season 2 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/21/1957
For once everything goes right for Bilko, from hot showers in the morning, to picking all the winners in a horse race, but by the time he realizes it the day is over.
#6 - Show Segments
Season 2 - Episode 35 - Aired 6/4/1957
The cast meet in Lindy's restaurant to watch scenes edited out of previous shows. Nat Hiken felt these outtakes were too good to end up on the cutting room floor and compiled them into what is possibly television's first 'clip show'.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - Bilko Retires from Gambling
Season 3 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/13/1958
Colonel hall hires a professional card player, to beat Bilko at cards. He is so upset at losing that he gives up gambling
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - Bilko and the Crosbys
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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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
#25 - 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.