The Phil Silvers Show Episode Rating Graph
Sep 1955 - Mar 2001
Sep 1955 - Mar 2001
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Browse episode ratings trends for The Phil Silvers Show. Simply click on the interactive rating graph to explore the best and worst of The Phil Silvers Show's 144 episodes.
S4 Ep32
8.8
29th May 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
S4 Ep26
8.5
17th Apr 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.
S1 Ep25
8.4
6th Mar 1956
When Zippo the ape is accidently inducted into the army the only way to get the army off the hook is to get Bilko as defense council and court martial the ape before anybody finds out
S4 Ep17
8.4
28th Jan 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.
S1 Ep11
8.4
29th Nov 1955
When maneuvers come round again the Colonel is interested in which illness Bilko has in order to miss out on the joys of marching through the countryside. In order to make him go the colonel uses reverse psychology
S4 Ep5
8.3
22nd Oct 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.
S2 Ep16
8.3
8th Jan 1957
A sergeant from Fort Baxter is to be excluded from his son's wedding to an heiress. They only want officers to attend so Bilko decides to change their minds
S1 Ep21
8.3
7th Feb 1956
During a heat wave Bilko discovers that the army have a rest centre in the Rockies but the trick is trying to persuade the doctors and the Colonel to let him go there
S1 Ep17
8.3
10th Jan 1956
A Congressional committee visit Fort Baxter to investigate waste and high living but Bilko has other ideas, he wants a pay rise instead
S2 Ep4
8.3
9th Oct 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
S4 Ep33
8.3
5th Jun 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
S4 Ep3
8.3
8th Oct 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.
S3 Ep37
8.3
18th Jul 1958
During the war Bilko befriends a French family. Years later, the daughter of the family calls to see ‘ Papa Bilko ‘ as she calls him. Meanwhile the platoon's lady killer Pearly trying to find dates for the platoon falls for her.
S3 Ep36
8.3
24th Jun 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.
S3 Ep17
8.3
17th Jan 1958
Movie star Kay Kendall visits Roseville to promote her film & Bilko gets her to appear in a show he's producing. Bilko's hoping to make a bundle of dough but Miss Kendall soon proves to be more than a match for the wily Sgt.
S1 Ep12
8.3
6th Dec 1955
Bilko hears of a singing contest in Miami and to get away from the bitterly cold weather he enters the platoon but on hearing them sing he puts a bet on for them to lose. While he is putting on the bet a new platoon member is found to have a beautiful singing voice
S1 Ep28
8.2
27th Mar 1956
When a new drill sergeant known as ' The Beast ' takes over at Fort Baxter Bilko and the platoon come up with a scheme to get rid of him
S2 Ep25
8.2
26th Mar 1957
During a cold spell the platoon think that they are entering a singing contest which will be held in Florida, but instead they take part in a dangerous medical experiment.
S2 Ep23
8.2
5th Mar 1957
When singer Elvin Pelvin joins the platoon, Bilko sees a way to make money but he can't get him to sing.
S2 Ep17
8.2
15th Jan 1957
After winning 1500 dollars in Las Vegas, Ritzik is desperate to play poker with Bilko, so the Colonel locks him up in the guardhouse for his own protection.
S1 Ep22
8.2
14th Feb 1956
When Bilko thinks that Joan is trying to trap him into marriage, he takes her to dinner at Sgt Sowici's to see how bad marriage can be, but they are in for a surprise.
S1 Ep16
8.2
3rd Jan 1956
Hollywood plans a film of the ' Battle of Kabuchi' and they hire Bilko as the technical adviser, but after a couple of days he has taken over the whole production, and the film people want shot of him.
S2 Ep3
8.2
2nd Oct 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.
S4 Ep16
8.1
9th Jan 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.
S1 Ep20
8.1
31st Jan 1956
When the Colonel makes life difficult Bilko decides to bluff and puts in a transfer, but the Colonel calls the bluff and Bilko is on his way, but at his new camp life is to easy and Bilko hopes he can find a way to get back to Camp Baxter
S2 Ep18
8.1
22nd Jan 1957
Bilko promotes a show starring Bing Crosby, but when Bing suddenly fails to show up, Bilko has to find a lookalike as a replacement.
S1 Ep14
8.1
20th Dec 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.
S1 Ep8
8.1
8th Nov 1955
When the platoon ask local socialite Miss Joy Landers to be their Mardi Gras queen she laughs and turns them down flat, so Bilko finds a way to change her mind.
S4 Ep31
8.0
20th May 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
S4 Ep30
8.0
15th May 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.
S4 Ep29
8.0
8th May 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.
S4 Ep21
8.0
25th Feb 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.
S4 Ep6
8.0
28th Oct 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.
S3 Ep25
8.0
19th Mar 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.
S3 Ep19
8.0
31st Jan 1958
When an order banning the use of pigeons comes through from Washington, Bilko's source of income dries up.
S3 Ep11
8.0
10th Dec 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.
S3 Ep7
8.0
29th Oct 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.
S2 Ep20
8.0
5th Feb 1957
When the plan for a new serviceman's center is turned down by the mayor Bilko gets Doberman to run for Mayor. When it looks like Doberman will win, the campaign manager makes a deal with Bilko to build the center if Doberman will drop out
S2 Ep15
8.0
25th Dec 1956
Unable to sleep Bilko goes to the camp psychiatrist for advice. He is told to give up gambling and women.
S2 Ep5
8.0
16th Oct 1956
Bilko hopes to get a handsome young recruit noticed by Hollywood so he tries to get the soldier's face on the new army recruiting poster. But first he must pass a test on the army and with Doberman coaching him a surprise is in store.
S1 Ep13
8.0
13th Dec 1955
Colonel Hall tells Bilko to provide an audience for a lecture on music. He finds that nobody wants to come until they learn that the lecture will be given by a friend of the Colonel's wife and they can bet on the number of ' twitches' that she will give during the lecture
S1 Ep4
8.0
11th Oct 1955
Bilko loses the platoon welfare money on a horse only to find out that it is suffering from a minor leg injury, with the last of the platoon's money he buys the horse and has to keep it on the post until it is fit to run Then a visiting general comes on a surprise visit
S3 Ep28
5.4
25th Apr 1958
When they learn that one of the new recruit's father started a chain of Chinese restaurants with very little money he decides to get in on the food business.
S3 Ep34
6.3
3rd Jun 1958
Doberman gets attached to a poodle, and Bilko sees a chance of winning $10,000 in a dog show.
S2 Ep36
6.5
11th Jun 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.
S4 Ep22
6.7
4th Mar 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.
S3 Ep8
6.7
19th Dec 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.
S3 Ep4
6.8
8th Oct 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
S3 Ep21
7.0
17th Feb 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.
S3 Ep32
7.0
23rd May 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.
S4 Ep8
7.0
12th Nov 1958
Bilko dreams of what life would be like if he and not Bing were the father of the Crosby Sons.
S1 Ep1
7.0
20th Sep 1955
During a poker game the other sergeant's cheat and clean Bilko out of his bankroll so he has to look around for some more money. Just when it looks like he will miss out a new squad of rookies arrive for basic training. With a new source of cash the platoon think he can get back into the game but Bilko's conscience will not let him.
S2 Ep33
7.1
21st May 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.
S4 Ep12
7.1
10th Dec 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.
S3 Ep16
7.1
10th Jan 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.
S3 Ep10
7.2
3rd Dec 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.
S3 Ep18
7.2
24th Jan 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.
S3 Ep29
7.2
30th Apr 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.
S4 Ep15
7.2
1st Jan 1959
When jazz drummer Skinny Sanders joins the platoon, Bilko dreams of forming a band and touring Europe.
S2 Ep27
7.3
9th Apr 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.
S2 Ep1
7.3
18th Sep 1956
The platoon is chosen to make a film about the correct use of the spark plug.
S3 Ep6
7.3
22nd Oct 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.
S4 Ep1
7.3
23rd Sep 1958
Bilko finds an old map of a secret gold mine near Grove City and investigates the site.
S3 Ep30
7.3
6th May 1958
A cowboy joins the platoon, and Bilko gets the idea of building a TV show around him
S3 Ep14
7.4
31st Dec 1957
In order to go Washington for a date with a young singer, Bilko has to report to the Colonel that he has seen a U.F.O. and has to go to Washington to be debriefed.
S1 Ep24
7.4
28th Feb 1956
When Bilko asks for pictures of the platoons girlfriends Pvt Honnagar shows them a photo of a beautiful girl taken years ago. they think it is his girl but they have a surprise in store
S3 Ep33
7.4
30th May 1958
A car accident near the camp gives Bilko the idea of starting an insurance company.
S2 Ep29
7.4
23rd Apr 1957
When the local radio station is to close down Bilko sees a good way to make money using army equipment
S1 Ep3
7.4
4th Oct 1955
A job comes up for a sergeant that has a jeep allocated Bilko applies for it only to find that he is beaten by a Sgt Joan Hogan. (1st appearance by Elisabeth Fraser As Joan Hogan)
S3 Ep12
7.4
17th Dec 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.
S3 Ep20
7.4
11th Feb 1958
Bilko helps out one the platoon when he is to shy to ask for a date with a local girl called Natalie. But complications arise when it turns out that there are two girls called Natalie.
S3 Ep22
7.4
22nd Feb 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.
S3 Ep26
7.4
4th Apr 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
S3 Ep27
7.4
9th Apr 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.
S3 Ep2
7.5
24th Sep 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.
S2 Ep32
7.5
14th May 1957
Bilko tries to hypnotize Ritzik, but it's Doberman who falls under the influence and he tells the Colonel's wife that he loves her
S3 Ep15
7.5
1st Jan 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.
S3 Ep23
7.5
5th Mar 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.
S4 Ep2
7.5
1st Oct 1958
When Ritzik starts watching horror films instead of playing poker, Bilko tries to scare him off
S4 Ep9
7.5
19th Nov 1958
Bilko develops an allergy to playing cards which prevents him taking part in poker games.
S3 Ep3
7.5
1st Oct 1957
When the platoon lose again in a baseball game Bilko is desperate to find new players. Then a recruit from the south Hank Lumpkin turns up and Bilko can hardly believe his luck, as Lumpkin is a baseball star in the making. Bilko then contrives to have a New York Yankee's scout to 'accidentally' find Lumpkin so he can traded, but as a Southerner Lumpkin doesn't want to play for the Yankee's
S2 Ep19
7.5
29th Jan 1957
Bilko comes up with a foolproof method of winning at roulette, so all the camp come up with a bankroll and send him off Monte Carlo to try it out.
S3 Ep13
7.6
24th Dec 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.
S4 Ep4
7.6
15th Oct 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.
S1 Ep1
7.0
20th Sep 1955
During a poker game the other sergeant's cheat and clean Bilko out of his bankroll so he has to look around for some more money. Just when it looks like he will miss out a new squad of rookies arrive for basic training. With a new source of cash the platoon think he can get back into the game but Bilko's conscience will not let him.
S1 Ep2
7.6
27th Sep 1955
Bilko is still broke and can't find a way back into the big poker game. When the three sergeant's win again, by beating one of the new recruits, Bilko decides to get even by renting an empty store and getting the sergeant's to invest in it
S1 Ep3
7.4
4th Oct 1955
A job comes up for a sergeant that has a jeep allocated Bilko applies for it only to find that he is beaten by a Sgt Joan Hogan. (1st appearance by Elisabeth Fraser As Joan Hogan)
S1 Ep4
8.0
11th Oct 1955
Bilko loses the platoon welfare money on a horse only to find out that it is suffering from a minor leg injury, with the last of the platoon's money he buys the horse and has to keep it on the post until it is fit to run Then a visiting general comes on a surprise visit
S1 Ep5
7.8
18th Oct 1955
Pvt Steve Nagy goes awol so Bilko has to go and fetch him back only to find himself caught up in the middle of a family feud
S1 Ep6
7.9
25th Oct 1955
Bilko discovers that one of the platoon Claude Dillingham is a boxing champ so Bilko enters him for the interplatoon championship only to learn that Dillingham refuses to fight
S1 Ep7
7.9
1st Nov 1955
After several transfers a young tough guy is moved to the motor pool platoon and it is left to the Bilko to cut him down to size. Meanwhile Bilko is after the ' Soldier of the Month' competition. Little does he know that the tough guy will spring a surprise.
S1 Ep8
8.1
8th Nov 1955
When the platoon ask local socialite Miss Joy Landers to be their Mardi Gras queen she laughs and turns them down flat, so Bilko finds a way to change her mind.
S1 Ep9
7.9
15th Nov 1955
In an eating contest between the platoons Bilko puts his money on a new member of the platoon nicknamed 'The Stomach' only to find that he can only eat when he is depressed
S1 Ep10
7.9
22nd Nov 1955
Bilko organises a pageant to celebrate 100 years of Camp Baxter but after some investigation finds that it does not show the camp in a very good light
S1 Ep11
8.4
29th Nov 1955
When maneuvers come round again the Colonel is interested in which illness Bilko has in order to miss out on the joys of marching through the countryside. In order to make him go the colonel uses reverse psychology
S1 Ep12
8.3
6th Dec 1955
Bilko hears of a singing contest in Miami and to get away from the bitterly cold weather he enters the platoon but on hearing them sing he puts a bet on for them to lose. While he is putting on the bet a new platoon member is found to have a beautiful singing voice
S1 Ep13
8.0
13th Dec 1955
Colonel Hall tells Bilko to provide an audience for a lecture on music. He finds that nobody wants to come until they learn that the lecture will be given by a friend of the Colonel's wife and they can bet on the number of ' twitches' that she will give during the lecture
S1 Ep14
8.1
20th Dec 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.
S1 Ep15
7.9
27th Dec 1955
Bilko gets an idea to buy the local bar and grill, but he is stumped for cash, until he learns that one of the platoon's new recruits, is heir to a steel fortune. So they play up to him in order to get him to invest in their scheme, but Bilko's conscience wins out in the end.
S1 Ep16
8.2
3rd Jan 1956
Hollywood plans a film of the ' Battle of Kabuchi' and they hire Bilko as the technical adviser, but after a couple of days he has taken over the whole production, and the film people want shot of him.
S1 Ep17
8.3
10th Jan 1956
A Congressional committee visit Fort Baxter to investigate waste and high living but Bilko has other ideas, he wants a pay rise instead
S1 Ep18
7.9
17th Jan 1956
While babysitting for a member of the platoon Bilko panics when he finds that he can't change the baby's nappy
S1 Ep19
7.8
24th Jan 1956
Bilko's aunt sends him a diary showing him that his great uncle Joshua was on the staff of George Washington so Bilko applies to become an officer but on reading the diary he discovers that Joshua was a traitor so Bilko keeps quiet and withdraws his application
S1 Ep20
8.1
31st Jan 1956
When the Colonel makes life difficult Bilko decides to bluff and puts in a transfer, but the Colonel calls the bluff and Bilko is on his way, but at his new camp life is to easy and Bilko hopes he can find a way to get back to Camp Baxter
S1 Ep21
8.3
7th Feb 1956
During a heat wave Bilko discovers that the army have a rest centre in the Rockies but the trick is trying to persuade the doctors and the Colonel to let him go there
S1 Ep22
8.2
14th Feb 1956
When Bilko thinks that Joan is trying to trap him into marriage, he takes her to dinner at Sgt Sowici's to see how bad marriage can be, but they are in for a surprise.
S1 Ep23
7.9
21st Feb 1956
When Sgt's Pendleton,Grover, and Sowici get Bilko busted to private, he gets his own back by pretending to write a book on his army life
S1 Ep24
7.4
28th Feb 1956
When Bilko asks for pictures of the platoons girlfriends Pvt Honnagar shows them a photo of a beautiful girl taken years ago. they think it is his girl but they have a surprise in store
S1 Ep25
8.4
6th Mar 1956
When Zippo the ape is accidently inducted into the army the only way to get the army off the hook is to get Bilko as defense council and court martial the ape before anybody finds out
S1 Ep26
7.6
13th Mar 1956
Bilko and Joan Hogan go separately to New York and keep missing each other but when they meet up again at Fort Baxter they find that they have somehow ended up with each others dog tags
S1 Ep27
7.8
20th Mar 1956
Bilko suspects that there are large deposits of uranium underneath Fort Baxter but he has to get rid of the Colonel before he can start digging
S1 Ep28
8.2
27th Mar 1956
When a new drill sergeant known as ' The Beast ' takes over at Fort Baxter Bilko and the platoon come up with a scheme to get rid of him
S1 Ep29
7.8
10th Apr 1956
When Bilko tries to get out of a 20 mile hike the Colonel preempts him and allows him to miss the hike Bilko is so shocked that he thinks the Colonel might be trying to get rid of him
S1 Ep30
7.9
17th Apr 1956
When Bilko gets a tip from a jockey on a horse he persuades the Colonel to take him on a recruiting drive to Topeka so he can get to a bookie and get a bet on
S1 Ep31
7.7
24th Apr 1956
Bilko's head is constantly being used by his barber to find a cure for baldness. The other three sergeants know this and while Bilko is asleep decide to play a trick on him, but Bilko has the last laugh
S1 Ep32
7.6
1st May 1956
When Doberman gets a $500 windfall from an insurance policy, he loses it in a poker game with three con men. Bilko gets it back by conning the con men, but then Doberman loses it again by being conned into buying the hotel from another con man
S1 Ep33
7.6
8th May 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
S1 Ep34
7.9
15th May 1956
Thinking his friend is a big man on Wall Street Bilko goes to stay but when he discovers that his friend is just a clerk, Bilko sets out to get him a better job.
The first episode of The Phil Silvers Show aired on September 20, 1955.
The last episode of The Phil Silvers Show aired on March 14, 2001.
There are 144 episodes of The Phil Silvers Show.
There are 4 seasons of The Phil Silvers Show.
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The Phil Silvers Show has ended.