Episode
The Phil Silvers Show: The Rest Cure
Overview
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
Details
- Series
- The Phil Silvers Show
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 1956-02-07
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
The Rest Cure is Episode 21 in Season 1 of The Phil Silvers Show. It aired on 1956-02-07. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 20: The Transfer
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
Episode 22: Dinner at Sowici's
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.
More episodes from this season
Episode 19: The Revolutionary War
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
Episode 23: Army Memoirs
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
Episode 18: Kids In the Trailer
While babysitting for a member of the platoon Bilko panics when he finds that he can't change the baby's nappy
Episode 24: Miss America
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
Episode 17: The Investigation
A Congressional committee visit Fort Baxter to investigate waste and high living but Bilko has other ideas, he wants a pay rise instead
Episode 25: The Court Martial
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
Episode 16: Hollywood
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.
Episode 26: Furlough in New York
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
Episode 15: The Rich Kid
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.
Episode 27: The Big Uranium Strike
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