Episode
The Phil Silvers Show: Army Memoirs
Overview
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
Details
- Series
- The Phil Silvers Show
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 23
- Air date
- 1956-02-21
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Army Memoirs is Episode 23 in Season 1 of The Phil Silvers Show. It aired on 1956-02-21. The runtime is 30 min.
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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.
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
More episodes from this season
Episode 21: The Rest Cure
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
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 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 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 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 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
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 28: Bilko and the Beast
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
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 29: The Physical Check Up
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