Episode
The Phil Silvers Show: Bilko's TV Pilot
Overview
A cowboy joins the platoon, and Bilko gets the idea of building a TV show around him
Details
- Series
- The Phil Silvers Show
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 30
- Air date
- 1958-05-06
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Bilko's TV Pilot is Episode 30 in Season 3 of The Phil Silvers Show. It aired on 1958-05-06. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 29: Operation Love
Fort Baxter's WAC's are fed up with their boyfriends gambling with Bilko, instead of taking them out, so they get themselves transferred.
Episode 31: Bilko Retires From Gambling
Colonel hall hires a professional card player, to beat Bilko at cards. He is so upset at losing that he gives up gambling
More episodes from this season
Episode 28: Bilko's Chinese Restaurant
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.
Episode 32: Bilko's Vacation
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.
Episode 27: Bilko's Honeymoon
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.
Episode 33: Bilko's Insurance Company
A car accident near the camp gives Bilko the idea of starting an insurance company.
Episode 26: The Colonel's Inheritance
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
Episode 34: Bilko's Prize Poodle
Doberman gets attached to a poodle, and Bilko sees a chance of winning $10,000 in a dog show.
Episode 25: Bilko the Male Model
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.
Episode 35: Bilko's School Days
Bilko learns that a new training camp is to be opened at Fort Baxter, Just when it looks like a new source of cash has presented itself, he finds that it is for M.P.'s not trainees.
Episode 24: Bilko The Genius
In a mix up over test results, Bilko is told that he has a genius rating and he goes on a course with other test winners. They try and come up with a foolproof method of predicting the result of any horse race.
Episode 36: Joan's Big Romance
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.