Title from menu screen, discs and container. Onscreen title on episodes: The Phil Silvers show. Phil Silvers, Harvey Lembeck, Allan Melvin, Paul Ford. Originally broadcast on television as individual episodes, 1955-1956. Special features: the lost audition show ; "Lucy and the efficiency expert" (from The Lucy show) ; original network opening ; original cast commercials ; audio commentaries.
Contents:
disc 1: New recruits -- The empty store -- The WAC -- The horse -- AWOL -- The boxer -- special feature: The lost audition show -- disc 2: The hoodlum -- Mardi gras -- The eating contest -- The centennial -- Bivouac -- The singing contest -- The twitch -- special features: Original network opening; original cast commercials -- disc 3: The reunion -- Rich kid -- Hollywood -- The investigation -- Kids in the trailer -- The revolutionary war -- The transfer -- disc 4: The rest cure -- Dinner at Sowici's -- Army memoirs -- Miss America -- The court martial -- Furlough in New York -- The big uranium strike -- disc 5: Bilko and the beast -- The physical checkup --- The recruiting sergeant -- Hair -- The con men -- War games -- Bilko on Wall Street -- special feature: Lucy and the efficiency expert.
Summary:
All 34 episodes of the first season of one of early television's first mega-hits. Phil Silvers stars as Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko, the fast-talking head of the motor pool at Fort Baxter in Roseville, Kansas.
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