Phil Silvers show. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85278510
Notes:
Title from discs and container. Phil Silvers, Harvey Lembeck, Allan Melvin, Paul Ford. Originally broadcast on television as individual episodes, 1955-1959. Special features: Season 1: The lost audition show; "Lucy and the efficiency expert" from The Luch show; original network oening; original cast commercials; audio commentaries. Season 2: The cast of Phil Silvers on Broadway; Phil Silvers and Jack Benny on the Dick Cavett Show; interview with Cathy Silvers. Season 3: Interview with Nancey Silvers and Tracey Silvers; The Paul Ryan Show interview with Phil Silvers. Season 4: Footage from Keep in Step (1959); The New Phil Silvers Show promo; The New Phil Silvers Show episode "Harry, the good neighbor"; Phil's final tv interview with Sonny Fox.
Contents:
Season 1. Disc 1: New recruits ; The empty store ; The WAC ; The horse ; A.W.O.L. ; The boxer -- Disc 2: The hoodlum ; Mardi gras ; The eating contest ; The centennial ; Bivouac ; The singing contest ; The twitch -- Disc 3: The reunion ; The 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 check-up ; The recruiting sergeant ; Hair ; The con men ; War Games ; Bilko on Wall Street. Season 2. Disc 1: Platoon in the movies ; It's for the birds ; Bilko goes to college ; The girl from Italy ; The face on the recruiting poster ; Bilko's war against culture ; The song of the motor pool ; Bilko's engagement -- Disc 2: A mess sergeant can't win ; Doberman's sister ; Where there's a will ; Bilko's tax trouble ; Mink Incorporated ; Sergeant Bilko presents Ed Sullivan ; Bilko gets some sleep ; The blue blood of the Bilkos -- Disc 3: Love that guardhouse ; Sergeant Bilko presents Bill Cosby ; Bilko goes to Monte Carlo ; Bilko enters politics ; Bilko's television idea ; The son of Bilko ; Rock 'n' roll Bilko ; Bilko's black magic -- Disc 4: Bilko goes south ; Bilko goes around the world ; The mess hall mess ; The secret life of Sergeant Bilko ; Radio station B.I.L.K.O. ; Bilko the marriage broker ; Bilko acres ; The big scandal -- Disc 5: Bilko's perfect day ; The colonel breaks par ; Show segments ; His highness Doberman. Season 3. Disc 1: Bilko's merry widow ; Bilko's boys town ; Hillbilly whiz ; Bilko's valentine ; The big man hunt ; Bilko's double life ; Sergeant Bilko presents ; Papa Bilko -- Disc 2: Bilko talks in his sleep ; Cherokee Ernie ; Bilko buys a club ; Lieutenant Bilko ; Bilko at bay ; Bilko F.O.B. Detroit ; Bilko and the flying saucers ; Bilko and the colonel's secretary -- Disc 3: Doberman the crooner ; Bilko presents Kay Kendall ; Bilko's cousin ; Bilko's pigeons ; Cyrano de Bilko ; The colonel's reunion ; Bilko saves Ritzik's marriage ; Bilko the art lover -- Disc 4: Bilko the genius ; Bilko the male model ; The colonel's inheritance ; Bilko's honeymoon ; Bilko's Chinese restaurant ; Operation love ; Bilko's TV pilot ; Bilko retires from gambling -- Disc 5: Bilko's vacation ; Bilko's insurance company ; Bilko's prize poodle ; Bilko's school days ; Joan's big romance. Season 4. Disc 1: Gold fever ; Bilko's vampire ; Bilko's deluxe tours ; Bilko the potato sack king ; Bilko vs. Covington ; Bilko joins the Navy ; Bilko's big woman hunt ; Bilko and the Crosbys -- Disc 2: Bilko's allergy ; Bilko and the chaplain ; Bilko presents the McGuire Sisters ; Bilko's secret mission ; Bilko's giveaway ; Bilko and the medium ; Bilko's bopster ; Bilko's Hollywood romance -- Disc 3: Bilko's grand hotel ; Bilko's credit card ; Viva Bilko ; The colonel's promotion ; Bilko's sharpshooter ; Bilko's formula seven ; Bilko's ape man ; Warrant Officer Paparelli -- Disc 4: Bilko's godson ; Guinea pig Bilko ; Bilko the butler ; Ritzik goes civilian ; Bilko's small car ; Doberman, missing heir ; Bilko's casino ; The colonel's second honeymoon -- Disc 5: Bilko in outer space ; The Bilko boycott ; The weekend colonel.
Summary:
Every episode 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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