Lieutenant Pierson of the motion pictures office of the Army comes to Fort Baxter looking for some men to star in a training movie about spark plugs. Bilko does everything he can to get his platoon involved. Lt. Pierson picks Pvt. Doberman to be in the movie, against Bilko's advice.
Shooting the movie doesn't exactly go according to plan. Lt. Pierson gets frustrated and puts Bilko in charge of shooting the movie. Bilko radically changes the script and makes it into a musical. Doberman plays a shiny new sparkplug and Bilko plays an old worn out sparkplug.
Colonel Hall was not in this episode but Captain Barker is.
Virginia De Louse plays the part of Sludge in the training movie. This is the first of four appearances she made on the show. She plays a different character in each of those four episodes.
Ralph Stantley plays the part of Lt. Pierson. He was also in 1.16 (Hollywood) playing a different character. He is in one more episode after this where he also plays a different character. His most consistent screen work was on the Jackie Gleason Show. He was in 16 episodes of that show which was on television around the same time as the Phil Silvers Show.
This was a lot of fun and a great start to the season. I love how wacky it all is, especially the movie that Bilko makes.
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