The Phil Silvers Show 3.16

Bilko and the Colonel's Secretary

Colonel Hall gets a new secretary, Corporal Blanche Ripley. Biko tries to butter her up so that he and his men don't get picked for work details. His plan goes awry and he is forced to do what he can to get Corporal Ripley transferred.

Thoughts

This one is not so hot. It isn't downright awful but it felt like it was all build up to me. I was hoping there would be a big payoff in the end but there wasn't.

The Phil Silvers Show 3.15

Bilko and the Flying Saucers

Bilko wants to go to Washington, DC to reunite with Bonnie, a gal he hasn't seen since 1943. He cooks up a scheme to get him sent to Washington to report on recent sightings of UFOs near Fort Baxter. His scheme involves convincing MSgt Ritzik and Major Lukens that they also saw UFOs.

Thoughts

Colonel Hall is not in this episode. Major Lukens is left in charge of Fort Baxter while Colonel Hall is away.

Bilko's and Bonnie's recollections of their last meeting don't exactly match,

The Phil Silvers Show 3.14

Bilko F.O.B. Detroit

Bilko and his men are sent to Detroit to pick up some new trucks. They are supposed to be back at Fort Bazter in no more than two days. Bilko comes up with an excuse to stay longer. The owner of the company that manufactured the trucks sees right through Bilko's scheme and momentarily gets the upper hand. The tables turn once again when Bilko talks the company owner into one of his hairbrained schemes and turns the tables back in his own favor.

Thoughts

This was not a brilliant episode. It doesn't really go anywhere, other than Detroit.

The Phil Silvers Show 3.13

Bilko at Bay

Bilko plans a trip to New York with Corporals Barbella and Henshaw. They make arrangements to stop at the homes of the men in the platoon in order to save money on food. Everything is going well until they get to Altoona, the home of Private Doberman. Mrs. Doberman runs a boarding house and has two men staying in her boarding house.

The two men staying at Mrs. Doberman's boarding are pretending to be on a vacation filled with fishing but they are actually bank robbers. They are waiting for the third member of their gang to show up.

The Phil Silvers Show 3.12

Lieutenant Bilko

Bilko has reached the end of his enlistment. He is ready to leave the army when he discovers that the Army owes him back pay because in 1943 he was temporarily promoted to lieutenant. Colonel Hall is devastated. He was ready to get rid of Bilko.

Thoughts

This is a decent episode. It doesn't all make sense but I enjoyed it. Bilko thinks he's got the upper hand but doesn't. Colonel Hall turns the tables on him more than once. 

The Phil Silvers Show 3.11

Bilko Buys a Club

Bilko comes up with a plan to buy an old piece of land that no one is interested in and build a club there. He doesn't have the money needed for a down payment but then he finds out that one of the national guard troops who is now stationed in his barracks is a millionaire.

Papparelli overhears a conversation between two of the National Guard troops that leads him to believe he knows the identity of the millionaire. Bilko jumps on it and treats Private Dewitt like gold. Dewitt is actually a butcher in his civilian life. It is Private Baker who's the millionaire but Bilko spends the whole episode pushing him around.

The Phil Silvers Show 3.10

Cherokee Ernie

Bilko travels to Oklahoma with Corporal Charlie White Eagle to take part in a poker tournament. He gets pulled into helping Charlie White Eagle's tribe. Bilko is made a member of the Cherokee tribe, takes the name Bald Eagle, and negotiates with powers that be on behalf of the Cherokee. Things seem to be going in favor of Bilko and the Cherokee until the authorities discover that Bilko's negotiating strategy is based on faulty information.

Thoughts

Most of the humor in this episode is based on stereotypes of Native Americans.

The Phil Silvers Show 3.09

Bilko Talks in His Sleep

Grover and Ritzik win some money from Bilko after they overhear him talking in his sleep. Bilko figures out what happened and tries to get back at them. He fools them into thinking that he is about to die. They feel bad and spend all the money they won from him on a doctor, thus robbing him of the opportunity to win the money back from them.

Thoughts

This was an okay episode. It ended a bit abruptly, as is sometimes the case.

Virginia De Louse played the part of Gladys, a waitress that Bilko wanted to take on a date. This is her fourth and final appearance on the show. Her three previous appearances were all in episodes from Season 2.