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The Phil Silvers Show, originally titled You'll Never Get Rich, is a sitcom which ran on the CBS Television Network from 1955 to 1959. A pilot titled "Audition Show" was made in 1955, but it was never broadcast. 143 other episodes were broadcast – all half-an-hour long except for a 1959 one-hour live special. [1]
Bilko, Paparelli and Zimmerman wind up on a ship headed to sea. They repeatedly attempt to get off the ship, but fail. Bilko almost finds a way for USN Capt. Spencer (Walter Greaza) to look like he's crazy, but that doesn't work. Bilko, Paparelli and Zimmerman figure they'd rather tell the truth and face prison time, then to be stuck on the ship.
In April 1993, it was announced Imagine Entertainment had begun development on an adaptation of The Phil Silvers Show to be titled Sgt. Bilko . [1] By December 1994, it was reported Steve Martin would star as the titular Sgt. Bilko, Dan Aykroyd would co-star as Col. Hall, and Phil Hartman would play a rival General with a grudge against Bilko. [2]
2 Billy Sands (January 6, 1911 – August 27, 1984) was an American character actor who appeared as a regular on The Phil Silvers Show ( Sgt Bilko ) as Pvt. Dino Papparelli and was a regular on McHale's Navy as Harrison "Tinker" Bell.
The New Phil Silvers Show premiered on September 28, 1963, and initially aired on Saturdays at 8:30 p.m. [1] [2] [3] Partway through November 1963, it moved to 9:30 p.m. on Saturdays, where it remained for the rest of its run. [2] [3] CBS cancelled it after only one season, and its last original episode aired on April 25, 1964. [3]
[2] and The Phil Silvers Show, a situation comedy set on a US Army post in which Silvers played Sergeant Ernest G. "Ernie" Bilko; the show was also often referred to as Sgt. Bilko (Hiken had originally titled it You'll Never Get Rich). Hiken was one of TV's first writer-producers and was the head writer for NBC's Four Star Revue.
Maurice Lionel Gosfield (January 28, 1913 – October 19, 1964) was an American stage, film, radio and television actor, best remembered for his portrayal of Private Duane Doberman on the sitcom The Phil Silvers Show (1954–1959) and voicing Benny the Ball in Top Cat (1961–62).
[2] [1] Everitt afterwards sent Silvers birthday and Christmas cards and letters. [1] Everitt, with Mick Clews, founded the Phil Silvers Appreciation Society in 1984. [1] [3] Silvers was supportive of the organisation and contributed a telephone interview to a 1985 episode of the BBC's Pebble Mill at One, on which Everitt was being interviewed ...