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The sailor gets money from a friend and returns to the game. Bilko and the boys follow him and learn where the game is being held. They then go to an Army-Navy store and get Navy uniforms. Bilko wins big but then the game is raided by Navy MPs. Bilko, Paparelli and Zimmerman wind up on a ship headed to sea.
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]
Sgt. Bilko is a 1996 American military comedy film directed by Jonathan Lynn and written by Andy Breckman.It is an adaptation of the 1950s television series The Phil Silvers Show, often informally called Sgt. Bilko, or simply Bilko, and stars Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd, Phil Hartman and Glenne Headly.
In the 1963–1964 television season, he appeared as Harry Grafton, a factory foreman interested in get-rich-quick schemes, much like the previous Bilko character, in CBS's 30-episode The New Phil Silvers Show, [13] with co-stars Stafford Repp, Herbie Faye, Buddy Lester, Elena Verdugo as his sister, Audrey, and her children, played by Ronnie ...
Harvey Lembeck (April 15, 1923 – January 5, 1982) was an American comedic actor best remembered for his role as Cpl. Rocco Barbella on The Phil Silvers Show (a.k.a. Sgt. Bilko, a.k.a. You'll Never Get Rich ) in the late 1950s, and as the stumbling, overconfident quasi- outlaw biker Eric Von Zipper in beach party films during the 1960s.
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.