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Ed Sullivan meets with Phil Silvers, Harvey Lembeck and Allan Melvin at Lindy's restaurant in New York. They talk about, and the viewer gets to see, scenes edited out of previous shows. Nat Hiken felt these outtakes were too good to end up on the cutting room floor and compiled them into what is possibly television's first 'clip show'.
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 ]
The Phil Silvers Arrow Show: Host-Performer: 3 episodes [36] 1955–59: The Phil Silvers Show: MSgt. Ernest G. 'Ernie' Bilko: 143 episodes 1959: Keep in Step: Himself/Sgt. Ernest G. Bilko: Television movie 1959: The Ballad of Louie the Louse: Louie: Television movie 1960: The Slowest Gun in the West: Fletcher Bissell III The Silver Dollar Kid ...
The New Phil Silvers Show is an American sitcom television series starring Phil Silvers which centers around a factory foreman who is always involved in get-rich-quick schemes. Original episodes aired from September 28, 1963, until April 25, 1964.
During this period, in addition to his role on The Phil Silvers Show, Melvin was often cast in slightly loud, occasionally abrasive, but generally friendly second banana roles. Melvin was also adept at "tough guy" roles; in an example of his range as an actor, one episode of The Phil Silvers Show featured Melvin doing an impersonation of ...
The Phil Silvers Show Top Cat 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).
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.
Top Cat was created as a parody of The Phil Silvers Show (1955–59), a successful military comedy whose lead character (Sergeant Bilko, played by Silvers) was a fast-talking con artist. [1] Hanna-Barbera sold the cartoon to ABC based on a drawing of Top Cat.