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The Phil Silvers Show
The Phil Silvers Show, originally titled "You'll Never Get Rich", is a sitcom which ran on CBS from 1955 to 1959. A pilot called "Audition Show" was made in 1955, but never broadcast. 143 other episodes were broadcast – all half-an-hour long except for a 1959 one-hour live special. The series starred Phil Silvers as Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko of the United States Army.
The series was created and largely written by Nat Hiken,
the Hanna-Barbera animation studio for its television cartoon series "Top Cat", which drew on elements from "The Phil Silvers Show". Maurice Gosfield from the original platoon voiced Benny the Ball. "Hokey Wolf" was another Hanna-Barbera production that borrowed heavily from "The Phil Silvers Show". The episode of "The Flintstones" that introduced Dino gave the pet dinosaur a Sgt. Bilko-styled voice and character. After this atypical debut, Dino never spoke again. Another episode recruited Fred Flintstone and