Name some shows that had gambling in a episode, it could be a friendly card
game or a visit to a casino or a bet between characters.

Three's Company. When Chrissy is selling cosmetics, she goes to Furley's apt. where Larry and Jack along with Furley and two girls, they are playing cards.

Also, Jack goes to a charity gambling casino event, not realizing it was fake money.

I Love Lucy goes to Monte Carlo and wins big time and then loses the money later.

Also, in Be A Pal, she wants to learn to play poker with the boys and so she does.

It's not a sitcom but at least 2 episodes of The Twilight Zone had a gambling theme.

A Game of Pool starring Jack Klugman & Jonathan Winters, Jesse Cardiff (Klugman) Challenges the undisputed billiards champion, Fats Brown (Winters) to one game, If Jesse wins, He becomes the greatest. If he loses, He dies.

The Silence: A man fed up with the constant chatter of a fellow club member makes him a bet of $500,000 that he cannot remain silent for one year.

Cheers had gambling when Coach loses all of his money to an old friend and the gang recruits Harry the Hat to win it all back.

The Odd Couple had several episodes of the guys playing Poker

Taxi had Louie Depalma's brother win all of the gang's money in Poker.

Newsradio - Jimmy loses Bill in a station owners poker game and Lisa plays poker with the guy who won to try and win Bill back.

In another episode of Newsradio, Matthew wants to learn how to be a gambler so he can be one of the guys and he ends up betting with Joe and loses a bunch of bets including the classic "guess which hand the pencil is in". :lol:

Taxi - A lot of gambling on this show. Several episodes had Louie betting against the other cabbies, mainly on the outcome on Tony's fights. He lost most of the time. :lol:

There was also an episode where Jim gets addicted to betting on horse races and he wins $10,000 and he ends up buying the horse that won the race. :lol:

Another episode had Louie betting against Bobby to see who could bring in the most money in one shift, Louie or Alex.

And theres an episode where Alex goes to Atlantic City and gets hooked on gambling. He finally snaps out of it after he realizes he stole Jim's last dollar.

FRIENDS-in the Las Vegas episode, where Joey said he found his "identical hand twin":lol: :lol: :lol: Ross and Rachel got drunk and got married, among other things.

THE ODD COUPLE-the time Felix had Oscar show him how to gamble; then Felix got addicted to it.

-On who's the boss? there was an episode where tony's friends from brookyln come over to angela's house to play their weekly poker game. Angela ends up winning most of the $$. They end up playing till like 10am and angela has guests.

-On roseanne there were countless poker games.

On The Mary Tyler Moore Show:

I seem to remember Mary Richards playing poker with Lou, & the gang. Does anyone recall that episode?





Also Lou babysit Bess on the show & they used cookies to bet on a card game.

Family Ties had an episode where they went to Atlantic City. The Simpsons had one too where Mr. Burns had a casino built, Marge became addicted to gambling.

The Simpsons had one too where Mr. Burns had a casino built, Marge became addicted to gambling.
-Also there was another simpsons episode where the family ends up at an Indian casino and marge gets addicted to a slot machine and ends up betting the car away.

-Another who's the boss? episode I don't remember where they were but I think it was atlantic city and Angela, Mona and Tony were gambling and Mona got so addicted she ended up betting the car away and tony & angela had to win it back nearly losing angela's house.

Sanford and Son-Vegas

Jeffersons-Atlantic City

Fresh Prince

There is also another one from 3's company when Mr. Roper finds out Chrissy is going to Vegas for a business trip and gives her money to play blackjack with.

Would "The Return of Mr. Garrett" count as a gambling episode, too, in Facts of Life? Since Mrs. Garrett's ex was teaching them how to gamble...

There was a first season ep of Frasier where Martin was having his poker buddies over. He told Frasier two were cops and one was an ex-con. Martin bet Frasier money (I don't remember how much) that he couldn't guess which one was the ex-con. Of course, Frasier lost. :lol:

Coach also had an ep set in Vegas and I think Luther was cleaning up with the slot machines (for awhile, anyway. :lol: ).

There was the famous bet on Seinfield between Jerry, Elaine, George, & Kramer to see who could go the longest.............
I can't remember how much the bet was for.

FRIENDS-in the Las Vegas episode, where Joey said he found his "identical hand twin":lol: :lol: :lol: Ross and Rachel got drunk and got married, among other things.


Also on Friends (season 1), there was the ep, "TOW the Poker"

And, the whole betting fiasco over who knew who the best, which resulted in the girls losing their apt to the guys

Annball, in the seinfeld episode I think the bet was for who can resist temptation the longest or it was who could go the longest without self-discriminating. I don't think I'm helping you out very much.:confused:

And, the whole betting fiasco over who knew who the best, which resulted in the girls losing their apt to the guys
Rachel: Oh, oh, he's a.. he's a transponster!
Monica: THAT'S NOT EVEN A WORD!! :lol:

There was also an Indian Casino episode of Family Guy.

Annball, in the seinfeld episode I think the bet was for who can resist temptation the longest or it was who could go the longest without self-discriminating. I don't think I'm helping you out very much.:confused:

Thats ok, its hard to go into details about that episode. But it was very funny. Did they bet money on it? I can't remember that part of it.:lol:

I do know that Kramer was the first one to lose the bet. Big suprise:lol: !!!

Family Matters - Eddie and Steve were gambling at a casino in one episode, and in another episode they gambled in a pool hall.

I do know that Kramer was the first one to lose the bet. Big suprise:lol: !!!
Who could have guessed it?? :rofl:

On The Mary Tyler Moore Show:

I seem to remember Mary Richards playing poker with Lou, & the gang. Does anyone recall that episode?





Also Lou babysit Bess on the show & they used cookies to bet on a card game.

I believe the ep. you're referring to (the first one) is "It's Whether You Win or Lose," where Mary invited Murray to Lou's poker game, not knowing he was a recovered compulsive gambler. Murray ended up losing a bunch of money to Ted (He got lucky! lol), and then Murray went double or nothing on whether or not Ted could read a foriegn name correctly on the air. Naturally, Ted blew it. ;)

Hope that helps!

- Kristen



- Kristen

Sanford and Son Lamont gets hustled playing cards and Fred wins back his money.

Sanford and Son Lamont gets hustled playing cards and Fred wins back his money.
Yes, wasn't that the ep where "Arms" appears?? It was also the only ep where Rollo and Julio appeared together, and Julio's last ep as portrayer Gregory Sierra (:eyes:) moved on to Barney Miller.

On Friends, Chandler & Monica decided to get married in Vegas if Monica rolled another hard eight at the craps table. Which she did. "It's a four"

I loved both of these episodes, especially Klugman and Winters. Klugman seemed to be on a lot of the best Twilight Zone episodes.

there are numerous Hogan's Heroes episodes where Sgt Schultz can be heard bellowing "no gambling in the barracks" or something similiar. There is one episode I can think of that actually had a gambling theme. Hogan set up a Monte Carlo night so that they could raise money for the "Winter relief fund" that klink was in charge of. (actually, the real reason was so hogan could create a diversion and swap out a top secret airplane part that a nazi was carrying in his briefcase)

"M*A*S*H" had many episodes that featured gambling.

While they mostly played poker (my favorite episode "Deal Me Out" was about an all night poker game), the gang at the 4077th played craps, bet on the Kentucky Derby, a ping pong tournament, football, baseball, mouse races, bowling, bridge, boxing, a road race ran by Father Mulcahy, and they also bet on whether an enemy bomber plane would hit thier ammo dump whenever he attacked the camp.

;)

On The Dick Van Dyke show Rob accidently plays cards with Ritchies magic
cards which are marked. The new neighbor gets very upset and accuses Rob
of cheating.

There was an episode in the first season of Home Improvement involving a poker game at Tim's house. One of the players was Jill's brother-in-law, who was having a major arguement with his wife, Jill's sister. It was funny how at every hand, all the guys would chorus, "Al folds." :lol:

On The Dick Van Dyke show Rob accidently plays cards with Ritchies magic
cards which are marked. The new neighbor gets very upset and accuses Rob
of cheating.
there was an episode of "THE NEW DICK VAN DYKE SHOW" which had him hosting a poker game, and something happens-that's all I remember of the episode.

there was an episode of "THE NEW DICK VAN DYKE SHOW" which had him hosting a poker game, and something happens-that's all I remember of the episode.

I never watched The New Dick Van Dyke Show. Was it any good?

On King Of Queens, Doug, Deacon, Danny and Spence take a road trip to Memphis. They run low on money and decide to stop at an Indian Casino to try to get some money off Doug's credit card. He ends up playing blackjack and maxes out his card.

The Munsters had an episode where Herman was able to pick winning horses.

The I Love Lucy ep where Lucy is in France and mistakenly pushes her chips away as to tell the man she doesn't want to play and it turns out she's a winner. So funny! :lol:

Roseanne had a lot of gambling: Dan's poker games, the trip to Vegas, and hell, they won the lottery!

Dorothy on the "Golden Girls" lapsed back into her race track habit.

Wasn't there a poker-playing episode on "Alice?" I vaguely remember Flo smoking a cigar.

I think the Munsters bet on a suped-up hot-rod Herman and Grandpa modified. Does anyone remember that?

And even though it wasn't for money, Greg and Marcia had a bet on driving, and Greg and Bobby had a bet on chin-ups.

I love this category, according to Seth Godin's book The Encyclopedia of Fictional People:

Faces Most Likely To Give Away Their Poker Hands:

Gilligan
Lucy Ricardo
Woody Boyd
Chrissy Snow
Homer Simpson
JJ Evans
Barney Fife

So true! :lol:

Full House -- Danny wants to be one of the guys so he joins in the poker game and pretends to be messy; Wake Up, San Fransisco is on location in Las Vegas
Friends -- TOW All the Poker - the guys teach the girls how to play poker; TOW The Lottery (I think that's the title) where they all buy a bunch of lottery tickets; They take a trip to Las Vegas to see Joey where he finds his hand twin, Phoebe gets kicked out of the casino, and Monica & Chandler see all these signs pointing to marriage.
King of Queens -- "Wild Card" Doug and Deacon go to Atlantic City; "Eddie Money" Doug & Deacon gamble some of Carrie's rainy day money and win, but have to spend it all in one day so she doesn't find out; "Frigid Game" Arthur wins at bingo and has to decide how to spend the money; "Gambling N'Diction" Doug convinces his mon to enter a high-stakes poker tournament
Boy Meets World -- Eric finds the teachers gambling in the teacher's lounge, joins them, beats them, and then is asked by one of the teachers to go gambling with him; In college, Shawn spends time with the guys by playing poker, but they don't want the Major (Cory) to join them.

On The Golden Girls Dorothy had a gambling problem.

I love this category, according to Seth Godin's book The Encyclopedia of Fictional People:

Faces Most Likely To Give Away Their Poker Hands:

Gilligan
Lucy Ricardo
Woody Boyd
Chrissy Snow
Homer Simpson
JJ Evans
Barney Fife

So true! :lol:

I can just picture each ones expression, can't you? :lol:

Danny played Poker with Jesse Joey and there Friends

On Andy Griffith, Floyd's barber shop was used as a front for bookies to place horseracing bets. Also, when Barney found a satchel full of money, he told Floyd he was going down to Hialeah to blow a couple of C's on the horses. He also went to the hotel to set up some high stakes poker.

3's Company. Chrissy picks the daily double at the track and the money causes major problems between the roommates.

In one of the later episodes of Good Times, JJ and Penny are playing poker. Instead of chips or money, they use Thelma's cookies. :lol: On MTM, Lou Grant and Bess Lindstrom played poker also using cookies as opposed to money or chips. :lol:

On Gilligans Island Mr. Howell bet Gilligan a quarter he couldn't sink a putt and they kept doubling the bet until Mr. Howell owed him 3 million dollars.

Gambling was featured quite alot on Get Smart (Well, not surprising since it was a James Bond spoof ) , as in the show where a jealous Max follows 99 to a casino belonging to her new fiance........one where Max needs to spy on some Kaos agents in a casino, and accidentally spends the "Silver Dollar phone" he was supposed to use to "bug" the place.....and funniest of all, the one where, Max is supposed to convince Kaos that hes a down and out bum with huge gambling debts ( And is a good bet to recruit as a double agent ), except that his amazingly good luck has him winning every game he plays!! :lol:

On Alice, Mel bet on the horse races and almost lost the diner. This was a funny episode.

There was also an episode of Bewitched where Samantha turns a race horse into a person. The "lady" advises Darrin's friend, a broke inventor, which horse to bet on so he could win the money at the track.

he should not have bet The Diner

On Designing women Suzanne talks Anthony into going to Vegas with her in the hopes of winning a fortune.

I did not remember that

On Everybody Loves Raymond, Debra and the kids had a bet on wether or not Ray would notice her new haircut. He didn't, so the kids won.

In the 2nd season of the american office (the season finale) they gamble! :)

On King Of Queens, Doug, Arthur and Deacon bet on what the baby's see n' say will land on. It was pretty funny.

In the Taxi episode, "Nardo Loses Her Marbles" (Season 2), the gang is playing blackjack, then Tony blows the game. The look of disgust on both Alex and Bobby's faces was hysterical. :lol:

My favorite episode of Coach, "The Homewreckers" (Season 2), had Hayden and Luther all set to play blackjack when Luther spilled the grape juice on Christine's white carpet. While Hayden went into the other room to grab the deck of cards, Luther sat on the stain to hide it. :lol: "Hit me, hit me, hit me, boy are you going to hit me!!!:" :rofl:

there are numerous Hogan's Heroes episodes where Sgt Schultz can be heard bellowing "no gambling in the barracks" or something similiar.
Yet Schultz still sometimes managed to get into the game himself, lol!

There is one episode I can think of that actually had a gambling theme. Hogan set up a Monte Carlo night so that they could raise money for the "Winter relief fund" that klink was in charge of. (actually, the real reason was so hogan could create a diversion and swap out a top secret airplane part that a nazi was carrying in his briefcase)
The best Hogan's Heroes (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=71) example is probably as you already mentioned with the Monte Carlo charity casino in The Big Gamble.

Also in the The Softer They Fall episode, the German guards bet openly on a Stalag 13 boxing bout with the POWs, which again served as a diversion.

On Gilligan's Island the Skipper and Mr. Howell bet on a turtle race. The Skipper bets Gilligan's services as a houseboy and of course he loses. Poor Gilligan!

The Flying Nun - several episodes were set in the casino. If I remember correctly Sister Bertille gambled. The best gambling sequences were on the Simpsons - Grandpa's trip to the casino and I Love Lucy - Lucy's trip to Monte Carlo and shen she wanted to be "one of the boys". Family Matters - Urkel lost his money to Lt. Lt.

On King Of Queens Doug takes $100 out of the emergency fund to bet on a boxing match. Him & Deacon win $5000 but they can't let Carrie & Kelly find out about it so they have to spend it all in one day. It was pretty funny.

another time on KOQ, Doug, Deacon, Spence, & Danny drove to Ohio and lost most of their money gambling.

Doug: "I gambeled away an entire months mortage and have to go home and face a wife who is going to kick my ASS"!:lol:

On fresh prince will and carlton took a trip to Vegas and carlton became an over night gambling adict and lost all thier money

Family Matters - Eddie and Steve were gambling at a casino in one episode, and in another episode they gambled in a pool hall.

Also on Family Matters Steve and Eddie were betting on NFL games, and the bookie was named "Bones ... as in I break 'em." Plus, Steve and Carl played cards with Lt. Murtaugh if memory serves, and Steve said he had two pair, as in four of a kind (all tens).

Perfect Strangers dealt with gambling, too, in several episodes. Larry and Balki, like Steve and Eddie above, bet on NFL games--I remember Larry grabbing Balki and asking him, "THE PACKERS OR THE BROWNS???"

Then Balki got a racehorse and he bet on the next race involving him at 50:1 odds; he won, with Balki betting only $2. The cousins thought about what $100 would get them, including a new pair of Air Jordans and twenty trips to the top of the Sears Tower. Or was that what they won in the lottery episode in which they matched four of six numbers?

The cousins took two trips to Las Vegas, and one of them involved a visit to a casino; Larry lectured Balki on the evils of gambling, only to get caught up in it all and lose everything he had, including the plane ticket back to Chicago!

Does the time they appeared on the game show "Risk It All" count? Their objective was to either leave with their winnings or continue by risking it all.

another time on KOQ, Doug, Deacon, Spence, & Danny drove to Ohio and lost most of their money gambling.

Doug: "I gambeled away an entire months mortage and have to go home and face a wife who is going to kick my ASS"!:lol:


They do an awful lot of gambling on that show, don't they? Its a wonder they're not all broke. :lol:

And remember in the first season episode of "The Addams Family"titled "The Addams Family Splurge",one of the series'best episodes,wherein the family was going to raise moiney for a trip to the Moon,and took up horseracing,They all learned that gambling was wrong in this one.A very funny,good episode.Also,on a black and white episode of "The Beverly Hillbillies",Granny got the gambling bug,but at the end,learned a lesson,when she lost.

On Gilligan's Island the Skipper and Mr. Howell bet on a turtle race. The Skipper bets Gilligan's services as a houseboy and of course he loses. Poor Gilligan!

This is the episode where Skipper tells Mr. Howell "You would have to pick a couple of losers."

once on an Xmas episode of MY NAME IS EARL, he visited with, I think it was his former in-laws, and his mother-in-law (or whatever she was) was in a wheelchair and when people would ask why, she would say she had juvenile arthuritis, but Earl caught her jumping up and down, exited over something once. So she told him the truth-that she was really fine; but she had broken her leg a year ago and started using the wheelchair; but then when it got better she decided she liked being in it.:lol: :lol: :lol: Then she told him that she had become addicted to gambling on the horses, and whenever her husband would say something about their money dissapearing, she'd say that it was going for her kidney dyalisis, and whenever she went to the track she'd say that's where she was going.:lol: :lol: :lol:

once on THE ODD COUPLE Oscar gambeled away money that Felix was having him hold for a down payment on a grave site.


Another time, Oscar introduced Felix to gambling on the horses and Felix became "addicted" to it. Then he learned his lesson when he lost all this money.

They do an awful lot of gambling on that show, don't they? Its a wonder they're not all broke. :lol:
I've thought that same thing sometimes.

What's Happening!!/First season: "The Birthday Present." Second season: ""Give Me Odds"
Good Times/Last season: "Cousin Raymond"
Sanford and Son/Fourth season: "The Stung." It's the episode where Fred's friend Al plays poker with Lamont, Julio, Rollo and Arms Crowder, then runs off with the winnings. Fred takes the car wash job to pay the four.

The Munsters/The second season episode where Eddie's caught gambling at school and Herman plays the ponies to teach Eddie a lesson, only to have it backfire big time.
Gomer Pyle, USMC/The Chinese reataraunt that's a front for a gambling operation.

The Munsters/The second season episode where Eddie's caught gambling at school and Herman plays the ponies to teach Eddie a lesson, only to have it backfire big time.
Gomer Pyle, USMC/The Chinese reataraunt that's a front for a gambling operation.


I'd forgotten about that episode of Gomer Pyle, that was pretty funny too.:lol:

Okay, had to read through all 5 pages of responses, so I wouldn't duplicate any answers. ;)

"King of Queens" - The episode where all the guys at IPS are going on a weekend to Atlantic City, and Doug has to convince Carrie to go there for the anniversary of their first date. Unfortunately, Doug's boss, Supervisor O'Boyle, overhears the guys talking about the trip, and he is reluctantly invited.

Meanwhile, Deacon's wife left him just before he was to go on the trip, and Doug & Carrie are left with only his boss, a reformed gambler & alcoholic. Deacon finally decides to come join them, but he's on a forced "high" due to his wife leaving him. He's betting on craps, and eventually Mr. O'Boyle (their boss) throws himself headlong, back into drinking & gambling in the heat of the moment.

"Yes, Dear" - There are two episodes in a casino. The first one might have been the pilot episode, actually. Jimmy talks Greg into going to an Indian casino, but he has Sammy with him. Sammy takes his first steps on the casino floor, & he video-tapes it for posterity. Then he realizes that his wife, Kim will see their child in a casino. Jimmie has a friend digitally change the background, so it looks as if the toddler is walking in a park. But toward the end of the tape, you see Sammy walking toward a pond......and eventually, literally "walking on water!"

The 2nd "Yes, Dear" episode has Greg & Jimmie wisking his father away for a "guy's weekend," something he hopes might become an annual event for them. Tim Conway plays his scatter-brained father, and he's seen repeatedly wandering off the wrong way, and in general, a nuisance to keep track of. Near the end of the show, Tim Conway is supposed to go back to his room, and once again, he makes a wrong turn. This time into a giant glass-encased animal cage for live monkeys. Too funny!

Sanford and Son/Fred's brother-in-law, Rodney, was a gambler. In the final season's "Sanford & Gong" episode, Rodney snuck onto "The Gong Show" to win $500.00 to pay off a bookie.

Happy Days/In the 4th season's "The Last of the Big Time Malphs," Ralph became a bookie and ended up losing a lot of money. His dad bailed him out.
M*A*S*H/In the 9th season's "A War for All Seasons," bets are made on baseball games. Klinger winds up in trouble with Charles. In the last season's epiosde where Father Mulcahy runs, Klinger loses bets.

Happy Days/In the 4th season's "The Last of the Big Time Malphs," Ralph became a bookie and ended up losing a lot of money. His dad bailed him out.
M*A*S*H/In the 9th season's "A War for All Seasons," bets are made on baseball games. Klinger winds up in trouble with Charles. In the last season's epiosde where Father Mulcahy runs, Klinger loses bets.



It seems like they did a lot of gambling on MASH too. :lol:

On Everybody Loves Raymond, Frank needs an extra person for a poker game with his buddies, so he gets Ray to play. And at first Ray's winning all the money but at the end he owes Frank $2300. Then Robert's threatening to arrest them for illegal gambling.

The episode The Bridge Group In The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.

On an episode of King Of Queens, Doug's mom plays poker with them. And she 's so good, that Doug uses her to hussle some other poker games.

the Golden Girls/In the fourth season's "Sophia's Wedding" episode, it was revealed via flashback that Sal and Max Weinstock operated a Coney Island food stand years before and that Sal gambled away the profits, causing the business to go under.

On One Day At A Time Barbara sold football betting cards (and got Schneider arrested in the process!). There was also a two parter in Vegas where various characters hit the casino.

Married with Children. Al and the family go gambling at a casino, and he imagines himself as James Bond in Casino Royale. :lol:

In the season 1 episode Carol's Paper, Mike and Ben gamble on horses and win until their horse falls down and loses the race. It taught the boys a very valuable lesson about gambling and how wrong and bad it is.
There were two episodes of I Dream of Jeannie that dealt with gambling. One was a season one episode where Tony and Roger went to Vegas and Roger snuck Jeannie in without Tony's knowledge. Jeannie made it possible for them to win and make a lot of money.
Another episode in the last season had Jeannie hiding out during a poker game so she could help Tony figure out who were the cheaters.
On Frasier, there were several episodes where Martin had his friends over for poker.

The Wayans Bros. Season 2 Episode 9 "The Sting"

Shawn bets the newsstand in a poker game and loses it to T.C. The jokes in this episode are hilarious! If you haven't seen it, you need to watch it.

Wow I didn't realize this thread was so old but in an early ep of Facts of Life, Mrs. Garrett's ex-husband teaches Tootie to play a card game. I can't remember which one, though.

Cheers

In the episode Pick a Con... Any Con, Coach loses $8,000 bar savings to George Wheeler in rounds of gin rummy, a card game. Therefore, Sam bails out a con artist Harry the Hat from jail and pays him $5,000 to get the money back from George. At night, George plays poker with Harry and with other players, including Sam. George wins every round when his opponents, including Harry, fold. Coach and Sam discover that, in a recent round, Harry's four 3s in his hand (four of a kind) would have beaten George's straight hand. Then George and Harry confess that they have been teaming together to cheat the bar patrons the whole night. George threatens to report them to the police for gambling in poker if they try anything. However, Coach begs for another round with Harry and George alone. At the final round, Coach rubs his nose as a sign that George could beat Harry with three Queens. Harry wins with four 3s and exits the bar. When George leaves, Harry re-enters from the back room and admits that he teamed up with Coach to retrieve the $8,000 by cheating George.

On The Dick Van Dyke show Rob accidently plays cards with Ritchies magic
cards which are marked. The new neighbor gets very upset and accuses Rob
of cheating.

The new neighbor just happened to be the Chief from Get Smart! Sorry Rob, you don't mess with the Chief!


Here we are 6 pages in and I am completely stunned and mystified that no one has mentioned the man that I believe was the best, smartest, and clearly the funniest, gambler in TV sitcom history:

Master Sergeant Ernest Bilko played by Phil Silvers in "The Phil Silvers Show".

The entire series revolved around Bilko finding get-rich-schemes through gambling---which he was always doing with his platoon---or other brilliant ideas which he would use to fool the clueless Col. Hall into thinking that he was running a real Army motor pool. That series had a lot of great episodes, including "The Twitch" with Charlotte Rae as a nervous guest speaker with a severe twitching problem which the men naturally bet on; "The Eating Contest" with Fred Gwynne as a private with an unusually large appetite; "Hillbilly Whiz" with Dick Van Dyke, a star Southern pitcher that Bilko uses to rig an Army baseball game; and "The Court Martial" with a wandering monkey trying to get drafted, one of the best sitcom episodes I have ever seen. When it comes to gamblers, con men and all-around schemers nobody on TV could ever beat Sgt. Bilko.


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I Dream of Jeannie - "How Lucky Can You Get"

I remember there was a big multi-show crossover where the characters all interacted in a Las Vegas casino. I believe The Drew Carey Show was one of the shows involved.

I Dream of Jeannie - "How Lucky Can You Get"

I mentioned that in my thread above.