The Phil Silvers Show: Doberman's Sister

The Phil Silvers Show: Doberman's Sister
CBS
November 20, 1956
Sitcom
DVD
C

This aired right after the first Joe E. Ross episode and is on the same level.  Even making adjustments for over 60 years of societal change, it's hard to get past the basic sexism of an episode where the guys have to take each other's sisters to the big dance but no one wants to date the title character, assumed to be as ugly as poor Doberman, until Bilko manipulates the situation and then ends up tricking himself.  It is notable that the two Black soldiers are assumed to have to trade with each other-- one claims the other tried to pass off pictures of Lena Horne and Eartha Kitt as his sisters-- but they, too, dread the idea of having to squire Diane Doberman (Gosfield in a double role).

Elisabeth Fraser returns as MSgt. Joan Hogan and is part of the women-bartering.