F Troop 

The misadventures of the staff and neighbors of a remote U.S. Army outpost in the Wild West.

Creator:

Richard M. Bluel

Stars:

Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch, Ken Berry

Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy.

Cast

Complete series cast summary:
Forrest Tucker	...	Sgt. Morgan O'Rourke / ... 65 episodes, 1965-1967
Larry Storch	...	Cpl. Randolph Agarn / ... 65 episodes, 1965-1967
Ken Berry	...	Capt. Wilton Parmenter / ... 65 episodes, 1965-1967
Melody Patterson	...	Wrangler Jane Angelica Thrift 65 episodes, 1965-1967
James Hampton	...	Hannibal Dobbs / ... 65 episodes, 1965-1967
Frank DeKova	...	Chief Wild Eagle / ... 63 episodes, 1965-1967
Bob Steele	...	Trooper Duffy 63 episodes, 1965-1967
Ben Frommer	...	Smokey Bear / ... 4 episodes, 1965-1967
Don Diamond	...	Crazy Cat / ... 49 episodes, 1965-1967
Joe Brooks	...	Trooper Vanderbilt 44 episodes, 1965-1967

Storyline

Becoming a hero by accidentally leading a cavalry charge the wrong way, Captain Wilton Parmenter is given command of Fort Courage. The Fort's crafty Sergeant O'Rourke has a deal with the local Hekawe Indians to market their wares to the tourists. They must sometimes pretend to be enemies (and the Shugs really are enemies). Jane is out to marry the innocent Parmenter.

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Plot Keywords:

fort | u.s. army | blonde | comic sidekick | commanding officer | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Western

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Did You Know?

Trivia

Melody Patterson (Wrangler Jane Angelica Thrift) was only 16 when she auditioned for the part, not really expecting to get it. When she found out that she got it, she and her mother put off telling the show's producers her real age until just before shooting started.

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Goofs

James Hampton's character, Bugler Hannibal Dobbs, is a Texan serving in the United States Army immediately after the Civil War. Although white males from Reconstruction (formerly Confederate) states were under a blanket suspicion of treason at the time, many non-conformists proved loyalty by fighting for the Union during the War. It's possible that Dobbs was one of these.

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Quotes

Captain Wilton Parmenter: We come in peace.
Chief Wild Eagle: What else?

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Connections

Referenced in Dark Shadows: Episode #1.27 (1966)

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Soundtracks

F Troop
Lyrics by Irving Taylor
Music by William Lava

User Reviews

The best comedy ever to come out of America

Without a doubt the funniest thing to come out of America. It also sums up the time when it was made and I can't see anything similar ever being made again.

As children we watched it but now as I watch it again and again I realize that I never got the jokes the first few times through anyway.

e.g. Agarn needs to see the medicine man at the Indian camp to find out whether he's a kleptomaniac so the medicine man gives him some deer skins to look at that have berry blots on them (i.e. a Rorschach test) and asks him what he sees. In explanation the medicine man say that this test was invented by a great Indian medicine man called Roaring Chicken. For short they call it the RoarChick Test!! Now that is clever AND funny.

Many other similarly clever jokes. Great scenes of pathos with lots of sentimentality before the days of the studio audience which nowadays bursts into sickening applause over that sort of thing. Catch it if you've never seen it... or watch it again if you have. It's still funny.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

8 September 1965 (USA)

Also Known As:

F Troop

Filming Locations:

Kanab Movie Ranch - 5001 Angel Canyon Road, Kanab, Utah, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros. Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

30 min (65 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White (season 1) Color (season 2)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1