Original title
F Troop
Released
9/14/1965
Origin country
US
Genre
Comedy, Western
Production companies
Warner Bros. Television
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
65
F Troop is a satirical American television sitcom that originally aired for two seasons on ABC-TV. It debuted in the United States on September 14, 1965 and concluded its run on April 6, 1967 with a total of 65 episodes. The first season of 34 episodes was filmed in black-and-white, but the show switched to color for its second season.
28 minute “Fall in with F Troop” which interviews Mike Teilmann (Executive director of the Bob Hope Hollywood USO at LAX), associate producer and director Phil Rawlins, writers Rocky and Irma Kalish, CW4 Howard Dyk, USAR (Ret. – Commander, Blue Devils Horse Platoon), Maj. Mark Gillespie USA (Ret. – Former professor of history – West Point), Ken Berry, Marilyn Tucker (Forrest Tucker’s wife and she also acted on the show) and an audio contribution from Joe Brooks (“Trooper Vanderbilt”). Sadly, they still don’t interview Larry Storch.
Private Wilton Parmenter gets promoted after leading a charge against the Confederates and receives an assignment as Fort Courage's new commanding officer.
O'Rourke plots to retrieve the cannon he loaned to the Hekawis for use in a festival.
A British Major shows the men the advantages of using camouflage to fight Indians.
Agarn believes he is dying after his medical report is mixed up with that of his horse.
A renegade Indian tries to go straight but finds he can't.
Sam Urp, scourge of the west, comes to Fort Courage for a showdown with Parmenter, the Scourge of the West.
Wilton's old girlfriend comes to vie for his affection and to persuade him to return to the East.
O'Rourke Enterprise's tries mail order brides while Parmenter is away at command school.
Agarn leaves the troop to become an Indian, and turns out to be a better Indian than the entire Hekawi tribe.
Dobbs' mother is coming but everyone thinks it is Laura Lee, a dance hall singer to entertain the men.
Parmenter accidentally saves Wild Eagle's life, and receives a baby as a reward.
A con man muscles his way into O'Rourke Enterprises by selling worthless land as potential gold mines.
A beautiful woman almost drives O'Rourke Enterprises out of business when she opens a saloon across the street.
Parmenter searches for the Hekawis' whiskey supply, unaware that it is hidden at Fort Courage.
The Chief's daughter is kidnapped by a brave from another tribe looking for a wife, and the troop comes to the rescue.
The Hekawis sell their land to the railroad and move into Fort Courage.
Agarn boasts to a girl he's trying to impress that he killed Geronimo, so Geronimo comes after Agarn.
A famous jinx comes to town and meets a widow whose four husbands have all died mysteriously.
Agarn's look-a-like Mexican bandit cousin comes to town, and the Corporal must capture him to clear his name.
Jane's cousin, an inventor, helps Parmenter win a poker game to replace the pension funds lost by O'Rourke.
The new Inspector General plots to wipe out the Hekawis with a rifle he has invented.
Agarn is chosen to test a bullet proof vest, but it is stolen when Fort Courage in infiltrated by spies.
O'Rourke, figuring his operations will be more profitable with Wilton away, plays cupid for Wilton and Jane.
Gypsies come and invade Fort Courage.
Agarn arranges a celebration of O'Rourke's 25 years of service in the Army.
The men learn that they are not legally enlisted so they leave and Wilton is forced to man the fort alone.
Just before the troop is to be cited for high morale, a fight breaks out.
O'Rourke adds things to the cook's food list in order to pad his pockets.
Agarn thinks he is crazy when he is the only one to see an Indian.
O'Rourke expects to make money on a young Indian scout in the cavalry sharpshooting contest.
Wilton's mother comes to visit and tries to tell him how to run the fort.
O'Rourke enterprises is in trouble when O'Rourke gets promoted to officer.
The peaceable Hekawis are ordered to go on the warpath by the Council of Indian Nations.
The town drunk poses as Captain to impress his visiting daughter.
A mountie is after the burglar of Banff, whom he believes is Agarn's look-a-like French Canadian cousin, Lucky Pierre Agarniere.
Everyone except Agarn is transferred, and he must train G Troop whose recruits turn out to be worse than F Troop.
A Prussian balloonist comes to the Fort to inspect prospective personnel.
The bank wants to repossess the saloon when O'Rourke's payroll is stolen, so Agarn and O'Rourke volunteer to guard the next one.
A phony medicine man tries to blame his thefts on Agarn when Agarn suffers a temporary memory loss.
O'Rourke Enterprises takes over a haunted ghost town, expecting to get rich when the railroad comes through.
The daughter of a mining tycoon, kidnapped and raised by Indians, takes a liking to Wilton.
Agarn is to cast the deciding absentee vote in a hometown election.
O'Rourke's visiting father turns the town into Little Ireland while the Sergeant is on vacation.
O'Rourke needs to distract a visiting colonel who enjoys bugle calls, but the trouble is that Dobbs is the army's worst bugler.
Wilton's husband-hunting sister goes after Dobbs, and also assists in Wild Eagle's appendectomy.
An Italian suitor challenges Agarn when Agarn goes after his beloved.
Capt. Parmenter's evil twin Kid Vicious has been robbing banks.
Wrongo gets mixed up with a goat and some dynamite when Parmenter assigns him as a guard.
Parmenter and Agarn go on a wilderness survival test with only a knife, a canteen, and the new Army survival manual.
O'Rourke tries to get even with a blackmailer who took over the saloon.
Two renegade Indians trap Parmenter and hold him hostage, but just want some company.
A samurai is looking for a Japanese girl.
O'Rourke must talk a runaway 10-year-old boy out of joining the cavalry.
A 147-year-old Indian comes back to take over all of America, and begins by trying to starve the troop into surrender.
Wilton wants to capture a wild stallion to impress Wrangler Jane, but O'Rourke wants to sell it to the circus..
A Transylvanian Count that everyone thinks is a vampire is believed responsible for the disappearance of Wrangler Jane.
Agarn leaves to manage a rock group called the Bedbugs, which is somewhat ahead of its time.
Agarn faces a firing squad after everyone believes he killed Sgt. O'Rourke.
Agarn's look-a-like Russian Cossack cousin, Dmitri Agarnoff, comes to town and falls for Wrangler Jane, making Wilton jealous.
Parmenter goes undercover to find out who is selling guns to the Apaches after a colonel lets him know that someone in F Troop is a traitor.
Their dreams of what could happen make Agarn and O'Rourke anxious to rescue Parmenter from a marriage broker.
F Troop faces eviction when a rich carpetbagger comes to town, so they stage an Indian raid to prove they're still needed.
When Parmenter catches a cold the day before his examination for promotion to major, his friends rush to his bedside with their homespun remedies.
Wild Eagle has a toothache, so O'Rourke sneaks him into the Fort to see a visiting dentist, where he has to pretend to be a member of the troop when he attracts the attention of a visiting general.
An efficiency expert comes to Fort Courage, with the authority to close it down.
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