Parker Bena *WARNING! THIS COMMENT MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!* F-Troop has to rank right up there with McHALE'S NAVY and M*A*S*H* as one of the all-time great military comedies. Ken Berry was great as Captain Wilton Parmenter, Fort Courage's bumbling idiot of a commander, though his intentions were good. Whenever Parmenter would get into a sticky situation with visiting brass, it was always Sgt. O'Rourke and Cpl. Agarn (Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch) who saved the day and made their Captain look good. Tucker and Storch were a great comedy team. James Hampton (who would go on to play Burt Reynolds' sidekick in THE LONGEST YARD and Michael J. Fox's father in TEEN WOLF) was hilarious as Trooper Hannibal Dobbs, the company Bugler who couldn't play a note. The addition of Dobbs to F Troop is a somewhat curious one because since Dobbs was a Southerner and the Civil War had just ended, Hannibal Dobbs would have, in reality, been ineligible for service in the United States Army. Ineligible or not, Dobbs was still hilarious and I even liked his back and forth banter with Agarn ("I'm Warning you, Dobbs!") If I were Captain Parmenter, I would have finished, "Jane. How many times have I told you? Not in front of the men." with "Why don't we go into my bedroom?" (Note: during the Second Season, Melody Patterson was, in fact, of legal age.) I also liked the entrepreneurial Hekawis, Wild Eagle and Crazy Cat. They weren't your typical Indians. They were opportunistic Capitalists with good heads for business - almost as good heads as O'Rourke and Agarn. My favorite episode has got to be "Our Brave in F Troop". The one where Chief Wild Eagle has a toothache and he has to visit the Army Dentist. Unfortunately, there are a number of delays in getting the Chief's tooth pulled. Most of them were courtesy of General Sam Courage (after whom Fort Courage is named), who keeps promoting him through the ranks. He ends up with the rank of Major before his "disappearance" is conveniently arranged by O'Rourke and Agarn with a little assistance from the befuddled General Courage.

terry24542001 The first year of this series should go down in history as one of the 10 funniest shows of all time. It was running during the Viet Nam war, so a lot of satirical stuff is in there.F Troop illustrates the American caste system.. Captain Parmenter is a WASP schlemiel who thinks he's running everything. Agarn and O'Rourke are the Irishmen who actually DO run everything. And the there are the Indians, who are really the Lost Tribe of Israel (Jews), who actually OWN everything and make sinister deals with the Irish in order to live long and prosper.This is a VERY hip show. Paul Lynde as The Singing Mountie alone is worth the price of admission.....

moondreamer2 I wish that Warner Brothers would come to their senses and see that there are many of us who would buy the complete series of F-Troop once on DVD...I hope they realize that there IS a market for the show to this day! The company of Warner Brothers should respect the will of all us true admirers of this show which (to myself and many others) has got to be one of the best written comedies of all time...It definitely is up there with shows such as "I Love Lucy" and "The Honeymooners"...As I recall all the times as a young boy that I would sit and watch the hilarious antics of the members of F-troop and the Heckowee tribe, (excuse me if I misspelled the name), I start to laugh deep inside once again...I really do , Sincerely hope that Warner Brothers release this series before we all get to old and start dying off - Please Release The F-Troop Series On DVD As Soon As Possible - Thank You!

Joe In response to the idea of political correctness (PC), PC is not being used to safeguard the feelings of oppressed people such as Native Americans but works in a way to rebuff attempts at deeper cultural understanding and interaction which then lead to CHANGE.PC prevents developing an understanding since it stops you at the outset by saying in effect, "you can't go there". So no one explores the plight of Native Americans because it is uncomfortable to talk about it. It acts as an excuse by letting someone seem friendly by protecting the "PC" of a system, but at the same time letting the "protector" off the hook to really help to change that system. It is a smelly phrase, as if politicians are EVER "correct"????? Anyway, F-Troop was a metaphor for how it really is, and shows how a corrupt operation smoothly runs because the lookouts can't see what is really happening.The hilarity is derived from the story lines going to any extreme to continue this business as usual. If you notice, even O'Rourke takes advantage of his partner Agarn. It is a classic pecking order, Indians on the bottom up through the "ranks" to O"Rourke with the captain as figurehead used to keep "order"