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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.
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Episodes
2 seasons · 65 episodesSeason 134 ep. · 1965–1966
Episode 1: Scourge of the West
Sep 14, 1965 · 30 min
Private Wilton Parmenter gets promoted after leading a charge against the Confederates and receives an assignment as Fort Courage's new commanding officer.
Episode 2: Don't Look Now, One of Our Cannon Is Missing
Sep 21, 1965 · 30 min
O'Rourke plots to retrieve the cannon he loaned to the Hekawis for use in a festival.
Episode 3: The Phantom Major
Sep 28, 1965 · 30 min
A British Major shows the men the advantages of using camouflage to fight Indians.
Episode 4: Corporal Agarn's Farewell to the Troops
Oct 5, 1965 · 30 min
Agarn believes he is dying after his medical report is mixed up with that of his horse.
Episode 5: The Return of Bald Eagle
Oct 12, 1965 · 30 min
A renegade Indian tries to go straight but finds he can't.
Episode 6: Dirge for the Scourge
Oct 19, 1965 · 30 min
Sam Urp, scourge of the west, comes to Fort Courage for a showdown with Parmenter, the Scourge of the West.
Episode 7: The Girl From Philadelphia
Oct 26, 1965 · 30 min
Wilton's old girlfriend comes to vie for his affection and to persuade him to return to the East.
Episode 8: Old Iron Pants
Nov 2, 1965 · 30 min
O'Rourke Enterprise's tries mail order brides while Parmenter is away at command school.
Episode 9: Me Heap Big Injun
Nov 9, 1965 · 30 min
Agarn leaves the troop to become an Indian, and turns out to be a better Indian than the entire Hekawi tribe.
Episode 10: She's Only a Build in a Girdled Cage
Nov 16, 1965 · 30 min
Dobbs' mother is coming but everyone thinks it is Laura Lee, a dance hall singer to entertain the men.
Episode 11: A Gift From the Chief
Nov 23, 1965 · 30 min
Parmenter accidentally saves Wild Eagle's life, and receives a baby as a reward.
Episode 12: Honest Injun
Nov 30, 1965 · 30 min
A con man muscles his way into O'Rourke Enterprises by selling worthless land as potential gold mines.
Episode 13: O'Rourke vs. O'Reilly
Dec 7, 1965 · 30 min
A beautiful woman almost drives O'Rourke Enterprises out of business when she opens a saloon across the street.
Episode 14: The 86 Proof Spring
Dec 14, 1965 · 30 min
Parmenter searches for the Hekawis' whiskey supply, unaware that it is hidden at Fort Courage.
Episode 15: Here Comes the Tribe
Dec 21, 1965 · 30 min
The Chief's daughter is kidnapped by a brave from another tribe looking for a wife, and the troop comes to the rescue.
Episode 16: Iron Horse Go Home
Dec 28, 1965 · 30 min
The Hekawis sell their land to the railroad and move into Fort Courage.
Episode 17: Our Hero, What's His Name?
Jan 4, 1966 · 30 min
Agarn boasts to a girl he's trying to impress that he killed Geronimo, so Geronimo comes after Agarn.
Episode 18: Wrongo Starr and the Lady in Black
Jan 11, 1966 · 30 min
A famous jinx comes to town and meets a widow whose four husbands have all died mysteriously.
Episode 19: El Diablo
Jan 18, 1966 · 30 min
Agarn's look-a-like Mexican bandit cousin comes to town, and the Corporal must capture him to clear his name.
Episode 20: Go For Broke
Jan 25, 1966 · 30 min
Jane's cousin, an inventor, helps Parmenter win a poker game to replace the pension funds lost by O'Rourke.
Episode 21: The New I.G.
Feb 8, 1966 · 30 min
The new Inspector General plots to wipe out the Hekawis with a rifle he has invented.
Episode 22: Spy, Counterspy, Counter Counterspy
Feb 15, 1966 · 30 min
Agarn is chosen to test a bullet proof vest, but it is stolen when Fort Courage in infiltrated by spies.
Episode 23: The Courtship of Wrangler Jane
Feb 22, 1966 · 30 min
O'Rourke, figuring his operations will be more profitable with Wilton away, plays cupid for Wilton and Jane.
Episode 24: Play, Gypsy, Play
Mar 1, 1966 · 30 min
Gypsies come and invade Fort Courage.
Episode 25: Reunion for O'Rourke
Mar 8, 1966 · 30 min
Agarn arranges a celebration of O'Rourke's 25 years of service in the Army.
Episode 26: Captain Parmenter, One Man Army
Mar 15, 1966 · 30 min
The men learn that they are not legally enlisted so they leave and Wilton is forced to man the fort alone.
Episode 27: Don't Ever Speak to Me Again
Mar 22, 1966 · 30 min
Just before the troop is to be cited for high morale, a fight breaks out.
Episode 28: Too Many Cooks Spoil the Troop
Mar 29, 1966 · 30 min
O'Rourke adds things to the cook's food list in order to pad his pockets.
Episode 29: Indian Fever
Apr 5, 1966 · 30 min
Agarn thinks he is crazy when he is the only one to see an Indian.
Episode 30: Johnny Eagle Eye
Apr 12, 1966 · 30 min
O'Rourke expects to make money on a young Indian scout in the cavalry sharpshooting contest.
Episode 31: A Fort's Best Friend is Not a Mother
Apr 19, 1966 · 30 min
Wilton's mother comes to visit and tries to tell him how to run the fort.
Episode 32: Lieutenant O'Rourke, Front and Center
Apr 26, 1966 · 30 min
O'Rourke enterprises is in trouble when O'Rourke gets promoted to officer.
Episode 33: The Day the Indians Won
May 3, 1966 · 30 min
The peaceable Hekawis are ordered to go on the warpath by the Council of Indian Nations.
Episode 34: Will the Real Captain Try to Stand Up?
May 10, 1966 · 30 min
The town drunk poses as Captain to impress his visiting daughter.
Season 231 ep. · 1966–1967
Episode 1: The Singing Mountie
Sep 8, 1966 · 30 min
A mountie is after the burglar of Banff, whom he believes is Agarn's look-a-like French Canadian cousin, Lucky Pierre Agarniere.
Episode 2: How to be F Troop Without Really Trying
Sep 15, 1966 · 30 min
Everyone except Agarn is transferred, and he must train G Troop whose recruits turn out to be worse than F Troop.
Episode 3: Bye, Bye, Balloon
Sep 22, 1966 · 30 min
A Prussian balloonist comes to the Fort to inspect prospective personnel.
Episode 4: Reach for the Sky, Pardner
Sep 29, 1966 · 30 min
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.
Episode 5: The Great Troop Robbery
Oct 6, 1966 · 30 min
A phony medicine man tries to blame his thefts on Agarn when Agarn suffers a temporary memory loss.
Episode 6: The West Goes Ghost
Oct 13, 1966 · 30 min
O'Rourke Enterprises takes over a haunted ghost town, expecting to get rich when the railroad comes through.
Episode 7: Yellow Bird
Oct 20, 1966 · 30 min
The daughter of a mining tycoon, kidnapped and raised by Indians, takes a liking to Wilton.
Episode 8: The Ballot of Corporal Agarn
Oct 27, 1966 · 30 min
Agarn is to cast the deciding absentee vote in a hometown election.
Episode 9: Did Your Father Come from Ireland?
Nov 3, 1966 · 30 min
O'Rourke's visiting father turns the town into Little Ireland while the Sergeant is on vacation.
Episode 10: For Whom the Bugle Tolls
Nov 10, 1966 · 30 min
O'Rourke needs to distract a visiting colonel who enjoys bugle calls, but the trouble is that Dobbs is the army's worst bugler.
Episode 11: Miss Parmenter
Nov 17, 1966 · 30 min
Wilton's husband-hunting sister goes after Dobbs, and also assists in Wild Eagle's appendectomy.
Episode 12: La Dolce Courage
Nov 24, 1966 · 30 min
An Italian suitor challenges Agarn when Agarn goes after his beloved.
Episode 13: Wilton the Kid
Dec 1, 1966 · 30 min
Capt. Parmenter's evil twin Kid Vicious has been robbing banks.
Episode 14: The Return of Wrongo Starr
Dec 8, 1966 · 30 min
Wrongo gets mixed up with a goat and some dynamite when Parmenter assigns him as a guard.
Episode 15: Survival of the Fittest
Dec 15, 1966 · 30 min
Parmenter and Agarn go on a wilderness survival test with only a knife, a canteen, and the new Army survival manual.
Episode 16: Bring on the Dancing Girls
Dec 22, 1966 · 30 min
O'Rourke tries to get even with a blackmailer who took over the saloon.
Episode 17: The Loco Brothers
Dec 29, 1966 · 30 min
Two renegade Indians trap Parmenter and hold him hostage, but just want some company.
Episode 18: From Karate with Love
Jan 5, 1967 · 30 min
A samurai is looking for a Japanese girl.
Episode 19: The Sergeant and the Kid
Jan 12, 1967 · 30 min
O'Rourke must talk a runaway 10-year-old boy out of joining the cavalry.
Episode 20: What Are You Doing after the Massacre?
Jan 19, 1967 · 30 min
A 147-year-old Indian comes back to take over all of America, and begins by trying to starve the troop into surrender.
Episode 21: A Horse of Another Color
Jan 26, 1967 · 30 min
Wilton wants to capture a wild stallion to impress Wrangler Jane, but O'Rourke wants to sell it to the circus..
Episode 22: V is for Vampire
Feb 2, 1967 · 30 min
A Transylvanian Count that everyone thinks is a vampire is believed responsible for the disappearance of Wrangler Jane.
Episode 23: That's Show Biz
Feb 9, 1967 · 30 min
Agarn leaves to manage a rock group called the Bedbugs, which is somewhat ahead of its time.
Episode 24: The Day They Shot Agarn
Feb 16, 1967 · 30 min
Agarn faces a firing squad after everyone believes he killed Sgt. O'Rourke.
Episode 25: Only One Russian is Coming! Only One Russian is Coming!
Feb 23, 1967 · 30 min
Agarn's look-a-like Russian Cossack cousin, Dmitri Agarnoff, comes to town and falls for Wrangler Jane, making Wilton jealous.
Episode 26: Guns, Guns, Who's Got the Guns?
Mar 2, 1967 · 30 min
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.
Episode 27: Marriage, Fort Courage Style
Mar 9, 1967 · 30 min
Their dreams of what could happen make Agarn and O'Rourke anxious to rescue Parmenter from a marriage broker.
Episode 28: Carpetbagging, Anyone?
Mar 16, 1967 · 30 min
F Troop faces eviction when a rich carpetbagger comes to town, so they stage an Indian raid to prove they're still needed.
Episode 29: The Majority of Wilton
Mar 23, 1967 · 30 min
When Parmenter catches a cold the day before his examination for promotion to major, his friends rush to his bedside with their homespun remedies.
Episode 30: Our Brave in F Troop
Mar 30, 1967 · 30 min
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.
Episode 31: Is This Fort Really Necessary?
Apr 6, 1967 · 30 min
An efficiency expert comes to Fort Courage, with the authority to close it down.

















