Amazon.com: F Troop: Season 2 : Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch, Ken Berry, Melody Patterson, Frank DeKova, James Hampton, Joe Brooks, Donald Diamond, Bob Steele, William T. Orr, Hy Averback: Movies & TV (original) (raw)

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Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2024
I bought both seasons and have thoroughly enjoyed them. You know how sometimes things aren’t as funny as you remember them as a child. That is not the case here, for me anyway. Still funny after all these years. Love Corporal Agarn… so funny! Chief wild eagle is a riot also. Maybe it’s like people who like the three stooges(I don’t), but this remains fun entertainment for me.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2015
Though it only lasted two seasons, "F Troop" is rightfully regarded as one of the best sitcoms of the sixties, with an interesting premise, intelligent writing, and a stellar cast. Ken Berry played the klutzy Captain Wilton Parmenter, who was promoted for his on-field heroics. Forrest Tucker played the scheming Sergeant Morgan O'Rourke, in the grand tradition of Phil Silvers' scheming Sergeant Ernie Bilko. Larry Storch played Corporal Randolph Agarn to comic perfection. A gifted mimic, he also played his Mexican bandito cousin Pancho Agarnado in the first season, as well as his French-Canadian cousin Lucky Pierre, and his Russian cousin Dmitri Agarnoff, in season two. James Hampton played Private Hannibal Dobbs, a bugler who couldn't play a melody to save his life. Joe Brooks played Trooper Vanderbilt, the lookout who couldn't lookout for any obstacles in his way. Bob Steele played Trooper Duffy, an older cavalryman who insisted that he fought at the Alamo. Ivan Bell played Trooper Duddleson, the obese soldier who was asleep most of the time. The Hekawi Indians, who were peaceful partners in O'Rourke Enterprises, were led by Chief Wild Eagle, played by Frank de Kova. Don Diamond played Crazy Cat, the Chief's assistant, who will take over the tribe after Wild Eagle goes to the happy hunting ground. Last but not least was the beautiful Melody Patterson, who played "Wrangler" Jane Angelica Thrift, who continually tried to wrangle Captain Parmenter to the altar.
The second season boasted great guest stars, such as Paul Lynde in "The Singing Mountie," Harvey Korman in "Bye, Bye Baloon," the gorgeous Julie Newmar in "Yellow Bird," Henry Gibson in "The Return Of Wrongo Starr," and Cliff Arquette (a/k/a/ Charlie Weaver) in "Our Brave In F Troop." Being a major horror movie fan, my favorite episode is "V Is For Vampire," starring the legendary Vincent Price. The chemistry and comic timing of all of the main characters and various troopers is what made the show so great. The first season's DVD set did not include any bonus features. The second season does not include any cast commentaries or bloopers, but it does include the bonus feature "Fall In With F Troop." People interviewed on camera include Ken Berry and Forrest Tucker's widow. It also includes a brief audio interview of Joe Brooks, talking about Trooper Vanderbilt. Although not available in Blu-ray, the colors are crisp, and the audio is clear. What a shame that there was no third season for "F Troop," and that most of the actors are up in that big Fort Courage in the sky.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2008
There are positive messages in these fine shows underneath all the wonderful foolishness.
For one thing, the power of kindness. Everybody is kind to one another. Captain Parmenter is kind to all of his men, including the lowest ranks. He's kind to the town drunk and to the gunfighter who wants to kill him. He even tames the angry renegade Bald Eagle with kindness. In turn, O'Rourke, Agarn, and Dobbs are always kind to him ("Are you all right, sir?") and his men watch out for him.
Parmenter is brave. He always leads the charge and faces every problem. He does his duty and pushes the others to do theirs. He tries to do the right thing. He keeps going, no matter what happens. And he *does* succeed in his job of keeping the peace in the area. (He just doesn't understand why.)
Wild Eagle doesn't kowtow to the white men. They come to him for help and advice. He keeps the pressure up on O'Rourke and outsmarts him regularly. The chief uses his intelligence, shrewdness, and drive for the good of the people he leads. He, too, is successful... his tribe is prosperous and at peace.
O'Rourke's crooked schemes fail, his noncom club warehouse regularly going up in flames. However, his kindly schemes succeed.
Lots of messages in this show.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 10, 2020
Same comments as for series 1. Hilarious to watch all the characters gelling so well together. Series 2 was made in colour. Great fun for all the family.

Reviewed in Australia on January 4, 2021
Great light entertainment suitable for the whole family.

Reviewed in Canada on June 20, 2016

Reviewed in Germany on September 11, 2013
Yes, you are seeing double in F Troop's second, and final, season. In "The Singing Mountie," Larry Storch appears as Corporal Agarn and his cousin, a French fur trapper. In "Did Your Father Come from Ireland?" Forrest Tucker brogues it up as Sgt. O'Rourke's visiting Irish father. In "Wilton the Kid," Ken Berry gets into the act portraying klutzy, clueless Capt. Parmenter and his look-alike, a vicious bank robber. And in "One Russian Is Coming! Only One Russian Is Coming!" Storch again doubles up as Agarn's Cossack cousin. It's a sure indication that F Troop had indeed jumped the stagecoach (particularly the 1967 episode "That's Show Biz," featuring a frontier rock group, the Bedbugs, and a rendition of Bob Dylan's "Tambourine Man" that makes William Shatner's sound like the Byrds), but the show is so unabashedly old-school funny, and its ensemble of crack character actors so likeable, that one willingly takes the leap. During its brief run, F Troop spawned its share of catch-phrases (Agarn's "Who says I'm dumb" and "I'm warning you, Dobbs"), but this season's "Bye Bye Balloon" contains perhaps the series' most classic quotable, as the Hekawis' Chief Wild Eagle (Frank DeKova) gazes upon the mysterious flying object in the sky and proclaims, "It is balloon" (it plays better than it reads).
For a frontier outpost, Fort Courage sure saw its share of visiting show-business luminaries, including Paul Lynde as "The Singing Mountie," Harvey Korman as a Prussian balloonist in "Bye Bye Balloon," Milton Berle as sham medicine man Wise Owl in "The Great Troop Robbery," Sterling "Winnie the Pooh" Holloway as a bespectacled sheriff in "Wilton the Kid," and Vincent Price as a suspicious Count in "V Is for Vampire." One regrets the show's switch from black and white to color and the replacement of F Troop's original rousing theme song with an instrumental rendition (the original, with vocals, obligingly plays over each disc's menus), but the commercial-break freeze frames are fun. Tucker, as the entrepreneurial O'Rourke, and Storch, as his wildly emotional sidekick, are one of TV's great comedy teams, and Berry displays Astaire-like grace performing the bulk of the physical comedy. Those who dismiss F Troop as a mindlessly silly sitcom are directed to the near-half-hour series retrospective, in which military personnel salute this series' spoofing of military protocol and life as a morale builder during the Vietnam War.
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Go west...and go loco. Yes, Captain Parmenter and his buffoons in blue are ready again to untame the wilderness in TV's wackiest Western spoof. Wrangler Jane still pines after Parmenter, the Hekawis still plot after profits and Sergeant O'Rourke and Corporal Agarn have more get-rich-quick schemes up their regimental sleeves. A plains-load of comic guest stars joins the fun, including Phil Harris as a 147-year-old Indian chief, Harvey Korman as a Prussian balloonist, Paul Lynde as a singing Mountie, Milton Berle as a flim-flam medicine man and Vincent Price as a spooky Transylvanian count. Enlist now for a second comedy tour: the out-of-its-mind and ahead-of-its-time 31-episode final season of F Troop!
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 16, 2020
Came quickly and was region free, even though stated on Amazon as Region 1 USA. So I can happily watch on any of my DVD players here in the UK.