History Series / FTroop

''F Troop'' was an American television sitcom that aired on Creator/{{ABC}} from 1965 to 1967. It centered on the men and officers of Fort Courage, a fictional U.S. Army outpost in 1860s Kansas. The commanding officer was Captain Wilton Parmenter (Ken Berry), a good-hearted but accident-prone leader who [[ReassignmentBackfire fell into his rank]] after inadvertently instigating the final charge at the Battle of Appomattox. Due to his ineptitude, his superiors gave him command of Fort Courage, a dumping ground for the Army's useless soldiers.

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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Agarn, O'Rourke, Wrangler Jane and Capt. Parmenter.]]

* PiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Thanks to the fact that the Hekawi tribe is pretty much harmless, there isn't really a need for a military presence at Fort Courage, resulting in the soldiers not needing to do much more than routine garrison work. Half the plot of the pilot episode is O'Rourke trying to keep the new Captain from figuring this out in fear of the garrison being dispersed to locations with less opportunities for personal profit where he might actually have to fight.

when [[AccidentalHero quite accidentally]]\\

and so it was planned that he command F Troop.\\\
Where Indian fights are colorful sights,\\
and nobody takes a lickin'.\\
Where paleface and redskin\\
[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere both turn chicken]].\\\
When drilling and fighting get them down,\\
they know their morale can't droop\\
as long as they all relax in town\\
before they resume with a bang and a boom. [[TitleDrop F Troop!]]"''

* DoubleVision: Used no less than ''five'' times on the show. Because Larry Storch was good with accents, he played three of Agarn's "long lost" cousins, one from Mexico, one who was French-Canadian, and one from Russia, in three separate episodes. Forrest Tucker and Ken Berry also got one episode each where they had to play opposite themselves.

* SneezeOfDoom: Inverted into a [[AccidentalHero fortuitously timed sneeze]], according to the ExpositoryThemeTune.

Much of the show's humor came from the schemes of Parmenter's non-commissioned officers, Sergeant Morgan O'Rourke (Forrest Tucker) and Corporal Randolph Agarn (Larry Storch). They often conspired with the [[InjunCountry local Indian tribe]], the Hekawis, as they operated their illicit business, O'Rourke Enterprises. Parmenter also had to fend off the marriage-minded plans of his girlfriend "Wrangler" Jane (Melody Patterson), a local shopkeeper/postmaster. The Hekawis watched their goings-on with bemusement, though they often got roped into their shenanigans.

* {{{Feghoot}}: Chief Wild Eagle gives one that explains the origins of how his tribe got their name:

* {{Cowboy}}: Wrangler Jane, who shoots, rides, and lassos with the best of them.