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F Troop - The Complete Second Season

starring: Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch, Ken Berry, Melody Patterson, James Hampton
directed by: David Alexander, Gary Nelson, Gene Nelson, Hal March, Hollingsworth Morse

: F Troop - The Complete Second Season
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391130307
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 29, 2007
Running Time: 784 minutes
Sales Rank: 1447
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 08, 1965



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Description:
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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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. --Donald Liebenson



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Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - F Troop
I bought this for my husband for Christmas last year. I barely remember the series. I barely remember ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Not received
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - al bianchini
Extremely funny and enjoyed it immensely. Sadly this comedy series only ran for two seasons. I purchase ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Funny Show
I waited for this shows price to be lowered before buying it. I purchased seasons one and two. It's funny ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - one of my favorites
I remember watching this program when I was younger and always loved and still do

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