F Troop
Scourge of the West (Pilot)
TV Flash files “Scourge of the West (Pilot)” as a desk essential hour — F Troop (1965–1967) on ABC, season 1, episode 1, aired 1965-09-14, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 65 in the F Troop guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 1965-09-14 (30 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “Don't Look Now but One of Our Cannons is Missing” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “Scourge of the West (Pilot)”. Scourge of the West is the pilot grift: Tucker's O'Rourke, Storch's Agarn, Ken Berry's Parmenter lost, Fort Courage as a boutique.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Captain Parmeter is assigned to Fort Courage, then the command finds out about a upcoming official inspection which leads O'Rourke to make plans to impress the inspector to side track him from their secret operations.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Scourge of the West (Pilot) sit in the F Troop guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 65 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did F Troop S01E01 air?
Scourge of the West (Pilot) aired 1965-09-14 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
O'Rourke and Agarn's secret businesses with the Hekawi, Parmenter lost in command — that is the grift contract. Storch and Tucker are the comic partnership.
In the series
Why this series still plays
F Troop is cavalry sitcom as grift: Forrest Tucker's Sgt. O'Rourke and Larry Storch's Cpl. Agarn running Fort Courage like a black-market boutique while Ken Berry's Captain Parmenter stays cheerfully lost. The Hekawi partnership is the joke's engine. Western myth slapped with vaudeville — two seasons of frontier farce that treat the U.S. Army as a failing small business.
The group chat would have shipped the grift. F Troop is cavalry sitcom as boutique: Forrest Tucker's Sgt. O'Rourke and Larry Storch's Cpl. Agarn running Fort Courage like a black-market shop while Ken Berry's Captain Parmenter stays cheerfully lost. ABC, 1965–1967 — two seasons, 65 episodes — from Jim Barnett, Seaman Jacobs, and Ed James. The Hekawi partnership is the joke's engine; Melody Patterson's Wrangler Jane completes the postcard. Frontier myths get the pie-in-the-face treatment. **Western sitcom satire…
Filed against
- Forrest Tucker as Sgt. Morgan O'Rourke
Forrest Tucker ran Fort Courage like a boutique as Sgt. Morgan O'Rourke on F Troop — cavalry sitcom as grift, Larry Storch's Agarn, Ken Berry's cheerfully lost captain, Hekawi partnership as the joke's engine. Western myth slapped with…
- Larry Storch as Cpl. Randolph Agarn
Larry Storch's Cpl. Randolph Agarn ran F Troop's grift from the corporal's chair — Fort Courage as a black-market boutique, O'Rourke as partner, Captain Parmenter cheerfully lost, Hekawi partnership as the joke's engine. Western myth…
- Ken Berry as Capt. Wilton Parmenter
Ken Berry's Capt. Wilton Parmenter stayed cheerfully lost while F Troop ran Fort Courage like a black-market boutique — 1960s cavalry sitcom as grift, Hekawi partnership as the joke's engine, western myth slapped with vaudeville. TV Flash…
- Melody Patterson as Wrangler Jane
Melody Patterson’s Wrangler Jane rode F Troop like Fort Courage needed a civilian who could outrun the grift — 1960s cavalry sitcom as black-market boutique, Forrest Tucker’s O’Rourke, Larry Storch’s Agarn, Ken Berry’s cheerfully lost…