F Troop
Did Your Father Come From Ireland?
TV Flash files “Did Your Father Come From Ireland?” as hour 43 of 65 in the TV Flash guide — F Troop (1965–1967) on ABC, season 2, episode 9, aired 1966-11-03, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E09: listed hour 43 of 65 in the F Troop guide, hour 9 of 31 in season 2. It aired 1966-11-03 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Ballot of Corporal Agarn” (S02E08). Next is “For Whom the Bugle Tolls” (S02E10).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Did Your Father Come From Ireland? sit in the F Troop guide?
S02E09 is listed hour 43 of 65 — hour 9 of 31 in season 2, season 2 episode 9.
When did F Troop S02E09 air?
Did Your Father Come From Ireland? aired 1966-11-03 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…