F Troop
Is This Fort Really Necessary?
TV Flash files “Is This Fort Really Necessary?” as a desk essential hour — F Troop (1965–1967) on ABC, season 2, episode 31, aired 1967-04-06, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E31: listed hour 65 of 65 in the F Troop guide, last listed hour of season 2. It aired 1967-04-06 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Our Brave in F Troop” (S02E30). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “Is This Fort Really Necessary?”. Is This Fort Really Necessary? closes two ABC seasons with a title that is the whole thesis — catalog tail of a fort that was the racket.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Is This Fort Really Necessary? sit in the F Troop guide?
S02E31 is listed hour 65 of 65 — last listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 31.
When did F Troop S02E31 air?
Is This Fort Really Necessary? aired 1967-04-06 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…