Episode list for
"F Troop" (1965)

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Episode Count: 65
Season: 1 | 2
Year: 1965 | 1966 | 1967

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Scourge of the West

Original Air Date: 14 September 1965
Hail the conquering zero! Clueless "war hero" Captain Wilton Parmenter takes command of Fort Courage.

Season 1, Episode 2: Don't Look Now, One of Our Cannon Is Missing

Original Air Date: 21 September 1965
In order to get the Hakawi to make more blankets O'Rourke agrees to let them borrow the fort's cannon for their Moon Festival. Agarn is against this but he eventually goes along with it. O'Rourke has all the bases covered for this deception including keeping Parmenter busy on a date with Wrangler Jane...but he doesn't count on a surprise visit by General Grant.

Season 1, Episode 3: The Phantom Major

Original Air Date: 28 September 1965
It's pay call at Fort Courage when a top secret letter from Washington arrives. F Troop has been chosen as a test troop for a new style of Indian fighting...infiltration through camouflage. Major Bentley-Royce of the Bengal Lancers will be instructing them. He is a master of disguise and a living legend known as 'The Phantom Major'. He also wants to prove the fort is obsolete. O'Rourke and Agarn will have to enlist the Hakawi in order to prove him wrong.

Season 1, Episode 4: Corporal Agarn's Farewell to the Troops

Original Air Date: 5 October 1965
There's a $5,000 reward out for the capture of the Colton brothers and Parmenter decides to go after them. Meanwhile O'Rourke's horse and Agarn are both suffering from stomach pains. The prognosis is bad for the horse and Agarn overhears the doc and O'Rourke talking and thinks it's about him. Convinced he is dying Agarn writes a confessional letter to the Inspector General.

Season 1, Episode 5: The Return of Bald Eagle

Original Air Date: 12 October 1965
Renegade Indian Bald Eagle has been spotted by Fort Dodge and is believed to be heading towards Fort Courage. His reputation as wild and unpredictable precedes him and Parmenter prepares the Fort for an attack. He is crazy and attacks the fort singlehandedly. When the attack fails he is captured but he escapes and takes Parmenter with him. O'Rourke, Agarn and Jane head off in pursuit.

Season 1, Episode 6: Dirge for the Scourge

Original Air Date: 19 October 1965
Jane is disgusted with the saloon and the riff-raff it attracts and insists that Parmenter close it down. Parmenter looks into it and decides she's right and embarks on a plan to clean up the town. Meanwhile gunfighter Sam Urp is in town and after several clumsy accidental meetings with Parmenter swears he will gun him down next time he sees him. O'Rourke and Agarn can't afford to lose Parmenter so they set out to save him.

Season 1, Episode 7: The Girl from Philadelphia

Original Air Date: 26 October 1965
An old girlfriend of Captain Parmenter's visits Fort Courage to encourage him to return back east.

Season 1, Episode 8: Old Ironpants

Original Air Date: 2 November 1965
Captain Parmenter goes to command school and returns a tough Army officer that no one likes.

Season 1, Episode 9: Me Heap Big Injun

Original Air Date: 9 November 1965
Agarn joins the Hekawi tribe and turns out to be a better Indian than any other brave.

Season 1, Episode 10: She's Only a Build in a Girdled Cage

Original Air Date: 16 November 1965
When Dobbs' mother comes to visit she is mistaken for a dance hall singer.

Season 1, Episode 11: A Gift from the Chief

Original Air Date: 23 November 1965
After saving Wild Eagle's life, Captain Parmenter is given a baby.

Season 1, Episode 12: Honest Injun

Original Air Date: 30 November 1965
A conman comes to town taking the troopers money, which is O'Rourke's job.

Season 1, Episode 13: O'Rourke vs. O'Reilly

Original Air Date: 7 December 1965
A woman comes to town and takes over O'Rourke's saloon.

Season 1, Episode 14: The 86 Proof Spring

Original Air Date: 14 December 1965
Captain Parmenter is determined to find the Hekawi's whiskey supply that O'Rourke has stashed at the fort.

Season 1, Episode 15: Here Comes the Tribe

Original Air Date: 21 December 1965
The chief's daughter is kidnapped and F Troop swings into action.

Season 1, Episode 16: Iron Horse Go Home

Original Air Date: 28 December 1965
O'Rourke manipulates Capt. Parmenter into suggesting an incoming railroad be routed through Fort Courtage. That way, the bar that O'Rourke secretly owns will receive a windfall. To accomplish this, the U.S. Army must the nearby Indians to move. They do so -- right into Fort Courage.

Season 1, Episode 17: Our Hero, What's His Name?

Original Air Date: 4 January 1966
Agarn gets a dear john letter from his girl Betty Lou and O'Rourke devises a scheme to keep them together. He proposes sending her a letter telling her of Agarn's bravery and the fact that single handedly he killed Geronimo. What they don't plan on is Betty Lou's father printing the letter in the newspaper and Agarn becoming a national hero. Geronimo has also read the newspaper and is intent on seeking revenge against Agarn. While all this transpires Parmenter is determined to capture a bear which has been seen near the fort.

Season 1, Episode 18: Wrongo Starr and the Lady in Black

Original Air Date: 11 January 1966
A natural jinx comes to F Troop and gets involved with a black widow who had four husbands.

Season 1, Episode 19: El Diablo

Original Air Date: 18 January 1966
While the men of F Troop are undergoing their annual physicals word comes that the Mexican bandit El Diablo is at large. It turns out that he and Corporal Agarn are cousins and look exactly alike. Agarn with the troop under his command set out to capture Diablo...but Diablo has taken Parmenter, Jane, O'Rourke and Dobbs prisoner.

Season 1, Episode 20: Go for Broke

Original Air Date: 25 January 1966
Jane's cousin helps O'Rourke replace the F Troop pension fund by entering a poker game.

Season 1, Episode 21: The New I.G.

Original Air Date: 8 February 1966
An Army major comes to Fort Courage who wants to wipe out the Hekawis.

Season 1, Episode 22: Spy, Counterspy, Counter Counterspy

Original Air Date: 15 February 1966
The War Department's testing of a new bulletproof vest at Fort Courage is hampered by two competing spies.

Season 1, Episode 23: The Courtship of Wrangler Jane

Original Air Date: 22 February 1966
To have the Captain move off post, O'Rourke plays cupid for him and Wrangler Jane.

Season 1, Episode 24: Play, Gypsy, Play

Original Air Date: 1 March 1966
A group of visiting Gypsies crown Agarn their long lost prince.

Season 1, Episode 25: Reunion for O'Rourke

Original Air Date: 8 March 1966
O'Rourke has been in the Army for twenty-five years.

Season 1, Episode 26: Captain Parmenter, One Man Army

Original Air Date: 15 March 1966
When F Troop finds out that none of them are legally enlisted, the troopers leave and only Captain Parmenter remains to fight off an Indian attack.

Season 1, Episode 27: Don't Ever Speak to Me Again

Original Air Date: 22 March 1966
Fort Courage is to receive a citation from the Secretary of War for having the best morale in the army. Unfortunately this is right on the eve of a wave of arguments that sweep the fort.

Season 1, Episode 28: Too Many Cooks Spoil the Troop

Original Air Date: 29 March 1966
After their cooks quits, Agarn takes over so they can order excess supplies and sell them to the Indians.

Season 1, Episode 29: Indian Fever

Original Air Date: 5 April 1966
Agarn's sanity is questioned when he keeps seeing an Indian in the fort and no one else does.

Season 1, Episode 30: Johnny Eagle Eye

Original Air Date: 12 April 1966
O'Rourke and Agarn get Wild Eagle's nephew entered into the Army sharp shooting contest.

Season 1, Episode 31: A Fort's Best Friend Is Not a Mother

Original Air Date: 19 April 1966
When Captain Parmenter's mother arrives, she insists that he be transferred to a post back east.

Season 1, Episode 32: Lieutenant O'Rourke, Front and Center

Original Air Date: 26 April 1966
O'Rourke gets a promotion to lieutenant and is being transferred which could doom O'Rourke Enterprises.

Season 1, Episode 33: The Day the Indians Won

Original Air Date: 3 May 1966
The Hekawis - the tribe that invented the peace pipe - are ordered to go on the warpath so they attack Fort Courage.

Season 1, Episode 34: Will the Real Captain Try to Stand Up

Original Air Date: 10 May 1966
Captain Parmenter is temporarily replaced by the town drunk to impress his visiting daughter.

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: The Singing Mountie

Original Air Date: 8 September 1966
Shades of Nelson Eddie as a singing Mountie shows up looking for Agarn's French Canadian cousin.

Season 2, Episode 2: How to Be F Troop Without Really Trying

Original Air Date: 15 September 1966
Everyone in F Troop is transferred except for Agarn who must train the new troops that are worse than his comrades.

Season 2, Episode 3: Bye, Bye, Balloon

Original Air Date: 22 September 1966
Fort Courage is visited by a Prussian balloonist.

Season 2, Episode 4: Reach for the Sky, Pardner

Original Air Date: 29 September 1966
Agarn and O'Rourke volunteer to guard the replacement payroll after the first one is stolen.

Season 2, Episode 5: The Great Troop Robbery

Original Air Date: 6 October 1966
A trickster tries to get Agarn blamed for his robberies.

Season 2, Episode 6: The West Goes Ghost

Original Air Date: 13 October 1966
Four F Troopers take over a ghost town hoping to get rich when the railroad finally comes through.

Season 2, Episode 7: Yellow Bird

Original Air Date: 20 October 1966
A white woman raised by Indians starts to take after the Captain.

Season 2, Episode 8: The Ballot of Corporal Agarn

Original Air Date: 27 October 1966
The two candidates for mayor of Passaic New Jersey, Agarn's hometown, come out West to get his vote since the election was tied and they need his absentee ballot to break the tie.

Season 2, Episode 9: Did Your Father Come from Ireland?

Original Air Date: 3 November 1966
While Sgt. O'Rourke is off on a horse buying mission, his father, Morgan O'Rourke, arrives from Ireland at Fort Courage and unintentionally raises havoc at the fort and even the Hakawi camp.

Season 2, Episode 10: For Who the Bugle Tolls

Original Air Date: 10 November 1966
A visiting Colonel judges a troop by its bugler and Fort Courage has the world's worse.

Season 2, Episode 11: Miss Parmenter

Original Air Date: 17 November 1966
Wilton's sister has eyes for the company bugler.

Season 2, Episode 12: La Dolce Courage

Original Air Date: 24 November 1966
An Italian father and daughter visit Fort Courage pursued by a spurned lover.

Season 2, Episode 13: Wilton, the Kid

Original Air Date: 1 December 1966
Kid Vicious, a dead ringer for Captain Parmenter, comes to town.

Season 2, Episode 14: The Return of Wrongo Starr

Original Air Date: 8 December 1966
Natural jinx Wrongo Starr returns driving a load of dynamite.

Season 2, Episode 15: Survival of the Fittest

Original Air Date: 15 December 1966
Parmenter and Agarn go on a survival test where O'Rourke makes sure that they can find food.

Season 2, Episode 16: Bring on the Dancing Girls

Original Air Date: 22 December 1966
Agarn and O'Rourke go after the man that swindled them out of their saloon.

Season 2, Episode 17: The Loco Brothers

Original Air Date: 29 December 1966
Two renegade Indians captured Captain Parmenter, but are just looking for company.

Season 2, Episode 18: From Karate with Love

Original Air Date: 5 January 1967
East meets West in this episode when the men of Fort Courage offer sanctuary for a young Japanese woman who is fleeing an arranged marriage with a man she does not love. This is good for O'Rourke and Agarn who want the tribe to start manufacturing Kimonos, parasols, and fans but don't plan on a Samurai warrior who is determined to bring her back to Japan where she will fulfill her destiny and marry.

Season 2, Episode 19: The Sergeant and the Kid

Original Air Date: 12 January 1967
A ten year old boy shows up at Fort Courage and wants to join up.

Season 2, Episode 20: What Are You Doing After the Massacre?

Original Air Date: 19 January 1967
A 147 year old Hekawi chief wants the land that Fort Courage sits on and lays siege to the fort.

Season 2, Episode 21: A Horse of Another Color

Original Air Date: 26 January 1967
The wild horse that the Captain wants to capture for Jane, O'Rourke wants to sell to the circus.

Season 2, Episode 22: V Is for Vampire

Original Air Date: 2 February 1967
Count Sforza, an emigrant from Transylvania, arrives in town. He comes in a hearse, has pale skin and has a crow he calls "Brother." The men of F-Troop suspect he may be a vampire, given the count's tendency to say, "Good evening," regardless of the time of day. When Jane can't be found, O'Rourke, Agarn and the Captain decide to check out Sforza's spooky mansion.

Season 2, Episode 23: That's Show Biz

Original Air Date: 9 February 1967
Agarn leaves the Army to manage a rock band called the Bedbugs.

Season 2, Episode 24: The Day They Shot Agarn

Original Air Date: 16 February 1967
Agarn faces the firing squad after the prisoner in his care escapes and kills Sergeant O'Rourke.

Season 2, Episode 25: Only One Russian Is Coming! Only One Russian Is Coming!

Original Air Date: 23 March 1967
Agarn's Russian cossack cousin falls for Wrangler Jane.

Season 2, Episode 26: Guns, Guns, Who's got the Guns?

Original Air Date: 2 March 1967
The Captain goes on a spy mission to find out who's selling guns to the Indians.

Season 2, Episode 27: Marriage, Fort Courage Style

Original Air Date: 9 March 1967
A marriage broker comes to town scaring both Corporal Agarn and Captain Parmenter.

Season 2, Episode 28: Carpetbagging, Anyone?

Original Air Date: 16 March 1967
A man comes to town, buys the land that Fort Courage is on and then plans to throw out F Troop.

Season 2, Episode 29: The Majority of Wilton

Original Air Date: 23 March 1967
Wilton is eligible for promotion to Major, but first he must pass a rigorous examination. His attempts at study are jeopardized by a bad cold and various home remedies.

Season 2, Episode 30: Our Brave in F Troop

Original Air Date: 30 March 1967
Chief Wild Eagle is hiding at Fort Courage to visit the Army dentist; however a visiting general is impressed by this "soldier" and keeps promoting him.

Season 2, Episode 31: Is This Fort Really Necessary?

Original Air Date: 6 April 1967
An officer known for closing down forts comes to Fort Courage to get married.

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