Product Details

• Actors: Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch, Ken Berry, Melody Patterson, Frank DeKova
• Directors: David Alexander, Gary Nelson, Gene Nelson, Hal March, Hollingsworth Morse
• Writers: Al Gordon
• Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 1.0)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 6
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: May 29, 2007
• Run Time: 784 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000N6UF10
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,486 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "F Troop: The Complete Second Season" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

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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

Product 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!

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Ken Berry at the helm of many laughs April 29, 2007

By komyathy VINE™ VOICE

Format:DVD

SEASON 2

Episode 1: The Singing Mountie. Air Date: 8 September 1966

Episode 2: How to Be F Troop Without Really Trying. Original Air Date: 15 September 1966
Episode 3: Bye, Bye, Balloon. Air Date: 22 September 1966
Episode 4: Reach for the Sky, Pardner. Air Date: 29 September 1966

Episode 5: The Great Troop Robbery. Air Date: 6 October 1966
Episode 6: The West Goes Ghost. Air Date: 13 October 1966
Episode 7: Yellow Bird. Air Date: 20 October 1966
Episode 8: The Ballot of Corporal Agarn. Air Date: 27 October 1966

Episode 9: Did Your Father Come from Ireland? Air Date: 3 November 1966. Sgt. O'Rourke's father arrives from Ireland.
Episode 10: For Who the Bugle Tolls. Air Date: 10 November 1966
Episode 11: Miss Parmenter. Air Date: 17 November 1966

Episode 12: La Dolce Courage. Air Date: 24 November 1966
Episode 13: Wilton, the Kid. Air Date: 1 December 1966
Episode 14: The Return of Wrongo Starr. Air Date: 8 December 1966
Episode 15: Survival of the Fittest. Air Date: 15 December 1966

Episode 16: Bring on the Dancing Girls. Air Date: 22 December 1966
Episode 17: The Loco Brothers. Air Date: 29 December 1966
Episode 18: From Karate with Love. Air Date: 5 January 1967 The men of Fort Courage offer sanctuary for a young Japanese woman.
Episode 19: The Sergeant and the Kid. Air Date: 12 January 1967

Episode 20: What Are You Doing After the Massacre? Original Air Date: 19 January 1967
Episode 21: Horse of Another Color. Air Date: 26 January 1967
Episode 22: V Is for Vampire. Air Date: 2 February 1967. Count Sforza, an emigrant from Transylvania, arrives in town.
Episode 23: That's Show Biz. Air Date: 9 February 1967

Episode 24: The Day They Shot Agarn. Air Date: 16 February 1967
Episode 25: Only One Russian Is Coming! Only One Russian Is Coming! Air Date: 23 March 1967
Episode 26: Guns, Guns, Who's got the Guns? Air Date: 2 March 1967
Episode 27: Marriage, Fort Courage Style. Air Date: 9 March 1967

Episode 28: Carpetbagging, Anyone? Air Date: 16 March 1967
Episode 29: The Majority of Wilton. Air Date: 23 March 1967
Episode 30: Our Brave in F Troop. Air Date: 30 March 1967
Episode 31: Is This Fort Really Necessary? Air Date: 6 April 1967

31 of 35 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars F Troop March 21, 2007

By P. Wray

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

Another "must buy" box set along with numerous other American TV shows (a list too long to mention). I live in the UK and the TV stations here seem reluctant to show classic TV even with the advent of satellite/cable. I used to be very envious of American viewers who had access to TV Land, however I now see that they no longer show classic shows from the 60's preferring to now stick to shows from the 80's onwards.

I purchased Season 1 when it was released and laughed from start to finish, even my wife who never saw the original limited run of the show enjoys watching it and laughs just as much as myself.

I can't remember much about season 2 although I will when I watch the DVD, one thing I do remember is that it was very funny and would recommend anyone to purchase it.

34 of 41 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars It's About Darn Time! March 3, 2007

By ImEzekiel65

Format:DVD

I am a huge fan of "F Troop" and loved the Complete First Season box set. My dad really loved it. Over the course of a week or two, we went through the entire season, laughing hysterically all the way. Just as we will with this one.

This show is an undisputed classic. As well as unappreciated and woefully undershown these days. TV Land has become a sad joke, showing nothing but lousy '80 junk like "Knight Rider", "The A-Team" and "MacGiver". As well as more lousy '70's cheese like "Happy Days", "Diff'rent Strokes" and "Soap". And they're trying to sneak in some '90's crap with "Wings". Hardly classics.

But anyway, I'm now all geared up for Season Two of "F Troop". I would say "Bring on all the rest of the seasons", but sadly, this is the final one. One of those two-season gems, along with "The Munsters", which, I guess were just too good for television. We'll never see their like again.

And that's sad.