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F Troop Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
34 Episodes 1965 - 1966
Episode 1
Scourge of the West
Tue, Sep 14, 196530 mins
Becoming a hero by accidentally leading a cavalry charge while sneezing due to allergies, Captain Wilton Parmenter is given command of Fort Courage. The fort's crafty Sgt. O'Rourke has a deal with the local Hekawi Indians to market their wares to the tourists. They must sometimes pretend to be enemies (and the Shugs really are enemies). Jane is out to marry the innocent Parmenter.
Episode 2
Don't Look Now, One of Our Cannon Is Missing
Tue, Sep 21, 196530 mins
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.
Episode 3
The Phantom Major
Tue, Sep 28, 196530 mins
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 He also wants to prove the fort is obsolete.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.
Episode 4
Corporal Agarn's Farewell to the Troops
Tue, Oct 5, 196530 mins
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.
Episode 5
The Return of Bald Eagle
Tue, Oct 12, 196530 mins
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.
Episode 6
Dirge for the Scourge
Tue, Oct 19, 196530 mins
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.
Episode 7
The Girl from Philadelphia
Tue, Oct 26, 196530 mins
An old girlfriend of Captain Parmenter's visits Fort Courage to encourage him to return back east.
Episode 8
Old Ironpants
Tue, Nov 2, 196530 mins
Captain Parmenter goes to command school and returns a tough Army officer that no one likes.
Episode 9
Me Heap Big Injun
Tue, Nov 9, 196530 mins
Agarn joins the Hekawi tribe and turns out to be a better Indian than any other brave.
Episode 10
She's Only a Build in a Girdled Cage
Tue, Nov 16, 196530 mins
When Dobbs' mother comes to visit she is mistaken for a dance hall singer.
Episode 11
A Gift from the Chief
Tue, Nov 23, 196530 mins
After saving Wild Eagle's life, Captain Parmenter is given a baby.
Episode 12
Honest Injun
Tue, Nov 30, 196530 mins
A conman comes to town taking the troopers money, which is O'Rourke's job.
Episode 13
O'Rourke vs. O'Reilly
Tue, Dec 7, 196530 mins
A woman comes to town and takes over O'Rourke's saloon.
Episode 14
The 86 Proof Spring
Tue, Dec 14, 196530 mins
Captain Parmenter is determined to find the Hekawi's whiskey supply that O'Rourke has stashed at the fort.
Episode 15
Here Comes the Tribe
Tue, Dec 21, 196530 mins
The chief's daughter is kidnapped and F Troop swings into action.
Episode 16
Iron Horse Go Home
Tue, Dec 28, 196530 mins
O'Rourke manipulates Capt. Parmenter into suggesting an incoming railroad be routed through Fort Courage. That way, the bar that O'Rourke secretly owns will receive a windfall. To accomplish this, the U.S. Army must persuade the nearby Indians to move. They do so -- right into Fort Courage.
Episode 17
Our Hero, What's His Name?
Tue, Jan 4, 196630 mins
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.
Episode 18
Wrongo Starr and the Lady in Black
Tue, Jan 11, 196630 mins
A natural jinx comes to F Troop and gets involved with a black widow who had four husbands.
Episode 19
El Diablo
Tue, Jan 18, 196630 mins
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.
Episode 20
Go for Broke
Tue, Jan 25, 196630 mins
Jane's cousin helps O'Rourke replace the F Troop pension fund by entering a poker game.
Episode 21
The New I.G.
Tue, Feb 8, 196630 mins
An Army major comes to Fort Courage who wants to wipe out the Hekawis.
Episode 22
Spy, Counterspy, Counter Counterspy
Tue, Feb 15, 196630 mins
The War Department's testing of a new bulletproof vest at Fort Courage is hampered by two competing spies.
Episode 23
The Courtship of Wrangler Jane
Tue, Feb 22, 196630 mins
To have the Captain move off post, O'Rourke plays cupid for him and Wrangler Jane.
Episode 24
Play, Gypsy, Play
Tue, Mar 1, 196625 mins
A group of visiting Gypsies crown Agarn their long lost prince.
Episode 25
Reunion for O'Rourke
Tue, Mar 8, 196625 mins
O'Rourke has been in the Army for twenty-five years.
Episode 26
Captain Parmenter, One Man Army
Tue, Mar 15, 196625 mins
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.
Episode 27
Don't Ever Speak to Me Again
Tue, Mar 22, 196625 mins
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.
Episode 28
Too Many Cooks Spoil the Troop
Tue, Mar 29, 196625 mins
After their cook is transferred, Agarn takes over so they can order excess supplies and sell them to the Indians.
Episode 29
Indian Fever
Tue, Apr 5, 196625 mins
Agarn's sanity is questioned when he keeps seeing an Indian in the fort and no one else does.
Episode 30
Johnny Eagle Eye
Tue, Apr 12, 196630 mins
O'Rourke and Agarn get Wild Eagle's nephew entered into the Army sharp shooting contest.
Episode 31
A Fort's Best Friend Is Not a Mother
Tue, Apr 19, 196630 mins
When Captain Parmenter's mother arrives, she insists that he be transferred to a post back east.
Episode 32
Lieutenant O'Rourke, Front and Center
Tue, Apr 26, 196630 mins
O'Rourke gets a promotion to lieutenant and is being transferred which could doom O'Rourke Enterprises.
Episode 33
The Day the Indians Won
Tue, May 3, 196630 mins
The Hekawis - the tribe that invented the peace pipe - are ordered to go on the warpath so they attack Fort Courage.
Episode 34
Will the Real Captain Try to Stand Up
Tue, May 10, 196630 mins
Captain Parmenter is temporarily replaced by the town drunk to impress his visiting daughter.