Loved F-Troop. Was about 10 when it came out and watched it with my dad, who was in his early 40's.He laughed out loud at jokes that sometimes I didn't get. We did the same with Get Smart, Hogans Heroes, Addams Family, Gilligans Island, Beverly Hillbillies, Greenacres, Quark, Gomer Pyle, My Favorite Martian, Mr Ed,, Camp Runamuck, McHales Navy, Mack and Myer for Hire...then somewhere in the 70's sitcoms lost their way I reckon and just ended up in living rooms with 4 or 5 people standing shoulder to shoulder just yelling at each other in banal stacato followed by an avalanche of canned laughter to prompt you into believing the lukewarm 'gag' was somewhat funny.
Columbo could be the worst at needless padding. It was obvious when they needed to fill time(each episode was a full-length film) so they'd have Columbo play with some random thing, do some random thing, throw in a b-plot or just let Peter Falk go off-script and use it to pad the run time. As beloved as the series is, there are giant segments of footage you could remove and not miss the plot. At the time it seemed native actors being hired to play Indians wasn't very common, either. Maybe it was a shortage of actors, trying to appeal to the racist southern stations who wouldn't even air the episodes if they had non-white actors(Hogan's Heroes made Kinch a main character just to thumb their noses at such practices), or whatever reason. Gunsmoke notoriously cast Leonard Nimoy in one such part- though later made up for it by casting Burt Reynolds as a main character and acknowledging his mixed heritage as part of the character's background.
You must be one of those young kids from another era... us old-timers know what we're talking about. We actually saw the show back then when you weren't probably even a thought! Lol
Bald Eagle wasn't the only Hekawi warrior.
Season 2 introduced Flaming Arrow.
I loved it whenever Rickles played something other than just a loudmouth curmudgeon. This and when he guest starred on Get Smart may be my favorites.
Loved F-Troop. Was about 10 when it came out and watched it with my dad, who was in his early 40's.He laughed out loud at jokes that sometimes I didn't get. We did the same with Get Smart, Hogans Heroes, Addams Family, Gilligans Island, Beverly Hillbillies, Greenacres, Quark, Gomer Pyle, My Favorite Martian, Mr Ed,, Camp Runamuck, McHales Navy, Mack and Myer for Hire...then somewhere in the 70's sitcoms lost their way I reckon and just ended up in living rooms with 4 or 5 people standing shoulder to shoulder just yelling at each other in banal stacato followed by an avalanche of canned laughter to prompt you into believing the lukewarm 'gag' was somewhat funny.
I suspect All In The Family had a lot to do with that. It was as influential as a show ever was.
HUGE FAN
THEN AND DEFINITELY NOW
"And I begged him to marry a nice Indian goil". (LOL, Wild Eagle spent some time in Brooklyn).
The "Don" was also friendly with Don Adams.
I loved Crapgame in Kelly's Heroes
Me too.
Don R. was also friendly with Don Adams.
Is that the bugler dad from Teen Wokd
Careful of sharing Covid bugles.
I can be a better bugler.Tony
Columbo could be the worst at needless padding. It was obvious when they needed to fill time(each episode was a full-length film) so they'd have Columbo play with some random thing, do some random thing, throw in a b-plot or just let Peter Falk go off-script and use it to pad the run time. As beloved as the series is, there are giant segments of footage you could remove and not miss the plot.
At the time it seemed native actors being hired to play Indians wasn't very common, either. Maybe it was a shortage of actors, trying to appeal to the racist southern stations who wouldn't even air the episodes if they had non-white actors(Hogan's Heroes made Kinch a main character just to thumb their noses at such practices), or whatever reason. Gunsmoke notoriously cast Leonard Nimoy in one such part- though later made up for it by casting Burt Reynolds as a main character and acknowledging his mixed heritage as part of the character's background.
Supie had too much padding both story wise and otherwise.
If you're going to narrate something, at least get it right. His name wasn't "wild eagle", it was " white eagle".
Check the credits.
You must be one of those young kids from another era... us old-timers know what we're talking about. We actually saw the show back then when you weren't probably even a thought! Lol
@@georgeanthony7282I'm one of the "young kids" and know it's indeed wild eagle! Idk where this guy got his info!