Originally posted by terry patterson
the one i was thinking of had tim conway as a texas ranger.i must have gotten f-troop mixed up in there somehow.
There was one where Tim Conway played a Texas Ranger. Like all of the shows he ever did where he was cast in the lead (sitcoms and variety shows) it lasted exactly 13 weeks (the minimum amount of weeks a show could be under contract for. Conway used to have a license plate that read "13weeks". Surprisingly, his greatest successes came as part of ensemble casts - McHale's Navy and The Carol Burnett Show.
Everyone was right on about F-Troop. It starred Forrest Tucker and Sgt. O'Rourke, Larry Storch as Cpl. Agarn (Larry Storch was the Kevin Bacon of his time - everybody in Hollywood did some movie or show with Larry Storch in it), Ken Berry as Capt. Wilton Parmenter, a very cute blond who played Jane, Parmenter's love interest (she was like 16 at the time), there was a guy who played Cpl. Dobbs, the bugler who couldn't do a bugle call to save his life (his name was James something or other and was in just about every 1970s Burt Reynolds movie except for Deliverance), finally there was an old time cowboy actor who played a guy named Duffy, I think. He kept claiming to be the only survivor of the Alamo.
The gist of the show was that O'Rourke, Agarn and the Indian chief all had a moneymaking venture (O'Rourke Enterprises, as I recall) unbeknownst to Capt. Parmenter. Of course, the Indians would never attacked unless some outside force dictated and Capt. Parmenter looked like a hero all the time, which was just fine with everyone so long as it didn't interfere with O'Rourke Enterprises' profit.
