When it came to hamming it up, to the extent of regularly playing a dual role as one of his cousins, I thought Larry stole the show which I adored.
Good innings Corporal, well done.
Rest in peace, Larry.
I recall the opening of F Troop, the scene where the cannon topples the lookout tower. I remember my dad laughing loudly at it every single week.
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@penultima_thule, whoa. Aren’t you in Australia? Did F-Troop make it there?
That show was a favorite of mine, when I was home sick – I only ever saw it in reruns, and it was either that or Gilligan’s Island or one of the soaps.
99 years old is a good run!
O’Rourke Enterprises is no more. 
RIP, Randolph!
I saw him in an episode of Gilligan’s Island yesterday. Talk about serendipity! 
I am and it certainly did. 
I’m not saying 70s Australian TV must have been terrible, but F-Troop was not our finest moment, American TV-wise.
He was the last of the regulars from F-Troop wasn’t he? Melody Patterson died a while ago at only 66.
Apparently he was also pals with Don Adams, Don Rickles and Johnny Carson. He was the last of that group to. Though Rickles also lived a very long time.
Well, it wasn’t The West Wing but then I have serious doubts a 10yo PT would have watched TWW.
I liked it as a kid, but it is unwatchable to me now. But not many 60 sitcoms have held up at all.
Dick Van Dyke is great. Get Smart & Adams Family are still funny to me. Bewitched has its moments. Hogan’s Heroes too.
Andy Griffith is still a snooze fest but not terrible. But the rest are pretty bad.
F Troop was before my time. I remember him from The Ghost Busters.
He was occasionally on Married … with Children too.
The Ghost Busters was a 1 season Saturday morning show around 1975. It was best known for getting some money from the Ghost Busters producers years later. It did reunite Storch with Tucker from F-Troop.
Only a few days ago, apropos a discussion that was taking place on our daily team meeting, I linked to this:
Have any of you seen the documentary The Secret Daughter? It looks before they married, Larry’s wife June had 3 kids she gave up for adoption, one was with a black vaudevillian (and one was with Larry, apparently). Once they were married, Larry gathered them all up and raised them.
The black daughter grew up to be documentarian and made The Secret Daughter mostly about her mother.
I always appreciate a Bob Steele (Duffy) sighting. My grandmother’s dating pool was centered in Republic’s Western lot, and my dad remembers Steele as being one of the nicer ones.
I’ve seen The Secret Daughter twice. Larry doesn’t come off looking so good. After the cast family photo shoot, there seems to have been pressure to move her back to her Black bio-dads family to avoid awkwardness.
Jesus, Melodye Patterson was gorgeous! 
She’s only 16 in that first-season clip. (She lied about her age when she auditioned for the role.)
She also played mobsters’ secretaries on Hawaii Five-O. I always look forward to seeing those episodes. 
You should watch some of the fifth-season episodes of That Girl! Ann is such a ditz, I find myself wondering why Hollinger wants to marry her after four years of not having had sex even once.
That was one show that really went downhill after the third season, but at least Ann is sewing her own clothes now instead of wearing a new Cardinali outfit every week. (And sometimes more than one in an episode.)
I still haven’t figured out how she could afford that beautiful four-room apartment in NYC on what she earned as an aspiring actress/model/occasional salesgirl, though.
That show is pretty hard to watch now, but taken in the time it came on, sadly counted as progressive.
I assumed Daddy was paying her rent and rents in NYC weren’t so terrible back then.
Maybe, but Daddy was always nagging her to come back home and criticizing her choice of men. He spent almost as much time in her apartment as Hollinger did.