On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Doug Fields <[email protected]> wrote:

> So Melody Patterson was 16 and 17 years old during the two year run of F
> Troop, as the love interest of Captain Will Parmenter, played by a 32- and
> 33-year-old Ken Berry.  Interesting.
>
>
>
> Talk about your non-political-correctness.  I’m just sayin’…
>

If it helps at all, the wikis say she lied about her age (she was 15 at the
audition), leading them to low key the romance in season 1.

I don't know if it is so-called "Political Correctness" that is keeping F
Troop off the air. It got a lot of play on Nick in the 90s, and as noted
here has been running on ME. While it does present without much comment the
killing of Indians by US soldiers as a matter of course, the show is not so
much racist as very broad. Get Smart and Hogan's Heroes stand up better
over time, but even those frequently, and most of the rest of that kind of
humor, which at the time was kind of hip, or at least insider, comes across
now as corny.

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