Or, wait…do you mean they “low keyed” the on-screen romance, as in toned it down? I was writing under the theory that you were saying they tried to hide the fact that she was underage, while she was going all Sadie Hawkins on Capt’n Wilt. (Is “Sadie Hawkins” still a thing?)
>From what I recall from the last time I saw an episode of F Troop (probably >around the turn of the century), they certainly didn’t tone it down enough if >they knew they were paying a 32-year-old to suck face with a >16-year-old-pretending-to-be-an-adult on camera. But, hey…it was Hollywood >in a different era. :) Doug Fields Tampa, FL From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Doug Fields Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2015 4:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [TV orNotTV] F Troop actress Melody Petterson dead at 66 “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” Ummmm…no. If she’d lied and the producers never knew the truth, that’d be one thing. That they found out, and “low keyed it” might make it even a little creepier. :) Doug Fields Tampa, FL From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of PGage Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2015 2:51 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] F Troop actress Melody Petterson dead at 66 On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Doug Fields <[email protected] <mailto:[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. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
