F Troop Season 2 Intro

[BronxNYE206St]

Great tv show on of my favorites of all time.

[decemberschild1217]

I agree with all the season one intro is infinently better especially those great lyrics but one exception: the great Frank DeKova gets a credit in the season 2 opening....

[Matt571]

I saw re-runs of F Troop in 1992 on Sky TV and I hadn't used to like the colour titles as much back then, although I enjoy seeing them now. Although it was quite sad that they scrapped the brilliant theme song, the colour titles are very vivid and I think the change to colour enabled a really good caricatured sequence to be done.

It is a shame F Troop only lasted 2 seasons.

[d777j777l777]

I reckon both of em were cool. Takes a bloke back to afternoon TV in Aus in the 70s.

[jed6271]

Going to color meant re-filming the opening video for most shows, and F-Troop obviously chose the cheaper and simpler method of going to an animated version for '66-67. The narration of what the show was about was no longer needed since the storyline was well established. It lasted only 2 seasons but became a huge hit in syndication. The dramatic differences in the season 1 and 2 openings always confused me as a kid (most everyone wanted to see the Black & White opening),

[Noveltooner]

I can give you another reason from a Warner Bros. TV insider I know from the time. The cavalry footage in the original opening came from the Errol Flynn picture "They Died with Their Boots On." Originally, Warners TV wanted to re-shoot the opening in color using battle scenes from "The Searchers." However, that film was a Warner Bros. release and not a Warners production, and John Ford and C. V. Whitney refused. Then ABC saw the chance for more commercial time.

[Noveltooner]

The latter part was the final reason for going to a teaser scene and the "cheap' opening that angered many fans. (Remember, "Gilligan's Island" kept it's classic opening in over the years.) The additional 30 seconds of commercial time was something of a setup for what has happened to broadcast and cable TV since Reagan's notorious deregulation in 1982: Television has become little more than commercials occasionally interrupted by a program.

[tvpirate05]

And nowadays, the 30 second intro would be considered to take up too much time. It's sad, but most current shows have a title screen accompanied by 5-10 seconds of random music. Sad...

[Extratexture4]

@jed6271, I agree, except for one thing: no way is that 2nd season opening animated.

I love caricatures, and have always wanted to get a good look at that picture, but it's still such a cheap substitution for the original that it disappoints me.

[epgrove1961]

Who was the announcer that says "F-Troop brought to you by.........."

[Noveltooner]

That was Dick Tufeld, one of Walt Disney's two "flagship" announcers during the 1950s, 60s and 70s. He's best known, of course, as the announcer for Fox's "Lost in Space," and as the voice of the Robot.

[fromthesidelines]

You may be right, 'rkd'- Quaker Oats was the "primary sponsor", and sustained the series on alternate Thursdays in the 1966-'67 season. Other sponsors, including Ford and Bristol-Myers, had their own version of the opening title with their sponsor I.D's (unfortunately, I don't remember those).

[fromthesidelines]

In the original network telecasts, the Quaker Oats "Q" logo would appear on screen, with Dick Tufeld saying, "The Quaker Oats Company presents..". The logo would then "morph" into the title. At :29, Tufeld would add, "'F TROOP'! Brought to you by...(whatever Quaker was pitching that week)" .

[rkdvideo]

I was only about 5 or so and in kindergarten when the color eps. would air on ABC, but I thought that Ford was one of their sponsors, just like the FBI! Because both were Warner Bros. shows. Also I thought I heard "F Troop! BTYB Ford" in at least a couple of openings.

[irish89055]

"you go down trail and turn at rock that looks like bear, then turn at bear that looks like rock".....(de kova)

[rebelstang]

Good "Ol Show!

[Melegorm]

Loved the Season 1 opening - this one I really don't recall...thanks for posting!

[MercurysNeptune]

I liked Larry Storch what ever happened to that guy.

[river2walk]

Ol' Larry was one of the best mimics during the sixties and seventies and he ended up a pretty wealthy guy! So there!

[Extratexture4]

I saw Storch in the 2005 documentary "The Aristocrats," about the world's dirtiest joke. The filmmakers were psyched to have him contribute.

[ionosphere1]

I think season one opening better.

[The7legacy]

Hey@ionosphere1,

I totally agree. Season one opening was MUCH better.

:01 - :17

Very dramatic. Almost brought me to tears.

[comicbookal]

I could be wrong but looking at the profiles of the faces drawn here, It looks like the artist could be either Angelo Torres or Mort Drucker, both of whom worked for Mad magazine..

[youtub3k]

Yeah, that's the same impression I got. Or perhaps a bit of Sergio Aragonés in there, maybe. They needed something in color, and refilming the opening was too costly. So they dumped the song and went with this art frame instead. I never liked it. They didn't show enough of the detail. I wonder if it was sold on lunchboxes?

[woodylove06]

i watched this as a child

[AlbieGray]

It seems like this opening, was funny, and was semi-mad, given that the fort itself was kind of a madhouse, in and of itself.

[ThundaLippz]

looks like it was drawn a MAD magazine artist.

[fedrianaldrinadi]

whatever

[billmarg]

agreed

[prausch65]

This intro is so lame compared to the black and white version.

[britishleylandcrap]

Yeah, but it wud have nigh on impossible to match it scene for scene and re-shoot it in colour.

[britishleylandcrap]

Yeah, but it wud have nigh on impossible to match it scene for scene and re-shoot it in colour.