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‘F Troop’ Actress Melody Patterson Dies at 66
variety ^ | august 21, 2015

Posted on 08/21/2015 10:17:33 PM PDT by lowbridge

TV actress Melody Patterson, best known for playing Wrangler Jane on “F Troop,” died Thursday at the age of 66. Patterson died in a nursing home after multiple organ failure, according to reports.

In addition to her starring role on “F Troop” from 1965-1967, Patterson appeared on other television shows of the era including “The Monkees,” “Adam-12” and “Green Acres.” She was also in a handful of episodes of “Hawaii Five-O,” which featured her husband at the time, James MacArthur.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: ftroop; hollywood; melodypatterson; tv
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To: Gefn

Melody was hot! And lately I have come to.appreciate ladies of 60’s TV. Barbara Eden, Marlo Thomas (That Girl) Lori Sanders (Petticoatt Juction brunette), Donna Reed, Ginger and Marianne, Julie Lipton (Mod Squad), and alot of others I am forgetting right now. It is difficult to choose a favorite, they are all gorgeous. I just saw Melody a couple of hours ago on F Troop, decided to google search her when I was reading credits, to see what she was up to these days. Then saw that she had passed hours ago. What awful timing. I will never look at F Troop the same way again..,....man, she was way too long to pass on. I will always see her as that beautiful teenage girl known as “Wrangler Jane”. Farewell Melody.


41 posted on 08/22/2015 5:13:51 AM PDT by Kem Hayes
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To: Gefn

Your dad and any man with a pulse. Probably without a pulse too ;)


42 posted on 08/22/2015 5:15:28 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Slyfox

I always laughed when A-garn would remove his trooper hat and start swatting the daylights out of dobbs and whomever else pissed him off.Good stuff.


43 posted on 08/22/2015 5:17:13 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: TalBlack

Supposedly she claimed to be 18 and lied about her age a bit. It wasn’t such a big deal in 1965, and she never really did a romantic scene with the Captain, so they might have known.

Mila Kunis, for one, fibbed about her age far more recently.

Underage actresses have always been in demand in Hollywood.


44 posted on 08/22/2015 5:17:38 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: miss marmelstein

Have you notice that they don’t play the theme song with words anymore, just the melody..............


45 posted on 08/22/2015 5:21:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Kem Hayes

I was really little when F Troop was on the air, so I really didn’t like it. I discovered it in the 80s on Nick at Nite or something like that, I thought it was good but I liked Gilligsn’s island better when it was first run, maybe because my childhood brain got some more of it.

Oh yes, and Jeannie. I loved Jeannie. To me, Larry Hagman was always Tony Nelson not JR Ewing.

Those shows from the 60s are pure gold. Most of the stuff today is unwatchable.

RIP. Wrangler Jane.


46 posted on 08/22/2015 5:24:35 AM PDT by Gefn (Our next President needs a First Cat in the White House.)
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To: jjotto

Didn’t Jack Benny make a career lying about his age? He was 39 forever.


47 posted on 08/22/2015 5:26:23 AM PDT by Gefn (Our next President needs a First Cat in the White House.)
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To: Defiant
Larry Storch was on an episode of “Married with Children in the 80s or early 90s. Other than that, I never saw him in anything after F-Troop. He was funny. “A-garn!”

He was in several episodes of "Car 54, Where Are You?" as Charley the drunk. I also remember seeing him in an episode of "All In The Family" playing a high school friend of Archie's who comes to town for a visit.

48 posted on 08/22/2015 5:27:14 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Red Badger

The second season did not feature the lyrics to the theme song - but it did have a great Mort Drucker caricature which opened the show. Sadly, it only had two seasons - the first season, in black and white, being the best. Luckily, ME TV often plays it. Larry Storch is putting up nice photos of Jane/Melody on his Facebook page this morning.


49 posted on 08/22/2015 5:35:17 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: GreenHornet

Larry would do his famous stand-up act on Car 54 - talking so much about booze that he would actually get drunk just talking about it. He did it on other shows as well. He also was an impressionist (as was his brother) and would coach actors in it.


50 posted on 08/22/2015 5:37:09 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Williams

He was also in “The Abominable Snowman” with Peter Cushing


51 posted on 08/22/2015 5:44:52 AM PDT by I-ambush (Don't let it bring you down, it's only castles burning.)
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To: lowbridge

RIP.


52 posted on 08/22/2015 6:53:29 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: ETL

So weird, you just referenced her yesterday in the thread about favorite military shows...


53 posted on 08/22/2015 6:54:04 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: T-Bird45

I think I read somewhere that she was 15 or 16 when she was on F Troop.


54 posted on 08/22/2015 6:55:35 AM PDT by mware
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

Good show. It rates right up there with “Mister Ed” and “Car 54 Where are you?”


55 posted on 08/22/2015 7:11:58 AM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
So weird, you just referenced her yesterday in the thread about favorite military shows...

She actually died on Thursday, Aug 20th. However, I didn't know this when I posted yesterday.

56 posted on 08/22/2015 7:17:01 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Here are my posts from yesterday and today, from the other thread...

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Re: F-Troop

One of my favorites at the time too.

Partly because of...

Melody Patterson as Wrangler Jane in F-Troop
Melody Patterson as Wrangler Jane in F-Troop
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... Televerse #179- The Phil Silvers Show and F Troop with Michael Price

Watch F Troop Season 1 Episode 34 - Will the Real Captain Try to Stand ...

Troops

57 posted on 08/22/2015 7:19:27 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Did you see she passed away on Thursday ?

No, I didn't know that. Sad.

And weird, because several months ago something made me wonder what the actress who played the young daughter on the Beverly Hillbillies was up to these days (Elly May Clampett/Donna Douglas). Hadn't thought about her for decades. Wasn't even a big fan of the show, or of her (didn't dislike her for any reasons). Anyway, turned out she had died just the day before. Now this.

58 posted on 08/22/2015 7:21:27 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Donna Douglas (Elly May Clampett)

Donna Douglas 1967.JPG

Douglas in 1967
Born: September 1932, Pride, Louisiana, United States
Died: January 1, 2015, Zachary, Louisiana (age 82)
Cause: Pancreatic cancer

source: wikipedia
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Melody Patterson (Wrangler Jane)

Melody Patterson as Wrangler Jane in F-Troop

Born: April 16, 1949
Inglewood, California, U.S.
Died: August 20, 2015 (age 66)


59 posted on 08/22/2015 7:22:00 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Only 66, in a nursing home...

“Patterson died in a nursing home on August 20, 2015, at age 66.
Multiple organ failure was the reported cause.[3]”
—wikipedia

60 posted on 08/22/2015 7:22:30 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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