Writer:	Arthur Julian
Director:	Gary Nelson
Star:	Ken Berry (Captain Wilton Parmenter),  Melody Patterson (Wrangler Jane Angelica Thrift),  Frank DeKova (Chief Wild Eagle),  Forrest Tucker (Sergeant Morgan O'Rourke),  Larry Storch (Corporal Randolph Agarn)
Recurring Role:	Bob Steele (Trooper Duffy),  Ivan Bell (Trooper Duddleson),  Don Diamond (Crazy Cat),  James Hampton (Trooper Hannibal Dobbs)
Guest Star:	I. Stanford Jolley (Col. Ferguson),  George Furth (Capt. Jonathan W. Blair),  Arthur Julian (Undertaker)

Ivan Bell (Duddleson) is uncredited. (edit) The undertaker was played by Arthur Julian, who wrote this as well as many other F Troop episodes. (edit)

Dobbs: Cap'n, if you're not gonna eat that leg, can I have it?
Capt.Parmenter: Of course Dobbs.
(Dobbs eats the chicken leg)
Agarn:(sobbing) Eating in front of a starving man. You're little heart is made of stone. (edit) O'Rourke: (about Capt. Parmenter and Agarn's survival test) Knowing those two men as I do...I must have been crazy to let them go alone. (edit) Capt.Parmenter: Agarn, I hear a bear growling. (Agarn slaps his face) Why are you slapping my face?!
Agarn: Aren't you hysterical?
Cap.Parmenter: No. I really do hear a bear growling.
Agarn:(panicking) You'd better get ready to slap my face. (edit) Capt. Parmenter: Well, next time I'm on a survival test, don't you dare send fried chicken. Baked ham, yes. Fried chicken always gives me a touch of indigestion. (edit) Wild Eagle: Birds always fly north in winter.
Capt. Parmenter: Uh, no, no, no, Chief. Birds always fly south in the winter.
Wild Eagle: But sun rise in west and set in east.
Capt. Parmenter: No, the sun rises in east and sets in the west.
Wild Eagle: Captain Parmenter, you looking at chief who don't know sunset from his bird. (edit)

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Agarn: You could hear my mother coming from a mile away. They call her, "Holly Goheavy."

A play on words on Holly Golightly, the name of the main character of the 1961 movie, Breakfast at Tiffany's. (edit) The episode title is a reference to economist Herbert Spencer's characterization of Charles Darwin's theory of Evolution by Natural Selection. (edit)