Twelve O'Clock High

The 918th Bomb Group is one of the elite bomb groups in the European theater of World War II. They get to be that way, however, in the "school of hard knocks"---bomber crews that can't do things properly, being tricked into getting their airplanes shot down, etc. When General Frank Savage, and later Colonel Joseph Gallagher, restore discipline and morale to the fliers, the group then starts to hit its targets and turns the tide of the war to America's favor.

Episode Info

Final: 3x17 -- The Hunters and the Killers (Jan/13/1967)

Cast

Paul Newlan As General Pritchard	Robert Lansing As General Frank Savage (S01)
Paul Burke (1) As Colonel Joseph Gallagher (S02-S03)

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Recaps

2x1: The Loneliest Place in the World recap: Opens with the 918th squadron coming back from a bombing raid in Germany.
Lt. Col. Joe Gallagher sees General Savage’s plane smoking. He asks his co-pilot (Dan)
about it, but he thinks it’s just exhaust. A straggler B-17 is in view. Joe’s left waist
gunner spots it. Joe tells his co-pilot to fire the recognition flares, but the straggler
calls on radio. Since he seems legitimate, Joe tells the straggler to join the formation.
It does. Then the pilot of it tells his German crew to fire and General Savage is hit.
The wounded co-pilot tells Sergeant Komansky, the flight engineer, to fire the flares turning the command of the squadron over to Gallagher. Lt .Colonel Heindorf asks Gallagher if he can pursue the straggler. He says “negative”. Gallagher yells at the formation to close up, they’re flying all over the sky. With the General diving in flames, Heindorf asks Gallagher if he can ride herd on Savage. Negative. Heindorf pleads it is the skipper. Gallagher yells Get off the air! Look out for fighters and maintain radio silence... read more.

Crew

Executive Producer: Quinn Martin (1)
Producer: Frank Glicksman, William D. Gordon (3)
Associate Producer: Charles Larson
Music Supervisor: Lionel Newman
Set Decorator: Walter M. Scott
Other: Ralph Hickey
Director of Photography: William W. Spencer, Frank V. Phillips, Robert C. Moreno
Art Director: Jack Martin Smith

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Recurring Guests

• Andrew Duggan as Brigadier General Edward Britt (8 eps)
• Barney Phillips as Major "Doc" Kaiser (5 eps)
• Richard Anderson (3) as Brig. Gen. Doud (4 eps)
• Paul Burke (1) as Captain Joseph Gallagher (2 eps)
• Glenn Corbett as Lt. Tom Lockridge (2 eps)
• Frank Aletter as Lt. Col. Bill Christy (2 eps)
• Jan Merlin as Major Strasser (2 eps)
• Lloyd Bochner as Major Mallory (2 eps)
• Jonathan Lippe as Sargeant Bonneyman (2 eps)
• James Whitmore as Col. Harry Connelly (2 eps)

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Twelve O'Clock High

Classification: Scripted
Genre: Drama | Military/War
Status: Canceled/Ended
Network: ABC (