Twelve O'Clock High : S1E03 The Men and The Boys 

12 O' Clock High was never the same after Robert Lansing left the show. Thank you for posting these episodes.!

Love this show. Robert Lansing was such an excellent actor. I can't believe they let him go after season one.

They don’t make shows like this anymore. All talent, no vulgarity or ridiculous special effects.

Amazing number of guest actors in this series who became big stars later.

As a civilian, after seeing this series, l feel a sense of order, duty and dedication to my country.

Sally Kellerman, the original Hotlips Houlihan from M.A.S.H., what a treat!

I was 9 years old when this series came premiered. It came on too late on a school night to ever catch more than a few episodes. Thank you so must for posting this!

COMBAT! and 12 O'Clock High were the BEST WWII series on TV. Also, we've got five future STAR TREK actors here - Robert Lansing, Glenn Corbett, Lou Antonio, Frank Overton, Sally Kellerman.

This show inspired me as a kid to enlist in the Air Force during Vietnam, where I was in an Air Rescue squadron.

Robert Lancing was great. Paul Burke was very good. Love the entire series.

When I was in England in the '80's, I flew on C-130's all over East Anglia. The abandoned, disused airfields were everywhere! Most had a little concrete remaining, the rest removed to put up buildings and roads. A ghostly outline of the runways remained. I imagine a tableaux like this playing out at every one of them in 1943.

The actor who played Frank Savage's commanding officer, John Larkin, died of a heart attack just before the end of this 1st season. He was 53.

I'm still mesmerized by Robert Lansing's portrayal of Brigadier General Frank Savage. I wish he hadn't been replaced by Paul Burke after season one. It was still a good series, but without Robert Lansing the show just wasn't the same. He was perfect. Diane O'Neill 9/27/17

Robert Lansing should have remained for the entire run of the show🎸

"Very ,very human." That was the point of this show and the original film. Great series that I saw first when I was around 8-10 years old. Only after serving as an Army officer who had to make some tough calls do I see how excellent it is done.

Robert Lansing.was made for this role. He Nailed it! No b.s.

I love this show my dad used to watch it in 1967 ,maybe that's why I did 10 years in the milatary

one , if not thee best dne series ever done on TV, my 3rd time watching...thank u jefke for taking the time...

An excellent episode in a great series!

I loved this show 😁

Loved this show. Robert Lansing was perfect as General Frank Savage, and that was the.perfect role 4 him: They should never have replaced him...the show just wasn't the same afterwards.😏

Wonderful episode and emotional.

Robert Lansing provided a remarkable performance in 12 O'clock High (Season-01 Episode-01) akin to the breath-holding scene of Richard Basehart and Richard Widmark and Rip Torn in the finale of what was then a "B" war-time movie "TIME LIMIT"which also starred Martin Balsam. Today it would be a blockbuster! The "telling off" scene of Lansing to Burke in 12:00 High was thrilling and spellbounding-you just could't look away and the realization that you were watching a movie was completely lost to you. A thing of beauty that today's so-called 'STARS' who are nothing more than Ham actors that will never hold a candle to the likes of Bogey, March, Clift, Robinson, etc. Even the old cinema CHARACTER actors such as (Royal Dano; Jack Elam; Dean Jagger; Karl Malden, Bruce Dern, Jack Weston, Jack Warren, etc)..-- I notice a lot of the very best 50s-60-s series were QM Productions such as The Fugitive; The FBI; 'Twelve O'Clock High' and so on. From those days' to these day there hasn't been a STAR- much less a character actor- that could be at par with ANY of the many (and many more) true craftsmen named above. And that's a shame. I used to love TV when the credits could say "Original story by..."--now it's all unworthy REHASH. "12 Angry Men" was one of the best films ever written (all the acting took place in a single jury room); well, 30 years later, throw in fancy-pants Tom Cruise and a Black Denzel Washington and 10 other un-legged fowl and it pops out of the box-office faster than "JACK"! Costner couldn't have saved it and he was about the only Hmm...actor? I COULD stomach until he spoiled that for me with that stupid "Bodyguard" (spoiled his career too.! Give yourself a treat ASAP---Watch Robert Ryan; Bogey (the greatest of all); Ann Sheridan; Lee J Cobb; Charles Laughlin, Joan Blondell, Paul Newman, Montgomery Clift and the great John Garfield whom we lost at age 39 to a heart attack.! If you just watch Tracy in "The Fury" or Humphrey Bogart in "The Caine Mutiny" or "Desperate Hours" that will surely be enough to convince you that the Golden days of Hollywood) really were gilded (and gifted) with it. Not a single idiotic Woody Allen freak in sight! So, if you truly love good ACTING and not just a bunch of 'fools on screen blowing up stuff and saying phony, unnecessary lines (make my day started that shit) and a dude giving a solo spiel to his bud for 2 or 3 min while stretched out dying (still ALIVE i suppose w/ fifteen or twenty .45 caliber slugs in him?) LOL!! Well, like I said, today's MOVIES are a damn sad joke! And a joke on the folks that pay to SEE the crap! And how is it that WHOEVER shows up on one of these "REALITY" shows becomes an instant STAR when 2/3s of people don't even know who they are or what they do? A STAR is someone my MOTHER knows the name of even if she doesn't know the movie or show or the song (and only ever saw a pic of one or two of them, such as Cher and/or Arnold Schwartznegger! She knew of Michael Jackson, Madonna, Marlyn Monroe and Loretta Lynn; though she couldn't tell you what they are/were famous for___Now... THAT is a STAR !!

Such an awesome show, I watched as a kid, and so happy to have found it here! Can you even imagine the SJW outrage at a show like this on TV now? People smoking, drinking, manly men, womanly women, and not a gay person in sight!

I just could never watch the show after they replaced Robert Lansing, so I watch season 1 over and over again!

Excellent!

It's entertaining for me to watch these old shows. Bill Shatner is still alive (and good for him), but actors with gravitas, like Robert Lansing and , now, Chris Plummer are now either endangered or dead. The end of an era.

russphilly! I agree 100% Robert Lansing was at his best for this role, for what good it did I sent a protest letter to ABC.

I enjoyed this episode. Thank you for posting.

Dad's favorite show. B-17 radioman, gunner. Earned his wings but got sacked for flying under a bridge. Oh well. One of the planes shown during the fighter attack was a P-51. Don't think it was after the B-17s or flying escort. Amazingly terrible graphics showing same planes getting shot down show after show. Still love Twelve O'Clock and the fantastic guest stars getting their start.

Article 53; Uniform Code of Military Justice..."do not feel angry with those who punish, they are only doing their duty which would not have to transpire, had you done yours."

Savage had a shitty job to do. He wasent running any popularity contests. He went and did his job period.

Watched when it first came on. One of the series of the genre that tried to air combat right.

My favorite WW2 show as well as Combat. 👍❤️🇺🇸

Group integrity . That is what this is about . This group this group ,that is your reason . Thank you .

I'm sure there were some hard-core Luftwaffe pilots who strafed guys in their parachutes. But from what I've read most would never do it, not only because of the principle, but because the other side could do the same to them!

Sally Kellerman had that sultry voice even back then!

As a "Brit" and without military experience - but with a great interest in things 20th century military - I noticed that the actor playing Gen., Savage seems to give a very sloppy salute in response to the subordinate's initial salute. The subordinate "snaps up" a straight handed salute, yet Savage frequently gives a "casual curled palm" salute - often when looking down/away from the subordinate. It's not the first time I've noticed this difference between saluting styles on TV/in movies in the '40's through to current day. OK, higher rank does have it's privileges, but surely in real life military, the same respect would be shown/used. I realise that what we see on TV/movies is done by actors, but I'm amazed that directors and their military advisors let the actors get away with it!

Damn this is a great show..

Gotta appreciate a good leader.

4 actors in this episode also appeared in separate episodes of Star Trek. Neat to see how the actors got around.

I'm very surprised that men under the strain of command don't lose their minds more than they do.

Shooting airmen in parachutes was supposedly anathema to both sides in the air war in Europe. Gustav Rödel, Jaggeschwader 27: "You are fighter pilots first, last, always. If I ever hear of any of you shooting at someone in a parachute, I'll shoot you myself." Luftwaffe commander-in-chief Hermann Göring asked Luftwaffe fighter ace Adolf Galland about what he thought about shooting enemy pilots while in their parachutes, even over their own territory. Galland replied that, "I should regard it as murder, Herr Reichsmarschall. I should do everything in my power to disobey such an order". Goering-who had been a fighter ace himself during World War I-said, "That is just the reply I had expected from you, Galland". There must've been incidences, but perhaps this episode uses a bit of artistic license

Thanks from European Union, Lithuania.

Great episode.

Square A is the 94th BG! The 918th used the 91st BG tail markings but using them interchangeably? I'm sure TV audiences in 1964 didn't even notice. The Luftwaffe was not known for strafing men in chutes. It had a high regard for chivalry. And you never broke formation to protect someone...you lost at least 10 guns and compromised "group integrity" as authors Lay and Bartlett, both 8th AF veterans, stated in their book.

I always thought that Glen Corbett looked like one of the Tracy brothers from Thunderbirds.

Daylight bombing in ww2 meant that every plane in a group was dependent on every Plane in the group That was part of the plan for the success

Special Appearance by Hazel Court as Liz.....!!

One detail I have noticed , is they are not working the throttles . Just a small detail . Thank you Curtis Wright's R - 1820 engine do require attention in flight . Turbos , etc . Thank you .

Oh no! Not Jonesie! They got Jonesie!!!

"Hotlips, you're an hysterical nincompoop."

I always thought it funny that the only clip of a fighter firing its guns that they could get hold of was the most distinct armament of any plane in the war: the four staggered .50 cals of a P-47 Thunderbolt. That US plane shot down more USAAF bombers than anything else on the show!

Another great story.

"Bandits, 3 o'clock high!". Spitfires....

Great episode!

lou antonio played loki in the star trek episode let that be your last battlefield.

Sally Kellerman was in a Twilight Zone episode titled "The Bolero Shield" with Martin Landau

Sally Kellerman never looked or sounded better. This episode highlights Frank Overton's role. The key person in the series. Dean Jagger won an Oscar for his performance in the movie. Frank did not let him down. The calm person in the middle.

If you're gonna disobey a direct order by radio make sure your radio is actually out...

Someone needs to give that P-47 pilot a crash course in aircraft recognition that's around 5 B-17s he's got to his credit.

Great stuff. Pity they couldn't learn before they came out !

What people may not understand is most orders are not popular among the troops. When your in a position to issue and enforce those orders their is a heavy burden that comes with it. Its not easy on that person because your gambling with peoples lives. We tend to forget that those very unpopular orders won the war.

You could fly a B - 17 like a fighter . If you under stood up this awesome " Queen of the Skies . You would have to know her inside and out . The way she feels and to handle her . They did in the Pacific campaign .The early years . Thank you . A ten gun 4 engine " fighter" .

'Maximum Output' THE Greatest Generation

I love all the . movies

I love Sally Kellerman.

What makes this great is that they're fallible and make mistakes that cost lives. Today every military movie or show is pure propaganda of mighty, heroic warriors valiantly serving their country, infallible and noble in every way.

At the 16 minute mark Gen Savage puts his hat on the bar in the Officer's Club. Huge infraction of the rules, he would have to buy the bar drinks.

It's weird how the German pilots were able to hit the bombers in the exact same bullet strike pattern in all episodes. I knew they were good, but had no idea they were that good.

I see there are no O2 masks despite the high altitude. Most actors cant act with a mask on but Gregory Peck could. Even Tom Cruise has to take his mask off to act in Top Gun, presumably to enable him to breath. Lots of other shows have the same problem. Memphis bell is the same way, you have to take off your mask in order to breath. Same with warm clothing. Garrison attire is not appropriate for 20 below zero temps. Again Gregory Peck had it right.

Lansing was PERFECT

Two of the actors in this episode were on Star Trek

Sally Kellerman in this one ...

looks like sally kellerman and glenn corbett are also in this episode.

Hot Lips before MASH! Great stuff!

So silly, Nurse always at flight ways, lol.

To receive a court martial is a real career ender. It is a felony conviction.

First time seeing any Robert Lansing episodes. May just be what I was used to growing up, but I generally prefer the "Gallagher episodes" a little more.

Glenn Smith, I could not have said it better!!

Fun Fact: Even in the Luftwaffe it was illegal to gun down a man in a parachute.It did happen occasionally and the offender was dealt with by allied fighters or punished after he landed.

Sally Kellerman - 6 years prior to "Hot Lips Houlihan"!

Tom Hanks needs to remake this movie... instead of taking FOREVER to make The Mighty Eighth.

Especially when flying a tight formation as they did in their " bomber boxes " 21 up to 24 Fortresses in formation , 1 group . Think about 500 aircraft in a tight formation . Thank you .

BLACKOUT! SHUT THOSE CURTAINS!!!

Hazel Court......

An Air Corp 1Lt questioning the the decision of a BG? Really??

There's "Hot Lips" Hoolihan from MASH.

RIP Sally Kellerman

At 0:46, couple of P-47 Thunderbolts cruisin' on through.

0:56 - That fighter looks like a P 47-D, not a BF 109 or FW 190. Maybe those guys in 8th AF Fighter Command need refresher training on aircraft identification.

LT. Lou Antonio got his captain rank back when his fighter jet broke up in the Enterprises tractor beam, and Lt Corbett invented Warp drive and married a gaseous alien from Father Knows Best, and General Savage was sent to Earth to hire Terry Garr as his hippie secretary and blow up a nuke in front of Mr. Spoke and Nurse Kellerman developed telekinesis to save Captain Kirk from Gary Lockwood.

In real combat during WW-II did the general fly every mission as they did in this movie?

A Lt walks past a 3-star general w/o saluting? How was slack Savage's outfit anyways?

Ip means iinishal start point of bome run

Trivial question: Why is only the one pilot in the series episodes I have seem so far wearing a garrison cap and ALL the others are in officer hats? Maybe the director though his looks were not distinctive enough?

Harvey called him away from Liz for what????

Is that 'Hot Lips' in possibly her first roll as a US Army Nurse?

At 28:00 Savage says "it's 9 o'clock, major." Sorry, but he maybe a real general would've said "it's 21 hundred hours, major."

00:55 oh no, fiendly fire. its a P47. :D btw its just a show, i know but the keep shooting down one german after the other while only losing 1 or 2 planes. in ww2 it was the other way around. I think every 3rd allied airman got shot down during the raids.