12 O'Clock High (TV Series) Six Feet Under (1966) User Reviews

I'm surprised they didn't have Gallagher performing surgery or commanding a submarine!

[planktonrules · 4/10 · 23 November 2021]

I like "12 O'Clock High" but must admit that the writing occasionally suffered from running low on ideas. Sometimes they had Colonel Gallagher doing things no bomber commander ever would have done...such as flying fighter plane escorts for his men, getting shot down and then escaping from German custody 1088 times as well as here, being involved in a commando raid...and this was the third time in the series they did this!!! Clearly, as the show wound down, they ran out of steam and started repeating or coming up with crazy plots.

The story finds the Colonel inexplicably in Belgium and he and a group of commandos have captured a German base filled with important documents. But, as luck would have it, the only guys in the unit would could translate the German documents were killed and the Colonel tries to get some uncooperative youths to help with the translation.

A weak premise...period. And so, it's a weak episode...one that shows the program was running on fumes.

Gallagher is a rambling. gambling kinda guy. Don't fence him in!

[Guad42 · 5/10 · 20 December 2022]

I have to agree with the first reviewer. The idea that Col Gallagher would bring anything to this party is laughable. Can't see a realistic scenario where the military would send a bomber group commander to Belgium to read captured documents and he doesn't read German!

I watch this episode on METV and the proceeding hour is two episodes of the "Rat Patrol". When this episode started, I thought I was seeing a third straight episode of that show. Belgium sure looks like a desert here. Not too realistic. Also, the German officer at the start of outing shows a weird lack of interest in all the shooting going on. He would pay for that mistake with his life.

I do like the action and the cast. These are all veteran actors who do the episode justice. Martin Milner did a lot of military roles in his long career. Check out his movies early on. Rudy Solari would be in "Garrison's Gorillas" a year later. Lawrence Montaigne, forever Spock's rival Stonn, was in "The Great Escape". Richard Anderson is always a pro. Everyone gets into the spirit of the thing.

Looks like they raided the "Combat" equipment locker as the halftrack with the added roof/machine gun made two or three appearances in that series. I think Milner is wearing Sgt Saunders camouflaged helmet. That is just wrong!

There are a few things to like here but because of the weak premise, I can't recommend this hour.