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.
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.