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Season 1 and I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen it. Memories being what they are at this age (65).
It’s been restored so the quality is better than “original” including the audio. It’s on “evil” Prime . I’ve never seen the first season. Just saw Peter Fonda as a guest star. I barely recognized him, he was so much younger than in Easy Rider.
Anyways..if you’ve never seen the show it’s well done. Good props snd amazing shots of the military gear from WW2.the B17s and 50 caliber machine guns etc are nicely done. German equipment and firearms too. And costumes,cars, bikes. It’s done in an interesting style as if a play.

Just thought I’d let any bored tv watchers a heads up ;)
 
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12 O'Clock High and Combat were my Tuesday night had to sees in grade school. Always loved B-17's since.

A girlfriends Dad flew them from England and told me stories and showed pic's of the damage 17's could take and still get back to England.
 
12 O'Clock High was a much better production than Combat, but both were worth watching when they were on the first time. In re-run format, it seems 12 O'Clock High again fared better than Combat. The great guest stars seen on 12 O'Clock High episodes were typical of the better '60s TV shows.
 
The movie is a classic and used to be a main stay in a lot of collage management courses. It was part of the curriculum for one of the courses that I took back in the 70's. I'm guessing that it doesn't pass the wokeness test these days. That kind of management style might be just a bit too hard for today's snow flakes.
 
cmj8591 said:
The movie is a classic and used to be a main stay in a lot of collage management courses. It was part of the curriculum for one of the courses that I took back in the 70's. I'm guessing that it doesn't pass the wokeness test these days. That kind of management style might be just a bit too hard for today's snow flakes.
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It was done in the unique style of HIGH NOON using a very effective and memorable opening scene: the instant transition from quite peacetime farmland to roaring airplane engines on one of the early American heavy bomber bases made the movie. Of course, having Gregory Peck in the lead role didn't hurt anything.
 
I saw the series the first time around, but I don't remember much detail. I also watched Combat, but not many episodes, I didn't much like it.

If you ever see the 1938 WWI movie "Dawn Patrol" with Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, and David Niven, you will notice a certain plot similarity to 12 O'Clock High but with different aircraft.
 
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It didn't pull any punches. I recall one episode, part of the story was a waist gunnerfrom Hawaii, on returning from a mission his girlfirend would greet him with a lei. Then they showed his plane being shot down. Another episode showed Robert Lansing fighting to get the landing gear down-so they wouldn't have tomak e a belly landing-with the gunner trapped in his turret.
Met a belly gunner a few years ago. They were small men, 5'5" or so. He pointed out one the most important things a belly gunner had to do in his pre-flight checks was make sure the electric contacts and the wiring of his flight suit worked-they were locked in their turrets for 5 hours at a time, at 20,000 feet and -20 Fahrenheit temperatures.
 
BLACKHAWKNJ said:
It didn't pull any punches. I recall one episode, part of the story was a waist gunnerfrom Hawaii, on returning from a mission his girlfirend would greet him with a lei. Then they showed his plane being shot down. Another episode showed Robert Lansing fighting to get the landing gear down-so they wouldn't have tomak e a belly landing-with the gunner trapped in his turret.
Met a belly gunner a few years ago. They were small men, 5'5" or so. He pointed out one the most important things a belly gunner had to do in his pre-flight checks was make sure the electric contacts and the wiring of his flight suit worked-they were locked in their turrets for 5 hours at a time, at 20,000 feet and -20 Fahrenheit temperatures.
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I remember reading that ball turret gunners did not meet normal AAF minimum height and weight requirements but exceptions were granted for them. Likewise tiny people, mainly women, were highly sought for aircraft assembly jobs so that they could install wiring and hydraulic systems in very tight spaces inside the fuselage.
 
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Tour of Duty, Combat, Black Sheep Squadron, Rat Patrol, 12 O'Clock High.

Yeah, I watched them growing up. Basically the same script and same outcome every week. Get your fix every Saturday night on HandI TV.

Take any one of these shows and give me a documentary and I'll watch.
 
coltle6920 said:
Tour of Duty, Combat, Black Sheep Squadron, Rat Patrol, 12 O'Clock High.

Yeah, I watched them growing up. Basically the same script and same outcome every week. Get your fix every Saturday night on HandI TV.

Take any one of these shows and give me a documentary and I'll watch.
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I don't recall Tour of Duty.

Couldn't take Rat Patrol; cheaply done, horrible series.
 
It came out in 1987 and only lasted three seasons…


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I was lucky enough to tour the Memphis Belle and crawl through another B-17G that was on a return trip from the Boeing plant South of Seattle where it had received a completely new 1944 paint job inside and out.

The Norden bomb site was in the nose but, there were no Browning M2's installed. This was before cell phones but, I did have my 35mm camera with me.

The planes were on static display at Memphis International Air Port along with a P-51 and a P-47. It was hotter than the devil but, worth the effort.
 
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