Twelve O'Clock High S03E04 Fortress Weisbaden

[@CameronMcCreary]

The British copilot at the beginning of this show was none other than John Winston, Mr. Kyle from Star Trek the original series.😊😊

[@rahnlawson9463]

I lived in Wiesbaden when I was 7 years old. My father, retired Navy Chief Warrant officer worked for Raytheon as an instructor on the Hawk Missile Systems. 1960

[@krisgreenwood5173]

I just watched this episode. I stay up late on Saturday night to watch this show. It starts at midnight on Saturday night. It's worth the wait.

[@paulamichelle9778]

Thank you for posting. Good work! love these old ones!

[@pzro6869]

12 O'Clock High meets The Big Valley. Waiting for Heath and Audra to come riding around the Old West barn

[@cogitoegosum6382]

This „Wiesbaden“ looked so beautifully American 😂

[@jivesublime]

Hey , they are not attacking Wiesbaden , Germany! They landed on a ranch in the western show, Bonanza.

[@Doug326]

I just don't care about the nitpicking inaccuracies. Probably fewer than 0.01% of the viewing public would recognize them, and they did, they would suspend disbelief in favor of enjoying a good show. It is a drama, not an historical documentary.

[@alfredagreen336]

Thank you for posting!

[@theresadelicot5104]

I have always loved stories involving the Commando's.

[@bingbruce4865]

Crittendon's commandos finally get a mission right!

[@A_10_PaAng_111]

Bing Bruce With the help of Group Captain Roberts.

[@markzimmerman7279]

@@A_10_PaAng_111 good thing they didn't run into a farmer with a pitchfork!

[@rollandfitch5473]

Somehow seeing Bernard Fox in a serious role is strange.

[@lennyhendricks4628]

I think the Sgt Major in this video is the same actor who played a Brit senior NCO on COMBAT! It was the double episode where Saunders and his men were commanded by the Brit Captain (not sure of the rank) to stay with them. They are attacked again and again by the Germans and then oddly enough the Germans who had been attacking them surrender to Saunders. The Brit commander was dead by then.

[@lawrencejeffrey9245]

B-17s did not fly at night nor did they drop British Commandos. The British would have marked this night target with flares from pathfinder Mosquitos and pasted it with high explosive from 600 Lancasters. They carried a much larger payload than a B-17. As a Canadian, thanks for winning the war for us.

[@dkoz8321]

British commondos did not operate during day. THey hid and struck at night. Usually.

[@cherchezlesoir7166]

Lol..but dropped by halifaxes...never b17

[@cherchezlesoir7166]

Yes thank u us af for killing my grandma, aunt and 12 yo cousin on April 17 1945 in Dresden...just killers

[@Biffo1262]

​@@dkoz8321Er bullshit. They did as the situation dictated.

[@olentangy74]

B-17’s had the capability to fly at night, but seldom did. In the Jimmy Doolittle autobiography “God is My Co-Pilot, Doolittle spoke of flying a Fortress over the Atlantic at night on thier way to Africa. He describe how he could see the navigators dome lights going off and on while star sightings were taking place.

[@rdbjrseattle]

17:30 Looks like Lucas and Mark moved from North Fork to Germany. Lock, stock, and barn.

[@alisonstokes4453]

Looks like a scene from little house on the prairie

[@Teacherman1955]

I was thinking, if the Germans were using radar guided anti-Aircraft fire, why didn't the Americans and /or RAF use Chaff/Window? They had already introduced it last season...

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

But then they couldn't have had Gallagher go on a commando mission. .

[@John-hb5jm]

It's called entertainment

[@allandavis8201]

It’s called fictional. I really like this show because it is always full of action, interpersonal stories and disputes, and it doesn’t matter that the reality quota is zero at worst and 1-2/10 the rest of the time 🕰️, I could rip every episode apart for realism but then it would ruin my enjoyment of something that doesn’t even pretend to be realistic.

[@Biffo1262]

​@@allandavis8201It ruins mine. I just can't stop laughing.

[@1STerminus]

I downloaded the entire series from a torrent over 10-years ago and was disappointed that this episode was damaged. Recently I was finally able to purchase a new set of all 3-searons. I was very disappointed that the video on the original DVD is also damaged. Does anyone know where I can get an undamaged copy pf this episode? When I was a kid I watched this series and all the re-runs I could find on TV. The original combat footage was simply incredible and they had a large fleet of aircraft to film the series. Anyway I would like to get to watch this episode without youtube access. The DVD encoding always fails at 70.2 MB and on my set of DVDs it is on Disc 5 track 13. There is no media error the raw video is truncated. Thanks, kindly

[@jameskoch7190]

At 18:17 the whole haystack moves when bumped,I guess a fake haystack is cheaper than a real one.LOL

[@larryturner8712]

When I first heard the SGTMAJ voice, I thought, "Oh God, it's Doctor Bombay!"

[@robhaythorne4464]

Lol. When I heard his voice, I thought of Colonel Crittenden. Then, when he was revealed as Sgt. Maj Higgins in this episode, I thought of Magnum P.I.

[@billleith7110]

I met Dr Bombay in a little hole in the wall bar in Glendale California, June 1985, oddly enough he had on his Dr. Bombay getup, I didn't ask why as I didn't want to bother him, he was a nice guy.

[@paulshaffer9674]

Or the British Colonial on Hogans Heros.

[@dindinprivate3477]

Excellemt episode. One of the best.

[@Biffo1262]

Oh FFS!

[@BETTERWORLDSGT]

Good Episode!! If I'm Dying, I want a Lucky Strike, and a Bottle of Jack Daniels! If there ain't time, put em down in My Box!!!!

[@memphoonthemississippi2554]

Wow! I commented last episode that these guys get around! Now a tour of scenic Deutschland!

[@Biffo1262]

That is rather funny. It looks more like Oklahoma.

[@A_10_PaAng_111]

They landed on the Ponderosa Ranch and Colonel Dr Bombay Crittendon killed Lassie by order of Group Captain Roberts.

[@stevesmodelbuilds5473]

They're really off course -- that farm looks like it's nestled in the California hills...

[@rext8949]

You watch a serial free on you tube and you're cribbing about authenticity ! You'll get authenticity on Netflix alright , at a price . Enjoy free deserts !

[@jzotto7971]

Great show.

[@dontaylor9392]

@33:28 I like how those two Germans duck under the wire. They didn't want to really get decapitated.

[@dontaylor9392]

Oops. I guess they somehow saw the wire because then they get out of the car and start shooting.

[@Timlinthomasp]

Haha. hey landed near a ranch in CA, probably near Dodge City on Gunsmoke.

[@mickcoomer9714]

Saves having to have another film set, they only borrowed this one from the westerns.

[@motomark9736]

Ya there's no mountains or hills in Kansas but there is on gun smoke

[@A_10_PaAng_111]

Where's the tree stump to get back into camp?

[@memphoonthemississippi2554]

Sorry for the nit - do you have any idea how HOT that shearling lined coat Sandy is wearing would be roaming about in a moderate temperature??? Those were designed for FRIGID temperatures in an unpressurized B-17 at altitude,

[@olentangy74]

My only question is why did they use a B-17 for the commando drop instead of a C-47?

[@antonyandrerenaissanceart977]

Entire series shows cigarette smoking with filtered smokes. 1940,s did not have filtered smokes.

[@surfachi]

also weisbaden is pronounced Veisbaden...in german w is pronounced like a V

[@A_10_PaAng_111]

It's a TV show, entertainment. Most of these WW2 TV shows and movies have a ton of inaccuracies in them. One shot they show the squadron as B17s the next they're 24 Liberators and in some episodes B25s. Still a good show.

[@rodfirefighter8341]

I remember as a kid watching these, I never questioned any of the things we notice today. Mainly just loved seeing people in uniforms, military actions, and aircraft/air combat footage!

[@richardrogers668]

@@surfachi, That's funny! You want to nitpick and, not only did you not capitalize Wiesbaden, you spelled it wrong. Also, if you are so worried about it being authentic, I was stationed with the USAF at Wiesbaden AFB in the 70's and it was very rare to hear an American pronounce it with a "V", so they were historically correct in having them pronounce it with a "W". To top it off, you said that in German "W" is pronounced like a "V". They weren't speaking German. If we are going to nitpick, I can to that too.

[@markzimmerman7279]

@Legion 57 I think it was Winston tastes good like a cig. Should.

[@paulpisano8538]

interesting that the character is named major mallory. that was the same name of gregory peck's character in the guns of navarone.

[@nancyvandenboomen984]

and Higgins from Magnum P.I.

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

And Gregory Peck was the original General Savage. .

[@paulpisano8538]

@@BobSmith-dk8nw peck was supposed to return for the guns of navarone sequel, but they waited so long that the original actors aged too much.

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

@@paulpisano8538 Didn't know that. .

[@rogerlynch5279]

Fun Fact: Across from Wiesbaden lays the city of Mainz just devided by the Rhine Nowdays the seat of the German Federal Police ( BUNDESKRIMINALPOLIZEI ) is located in Weisbaden.

[@tomnekuda3818]

Nothing like getting up to good news......

[@radiofreeplatypus7908]

Isn't it amazing how the area around Wiesbaden looks *nothing like* Southern California?

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

Yes! And planets all over the Galaxy Too! .

[@pjzdreamz]

HAHAHAHA ! Gadfly ! I haven't heard that one in a Long time ! "...intentionally annoying person who provokes others, usually by using persistent irritating criticism."

[@pjzdreamz]

pjzdreamz Good Lord. I really do not think Commandos of ANY service expose themselves day or night, talk in a loud our even normal voice without a deadly reason...or gather in any open area in a war zone. I DO know that the SEALs I had the privilage to meet and drink with in Coronado, CA. can finish whatever someone starts with them in record time !

[@gallantrycross]

Beautiful blonde, her name was Christiane Schmidtmer, a German actress, she died a few years back.

[@mf7482]

+gallantrycross Would it have been a good idea to spank her backside for her atrocious behavior. I would have put her over my knee and picked up her dress first, Yum!

[@rodfirefighter8341]

@@mf7482 That might have helped if there was a bedroom scene!

[@voxcoyo]

Her nickname, in German, meant "love bomb", appropriately enough.

[@thomasjr8360]

She was a hottie

[@paulw.woodring7304]

@Legion 57 This was the repressed part of the 1960's, not the counterculture part. Raping a captured enemy woman just wouldn't have been portrayed, although you can bet it went on. Just like real commandos would not have hesitated to off her, just like they did her dog.

[@thadonmel5352]

STOP EVERYTHING THEY GOT MY MAN SANDY

[@drneil55859]

Well a good story but many problems with the plot- the Commandos why would a group parachute in to attack a military target armed only with hand guns and then engage in a fire fight with a larger force only equipped with hand guns- next during the war Wiesbaden had no heavy industry. There were several military installations around the city but most the factories were across the river in Mainz.

[@r2gelfand]

Somehow Germany is looking much like Southern California.

[@memphoonthemississippi2554]

Actually they were way off course and not only in So Cal, they're re at Lucas McCain's ranch (The Rifleman)!

[@TheFishdoctor1952]

@@memphoonthemississippi2554 and that was supposed to be in New Mexico.

[@jasonfrew2394]

I know this is totally Monday morning quarterbacking but wouldn't have been helpful to have had some kind of steel plating that you could slide back and forth alongside the right and left side cockpit windshields, just for when flak or enemy fighters would be a problem? It seems every episode a pilot is either severely wounded or killed by such attacks. Seems like movable steel plating could have reduced some of the casaulties. Just a thought.

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

They had armor around the cockpits and "bullet proof glass" so they wee protected to some degree but those aircraft had 20mm and 30 mm guns that could defeat it. .

[@stinker43]

Not likely they would have dropped a couple of commandos out of a B-17. More likely a C-47 or Lysander

[@pjzdreamz]

Hollywood has never spent much time worrying about facts. Revenue and politics are all that drives their output...especially in todays world.

[@richardpopielarz8526]

The British used Stirlings and Halifaxes to insert SOE agents at night.

[@Biffo1262]

The idea of a commando raid is to inser covertly, not jump in the glare of searchlights. If they did that the enemy would be waiting on the ground for them to land

[@johnrogan9420]

Lloyd Bochner...eine gute kommando...Als Otto Skorzeni

[@roaklin]

who cought the Hogan Hero guest star that is in this episode

[@dindinprivate3477]

Col. Crittendon LOL

[@bradwinston4670]

There was 2 of them

[@roanhielkema5714]

hmm, never knew Germany looked just like socal. Remarkable.

[@spacepatrolman]

3:25 OPENING THEME

[@jackpontiac52]

Brit Commando's got sore necks from wearing Kraut Helmets !

[@rosswarner4855]

Pathetic comments on tiny details.... Heard of artistic license? and does it matter?

[@LLuE88]

at 27:00 using compass next to his rifle = not so schmartz !

[@Fatherofheroesandheroines]

How many times can one guy get shot down?

[@spacepatrolman]

45:32 CLOSING THEME

[@banjoboy1941]

Quick march on a Commando Raid. I don't think so.

[@NewCovenantCreature]

Leave it to the British to take time out during a commando raid operation for a spot of tea. What a joke. It could've been a Hogan's Heroes episode. Commandos hardly ever let themselves get captured by the enemy, because their extreme special training on stealth, speed and strength is like no other soldier.

[@Lazarus0357]

Why didn't they took the little German girl as a POW? Most likely she knew all the German installations in the area. Regards

[@jamesfickling6571]

Lazarus0357 Or at least kept her as a war trophy

[@dindinprivate3477]

My thought exactly.

[@carolecarr5210]

What BS to fly into flak & drop men, extremely trained & experienced into flak area. I cannot be believe that.

[@bradwinston4670]

Hogan Heroes Alumni wow

[@dindinprivate3477]

A couple of airmen can outfight a Commando unit? HAHAHA They aren't even infantry trained, much less to the Commando level. Oh Well - that's Hollywood for you.

[@greywolf852]

The idea that a B-17 would drop commandoes at night over Germany is a fiction. British commandos were trained in the British jump method and were flown by British transports with special jump openings in the belly of the plane, designed like smooth funnels. A B-17 bomb bay has too many projections to allow jumpers with the bulky backpacks to get through without catching on to something. Commandos jumping with only something like a reserve chute is unthinkable. Just sayin'.

[@paulsuprono7225]

Diggan's a regular, how can he be a guest ?

[@paulw.woodring7304]

I think it has to do with how much the actor is paid, but not quite sure if he gets more or less if they are a guest star or occasional regular cast member.

[@simonhellier7281]

American stereotypes of the British are quite amusing. It’s entertaining however...

[@misternewoutlook5437]

Well, a better episode than the previous two - that's for sure. Still choppy and far-fetched (to say the least) and this third season continues to show a downgrade.

[@lsmart]

Agreed. The previous 2 were dreadful.

[@Biffo1262]

I reckon Major Mallory would have survived if he hadn't been given that cigarette. Smoking kills didn't he know.

[@teresawright4454]

Don't get me wrong but have you heard the one about the Nazi walking a bicycle?

[@spacepatrolman]

45:08 STING CHORDS

[@spacepatrolman]

10:00

[@sarran1955]

You paid how much for those sunglasses?? Thanks to WQ TV 68..:) Faithful watcher.. Cordialement,

[@robertjulian9565]

looks better in colour

[@marty9011]

Another 1940s chick in 1960s clothes & hairstyle.

[@snowflakemelter1172]

Not bad, wiped out a whole section of Germans without even cocking his 1911 pistol.

[@johnrogan9420]

Fallshirm ...parachute...gefinden bei der Heer soldens.@ 11:30

[@juanmonge8]

They killed the dog!

[@elizabethquinn1156]

Bloody evil order & unnecessary‼️👎🗣📣

[@carolecarr5210]

Goony Bird to the rescue

[@drkjk]

Colonels Savage and Gallagher and their men spent almost as much time behind enemy lines causing mischief as did Colonel Hogan and his men.

[@oncamerawithroberthenry531]

Savage was a Brigadier General.

[@adamcheong4742]

The US flyboys travel faster than the German trucks.

[@Neal_Schier]

Relieve him of his command if his group doesn't destroy flak batteries? Wow. That's a tough call when just hitting factories was a demanding task. I usually liked General Britt's character, but that scene was poorly written. Interesting that in real life Andrew Duggan was only three years older than Paul Burke. I would have thought Duggan was ten years older. By the way, it would be fun to list all the inconsistencies in this series. I don't get too critical, but these days they have continuity editors to at least keep things straight from scene to scene.

[@markfields1692]

True the lady was a spy; not in uniform.... But when the uniform is a tight sweater and a skirt it makes you want to stand at attention.

[@bryanst.martin7134]

Want hilarious? Open CC. Whoever or whatever is translating is the poster child for inept.

[@bryanst.martin7134]

Yeah, they have an AI trying to decipher british brogue. It isn't any smarter than a third world citizen. When the hot action started it was unable to offer the slightest statement, much less a real conversation. Never laughed so much during a war film. YT must be proud. :-)

[@carolecarr5210]

Why don't. They fly above the flax???

[@mystuff1405]

I wouldn’t have left that English speaking woman enemy alive. She would be capable of a lot of damage. I consider her as a spy and not in uniform.

[@dhart8451]

I can think of a few other things to do with her !!

[@rext8949]

Love thy enemy , especially if they are so fetching .

[@kevinforsythe6537]

that British guy is the same one who played on an episode of Battlestar Galactica, and wore a Nazi uniform. all black.

[@scoobbbbbydo]

witch episode cheers

[@thorpypoo]

LOL! Bullshit. I lived in Wiesbaden over 12 years. It was bombed only lightly compared to Mainz. Mainz was where the industry was concentrated. As I recall Henkel, the Sekt producer was bombed because they were producing some war related material on the side.

[@claudiostone4772]

Where are the oxygen masks?

[@novaseline4u]

That blondie is a smokin hottie!

[@Trev0r98]

kinda big-framed & lanky

[@thetruth3768]

Worse squadron in the Army Air Corp

[@ziblot1235]

What kind of Commandos cant speak any German? But they expect the Germans to all speak ENglish.

[@williambrownlee4534]

Bernard Fox ...another regular ....

[@pinetree9343]

Ahhh. California. Before it was infested.

[@johnrogan9420]

Gegeben...give up

[@tomjanning264]

Savage would have got the job done the 1st time.

[@thomasjr8360]

46:43 wow great marksmen ship.. They killed 20 germans with less rounds then the cops do to shoot one black dude....

[@nancyvandenboomen984]

That's because the germans were smart enough to quit charging and fall down after one shot.

[@cherchezlesoir7166]

What a crap...wiesbaden bever was any kibd of fortress nor was it an important target, no night missions no mixure with raf. And the precision bombing of 8 af is just a fairy tale...just carpet bombing

[@Biffo1262]

That 'verdant German' countryside and building is strikingly similar to the countryside you see in US Westerns 😂😂😂 and why is every British person named Higgins in US productions. A little more imagination might go down well. Quite frankly I cannot see why so many of you think this programme is so good. It's so bad it's laughable.

[@Neal_Schier]

Exactly. It is very much like an accident from which one cannot avert the gaze. So astoundingly bad that you simply continue watching it to enjoy the low quality of it all.

[@kenharbacek9842]

the major is dying an he wants a cigarette he should have been calling on Jesus to save his soul