12 O'Clock High - Episode Guide

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 18, 1964

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1964

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1964

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 16, 1964

Savage works to transform an awkward youth (Peter Fonda) with surprising talents into an able serviceman.

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 23, 1964

Savage acts on his own initiative when he iscaught betwen his own convictions and a senator's contrary recommendations.

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1964

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 6, 1964

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 13, 1964

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 20, 1964

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Nov 27, 1964

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 4, 1964

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 11, 1964

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Dec 18, 1964

Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Dec 25, 1964

Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1965

Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Jan 8, 1965

Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1965

Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1965

Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Jan 29, 1965

Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1965

Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1965

Gen. Savage is shot down over the North Sea between England and Nazi-occupied Norway. He manages to make it to a life raft only to find he's sharing it with a downed German fighter pilot, Col Dieter. Savage has an emergency radio and Dieter is wounded, but he has the only gun in the raft, the current is pushing them toward Norway, and Allied search-and-rescue operations are seriously hampered by foul weather. For a few long hours, the war is reduced to its most basic equation, man versus man.

Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Feb 26, 1965

Episode: 1x23 | Airdate: Mar 5, 1965

Occupants of a London air-raid shelter, including Savage, become desperate when a delayed-action bomb blocks the sole exit.

Episode: 1x24 | Airdate: Mar 12, 1965

Episode: 1x25 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1965

Episode: 1x26 | Airdate: Mar 26, 1965

After returning from a rough mission, Gen. Savage reacts harshly (possibly on purpose) to a pilot that has cracked under the pressure. Lt. Kerr, a conniving opportunist looking for a way out of the fighting, sees his chance and concocts a scheme to methodically convince his fellow crew members that Savage is also cracking up. As co-pilot, that would leave Kerr free to take control of the Picadilly Lily and fly her to neutral territory, effectively taking them out of the war.

Episode: 1x27 | Airdate: Apr 2, 1965

Episode: 1x28 | Airdate: Apr 9, 1965

Episode: 1x29 | Airdate: Apr 16, 1965

Episode: 1x30 | Airdate: Apr 23, 1965

Episode: 1x31 | Airdate: Apr 30, 1965

Episode: 1x32 | Airdate: May 7, 1965

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 13, 1965

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Sep 20, 1965

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1965

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1965

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1965

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1965

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1965

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1965

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1965

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1965

The 918th is being chewed to pieces while attempting to bomb a target in Norway, so secret that even Joe Gallagher doesn't know what it is or why it's so important. In fact, in its latest try, the mission commander, Col. Christie, decides to abort and turn back only 4 minutes from the target after losing 8 out of 21 bombers, with 4 more heavily damaged, including his own. Infuriated by the excessive losses and secrecy surrounding the missions, Joe alienates his superiors when he aggressively defends Christie against a looming court martial. To the rescue, possibly, rides his father, Lt. General Gallagher, who is hellbent on getting his son his first general's star. But Joe is in no mood to discuss promotion with his friend and the reputation of the 918th teetering on the edge of oblivion.

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1965

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1965

Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1965

Off the base, JayDee Jones is working up the nerve to go on his next mission. He gets Jan Warner to sneak him back on base. He gets spotted by Chapman who is stealing 3 45 pistols to sell. JayDee's older brother Frank talks to him and tells him to straighten up. JayDee says he has had enough, he wants out. Jones and Chapman make briefing at 04:30. On takeoff JayDee over-revs his B-17's engines, but they don't have enough speed to take off. His co-pilot tries to help but the plane crashes killing the bombardier and badly injuring the co-pilot who dies later. Frank covers for his brother and says it could be a maintenance problem. Colonel Hunter the Wing G-4 (Supply) comes to investigate. Chapman sells his pistols to an Englishman who gets caught. Captain Mason from CIC comes to investigate the stolen guns. Jones co-pilot dies. Chapman and JD talk, Chapman says him will back Jones up. Hunter and Gallagher interrogate JayDee Jones, Frank Jones and Chapman. Chapman backs Jones who still can not remember

Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Dec 13, 1965

Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Dec 27, 1965

On the way back from a bombing run over the Ruhr Valley, Gallagher's battle-damaged B-17 accidentally drops its bombs on Ste. Monique, France. 1st Lieutenant Parks, the bombardier, is interrogated. A single bomb falls in the village square, killing resistance leader Pierre Fecamp. Two American pilots hiding in Ste. Monique escape: Major Coefield from the 918th and Captain Pollard from the 511th Fighter Squadron. Pollard has fallen in love with Claudine, the woman who rescued them and the daughter of Fecamp. She has brought her son to England badly wounded from the bomb's explosion, and he may lose his leg. Claudine hates Gallagher and is going to kill him. She goes with him to the 918th Officers Club and sees the pilots get drunk. Meanwhile, in Ste. Monique, Hauptman Bergdorf says they will not bomb again because of the last mission, so now they can put in a German Radar Station. On the way to Wing HQ in Archbury, Claudine tries to kill Gallagher. General Marteen orders the 918th to bomb Ste. Monique that night. In Ste Monique, German soldiers kill Marcel Lenoir as he radios information to London.

Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1966

Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Jan 10, 1966

Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Jan 17, 1966

Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1966

Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1966

Fighter pilot Harley Wilson wants to be accepted by his fellow airmen, but sometimes he tries too hard—-as when he accidentally shoots up Gallagher's B-17 while trying to down a German plane. 

Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1966

Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1966

Episode: 2x23 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1966

Episode: 2x24 | Airdate: Feb 28, 1966

Episode: 2x25 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1966

When Gallagher and a pilot who resents him are shot down over the North Sea, they're rescued and treated with surprising decency by a U-Boat commander -- but the Nazi turns out to have a sinister hidden motive.

Episode: 2x26 | Airdate: Mar 14, 1966

Episode: 2x27 | Airdate: Mar 21, 1966

A dishonorably discharged flier (James Franciscus) masquerades as a replacement pilot in order to fly one combat mission.

Episode: 2x28 | Airdate: Mar 28, 1966

Episode: 2x29 | Airdate: Apr 4, 1966

A British girl (Victoria Shaw) broadcasting for the Germans as a double agent obtains codes and frequencies for the Allies.

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Sep 9, 1966

Continuous stressful missions have made the men of 918th extremely fatigued, and put their planes in very bad shape with even more missions to come.

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Sep 16, 1966

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Sep 23, 1966

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Sep 30, 1966

Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Oct 7, 1966

Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Oct 14, 1966

Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1966

Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1966

Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1966

Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1966

Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1966

Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Dec 9, 1966

Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Dec 16, 1966

Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Dec 23, 1966

Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1966

Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Jan 6, 1967

Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1967