THE GALLANT MEN - And the End of Evil Things - 1962
"The Gallant Men" was an American television series that debuted on ABC in the fall of 1962. It followed a company of US soldiers from the Sept 1943 invasion at Salerno, and their battles up the toe of Italy. The series ran for a total of 26 episodes during 1962-63. Leading the cast is Robert McQueeney, who also narrates the story. McQueeney is a newspaper reporter who follows the company on their exploits. (Sort of an Ernie Pyle clone) The rest of the regulars are played by, William Reynolds, Robert Ridgely, Francis X Slattery, Eddie Fontaine, Roland La Starza, Roger Davis and Robert Gothie. There are the standard types sprinkled throughout, the joker, the card sharp, the loner etc. This is the 7th episode.
The company has sent out a platoon strength patrol to look for the next German positions on the upcoming series of hills. The truck they are using breaks down and the men are stranded behind the German lines. They will have to hotfoot it back home if they cannot fix the truck by daybreak.
New man, Buck Kartalian, draws the notice of the Germans when he decides to build a fire to cook a few eggs. The artillery fire puts paid to the truck ending that idea. The men start their long walk back to the American lines. At dawn, the men run into a German radio truck set up as an observation post. A brisk firefight disposes of the Germans. The US troops now plan on using the German truck for a quick lift to safety.
This idea goes south in a hurry as a German half track with a heavy machine gun and a load of infantry shows up. The Germans launch a quick attack killing four Americans and recapturing the radio truck. The surviving Americans drag their wounded along as they trudge homeward. They stumble on a two man German patrol and capture one man and his radio. The Americans use the captured German to feed false info to his higher ups.
Now there is another firefight with yet more Germans. They manage to win the engagement and make it home.
There is plenty of gun-play in this episode with men buying the big one throughout. Look close and you will spot Hans Gudegast. Gudegast would change his name to Eric Braeden, and become famous as the German officer on, THE RAT PATROL.
"The Gallant Men" was an American television series that debuted on ABC in the fall of 1962. It followed a company of US soldiers from the Sept 1943 invasion at Salerno, and their battles up the toe of Italy. The series ran for a total of 26 episodes during 1962-63. Leading the cast is Robert McQueeney, who also narrates the story. McQueeney is a newspaper reporter who follows the company on their exploits. (Sort of an Ernie Pyle clone) The rest of the regulars are played by, William Reynolds, Robert Ridgely, Francis X Slattery, Eddie Fontaine, Roland La Starza, Roger Davis and Robert Gothie. There are the standard types sprinkled throughout, the joker, the card sharp, the loner etc. This is the 7th episode.
The company has sent out a platoon strength patrol to look for the next German positions on the upcoming series of hills. The truck they are using breaks down and the men are stranded behind the German lines. They will have to hotfoot it back home if they cannot fix the truck by daybreak.
New man, Buck Kartalian, draws the notice of the Germans when he decides to build a fire to cook a few eggs. The artillery fire puts paid to the truck ending that idea. The men start their long walk back to the American lines. At dawn, the men run into a German radio truck set up as an observation post. A brisk firefight disposes of the Germans. The US troops now plan on using the German truck for a quick lift to safety.
This idea goes south in a hurry as a German half track with a heavy machine gun and a load of infantry shows up. The Germans launch a quick attack killing four Americans and recapturing the radio truck. The surviving Americans drag their wounded along as they trudge homeward. They stumble on a two man German patrol and capture one man and his radio. The Americans use the captured German to feed false info to his higher ups.
Now there is another firefight with yet more Germans. They manage to win the engagement and make it home.
There is plenty of gun-play in this episode with men buying the big one throughout. Look close and you will spot Hans Gudegast. Gudegast would change his name to Eric Braeden, and become famous as the German officer on, THE RAT PATROL.