Faith, Hope and Sergeant Aronson

Episode aired Jan 29, 1965
1h

IMDb RATING

8.3/10

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Antoinette Bower in 12 O'Clock High (1964)

Drama War

Gen. Savage returns from a mission gravely wounded, requiring a delicate operation to remove shrapnel endangering his heart; an operation Dr. Kaiser doesn't feel confident to perform. While ... Read allGen. Savage returns from a mission gravely wounded, requiring a delicate operation to remove shrapnel endangering his heart; an operation Dr. Kaiser doesn't feel confident to perform. While waiting for a specialist, Savage is placed in a ward next to Sgt. Aaronson who has just lo... Read allGen. Savage returns from a mission gravely wounded, requiring a delicate operation to remove shrapnel endangering his heart; an operation Dr. Kaiser doesn't feel confident to perform. While waiting for a specialist, Savage is placed in a ward next to Sgt. Aaronson who has just lost his lifetime friend to battle wounds and is also quickly losing his faith in God. Savag... Read all

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8.3/10

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Trivia
John Larkin, who played Maj. Gen. Wiley Crowe in the show, died the same day this episode premiered. Larkin appeared in several more episodes posthumously.

Goofs
Doc Kaiser eliminates Majors Stovall and Cobb as potential blood donors for General Savage because they both have Type O blood while Savage has Type AB, then tells Stovall to identify the members of the group who have Type AB because there is a severe shortage of AB blood. They later stop Sergeant Aaronson from leaving the base because he is needed as an AB donor for Savage. In actuality, the reverse situation is true: Type O blood is the "universal donor" and can be safely transfused into any blood type recipient, and Type AB is the "universal recipient" and can safely receive transfusions from any blood type donor. (Rh factor in blood typing did not become common practice in medicine until after the end of World War II.)

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6/10

Decent....not great.

When the episode begins, General Savage has been gravely wounded and he needs surgery or he'll die. However, few surgeons can do this operation...and so they're waiting until he arrives. In the meantime, the General is in the hospital where he meets and befriends Sgt. Aronson (Sorrell Booke). Savage is taken by Aronson's anger at God and spends much of the film trying to help him. By the end of the show, as you'd expect, all is well and everyone is back to work!

This is an okay episode. To wonder about a God who could allow death and suffering is natural and a reasonable topic for the show. The resolution seemed a tad pat to me...though it was still an enjoyable episode.

By the way, IMDB was right...Booke was too unfit looking to be aboard a bomber. And, you might know that he later was famous as Boss Hogg on "The Dukes of Hazzard". What you probably don't know is that he studied at Yale and Columbia and was NOT the rube he played on the show.