This one is the classic 'guy gets shot down over enemy territory and has to figure a way out'. This has been seen in so many shows and movies. Be it, Star, both Wars and Trek, be it 12 O'Clock High, be it Combat! be it Piece of Cake, Wings (the 1977 one look it up) hell, I think there's a Hogan's Heroes like this! Still, a good one.
Rene Auberjonois is in this one and he's very good. There are a couple of scenes where he really shows his chops. Spoiler, he's a better actor than Robert Conrad. Another spoiler, Conrad keeps up.
Why are they on an island off the coast of Labrador?
Pappy was actually shot down of course and ended up in transit on Truk, where they attack on the show, and where at the end of the episode you will hear a real newsreel from the time that pappy is ctually in (you can't really easily make him out from the air, but he talks about it in Baa Baa Black Sheep).
This is, as usual, a fun one.
Whitmore steals every scene he is in, killer performance this week.
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