William Reynolds

. The fourth series from QM Productions after "The New Breed", "The Fugitive", and "Twelve O'Clock High", "The F.B.I." was Quinn Martin's longest running action series. It was unique as its stories were apparently supervised by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover himself, no less. (Martin later allowed that Hoover was less concerned with the storylines but watched over the presentation of proper Bureau procedure with eagle eyes.) In its first year, the show allowed occasional human moments. Inspector Lewis Erskine lost his wife in a job-related shoot-out. His daughter, Barbara, was engaged to Special Agent Jim Rhodes, a match not altogether approved of by Erskine. Barbara was gone after the first year.

The Gallant Men tells the story of an infantry company as it fought its way up the boot of Italy in World War II. The company is led by the determined young captain Jim Benedict. The action is seen through the eyes of a war correspondent, which made this show unique in the genre. The show aired on the same network as Combat, which outlasted it by four years.