COMBAT! s.2 ep.4: "The Long Way Home" - Pt 1 (1963)
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- The first of a two-part episode written by Edward J. Lakso and directed by Ted Post, with Vic Morrow, Richard Basehart, Jack Hogan, Pierre Jalbert, Tom Lowell, Dick Peabody, Conlan Carter, Simon Oakland, Woodrow Parfrey, Sasha Harden, Glenn Cannon, Arthur Batanides, James Sikking, Michael McDonald. Original air date: 8 October 1963.
I'm an old man now but when I hear that theme song I'm 8 yrs old again laying on the floor in front of the TV with my brother.
I guess we are about the same age. Brings back memories of my childhood.
Watch it every saturday night now. Fell asleep on this weeks episode so streaming it on youtube
Yelp in 1963 I was 18 and stayed Clued to tv watching Combat the most realistic,,,
An old man lol middle aged bro
Hello Larry, I’m Rod Yates appears we were watching the same thing in our youth.
What a pleasant surprise to see Simon Oakland!
When I was in 8th grade I hung around a radio shop on Saturdays the last hour of the day was spent watching combat. I'm 74 now and the owners Larry and John are long gone, I moved on to become an electrical engineer. My memories are not gone I love this show. Some time I want to cry.
One of the best episodes of the best TV series of WWII.
Another great episode! 👏🏼😎
More proof that COMBAT is the greatest war drama ever made!
Hell yeah I hope you belive it my favorite
Of all time . Don't care what anyone thinks .good night .TOOMBSTONE!
Agreed.totally.
Richard Basehart as an Admiral in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Simon Oakland as a General in Black Sheep Squadron, two powerful actors, lots of talent, bringing those skills to Combat...wow, along with Combat main characters, does it get any better?🤔
Depends on your point of view.🤩
I'm impressed.
basehart played admiral nelson on voyage and simon oakland played general thomas moore on black sheep squadron.
Seeing that Richard Basehart was starring in these two episodes, I knew they would be great! Richard Basehart also played a German officer in the movie Escape of the Birdmen with Doug McClure and Chuck Conners...which also was really good.
I always suspected that he was a double agent.
I believe Combat came out in 1963 and I was 18 at that time' and I was overwhelmed With Combat authentic military Equipment that
They had' and great actors like Rick Jason and Vick Morrow" which became Vick Morrow an Rick Jason
Be of Vick more popularity on Combat.....I think the writers of Combat experienced Combat themselves, to have produced
Such thrilling episodes" undoubtedly Rick Jason an Vick Morrow an Cast made this show one the interesting shows on TV....It had dramatic scenes that would make you tear
Up at times" SO many good memories watching COMBAT"
It Sadden me Vick Morrow was killed filming a movie" Rick Jason ended up Committing suicide a couple of years 💔 ago.....Sad
I saw Richard Basshart in person. He was a very short man.
The Thompson sub machine gun fires 45 caliber ammunition. So does the 45 pistol he carries. The magazine he carries for it holds a maximum of 50 rounds. At most he carries two extra magazines. The way he burns through ammo, he would be out in less than five minutes. Both the M1 and the BAR fire 30-06 ammo so it would do Saunders no good no matter how much ammo other members of the squad had. He would be engaged in a firefight armed only with a knife and a club which is what the Thompson becomes after there is no more ammo for it.
Didn't take long to learn in Vietnam, in the field, you almost never put the selector switch on your M16 on full auto. Do that and it doesn't take long to burn through the ammo you carry. Also, if you fire it full auto, you will spend more time changing magazines than you do firing.
Combat is a great and very enjoyable series with a lot of good lessons, but it's a long way from being realistic.
Beg to differ but that straight mag for the Thompson was 30 round max with smaller ones being 20, the round drum magazines popular in the 1930s movies were either 50 or 100 rounds.
@@strangher11 You are correct but your point is moot. It just means he would run through available ammunition for the Thompson even faster.
Siempre me han gustado las series de combate desde mi infancia no me las perdia los domingo a las 8 pm. Mario guerrero
Thanks for posting all these videos I have watch back to back episodes from se1 to the very last episode in color from the ones you posted ....it was on every night on cable in the 80s liked the show in my teens early 20s great show very good effects for 1964 ...
I saw this episode back in 1963, American actor Richard Basehart plays the Kraut cut-throat, but the troops defeat the krauts and escape. Sgt. Saunders and his men are great.
BASEHART ESCAPED TOO BY USING THE SEAVIEW
If this isn't yet proof, it's certaily a good example of Sergt. Saunders (Vic Morrow) proving his prowess in fighting psychological warfare against his enemy and finally outsmarting him too. Here as the main guest star, we are so fortunate to have Richard Basehart playing the S.S. captain. His deep resonant voice and his ability to imitate various accents, though here he sounds more English than German to me, gave him a wider range of rôles to play. Actually, only concentration camps were headed by S.S. officers but not POW camps. But this was neither. It was supposed to be a holding camp of some sort, so who knows? Basehart gained reknown from the late1940's on in the cinema, from "Cry Wolf", " "Fourteen Hours", then by the '50's "Moby Dick". After the sudden death of his first wife he moved to Italy marrying the actrice Valentina Cortese, played in a number of Italian movies such as "La Strada" by Fellini. By the 1960's this marriage failed and Bashart returned to the U.S. but by then the number of movie rôles for him had dried up. I am sure most of you are already aware of the TV series " Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea." Personally, one of my favorites is " The Andersonville Trial (1970) where he played the Swiss born Confederate POW commandant, Henry Wirz. After a number of strokes, Richard Basehart left us at the relatively young age of 70 in 1984. Merci pour le téléchargement:
Don't forget Knight Rider!😀👍
Thank you for the history. I adore R.B.
Wonderful tribute. Thank you.
I like combat series.!, Cause my father is a guerilla and became usaffe.,In world war 2., I remember the days., Went he tell the stories about what happen.,The sacrifice and tears of being a soldier.!,He die an age of 85.,I'm now 63 yrs old man.! That is why., I love combat and other war stories.,A true stories.!, Now a younger generation mass know.!!!
Did you have a stroke while typing this? Try learning when to use commas, periods and exclamation points. Once is a typo. You? Go back to school and uses of punctuation.
the great Richard Basehart under appreciated actor it was soon after this he got the role of Admiral Nelson on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea the TV series he also stared in " Fix bayonets and the Satan bug " he had a wide range of acting skills he was even in the pilot for the Knight Rider TV series and shortly after that he passed away from cancer . he is dearly missed .
HE DIMINISHED HIS CAREER BY TAKING ROLES IN THINGS LIKE "VOYAGE TO SEE WHATS ON THE BOTTOM"
YES, HE WAS AN EXCELLENT ACTOR. TOO BAD HE DID "VOYAGE" THOUGH, IT HAD HORRIBLE ACTING EFFORTS BY EVERYONE, PROBABLY HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE DIRECTOR & PRODUCER. IRWIN ALLEN WAS PUTTING OUT ALL SORTS OF SHOWS LIKE THAT AT THE TIME.
He was a Great Actor
@@thetruth3768 How many people know him mostly for Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea? There are probably plenty of actors who didn't have their own series that hardly anyone remembers today.
2 great episodes, should have been a full length premere, it was good enough. thanks for posting.
Gotta love this series ... I was always told the BAR man walked in the rear of the squad so to be protected and have a defended position upon attack not carrying the BAR as third man up front .....anyways, back in the day I did not know better watching this as a kid, but having lived in California you can definitely tell it was shot right in California. Eucalyptus trees, manzanita reddish hard as rock shrub/trees, bamboo sprouts, hilly dry adobe clay dirt and rolling dry hills everywhere and all those year round constant green plants and shrubs they only have in California.
If you watch there's a blooper when there in the prison camp you can see a truck driving by on the highway
I love how Saunder's first name is Sergeant
LOL I caught that too. Like Columbo's first name was "Lieutenant."
Mrs Saunders "Sergeant dinner time, come to the table son"!
One of the earlier ones said it was Chip
That was a coincidence
I worked for a jerk of an E7 who introduced himself as "My name is Sergeant First Class C********r."
Can't remember the other sarge's name, but I did notice James Sikking (later to star on Hill Street Blues) behind him.
His name was Simon Oakland. Had a long tv movie career. He passed away August 29, 1983 from cancer, on his birthday.
Sikking played the casual hit man in the Lee Marvin movie "point blank".
Richard Basehart never served!
1449...sie weider...du mit mich kommen...you continue...you come with me.
When my brother and I played outside he was always Sgt Saunders and I could be anyone except Lt Hanley he didn't want to be out ranked by his little brother. So I usually played as Littlejohn LOL
when we played, everyone was taken I played Kirby......
Richard Basehardt plays a very good German being that he was a very good American actor in his time
The German Captain is the actor Richard Basehart who played as Admiral Nelson in "Voyage to the bottom of the Sea". El capitán alemán es el actor Richard Basehart quien actuó como el Almirante Nelson en "Viaje Al Fondo del Mar".
A lot of the episodes were filmed in Franklin Canyon
You don't start a patrol without a full ammo belt and at least two bandos per rifleman. Saunders would have had seven Thompson magazines, a loaded 1911 with four more mags, and Kirby would have had a full BAR belt plus the mag in the gun, and his designated ammo bearer would have had another belt full. Kirby and his ammo bearer would have had as many loaded BAR mags as they could scrounge in their rucks. The squad would have had several frags apiece, some smoke and concussion grenades and probably some rifle grenades. Apparently in this instance they were returning from a patrol wherein they'd been in contact and worked through some of their loadout.
Very good conjecture but the boys always travel light!
It's a fine episode as far as war shows go....but....the reality would have been that the 'krauts' would have machine gunned the captured americans right on the spot of surrender. The 'boche' rarely if ever showed mercy to those captured.....
Too true.
This episode occurred BEFORE "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," which ran 1964-68.
There is also a great book called Combat a viewer's companion to the TV series by Jo Davidsmeyer
Richard Basehart made the perfect SS-Haupt Sturm Fuhrer.
Yahvol!
Well, now we know what Simon Oakland did before becoming a newspaper editor in the early 70s. :-)
Am I the only who noticed that the Death’s Head pin is too high upon the cap that Richard Basehart is wearing?
Also, curious combination of old style , "chinless" Totenkopf and Wehrmacht style eagle. Who knows?. It might have been "intentionally fudged", with Basehart not wanting to wear something "too accurate"
As much as I love combat, the wardrobe dept screwed up the german insignia beyond belief...The deaths head is wrong, besides being in the wrong spot, and the eagle above is incorrect as well..along with the sleeve eagle..
I noticed too..
Jan Koso ㅈㅅ
Caje put his watch under his beret so the Germans wouldn't take it. Amazing how the writers knew to put that little tid bit in there for realism.
Looks like Franklin Canyon where Andy and Opie walked by those two big rocks in the opening scene.
my family fought in the dutch resistance, in the winter of 44 they took all the food my aunt was tortured by the gestapo, i would not give you a plugged nickel for a soviet soldier or german one , i think the only people in this war with any ouncce of humnity was le americaine, they were different then, damn boche rot in hell
Good episode
9:34 - Qpie's and Pa's fishing hole.
The great Simon Oakland, in another great performance! YOUNG and a baby, he still had hair!!!
The squad is in a rough spot but at least they weren't sent to Stalag 13 AKA the toughest prison camp in all of Germany. There's no escaping the Iron Colonel!
28:25 I was really hoping there’d be a scene in there where Doc steps forward and just writes “Doc” on the roster
Admiral Nelson from the Seaview
And the private pow is James B. Sikking, he was the SWAT leader on "Hill Street Blues" and a hundred other things, this was one of his first roles and billed as Jim Sikking.
14:06 guy drinking the water, was the carpetbagger in the outlaw josey wales
@@apeflawless Private Gates aka Woodrow Parfrey
They know the German speaks English and they shout out for all to hear how little ammo they have left.
If I know Saunders, Steiner's goose is already cooked!
I REALLY GET TIRED OF THE COMMENTS THAT SAY A CERTAIN BUTTON OR RIBBON OR MEDAL OR INSIGNIA, ETC, ETC ISNT CORRECT. THIS & MOST OTHER PRODUCTIONS ARE ON LOW & TIGHT BUDGETS. BE GLAD IT'S AS GOOD AS IT IS.
FUCKIN A.
And also Combat was known for a lot of accuracy in their research. Many people here are nitpicking. When you are doing a TV series that is quite a grind from what I've heard. It's 12-14 hour days...especially for a one hour show which is said by many actors to be 3 times the work of a half-hour show.
All in all I think ABC and the producers did a great job on this show. Every penny is on the screen.
Why aren't they wearing division patches.
And I'm just the opposite. Sure, it's a tough job getting all the facts and details right, but at least nobody died because of a screwup. But it increases my knowledge of the history of WWII when people point out details like this. And you could've have just ignored the comments if they bother you so much.
Gawd, well said. Thank you!
Brutal experiences..
Hypnotic comfortable sit...less energy
Nobody commented that the entire squad is not wearing their helmets?
It would appear to be a lightly-equipped recon patrol sent out to gather intel and to cover as much ground as possible, as quickly as possible and preferably without engaging the enemy. Note the absence of backpacks and the limited ammo carried by each squad member.
The blackened faces, absence of helmets, fatigue and blisters would seem to indicate that it had started out the evening before as a night patrol. Helmets were never worn at night because they made too much noise, especially when a squad moved through thick vegetation.
To this, one needs to add the problem of sound being greatly amplified at night, hence, I suppose, the logical decision to leave helmets behind.
I did wonder about Sarge not wearing his famous camo helmet, but hey - recon patrol.
@@TheEvilDrR yes, ionly ssued to the Marine Corps from 1942....not standard issue in the US army!
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"You are surrounded, you best surrender."
* starts shooting *
This is Sgt Saunders show .he can shoot if he pleases ,besides we don't know if it was in the script or not!
I probably would,not give the BASTARDS my loaded machine gun either would you?
I remember watching Combat or Friday nights with my authentic Dick Tracy Tommy Gun
Sarge is right.
It's all in the timing.
I don't understand the few who do not like it. Why would they watch it if they do not like?
I have noticed that the SS officer was a starring in TV show The voyage under the Bottom of the Sea in 1960s.
I've loved "Combat" since I was a kid in the early 60's. Not to "nitpik" but in reality a Sergeant (E-5) in a front line recon role like Saunders wouldn't be given ANY Strategic information whatsoever for fear of capture. Saunders should have freely gave information in exchange for good treatment, hot food, cigarettes, etc, for his men since he wouldn't have enough information to truly help his captors. Taking care of my men would come first, but it is just TV...
Btw, GREAT Episode!!
The difference between this generation and the Greatest Generation...
Opie and Andy's fishing pond?
Yup, good old Franklin Canyon
HOW many medals would saunders have gotten if he was a real soldier
He would have out-medaled Sir Audie. I'm only at the start of season 2 and I've already counted over 30 purple hearts, a couple dozen or so each bronze and silver stars and DSM, and at least six MOH. With my luck they'd have written me an MSM and downgraded it to a stinkin ARCOM.
They’d have to stop giving them out because his squad would take every one of them they made 😂😭
Ok now first time I seen the German got the sarge and his men don't worry sarge will get then out great one. Great one
It looks like Simon Oakland is in this. I don't see Richard Basehart.
Any chance of uploading the The Gallent Men series as well.
The show is very honest about brutality and very affluent in it's expression. This show isn't real.
Combat, Is not the real thing TV that's all thank you
Richard Basehart?
The Germans were combat troops, therefore were the Waffen SS, nothing to do with the "plain" SS, the ones in charge of concentration camps and persecuting anti-Nazi civilians. The Waffen SS were sort of "normal" troops with extra training and better equipment. Regards
SS were fanatical for Hitler, they have been in this army branch for that !!! they have donne terrible murders on civilian populations and militiary POW. Not warriors, just murderers with an uniform...
9:30 Hey they're in Mayberry.
Crowne is Cole now, lol.
the tortured prisoner wouldn't escape with papillon in 1974 either!!!
Do i have a choice? True scenarios.
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Combat.I was in the house of Marshal in high school sports.Lakso.Kalso wheel burrows in a magazine Germans were taking their wages home in wheel burrows that was 1970 s.
for my knowledge about the SS I never knew they took prisoners
+Jack Olson Yes, they did sometimes take prisoners - that way they could try to get info -- sometimes they took prisoners and then killed them, i.e., Malemade (sp?). Sometimes they just killed them.
That's true and "A Bridge Too Far" accurately depicts what happened at Arnhem. I've heard American soldiers from WW2 say that they did not always take prisoners. It probably depends on the situation. In general the Germans treated their western enemies better than they treated the Russians because the Russians did not sign the Geneva Convention and I believe did not observe it.
How uncanny that Europe just looks like Southern California.
+Withab BJ Yes, if you have been to Southern France, you would know that.
Withab BJ :-)
That must have only carried 2or3 clips on this patrol.
Yea I kind of wondered why no helmet nor spare mags. Some kind of super light patrol behind enemy lines?
Both sides experienced IT
17:30...Captain of police 🚔on the Steve McQueen movie "bullit"
James Sikking.
6:28 - ...so he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something, his hat. 5 long years he wore this watch, up his hat,
These guys surrendered more than any other soldiers in history. Also its strange that they ran out of ammunition so often. GIs tended to carry 2X the ammunition German soldiers did.
were these characters [american soldiers] or any of the incidents in the episodes based on anyone or event in real life
Just a thought, where do they pack their helmets? They're not on their backs!!!
Richard basehart. Wow
Thats Tony Dow. Wally Cleaver from part 2 ain't it?
German officers always used a machine gun in the front lines if they were lt
name, rank, serial number..oops they've already hacked the serial number.
I am trying to figure out why they are not wearing helmets.
Recon Patrol
Cliff Taylor Helmets make too much noise for night patrol.
+Cliff Taylor I'm trying to figure out why they did not carry enough ammo.Also the Kraut uniforms are not very authentic appearing.
Well don't hurt yourself.
Don't ask don't tell
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Richard baseheart skipper. On voyage too the bottom of the sea .on board the sea view
Did anybody else see Saunders shooting into dead American when they were stuck in the divot at 3:32 Love this show
A bit pointless the US soldier trying to run away / escape when they were being marched, and later when another escaped, surely you would use more cover.
Let me guess:
This two-parter is going to be like the movie "Stalag 18"?
You mean Stalag 17 with William Holden?
The SS trooper called the Captain(Hauptsturmfuhrer)"Obersturmfuhrer),which is a first lieutenant.They should do better research.
Porque no lo traducen al castellano
Part II it
Steiner...most SS in movies have that name...Deutsche Fallschimjager
Richard Basehart, the best face as a German SS officer. However, German uniform is incomplete, ie: Totenkopf should be lower in his hat, collar SS ranking should be shilver-lined. Again, however, its nice TV story, and impressive German SS well-expressed, even for me, a Japanese. I watched this movie in my youth, which drove me German-fan.
Watch it! Dr. Dummkopf!
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Enjoyed the series as a kid but now I have an easy time picking out all the mistakes these supposed soldiers make. Good for Hollywood, but they could be fatal in actual combat.
Love the series, but sometimes the stupidity of the guys ticks me off. He could have easily crawled away from the soccer game, but no ding dong had to stand up and run like a gazell!
No helmets.
LT: SGT: Caje:1 Kirby: LJ:
Aus stehen...stand up
so cage cluncked the soldier and the next morning cage is still alive.not a very convincing story!