Here it is 2023 52 years old I love world war 2 movies.. I have to say this is the best series on ww2 stories I've ever seen.. I've been like totally.. addicted for like the last 6-7 years since I discovered.. combat.. 👍👍👍 thank you for the uploads my friend ... And I recently discovered from reading the comets a lot of the actors will WWII and Korean veterans.. God bless them service and contributing to the series... Acting is superb
One of the best things about this series from the sixties, many of the actors were actually WWII and Korean War veterans that knew exactly how to portray the combat soldier. Acting from the real experience.
So was a large majority of the audience watching these. Many remembered, first hand, being in Britain and then fighting through France and Italy ending up in Austria and Germany.
The locomotive, if anyone is interested, is Virginia & Truckee No. 11, built 1872; a veteran of many film roles. As of 2022, it's supposed to be being restored after a 1995 fire caused considerable damage to it.
I remember living in Mexico at the age eleven or twelve years old. Combat was our favorite show, we waited every week to watch Combat. It was translated in Spanish, what a great show it was! This show thought me to love and admire the American people. God bless the USA.
My father loved this show, i guess he grew up with it. They put it back on tv a few times in syndication through my lifetime. I watched it with my dad a few xs before he died .. rip dad
This TV series was my main motivation for taking three years of German language classes in High school (1967-1970) a skill set that served me well during my (cold war) tour of duty in Nuremberg (1976-1979)
You are right, and RAT PATROL as well... I learned a lot of German being based at Canadian Forces Base LAHR in the late 1980's!! Forgot at least half now, no one to practice with in Vancouver, not even any German restaurants!!
Major Rick , I grew up watching combat and was convinced to join the army because of the show had two years of h.s. German and was stationed near Ansbach 81 to 83 . Loved every minute of it
I remembered fust watching this when my dad was stationed in Ft Benning Georgia...I remember once sitting in my dad's lap pretenting I was driving a Deuce...Such ffg ond memories as a child...My dad was a Decorated Veteran of World War II, Korea and the first stages of Vietnam...He is gone now...RIP dad, but watching this shows brings memories of my dad and my childhood...RIP SFC Byrd....my Dad
This series has and will survive the test of time. I was 8 years old when it debuted and me and my two brothers and school friends never missed an episode. Of course we acted out the show as we played army we called in the woods around our houses.
Me too,I was a kid when this came on our Admiral black and white TV. All us boys had toy guns and would creep through the bushes. Sometimes one of was even a Kraut. "Yah volt, snell snell!"
Great episode, thought I saw them all but dont remember this one. Excellent script and cast. Loved the line after the the kid was killed after Sgt Martinez went to get some eggs out of the barn, Saunders tells him with a stern reality "now you know the price of eggs!".
I remember these combat movies, when I was younger it was the 2nd to the last that was broadcast late night the last was the rat patrol I had to secretly watch them at night so not to get in trouble for being up to late,they all have a very good story line and a war that had to be fought WE don't have movies of this quality anymore when they try to tell what to think do and act, I will never comply, thank GOD to all that fought to end the scorn of ethnic cleansing, history has a way of repeating itself, I do not comply. My father was WW2 and said never again and explained a lot of these movies to me when I was young and later joined the military, GOD BLESS AMERICA AND ALL THE ALIES THAT FOUGHT IN IT.
Sarge was always the perfect mother hen, despite being tough as nails. No one was too insignificant for him to go back and help. He'd never let you down - and his guys knew it.
Personally the characters portrayed in the Saunders and Caje were leaders that you could trust. If i found myself in WWII, I hope that I had men like that in my company, platoon or squad.
When I first watched Combat as a young boy, I always thought Saunders was a pain in the neck and hard on his men. Now, 50 - 60 years later, I realize he's the first person you would want in a foxhole with you. He truly cared for his men and he was harsh on them only because he wanted them to all get home safely.
It's amazing how Saunders can end up with a rag tag team and still make a good go of it. I always love how they blend the historical photos in to make it more realistic back then when they didn't have all the fancy computers like they do now.
Saving private Ryan and band of brothers. The production is very good. They act as real soldiers because they went to boot camp and how to handle and how to shoot weapons that makes the movie good.
I’m sure that many scribes 🖋️ were critical of the Gutenberg press when that printed books. I have neighbors who decry the loss of fossil fuel transportation and power plants. But I counter that fossil fuels ended lighting by candles and whale oil lamps. Every new technology sub plants the previous ones. That’s progress and if it’s better then what was available before then people get used to it. Otherwise humans would be striking flints for making fire 🔥. Just sayin …
I was in 2nd year HS when I started to watch Combat series in our dorm. When it came to votation everytime on Fridays... Combat always was the winner!! So we watched it every week!!
331SVTCobra Slight correction. S 1 Ep 1 The Forgotten Front - At the end Saunders asked Caje not to tell Doc that he had killed the German - and Caje then told Saunders he had not killed him. Saunders then turns around and said he was glad he hadn't killed him.
Joseph... you are correct, the show had to end that way for 1960s TV. The US always had to be the goodguys. ...But what the show accomplished was conveying that the Germans were human beings, and that war puts US soldiers in morally difficult positions. Whoever played Cage did a great job with that scene.
I have so much love for this show!! I love the whole cast so much. sad that they're all gone now. I love Rick Jason who Sadly committed suicide and Vic who died filming the movie, Twilight Zone as we all know. these two died tragically. love them all so much.
My favorite line from this one is when the other Sargent wants to go the other way, and the guy says "sorry friend you got your stripes with a blow torch, he got his using that", pointing to Saunders Thompson. LOL
@William Markey T is for Technician. His rank is actually Technician 3rd class which was the technician equivalent to a sergeant. Technicians are enlisted personel who have knowledge of some useful skill like a mechanic
That guy was absolutely right. He was a Technical Sergeant, with no say or authority over anyone, not even the newest private. Simply getting paid for his skill, with only authority over his own equipment. My father was one, in Artillery spotting, I was one also, for a month, as a specialist 5. then the Army did away with it, deciding that all sergeants had to be trained leaders.
An excellent COMBAT! episode , superb cast all around , all of them , professional character actors . Many of them , in this episode , at a rather early time period of their careers, and soon to be part of an up coming TV series at that time , and an interesting story , certainly one of the more difficult situations , Saunders would find himself in . Been watching these guys since their original Network run , and I'm still unable to get enough of these episodes! To me , they're timeless "gems" of what once was.............
Only weak point in the details was the TRAIN MODEL- Every Railroad Fan could see, this one was a classical US-American train. Besides, a truely enjoyable one to watch Next to episodes like THE WALKING WOUNDED this one tried to bring in some realism about the hardships of fighting in WW II FRANCE.
Same here, first time I began watching this I was 8 years old and living in Indiana. Love it then and still loving it, you ask me, for its time this was the best war serie ever!!
The real war footage of the German's artillery onslaught was pretty amazing. I remember watching this Combat series as a kid back then. Me and my buddies used to play acting as American soldiers . The problem was, everbody wanted to become Sargeant Saunders. 😂😂
Watching this episode like all the other ones is that sgt Saunders always comes up with good ideas along the way to obtain the objective even in every scene
LUCKY you never had to carry a weapon in real combat, I found that out at age 23... Joined the Army to get training courses and ended up in 2 different wars!!
I watched this episode movies on tv during my secondary school days around 70s that so funny we only had a black in white tv! Of course at that time we were so enjoyed watching the movie that we kept on waiting from one episode to an others and we would never miss them! So far this was one of the best war movie just to show us how was the combat scenario going on during WWII! All actors acted originaly as they were in the true war!
One of best episodes of the entire run of this series, very interesting story, with an excellent group of well known character actors. Vic, is at his best, and handles the situation, like a pro, a frightening experience, to be left behind, after your unit has pulled out, and be caught up in an enemy offensive.......
That was the point of the shows and all the toy army men, to get young boys to grow up and into the army where they could be used, abused and disposed of at will.
Cool! An episode that I don't remember seeing before. I may have seen it back in the 60's but I can't recall. I really enjoy seeing episodes that I don't already know the endings to. Thanks again for posting these Classics!
@@charlesbates6178 Considering the tactics portrayed in Combat!, that is pretty bad and worse that they were not trained better. I think the show's crew could have done a little better considering they had plenty of WW2 vets on the set of the show. But it was an Altman drama and did not need to be too detailed with civilian viewers.
LOTS of guys in 40's got drafted, also men looked older then as well as smoking was epidemic, as well as drinking after the end of prohibition. According to many from back then, alcoholism was tolerated in many workplaces, as well as drinking (while having lunch at a bar) and returning to work... different times!!!
@@TheSpritz0 I do NOT believe "a lot of guy's in their 40's" were being drafted. The military was not that hard up. There were plenty of young healthy guys enlisting. There was no need to draft older men. Older men were working in factories.
@@ellisjames7192 You are probably right, but as I understand it, the age drafted was up to 45. That may have included more professional people like doctors and nurses, etc.
The U.S. Army soldier who could speak German, and earlier broke his glasses, was a psychiatrist on an early episode of M.A.S.H. He recommended not breaking up the 4077th. Great Actors/Actresses on Combat, who got early starts on television! Also, Telly Savalas’ brother, George, who was later on the movie Kelly’s Heroes and Kojak.
The immortal Anthony Holland who did an after shave commercial - thanx I needed that as fighter pilot falling asleep. Later suicide. Might have been gay.
Excellent episode, as always. But clearly at 39:50 all Cooper (George Savalas) was concerned about was the location of the dining car. Loved this show growing up.
After all the combat, stress and BS Saunders went through you just knew he had to come home a PTSD patient. Yet there's no denying his character is a larger than life hero!
I once overheard a conversation about Saunders drinking too much after the war and getting into trouble with the law. So he decided to move up north across the border. But he was denied a visa to cross the border because they were afraid that he’d drink Canada Dry 😅. Just mirthing …
Yeah, as a former Marine officer I often cringe at their small unit tactics. But that's ok, because the show is about people and not military precision. IMO, it's the best war drama ever produced.
I'm now 65 years old (2024). I can remember watching this series when I was 7 years old and also the Combat! trading cards which came out of the bubble gum machine's.
Two years later, Steve Gravers portrayed another man named Martinez in an episode of Bonanza, "To Kill a Buffalo." According to writer Jess Carneol, who contributed rewrites to both episodes, the Martinez in the Bonanza episode is the grandfather of the Martinez in Combat!.
Altman really knew how with music to deliver an awesome intro. I look forward to the intros in every Combat! episode. I would love to be able to do that with my videos.
As a musician I feel the musical score was and is a rarely equalled work for any TV show ever. Altman knew his business. So sad that his talented screenplay direction came to an end during the first series for being 'disobedient' to his production bosses views in the stellar episode in which Saunders was badly burned. Morrow played his role in the episode gut wrenchingly well. Someone was jealous of Altman's production bravado I suspect. Being an Australian, I got to watch the 63 & 64 series here later in about 66/68 as a child and never saw the colour episodes. Our involvement in Vietnam made it unpopular and it was stopped. The quality of the acting and the many recognised actors that turned up on other American TV shows for decades afterwards is astounding.
The very best part of this series is the actual French and German languages used! I am 74 and I learned enough of both because I wanted to! No education is bad, and my parents couldn't believe that this TV show made me want to learn!😊!
Ask and you shall receive. Finally on the last reel of this episode, we have some 1944 era German tanks on the flatcars at the very end of this episode. Those are indeed PanzerKampwagen IV's (4's), on those flatcars. Most likely the H model.
The T is technicians paygrade- a private with no command position or responsibility payed as the corrispondent combat non-commissioned officers. So a Tech-5 is a private who got the same check as his sergeant E-5 because he was a radioman, a translator, a mechanic - but had no training to lead anyone anywhere.
remember watching the colour ones in the 70s would build the cushions from my mums couch like sandbags in front of the tv and watch it with my toy machine gun great memorys.
Growing up in the 50s and 60s, Combat! and The Fugitive were my favorites. I wanted to be like Saunders: cool, brave, smart, and most of all, able to handle a Thompson, just like him! 😂
You know it amazed me how many of these actors were fluent in German. I recall an episode with a very young James Caan where his performance was completely in German!
Oh the show is amazing I just cry. I love how so much emotion is involved real stuff it is. I love how Vince get in their face and tell them to do it now its your job. He so awesome he was.
I remember watching this GREAT PROGRAM back in 1966 I was 6 YRS old. My dad and I watching it on our black & white T.V. even though the program WAS BLACK & WHITE.
Always loved Combat and played it as a kid. We had the make believe Nazis pinned down all over the neighborhood. I also got a Combat Action kit for Christmas that had a GI helmet with net and a camo Tommy gun.
Where'd y'all say yer brother was a staying when combat was on every thursday evenings at 8:00 in south Vietnam? Iffen yer bruder was in Vermont as you said! Then my question to you sir is. Why is it that every other at guy with yo age and training Is over theyr in got dam Vietnam fighting! and yer brother is so is skiing in Vermont? Are yall out yo motherfucking minds!! Send that boy to Afghanistan as a motherfucking cook we got to cook some brownie motherfuckers an y'all and yer bruder skiing in.Vermont tait proper I say
Combat was it!!!. Everything we did as little kids was playing army men. We pretended we go on a patrol. If we didn't do that we be playing army men with our plastic sildiers.
I had battalions of plastic soldiers and artillery and it was fun to out smart my buddies. Army and most war movies I loved, Combat was and still my favorite.
I noticed the same vintage film from the battle field that shows the Germans doing their thing is used quite a few times from episode to episode. Been binge watching from the start of the series, and this film on this episode has so far been used 8 times. Still a reality check on the horrors of what the fighting men went through.
Yeah, same here. I been watching episodes every day for weeks. When you see them that way you notice many different scenes and locations used over & over again. When you only see one show every week as when it first aired you'd never realize that kind of thing.
@@bolinfan1519 There was NO shortage of film. The war lasted long enough, there was plenty of film. It was simply easier to just use what they had used before. Saves time and money.
MichaelMMiddleton98 Of course its good writing. Combat! was a war/action drama. A lot of folks don't look at the show for being a drama. It was never meant to depict an actual battle but portray the human aspect of war. The lesson is war sucks even for the right reasons. It was a Selmur Productions Robert Altman masterpiece. He was a fantastic director, screenwriter, and producer.
Has anyone noticed that almost all of the stragglers in the squad were carrying M1 Carbines?? Where did they all come from all of a sudden? Only good for short range.
The Mustang was a great fighter and tank killer. Sgt. Saunders and his men were very happy to see the most important weapon we had in a long time. This episode showed some of the best combat footage. Thanks for letting us see this episode.
Here it is 2023 52 years old I love world war 2 movies.. I have to say this is the best series on ww2 stories I've ever seen.. I've been like totally.. addicted for like the last 6-7 years since I discovered.. combat.. 👍👍👍 thank you for the uploads my friend ... And I recently discovered from reading the comets a lot of the actors will WWII and Korean veterans.. God bless them service and contributing to the series... Acting is superb
Check out the mini series Band of Brothers. It is also very well done. I watched original broadcast & still watch reruns. Combat& Gunsmoke👍🏻.
We got to watch this when I mnaged to make it to the rear when I was in Viet-Nam, Armed Forced TV.
Often It's Not Acting But Telling Realistic Stories That Happened.
Check out Eight Iron Men great movie and Sea of Sand.😎
One of the best things about this series from the sixties, many of the actors were actually WWII and Korean War veterans that knew exactly how to portray the combat soldier. Acting from the real experience.
Yes, I noticed that...... Vic Morrow was good at those small details. Being a veteran, myself.
So was a large majority of the audience watching these. Many remembered, first hand, being in Britain and then fighting through France and Italy ending up in Austria and Germany.
Morrow was in the navy. Not much ground pounding there
Are you kidding? The way Kirby slings the bullet out of the barrel of his bar is ridiculously 🤣 FUNNY
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I'm so glad to find this on here I grew up on these shows
The locomotive, if anyone is interested, is Virginia & Truckee No. 11, built 1872; a veteran of many film roles. As of 2022, it's supposed to be being restored after a 1995 fire caused considerable damage to it.
Cool 😎
Nice, thanks! I've always loved trains.
Is it in a museum?
I remember living in Mexico at the age eleven or twelve years old. Combat was our favorite show, we waited every week to watch Combat. It was translated in Spanish, what a great show it was! This show thought me to love and admire the American people. God bless the USA.
I ALWAYS watched when I was 9 yrs old , I can't get enough of these great heroic stories * today I turned 66
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I am a few years younger, but ditto...
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Born 55 loved them..
I was born 8/55
These great shows bring me back to childhood and my adolescent years !
My father loved this show, i guess he grew up with it. They put it back on tv a few times in syndication through my lifetime. I watched it with my dad a few xs before he died .. rip dad
It's amazing the scrips they turned out back then considering how many episodes per season they filmed.
They had to be up to snuff. The vets who actually fought the war were watching the show. Any nonsense would have led to an uproar.
This TV series was my main motivation for taking three years of German language classes in High school (1967-1970)
a skill set that served me well during my (cold war) tour of duty in Nuremberg (1976-1979)
Me too! From 1964 - 70 I watched so many WWII TV shows & movies that I chose to take German in high school. Worth it.
@@kevinohalloran7164 I also. But a little later...74 to 76.
You are right, and RAT PATROL as well... I learned a lot of German being based at Canadian Forces Base LAHR in the late 1980's!!
Forgot at least half now, no one to practice with in Vancouver, not even any German restaurants!!
Major Rick , I grew up watching combat and was convinced to join the army because of the show had two years of h.s. German and was stationed near Ansbach 81 to 83 . Loved every minute of it
@@pep590 combate. Es castellano
The guy who played "Cooper" was Telly Savalas' brother George. He later played "Mulligan" in Kelly's Heros.
Don't forget he also played opposite his brother Telly Savalos in the '80's tv show "Kojak".
@@williamdean4101 Yeah kojak was a decent show. "Who loves ya baby!" Lol
@@b3j8 Hey, Stavros!
Thanks 👍👍
I remembered fust watching this when my dad was stationed in Ft Benning Georgia...I remember once sitting in my dad's lap pretenting I was driving a Deuce...Such ffg ond memories as a child...My dad was a Decorated Veteran of World War II, Korea and the first stages of Vietnam...He is gone now...RIP dad, but watching this shows brings memories of my dad and my childhood...RIP SFC Byrd....my Dad
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I was growing up, during this time period as well. Loved this show, Lassie & Walt Disney !
This series has and will survive the test of time. I was 8 years old when it debuted and me and my two brothers and school friends never missed an episode. Of course we acted out the show as we played army we called in the woods around our houses.
Me too,I was a kid when this came on our Admiral black and white TV. All us boys had toy guns and would creep through the bushes. Sometimes one of was even a Kraut. "Yah volt, snell snell!"
@@caseyj.1332 Yeah I remember the old Admiral TV 'S
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Great episode, thought I saw them all but dont remember this one. Excellent script and cast. Loved the line after the the kid was killed after Sgt Martinez went to get some eggs out of the barn, Saunders tells him with a stern reality "now you know the price of eggs!".
I remember these combat movies, when I was younger it was the 2nd to the last that was broadcast late night the last was the rat patrol I had to secretly watch them at night so not to get in trouble for being up to late,they all have a very good story line and a war that had to be fought WE don't have movies of this quality anymore when they try to tell what to think do and act, I will never comply, thank GOD to all that fought to end the scorn of ethnic cleansing, history has a way of repeating itself, I do not comply. My father was WW2 and said never again and explained a lot of these movies to me when I was young and later joined the military, GOD BLESS AMERICA AND ALL THE ALIES THAT FOUGHT IN IT.
Sarge was always the perfect mother hen, despite being tough as nails. No one was too insignificant for him to go back and help. He'd never let you down - and his guys knew it.
and he could always reach in that jacket and pull out a loaded magazine. lol
Personally the characters portrayed in the Saunders and Caje were leaders that you could trust. If i found myself in WWII, I hope that I had men like that in my company, platoon or squad.
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When I first watched Combat as a young boy, I always thought Saunders was a pain in the neck and hard on his men. Now, 50 - 60 years later, I realize he's the first person you would want in a foxhole with you. He truly cared for his men and he was harsh on them only because he wanted them to all get home safely.
It's amazing how Saunders can end up with a rag tag team and still make a good go of it. I always love how they blend the historical photos in to make it more realistic back then when they didn't have all the fancy computers like they do now.
Saving private Ryan and band of brothers. The production is very good. They act as real soldiers because they went to boot camp and how to handle and how to shoot weapons that makes the movie good.
I’m sure that many scribes 🖋️ were critical of the Gutenberg press when that printed books. I have neighbors who decry the loss of fossil fuel transportation and power plants. But I counter that fossil fuels ended lighting by candles and whale oil lamps. Every new technology sub plants the previous ones. That’s progress and if it’s better then what was available before then people get used to it. Otherwise humans would be striking flints for making fire 🔥. Just sayin …
Excellent..brings back memories.. Watching this series as a kid ..older brothers kid around about the good old days .. Golden age of television.
I was in 2nd year HS when I started to watch Combat series in our dorm. When it came to votation everytime on Fridays... Combat always was the winner!! So we watched it every week!!
Much of the show was filmed in Griffith Park in LA. That is why they cross the same stream in every other episode! Great show.
Rest in peace, Pierre. You were a solid contributor to a great show.
The episode where he had to kill a prisoner that couldn't keep up with them, he did a good job freaking out.
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Slight correction. S 1 Ep 1 The Forgotten Front - At the end Saunders asked Caje not to tell Doc that he had killed the German - and Caje then told Saunders he had not killed him. Saunders then turns around and said he was glad he hadn't killed him.
Joseph... you are correct, the show had to end that way for 1960s TV. The US always had to be the goodguys.
...But what the show accomplished was conveying that the Germans were human beings, and that war puts US soldiers in morally difficult positions. Whoever played Cage did a great job with that scene.
331SVTCobra Right on. You belong in K Company, Cobra.
Caje, played by Pierre Jalbert, They called him Caje because he was a French Cajun from Lousiana Bayou country
Just can’t enough of these series
I’ve been watching them since the age of 9.5 yrs old great to watch but not to experience that’s a fact !!!!
I have so much love for this show!! I love the whole cast so much. sad that they're all gone now.
I love Rick Jason who Sadly committed suicide and Vic who died filming the movie, Twilight Zone
as we all know. these two died tragically. love them all so much.
I did not know that Rick Jason committed suicide?
You may be gladdened to know that Jack Hogan, the man who played Kirby, is still kicking at age 92. He retired from acting a long time ago, however.
Tremendous communication...that was not lost nor forgotten USA agreed
And the USA too
Jack Hogan, aka Kirby and Conlin Carter, aka Doc and still alive and kicking!
My favorite line from this one is when the other Sargent wants to go the other way, and the guy says "sorry friend you got your stripes with a blow torch, he got his using that", pointing to Saunders Thompson. LOL
@William Markey T is for Technician. His rank is actually Technician 3rd class which was the technician equivalent to a sergeant. Technicians are enlisted personel who have knowledge of some useful skill like a mechanic
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That was a sweet line
That guy was absolutely right. He was a Technical Sergeant, with no say or authority over anyone, not even the newest private. Simply getting paid for his skill, with only authority over his own equipment. My father was one, in Artillery spotting, I was one also, for a month, as a specialist 5. then the Army did away with it, deciding that all sergeants had to be trained leaders.
One of my favorite show COMBAT staring Vic Morrow and Rick Jayson classics soldiers I love in it.
An excellent COMBAT! episode , superb cast all around , all of them , professional character actors . Many of them , in this episode , at a rather early time period of their careers, and soon to be part of an up coming TV series at that time , and an interesting story , certainly one of the more difficult situations , Saunders would find himself in . Been watching these guys since their original Network run , and I'm still unable to get enough of these episodes! To me , they're timeless "gems" of what once was.............
Diary of a madman xxx
Only weak point in the details was the TRAIN MODEL- Every Railroad Fan could see, this one was a classical US-American train. Besides, a truely enjoyable one to watch
Next to episodes like THE WALKING WOUNDED this one tried to bring in some realism about the hardships of fighting in WW II FRANCE.
Perfectly stated
@@rogerlynch5279 Malachi Throne's character actually does say that the train was American made and, facetiously, likely from the First War.
I watched this growing up in the early 60's as a young lad. Now 50yrs later still watching it. Love Sgt Saunders, Kirby, Little John
Same here, first time I began watching this I was 8 years old and living in Indiana. Love it then and still loving it, you ask me, for its time this was the best war serie ever!!
Another network put out a WWII combat-drama series too called "The Gallant Men". It wasn't as good as "Combat!".
Dont forget Caje and Lt. Hanley:)
My mom smile when saw you comment because same fav story like u too now she 50'
@@marvinbush5278 It wasn't bad. Focused on Italy and a bit higher (Company Commander, XO and 1SG were the main characters).
The real war footage of the German's artillery onslaught was pretty amazing. I remember watching this Combat series as a kid back then. Me and my buddies used to play acting as American soldiers . The problem was, everbody wanted to become Sargeant Saunders. 😂😂
Except that the footage of prewar British tanks attacking US forces Normandy is amusing...
This was also back in the days before VCR or DVD so nobody worried about minor historical or continuity errors.
@@Ralphieboy There wasn't many errors
Same here. Everybody wanted a Tommy Gun.
@@GreatDataVideos especially with non stop of bullets supply. 😅😅😅
Watching this episode like all the other ones is that sgt Saunders always comes up with good ideas along the way to obtain the objective even in every scene
Never die neither
From this series I found out what a Thompson sub-machine gun, a BAR, and a M-1 was...
Loved this series as a kid, love it now.
The Thompson Sarge carried was made of wood. The real one was too heavy.
I was probably around 11 or 12 when I got to shoot an M-1 Carbine. Our neighbor still had his service rifle from the war.
LUCKY you never had to carry a weapon in real combat, I found that out at age 23... Joined the Army to get training courses and ended up in 2 different wars!!
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No one can replace Vic Morrow,,,,these movies cannot be compare to movies now,,,,,,love all episodes.....
Yes they can be compared to movies before and after Combat. That’s what ratings are for. Just sayin …
Tragically Died In a Movie -Preventable Stunt Helicopter 🚁 Crash As He Held On To Children.
RIP Vic Morrow
I watched this episode movies on tv during my secondary school days around 70s that so funny we only had a black in white tv! Of course at that time we were so enjoyed watching the movie that we kept on waiting from one episode to an others and we would never miss them! So far this was one of the best war movie just to show us how was the combat scenario going on during WWII!
All actors acted originaly as they were in the true war!
One of best episodes of the entire run of this series, very interesting story, with an excellent group of well known character actors. Vic, is at his best, and handles the situation, like a pro, a frightening experience, to be left behind, after your unit has pulled out, and be caught up in an enemy offensive.......
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Loved this show!
Since our childhood combat series is our fave program. Every saturday we always waiting for it.
I would get out of school every day (in the early 70s) run home to watch Combat. I ended up in the US Infantry.
Victor Foster My condolences! Haha. I heard all kinds of sad sack infantry stories from my dad. Thanks for serving.
That was the point of the shows and all the toy army men, to get young boys to grow up and into the army where they could be used, abused and disposed of at will.
Cool! An episode that I don't remember seeing before. I may have seen it back in the 60's but I can't recall. I really enjoy seeing episodes that I don't already know the endings to. Thanks again for posting these Classics!
As a kid, as I turned my OWN tv with pliers and used aluminum foil for an antennae, I watched COMBAT and then went into the Marines.
And your still illiterate!
Marines who served in Hue said they were able to do house-to-house fighting by remembering what they have seen on this TV series.
Well....that deserves a Semper FI !
@@charlesbates6178 Considering the tactics portrayed in Combat!, that is pretty bad and worse that they were not trained better. I think the show's crew could have done a little better considering they had plenty of WW2 vets on the set of the show. But it was an Altman drama and did not need to be too detailed with civilian viewers.
@@charlesbates6178 Yep. Amazing.
I know they drafted like to 45 years old in WWII as this show sure has some old looking Privates.
LOTS of guys in 40's got drafted, also men looked older then as well as smoking was epidemic, as well as drinking after the end of prohibition.
According to many from back then, alcoholism was tolerated in many workplaces, as well as drinking (while having lunch at a bar) and returning to work... different times!!!
@@TheSpritz0 You make good points . Thanks.
@@pep590 You're welcome, my Grandfather and Great Uncles used to tell me all about life from the 1930's onward...
@@TheSpritz0 I do NOT believe "a lot of guy's in their 40's" were being drafted. The military was not that hard up. There were plenty of young healthy guys enlisting. There was no need to draft older men. Older men were working in factories.
@@ellisjames7192 You are probably right, but as I understand it, the age drafted was up to 45. That may have included more professional people like doctors and nurses, etc.
Because of Combat, I ended up in the Boys Wing of the Royal Military College of Malaysia when I was 13. 😊
This was my favorite show when i was young.
Mine too!
The U.S. Army soldier who could speak German, and earlier broke his glasses, was a psychiatrist on an early episode of M.A.S.H. He recommended not breaking up the 4077th. Great Actors/Actresses on Combat, who got early starts on television! Also, Telly Savalas’ brother, George, who was later on the movie Kelly’s Heroes and Kojak.
The immortal Anthony Holland who did an after shave commercial - thanx I needed that as fighter pilot falling asleep. Later suicide. Might have been gay.
Yeah George Savalas. I remember him as an almost bumbling type of a detective with Kojack
Because of combat I wound up a cadet major in ROTC in high school and met many Generals. General Chappie Davis among them.
Combat was an incredibly popular TV show during the 60’s.
Excellent episode, as always. But clearly at 39:50 all Cooper (George Savalas) was concerned about was the location of the dining car. Loved this show growing up.
After all the combat, stress and BS Saunders went through you just knew he had to come home a PTSD patient. Yet there's no denying his character is a larger than life hero!
Not necessarily. Some can take extreme stress and come out the other side OK.
I once overheard a conversation about Saunders drinking too much after the war and getting into trouble with the law. So he decided to move up north across the border. But he was denied a visa to cross the border because they were afraid that he’d drink Canada Dry 😅. Just mirthing …
This is my favorite show in the sixties. I was a baby boy at the time. God bless you all.
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Despite the tactical lapses this is still the best show of its time and genre!
LAX airport now!
Yeah, as a former Marine officer I often cringe at their small unit tactics. But that's ok, because the show is about people and not military precision. IMO, it's the best war drama ever produced.
I'm now 65 years old (2024). I can remember watching this series when I was 7 years old and also the Combat! trading cards which came out of the bubble gum machine's.
Two years later, Steve Gravers portrayed another man named Martinez in an episode of Bonanza, "To Kill a Buffalo." According to writer Jess Carneol, who contributed rewrites to both episodes, the Martinez in the Bonanza episode is the grandfather of the Martinez in Combat!.
Really ??? Are you serious or just yanking our chains …
Altman really knew how with music to deliver an awesome intro. I look forward to the intros in every Combat! episode. I would love to be able to do that with my videos.
As a musician I feel the musical score was and is a rarely equalled work for any TV show ever. Altman knew his business. So sad that his talented screenplay direction came to an end during the first series for being 'disobedient' to his production bosses views in the stellar episode in which Saunders was badly burned. Morrow played his role in the episode gut wrenchingly well. Someone was jealous of Altman's production bravado I suspect. Being an Australian, I got to watch the 63 & 64 series here later in about 66/68 as a child and never saw the colour episodes. Our involvement in Vietnam made it unpopular and it was stopped. The quality of the acting and the many recognised actors that turned up on other American TV shows for decades afterwards is astounding.
@@theChickenstones love love love love them all still!!!! Missed dearly!!!
Watched Combat in the 60s. Later on joined the Marines and experienced combat myself.Semper. Fi
Thankyou for your exemplary service and making it home alive!
i watched as a kid sitting in front of the tv with a toy rifle and helmet my goodness the memories .
GIJoes here.
This brings me back to my childhood when I had no problems
A fave series of mine as a kid at that time always looked forward to it on Friday nights.
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The third guy to join them, Arty Bower from the 565, reminds me of nothing so much as a lost puppy looking for someone to take care of him .
Repo depot!
The very best part of this series is the actual French and German languages used! I am 74 and I learned enough of both because I wanted to! No education is bad, and my parents couldn't believe that this TV show made me want to learn!😊!
Used to watch this show as a kid.. loved it. I'd forgotten all about it until now
My. fabort aktor is. Vic. Morrow his. handle. gun Thomson.
One of the most exciting t.v. series of all times!!!
Ask and you shall receive. Finally on the last reel of this episode, we have some 1944 era German tanks on the flatcars at the very end of this episode. Those are indeed PanzerKampwagen IV's (4's), on those flatcars. Most likely the H model.
Real time footage...
Technically (no pun intended), the stripes aren't the same. The "T" means Saunders is in charge.
The "T" in this case was for tech sargeant.
@@carlbarnett9393 In the other case it would be a translator, like Corp. Upham in "Saving Private Ryan." "Hey Upham, hustle up."
The T is technicians paygrade- a private with no command position or responsibility payed as the corrispondent combat non-commissioned officers.
So a Tech-5 is a private who got the same check as his sergeant E-5 because he was a radioman, a translator, a mechanic - but had no training to lead anyone anywhere.
@@ulissedazante5748 vjg
remember watching the colour ones in the 70s would build the cushions from my mums couch like sandbags in front of the tv and watch it with my toy machine gun great memorys.
You must have been watching reruns. The show ended in mid 60s.
@@3Ddude101 of course i was you wanker
Growing up in the 50s and 60s, Combat! and The Fugitive were my favorites. I wanted to be like Saunders: cool, brave, smart, and most of all, able to handle a Thompson, just like him! 😂
One of the best shows ever!
You know it amazed me how many of these actors were fluent in German. I recall an episode with a very young James Caan where his performance was completely in German!
WOW! I remember sitting on dad's lap watching this. Oh I loved the show!
Me too, as a child in the early 60's. my dad was WWII vet
Wow I watched Combat with my 2 sisters when we were little I'm 58 now,Loved it
This would be the perfect episode for Kirby, him and his wise cracks,an bar to boot, 👍
I remember this show from when I was a kid. My dad watched it regularly.
Oh the show is amazing I just cry. I love how so much emotion is involved real stuff it is. I love how Vince get in their face and tell them to do it now its your job. He so awesome he was.
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"Bindle Stiff" at 30:08. Gotta love the writing in this series. Haven't heard that term since I was a little kid in the 50s.
I love it when they show real footage. RIP Vic Morrow
He was awesome. Like Richard Boone and David Jannsen in their shows.
I remember watching this GREAT PROGRAM back in 1966 I was 6 YRS old. My dad and I watching it on our black & white T.V. even though the program WAS BLACK & WHITE.
It'd still be B&W even if you were watching it on a color TV.
@@TheEvilDrR 🤣 so true !👍
Great movie ! I joined the Army in August 2001 right before 911 because this movie .Get out there and carry rifle you grunts .
In the 1970s, this movie was the most popular in my country. I like it as well as The Wild Wild West, Mission Impossible, Hawaii Five O.
The Fugitive. Twelve o'clock high.
Always loved Combat and played it as a kid. We had the make believe Nazis pinned down all over the neighborhood. I also got a Combat Action kit for Christmas that had a GI helmet with net and a camo Tommy gun.
As a young man watching COMBAT my older brother was far away in a land called Vietnam.
Where'd y'all say yer brother was a staying when combat was on every thursday evenings at 8:00 in south Vietnam? Iffen yer bruder was in Vermont as you said! Then my question to you sir is. Why is it that every other at guy with yo age and training Is over theyr in got dam Vietnam fighting! and yer brother is so is skiing in Vermont? Are yall out yo motherfucking minds!! Send that boy to Afghanistan as a motherfucking cook we got to cook some brownie motherfuckers an y'all and yer bruder skiing in.Vermont tait proper I say
@@bafongue1 Moron.
My first time seeing this series, just great.
I remember watching this episode when I was a kid. I was 8 years old.
Этот фильм как раз для детишек этого возраста.
I liked this show so much I received the board game one year for Christmas.
You and 5 million other kids.
I still remember watching this as a kid with my dad. One time he mumbled, that's not how men die in real life. that's how they die in action films.
people need to understand that.
x6ftundx That is true. This is a drama so men die dramatically and theatrically. Death is not pretty or honorable. Its hideous and sickening.
My father carried a Thompson in US Army until he lost his left bicep at Anzio.
@@mongoharry I'm sure ppl do!!!
Excellent. Like an episode of Wild, Wild West. Great cast.
ahhh Combat !!!! I wathced this in the UK in the 60's.... greta stuff
Combat was it!!!. Everything we did as little kids was playing army men. We pretended we go on a patrol. If we didn't do that we be playing army men with our plastic sildiers.
I had battalions of plastic soldiers and artillery and it was fun to out smart my buddies. Army and most war movies I loved, Combat was and still my favorite.
I loved this TV series every week 7:30 0n ABC Tuesday nights
I forgot growing up watching these with my stepfather who I never got along with but this turned out to be about our only bond !
same with my Dad!
Me too . . .
WW1 grandfather. He would cry some times. Dead bodies.
I noticed the same vintage film from the battle field that shows the Germans doing their thing is used quite a few times from episode to episode. Been binge watching from the start of the series, and this film on this episode has so far been used 8 times. Still a reality check on the horrors of what the fighting men went through.
Yeah, same here. I been watching episodes every day for weeks. When you see them that way you notice many different scenes and locations used over & over again. When you only see one show every week as when it first aired you'd never realize that kind of thing.
Shortages of archival footage in those days, mate.
@@bolinfan1519 There was NO shortage of film. The war lasted long enough, there was plenty of film. It was simply easier to just use what they had used before. Saves time and money.
@@ellisjames7192 Link?
All had a knowledge to offer even the ho bo. Tku for post
Love This Series so much!
They haven't made shows of this caliber in decades... (OK... forgive the pun...) As an author, I really appreciate good writing. This is good writing.
didnt understand the pun Mr. writer, apparently my poor understanding OR poor writing
The best
@@myfriendbro Caliber my friend as in a" 38 Combat Masterpiece"
MichaelMMiddleton98 Of course its good writing. Combat! was a war/action drama. A lot of folks don't look at the show for being a drama. It was never meant to depict an actual battle but portray the human aspect of war. The lesson is war sucks even for the right reasons. It was a Selmur Productions Robert Altman masterpiece. He was a fantastic director, screenwriter, and producer.
Loved the real footage of the German artillery
I watch this movie when I was a kid in Taiwan,still watching after 50 years....
Thanks for posting. I've been looking for this episode for a long time!
CONSIDER YOURSELF A LUCKY MAN IF YOUR SQUAD LEADER IS SERGEANT CHIP SAUNDERS!
Saunders' Thompson was a Magic Thompson. No need to reload. With that said, I read Vic Morrow hated guns.
He fired about 20 Rounds with a 30 round mag and had time to reload off camera . . . .
I've seen more than one episode where he does reload, so...
Oscar Jordan This thing keeps popping up.
Has anyone noticed that almost all of the stragglers in the squad were carrying M1 Carbines?? Where did they all come from all of a sudden? Only good for short range.
The stragglers were all from rear area, support troops. Most of them were issued the carbine. This attention to detail makes a great show even better.
It's what they issued cooks, intel and mechanics.
@@johnminehan1148 And paratroopers, no?
All the cooks and truck drivers would have carbines
We used to have long drawn out discussions over which show was better: The Gallant Men or Combat.
Combat. No ifs ands or buts.
How long did The Gallant Men last? End of discussion.
@@ellisjames7192 Lol Absolutely!
時間過的真快，一下就穿越了50年，這部電視影集，是我在小學時候，最愛收看的美劇之一。人生有多少50年啊！心情倍感惶恐。
Really cool to see actual footage of the war.
The big guy that had trouble keeping up is George Savalas, Telly's brother...Stavros from Kojack.
Mustang P-51 cadilac of the sky....i never missed a show when i was a kid
The Mustang was a great fighter and tank killer. Sgt. Saunders and his men were very happy to see the most important weapon we had in a long time. This episode showed some of the best combat footage. Thanks for letting us see this episode.
@@ronaldwalton1524 Good train killer, too. Important as seen here.
P-47 Thunderbolt 'D trim bubble canopy tougher, harder hitting than Mustang, and got you back to base in 1 piece.
Sgt Saunders had 1754 Purple Hearts!
Deserved!!!! Don't you think?
All of the regulars had at least that many.