Back in the 60's I used to run into the living room when I heard the music for Combat and watch it with my Dad. I loved this series and in a household of 4 females I was the only girl who loved to sit with my Dad to enjoy each and EVERY episode! Thanks for the great memories and the opportunity to view them again.
Ive been watching Combat since I was 18 years old, and now I'm 78 which makes it around 59 years!! And I never get tired of these great actor's And magnificent scripts they have written for Combat"
This show only scratches the surface of what soldiers fighting for this country have gone through. To all military past present and future thank you for your service to the U.S.A.
I watched the first series in 62' I was a 12 yr. old and loved to watch as many as I could. I have yet to see a series as good as Combat was. It still is the best even today. Each show has a good story to tell and was well done with a thought at the end to consider. Who ever brought this back to watch again I thank you.
Like all faithful Combat lovers and followers -- ME TOO as a kid growing up in the 50's 60's and 70's COMBAT was and is my all time ever favorite show..I idolized Sgt Chip Saunders ..the great VIC Morrow along with Lt Hanley Rick Jason along with the great squad--Kirby Little John. I lived and breath COMBAT.. Later on when I heard about Vic Morrow being decapitated in a Helicopter Accident...Wow I took it so hard and personal. Let this show continue on in the greatness is displays as the truth of Americanism and what they fought for to keep us all safe May God Bless this Show and the entire cast. God BlessRe-Runs
I'm from Malaysia. I used to watch 'COMBAT' in the 70's when was around 7 years old. One of my fav shows on tv at that time other 'One Million Dollar Man'.Never missed an episode, my fav was the sarge[Vic Morrow]. Bought a lot of soldier toys and played-my fav the toy soldier with a machine gun like sarge had....now watching again in 2021 -age 51.......just brings back good memories of my chilhood days where movies were clean [non cursing words] and full of moral values which we could learn from.....
As a 10yr old kid I loved watching combat. It inspired me to join the U.S.Army after high school. Did 20yrs and retired in 1997. Still watching combat.
Combat! I was watching this when it first came out, and nothing to date can compare with it. A personal lesson at the end of every episode. Thanks to all those who put these episodes on RUclips for us!
Watching this brings back good memories of watching it with my dad back in the early 60's laying in the floor in front of the TV. They don't make shows this good anymore.
A Reminder: I and others enjoy Combat, it was a well put-together TV production; these shows reflected real emotions soldiers carried during WW2. More importantly, I'm grateful to all who have sacrificed themselves during this world war for our continued freedom in 2023. . Best actors Awards.
Hi Daniel, my name is David and I was the same way about watching combat! Every Saturday at 1:00 every Sunday at 5:00 I watched it just as if setting down for a meal! But there wasn't much sitting down, I asked for the toy set you know the Thompson , 45 pistol and of course your bayonet all plastic! I shot every Nazi that I could imagine! Hid behind every bush , tree ditch and crawled through the mud to accomplish my missions!! It was great being a child and at times I still am today , and I'm 58 now! Still enjoy it have no idea how many times I've seen them!! Making the world free from oppression and evil just like they did in my own mind! Keep watching it never gets old for some reason!!
Wow! Command was just superb. Combat was the best written tv war series ever! No wonder I've been watching it since I was a kid in 1964! Thanks to all those who have made these episodes available on youtube!
I was 10 when this episode came out. I waited all week, every week, for another episode of Combat. I had a brother seven years older, and it was the one thing we shared. He would take the time to watch it with me, despite that otherwise I was probably a pest. He later was drafted out of college and was sent to Vietnam.
The. Best. TV SHOW. EVER. When i. Was a. Kid. I watched. Every. Episode. Again. Now. I can't stop. Watching. Vic. Morrow. SGT. fine. Actor. Terrible. Death. Horrific tragedy
When I was about 6-7 Combat was AWESOME for all the young kids in our neighborhood. All of us use to watch it. Around that time a German family moved RIGHT next door to us. They had a kid about the same age as me - and because ALL the kids in the neighborhood watched and talked about Combat he wanted to watch it too. His family was RIGHT off the board from Germany and barely spoke English. We all became friends with the family and I remember his mom being at our house one night crying that her son wanted to watch Combat. Her and her husband were kids when Hitler took over the country and she saw some terrible things. She couldn’t stand to watch it because she was so ashamed of what her country did. She use to cry all the time. Very sad.
Many German people will really ashamed. How, parents all over the world and of all ages can use a show like Combat to teach right from wrong. I know people who immigrated to the U.S. because they read the U.S. Constitution. Thus, the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Declaration of Independence are excellent teaching/training tools to avoid what occurred in Nazi Germany and other countries.
After its run in the U.S. in the 60s, these tv series was exported to the Philippines in the 70s. I was 10, 11 years old, and I always looked forward to watching it every Sunday afternoon.
Love and miss them ALL so very much. It will be 39 year 7/23/21. God Vic I truly miss you. I'm so sorry the suits in Hollywood blackballed you. If you and these fools that did that to you could only see that we are still watching and loving a great show with morals and caring. It's like this show was just made yesterday!!! Love you Vic. God bless all you guys. Jennifer, you are in my prayers!!!
As a kid in the 70s, combat was a must watch for me and other kids in our big compound..With time, we kids in the neighborhood created a combat game in which we divided ourself into two groups and and fought wars using sticks as guns . What a great fun.
My son is signing the papers in June, he'll be called about September. I read some say it's a big mistake to join the military to make a carrier, whst do you think? He's gonna be 0300 which makes me a little worryed but im 55 i lived my life it's been his dream. Your opinion would be nice since you're a Marine..
@@m42037 0300 is a solid platform to dive from into a career Marine. He can change his MOS over the years. All my career Non-Com buddies are dedicated Marines. Those who bailed out did so due to better-paying jobs, the disciplinarian life, and family issues. It's tough for married Marines cause we moved around a lot especially overseas.
@@mrsertech He don't want no relationship! Nope, a jump in a sack he says. After all the fighting he saw with his late mum and me (she committed suicide in 2016) and my girl over seas in Berlin, all the yelling he could hear in my bedroom on the phone with her plus he knows of buddy's and what he's read about women sleeping around on GIs gone he don't want no worrys he says! And he says NO WAY do i want any kids! Lol. He is 19 and never had a girlfriend, and no he's not gay i was worryed about this but no we had more than one talk he's not. So ya he can change from Infantry to something else well i don't know if he will do it. His dreams since he was a kid was this. Only thing he's a bit lazy but this isn't Germany, those people are work and clean freaks that woman drove me crazy whenever i was there. Real bossy and patronizing me like a child a lot. Strange those women, but it could be i just got a bad apple, she's always working and her father abused her as a child then going through the GDR days those Russians were skum back in the days, the krouts needed payback yes from the war but not 45 years! Oh ya the recruiters want him in their office every Thursday to do exercises! He only scored a 31 on his Asvab but he didn't finish high school not till June, he flunked one year because of being depressed over his mother's death so he's a late starter. He'll be taking another test in June. He knows he needs to bring it up, a 31 is just borderline flunking. Anyway maybe we'll talk again thanks for your service rah!
To whom it may concern? Just want to thank who ever posted the combat series it was my father's favorite series of all time we was from the greatest generation
AS A KID AT AHE 5 YRS OLD TO 9 URS OLD. I WATCHED COMNAT ALL THE TIME. IT WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITE TV SHOWS GROWING UP IN THE MID TO LATE 1960,S. I WAS 5 URS OLD TO 9 YRS OLD. I ENJOY VOMBAT ALLOT GREAT CHAT PIECE GROWING UP IN SCHOOL, BESIDES STAR TREK.WHICH ALL CAME OUT IN THE 1960,S AS LOST IN SPACE DID. ANOTHER FAVORITE 1960,S TV SHOW. BRETT L. WA
Did you notice when they throw a grenade it doesn't turn into a fireball like most of the shows today and movies! Combat was very accurate, because most of the cast, if not all, including directors and producers, we're in the military or saw combat! That's why it's realistic!
I watched this through high school and by 1966 I was totally motivated to sign up (USMC) and get my share of the action in the war at that time - Viet Nam. I didn't have to go due to my draft number but I paid no attention to that. However, things didn't work out as I anticipated. It was a miserable 13 months. I came home with a purple heart and PTSD that haunts me to this day. This show looks different to me now.
Thank you for your service and am glad you made it home alive. My son came home w a purple heart and ptsd, too. God bless all our veterans and those in active duty!❤
Would love to have fired one! Kind of unfortunate for the guy carrying one, as the enemy would tend to pick on him first. Like the guy carrying the M-60. Kirby added a lot to the show.
Combat was my favorite show when I was a kid and I love seeing these old episodes again after all these years. If you’re not familiar with the name Robert Pirosh, here is some information I took from Wikipedia ; Pirosh served in World War II as a Master Sergeant with the 320th Regiment, 35th Infantry Division. He saw action in the Ardennes and Rhineland campaigns. During the Battle of the Bulge, he led a patrol into Bastogne to support the surrounded American forces there. He earned an Academy Award for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay in 1948 for his script for the World War II drama 'Battleground', a film he also produced, that was the first based on the Ardennes battle. In 1951, he was nominated for another Academy Award for the screenplay 'Go for Broke!', about the 442nd Combat Regiment of Japanese Americans. This was his directorial debut. He would go on to write the story for the highly regarded Steve McQueen World War II film 'Hell Is for Heroes', directed by Don Siegel, believed to be the basis for TV's 'Combat!' (which he created).
The Dad at the farmhouse, actor Louis Mercier, is "Frenchie" from the original Sahara (1943) one of my absolute fave war movies. Highly recommended! Sgt. Joe Gunn, "Bogey," says, Check it out!
This TV series was the main motivation for me taking three years of German language training (1967-1970) a skill set that served me well during my cold war tour of duty in Nuremberg (1976-1979)
love the show ever since i was a child watching it with my dad. i like it just as much today as i did back then. but nowadays i watch it and see how many glaring mistakes i see during each episode. one of my favorite errors is they always walk in a straight line and bunched up and completely vulnerable to a single grenade taking the entire squad out. another favorite is i dont think i have ever seen the Germans using the standard MG-42. always some ww1 era water cooled machine gun. just sayin'. still my favorite old tv show
They have actual MG34s and MG42s in some of the episodes. I was surprised to also see a lot of G43s (or one of them, over and over). Haven't seen a 1903A4 nor M1C/D yet but a few views of Jaeger 98 with optics.
Joseph Campanella always does a good job, l know this because at the start I wanted a mutiny and at the end I liked him. Good script, good performance.
I've been studying or watching RUclips videos lately about how quickly the Allies bridged the Rhine. The Germans destroyed every Rhine bridge in the Allie's path, except the one at Remagen. It fell apart after two weeks of Allied use. The Allies replaced all the bridges with either pontoon bridges or Bailey bridges.
For those of us who grew up in the 1960s watching this show, our fathers would have been very familiar with the name George C. Marshall. He was Chief of Staff of the US Armed Forces during WW 2 & later became Secretary of State. The Marshall Plan for humanitarian relief for Europe after the war bears his name.No one was more responsible for organizing Allied victory than he was. One of the areas in which he made a key contribution was in infantry tactics. He knew that, since we would need to train millions of men to fight in a very short period of time that tactics would need to be simple. Accordingly he developed the simple plan of having one group of men lay a base of fire in front while another group went around the enemy's flank. This simple tactic was followed by GIs all across Europe & the Pacific...and by Sergeant Saunders & his men throughout the COMBAT! series.
Hogwash. Fire & Maneuver was not invented by the US. The Germans pioneered the tactic. It was merely copied by the other belligerents. Get your facts straight. The Germans used the MG-34 (later MG-42) as their base of squad firepower.
@@jimp9151 I have my facts straight. Educate yourself. books.google.ca/books?id=42Mh23JI8dQC&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=Benning+Revolution&source=bl&ots=5L5th-495F&sig=ACfU3U0KGJqtqGILS5mB6c1iDcgrXmDY5w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi_jca9kffrAhUJFjQIHfGsCz8Q6AEwEnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Benning%20Revolution&f=false
WOW I use to watch this while growing up ! I even have some of the trading cards that came out with a stick of gum in the package with the cards ! I wish that I could find the rest of the cards to make a complete set of them ! I had just happened to see this video as I was looking around RUclips . You have a new subscriber cause I loved watching Combat then and will enjoy watching it now ! Thank you !
A lot of people commenting about the bridge scenes being the same footage from a previous show with Lee Marvin. And they're perfectly right. But no one ever talked about that fact back when the show was first airing. Because seeing the show only once week with many months in between using the same scene was no problem as hardly anyone would ever remember seeing it before at such a long interval. It's only possible to catch the same scenes now because we're able to see one episode right after another.
3Ddude101," True. But still, one has to wonder was re-using the footage a budget necessity, a 'running out of time' move, etc. In contrast reusing footage of the squad walking the terrain or engaged in a 'ordinary' firefight can be considered more generic so the producers can 'get away with it' without too much notice or complaints. THIS, however, is a set-up, a series of scenes SO SPECIFIC it's instantaneous recall to the "Combat!" faithful leaving them to wonder "why?" or "what's up with that?".
You just know that your days are numbered when you're an extra on Combat!. It's like being an extra man on Star Trek and you're wearing the red uniform on the Away Team...👽👾👽👾👽
That bridge was blown up with Lee Marvin, down the same road by truck. They often used scenes filmed for prior episodes. One is where the Germans pull up with axes to cut Doolittle trees on the hill, etc. The dialogue and storyline makes the difference.
There was a documentary about the COMBAT program. One thing that really caught my eye was when the narrator said that shooting of the episodes took only 6 days each. To me that was shockingly quick. Editing must have been a fascinating thing to see. Another thing about the filming was that except for a few episodes shot around the Korbel Winery, north of SF the program was filmed at a few locations in SoCal. If you know anything about Cali geography you know that that except for the far North Coast (redwoods country) many, many thousands of eucalyptus trees were imported and planted. They came mainly from Australia where they are native. They are very easy to spot, even in black and white episodes. I have never been to France but I strongly doubt that France has many, if any, eucalyptus trees although I could be wrong. My dad was a paratrooper & combat vet in the Pacific Theater and we loved watching COMBAT togerher. When he was home my younger brother & I didn't have to combat our 2 older sisters over what program the TV would be tuned to.
! I wish I could Go back 25 Years and Be Assigned to Saunders Platoon! That is a Real NCO! i know 1943 wasnt 25 years ago, but I mean to when I was in! It was a great episode!!
Vic Morrow..........sadly missed after that terrible helicopter crash on the set of 'Twilight Zone' in 1983. RIP to him and the two children with him, Le and Chen.
I was 14 years old in 1962 when combat TV series on black and white T V very popular war movie my dad and whole family watch it, Vic Morrow ,Rick Jason and the whole cast are good actors very realistic war movie , 50's 60's TV movie are lot better than todays, im 76 years old now and still watch the re runs, my life is better in the 50's and 60` . I missed all the TV movies of that Era.
Either John Hogan was a really great actor or he just had to be himself because he was a natural. Smart alec, total pain the the ass to Saunders. And Vic Morrow played the annoyed Sgt just perfect. What a great show.
I. Loved. That. Show. Way back. When. And im so. Happy that they are running. This. Wonderful. Iconic. Series. Once. Again. The. Best of the best acting. On a. Very. Tough. Subject matter
my father and i always watched this together. he always said it was pretty close to the real thing. he would know. he went through the whole war in the 2nd armored division. hate that jean bayard got killed. he may have been a relative of mine, since that 's my mothers maiden name.
Many of the c-rations that we ate when I was in the army in the late 60s had been canned during the early 40s. I actually liked most of of what we got in our c-rat boxes.
LOL so do I. What a smartass. I'm glad he finally made B.A.R. man in the 2nd season. It fits his personallity perfectly. Everything about it is LOUD LOL.
Sarge should have said they'll be ready in 20 minutes so he could get his men 10 minutes. You know, it's the whole "Art of The Deal" thing! Ask the lieutenant double what you want knowing the lieutenant will give you half what you want. The strategy works great on building inspectors too!
Me (SARTS OPNS NCO): Colonel, we're gonna need at least twenty-eight thousand rounds of 4-n-1 7.62 for the LMG clinic. Light Colonel (State Marksmanship Coordinator); Cut it down to twenty K. Me: (grinning) yes sir yes sir three bags full! MSG (SARTS Ammo Custodian) *grins and winks at me* Later at range after clinic: (everybody) dumps out fired 7.62X51 brass they brought from home into fired MG brass bin, stuffs belted rounds which just became "excess" into their rucks so they can have more than their normal take-home issue for practicing. Ball ain't as good as Match but it beats having nothing.
The series was shot in the same canyon on the outskirts of LA. It has now been turned into a park. Cartridge brass can still be found there if you look.
it would be impossible to do a modern version of Combat! I can't think of anyone who could provide the proper amount of charisma and intensity that Vic Morrow put into the role.
@@JohnDoe-tw8es yes very sad. he was always afraid of getting killed in a helicopter accident, and it is very strange how that became a reality for him
my ole man was in 2, he said the man next to ya was your back, you didn't have to look back much,he said the men he fought with were seasoned killers,most the old boys he fought with were hunters,here at home,he said germans weren't allowed to shoot firearms in their own country as often as we do,we had superiority,because of 2nd amendment here,our children shoot better most countries today,and by god it's gonna stay that way,this show was very intertaining when I was 10 showed me a viewofWW2
I agree that the American hunting tradition was a big advantage especially for those who were from small towns and rural areas. The only way that the Germans could come close to negating that huge advantage was that thru the 1930s the Nazis compelled the boys to join the Hitler Youth where they were trained to be soldiers and use of firearms was part of that training.
Looks-wise, Campanella reminds me of Gene Simmons a little bit. This was a great episode. I wonder how many squad leaders got (and still get) men killed because of their personal baggage. And then they finish their tours and return home as ticking psychological time bombs. God bless everyone who serves. A shitty job they never get thanked enough for.
COMBAT! definitely invented the TV notion of what became known as the "Red Shirt." The name came about from the original Star Trek TV series. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and an unknown "security" troop with a Red Shirt would beam down onto a planet, and you KNEW the new red shirt guy was going to die a gruesome death. In COMBAT, it's the replacements, the soldiers that aren't regulars. When you see fresh faces moving out with the regulars, you know they are going to be casualties.
+KurtB: Not always. Some of those replacements lived through one episode. Others didn't. Remember also that Kirby wasn't a regular, nor was the part that Tom Lowell played. In fact, "The Short Day of Private Putnam", "The Celebrity (Del Packer)" lived through the episode.
openmind1966 I don't disagree, but you have to admit I was on to something. ;-) Most of the one-episode wonders ended up dead or wounded. Those that didn't, it was part of the story to have them survive, and LEARN something, like how to be a better soldier, etc.
+KurtB Understandable...I think in a sense that these shows were in TV's "Tweenie" age where WW2 shows had to do more with less in money and time/episodes. While I would agree that it would be more real if the new guys didn't always pay the ultimate sacrifice, but it would require many episodes, and not have as many guest stars such as Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, and many others... But it would be good if they did as you say also. So the way I see it, it's not a preference issue, but a production problem...that only TV/Production folks deal with...
@@goldwinger5434 Yes he had 111 episodes, however he was a special guest star in one episode, and they found him perfect to be in most episodes. However he did a cameo in the D-Day episode. So he wasn't exactly with Saunders company to begin with. Not particularly sure why...
The absurdity is, of course, that the 'bridge' is too light & narrow to take tanks and probably trucks, and could be replaced within a few hours if destroyed.
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Back in the 60's I used to run into the living room when I heard the music for Combat and watch it with my Dad. I loved this series and in a household of 4 females I was the only girl who loved to sit with my Dad to enjoy each and EVERY episode! Thanks for the great memories and the opportunity to view them again.
What is the name and model of that submachine gun Saunders is carrying? Always wondered
@@NormanClark-y2k Sorry, do not know. Maybe someone else out there can answer his question. Anyone??
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@user-tk9hy1pu3w He carries the venerable M-1928, otherwise known as a Thompson.
Ive been watching Combat since I was 18 years old, and now I'm 78 which makes it around 59 years!! And I never get tired of these great actor's
And magnificent scripts they have written for Combat"
I was really young. I can remember some things when i was 3, so not sure how long. I'm 68 going on 69, lol. When did Combat start airing?
Memories. Just a kid when the family gathered around the one TV smaller that a Lap-top screen. Good Stuff.
This show only scratches the surface of what soldiers fighting for this country have gone through. To all military past present and future thank you for your service to the U.S.A.
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Shows some officers are jerks and that’s probably how they got shot in the back, wow
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I watched the first series in 62' I was a 12 yr. old and loved to watch as many as I could. I have yet to see a series as good as Combat was. It still is the best even today. Each show has a good story to tell and was well done with a thought at the end to consider. Who ever brought this back to watch again I thank you.
Like all faithful Combat lovers and followers -- ME TOO as a kid growing up in the 50's 60's and 70's COMBAT was and is my all time ever favorite show..I idolized Sgt Chip Saunders ..the great VIC Morrow along with Lt Hanley Rick Jason along with the great squad--Kirby Little John. I lived and breath COMBAT.. Later on when I heard about Vic Morrow being decapitated in a Helicopter Accident...Wow I took it so hard and personal. Let this show continue on in the greatness is displays as the truth of Americanism and what they fought for to keep us all safe
May God Bless this Show and the entire cast. God BlessRe-Runs
I'm from Malaysia. I used to watch 'COMBAT' in the 70's when was around 7 years old. One of my fav shows on tv at that time other 'One Million Dollar Man'.Never missed an episode, my fav was the sarge[Vic Morrow]. Bought a lot of soldier toys and played-my fav the toy soldier with a machine gun like sarge had....now watching again in 2021 -age 51.......just brings back good memories of my chilhood days where movies were clean [non cursing words] and full of moral values which we could learn from.....
Thank You guys !!.... for one the Greatest program on TV !!
Loved Cage and Kirby !!!
Vic Morrow....one of the greatest natural actors ever !
He sure was.
The BAR MAN...my favourite 😊
As a 10yr old kid I loved watching combat. It inspired me to join the U.S.Army after high school. Did 20yrs and retired in 1997. Still watching combat.
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Combat! I was watching this when it first came out, and nothing to date can compare with it. A personal lesson at the end of every episode. Thanks to all those who put these episodes on RUclips for us!
Yes, there was always a lesson to be learned
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Oh wait a moment! There's one ww2 show that has the same quality as this show. Hogan's Heroes is quality from first to last. 9-16-2021
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Watching this brings back good memories of watching it with my dad back in the early 60's laying in the floor in front of the TV. They don't make shows this good anymore.
A Reminder: I and others enjoy Combat, it was a well put-together TV production; these shows reflected real emotions soldiers carried during WW2. More importantly, I'm grateful to all who have sacrificed themselves during this world war for our continued freedom in 2023. . Best actors Awards.
My favorite war show on TV.
I grew up watching these episodes!
I use to watch this show every week with my dada when I was a kid.
We boys miss our dada's. It's a shame many of them never got to know us.
As a kid, i couldn't get enough of this show; as an adult, same!
Same here,,use to watch COMBAT with my dad, 12 O'Clock High and The Rat Patrol also.
Same here.
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Hi Daniel, my name is David and I was the same way about watching combat!
Every Saturday at 1:00 every Sunday at 5:00 I watched it just as if setting down for a meal!
But there wasn't much sitting down, I asked for the toy set you know the Thompson , 45 pistol and of course your bayonet all plastic!
I shot every Nazi that I could imagine!
Hid behind every bush , tree ditch and crawled through the mud to accomplish my missions!!
It was great being a child and at times I still am today , and I'm 58 now!
Still enjoy it have no idea how many times I've seen them!!
Making the world free from oppression and evil just like they did in my own mind!
Keep watching it never gets old for some reason!!
Wow! Command was just superb. Combat was the best written tv war series ever! No wonder I've been watching it since I was a kid in 1964! Thanks to all those who have made these episodes available on youtube!
Leadership . . . it's a bitch !
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The Gallant Men was pretty good too.
The other war show that I watched was 'Gallant Men' though it only lasted 1 season.
Great episode with a good message. Well put together. It was one of my favourite shows back then and still good to watch
Combat one of my best tv series of 1964 with one of the greatest VIC MORROW R.I.P
I was 10 when this episode came out. I waited all week, every week, for another episode of Combat. I had a brother seven years older, and it was the one thing we shared. He would take the time to watch it with me, despite that otherwise I was probably a pest. He later was drafted out of college and was sent to Vietnam.
Please tell us he came home and thank him for his service
I hope he made it back alright. 🙏🏼 thank him for his service, for me❤
The. Best. TV SHOW. EVER. When i. Was a. Kid. I watched. Every. Episode. Again. Now. I can't stop. Watching. Vic. Morrow. SGT. fine. Actor. Terrible. Death. Horrific tragedy
God rest his soul
There will never be a COMBAT! as good as this again...
Capt upbraids the 2 best men in the company...he would have blown his brains out if he knew about Little John...what a total screw up!
When I was about 6-7 Combat was AWESOME for all the young kids in our neighborhood. All of us use to watch it. Around that time a German family moved RIGHT next door to us. They had a kid about the same age as me - and because ALL the kids in the neighborhood watched and talked about Combat he wanted to watch it too. His family was RIGHT off the board from Germany and barely spoke English. We all became friends with the family and I remember his mom being at our house one night crying that her son wanted to watch Combat. Her and her husband were kids when Hitler took over the country and she saw some terrible things. She couldn’t stand to watch it because she was so ashamed of what her country did. She use to cry all the time. Very sad.
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Many German people will really ashamed. How, parents all over the world and of all ages can use a show like Combat to teach right from wrong.
I know people who immigrated to the U.S. because they read the U.S. Constitution.
Thus, the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Declaration of Independence are excellent teaching/training tools to avoid what occurred in Nazi Germany and other countries.
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Me too
Thank you for the story!
After its run in the U.S. in the 60s, these tv series was exported to the Philippines in the 70s. I was 10, 11 years old, and I always looked forward to watching it every Sunday afternoon.
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COMBAT is the favorite series (show) of my mother (RIP). She always watched it every SATURDAY in GMA 7.
She had great taste❤
May she rip ❤
I've said it a million times, COMBAT! is the greatest show ever! 👏🏼😎
@randall2020 Apparently you don't. Combat was and is the BEST combat show ever.
Love and miss them ALL so very much. It will be 39 year 7/23/21. God Vic I truly miss you. I'm so sorry the suits in Hollywood blackballed you. If you and these fools that did that to you could only see that we are still watching and loving a great show with morals and caring. It's like this show was just made yesterday!!! Love you Vic. God bless all you guys. Jennifer, you are in my prayers!!!
@@shimshonbendan8730 AMEN
How did any of us ever get any homework done on Tuesday nights?
Yes, it's the first and best tv war series I've seen during my early younger days on black and white television !!
I remember as a kid back then , I would never miss to echo the word 'COMBAT' at the beginning of the show with much anticipation ...
As a kid in the 70s, combat was a must watch for me and other kids in our big compound..With time, we kids in the neighborhood created a combat game in which we divided ourself into two groups and and fought wars using sticks as guns . What a great fun.
I have the whole series on dvd. I have probably watched every show at least 25 times.
This one is the best COMBAT show. Then " Next In Command "
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It's the same Mission as Season 2 ep 1. The same Bridge scene of Saunders planting the charges and blowing it up.
I enlisted at 18yrs. in the USMC cause of this series and to rebel at my US Army lifer father. No regrets n smiling.
My son is signing the papers in June, he'll be called about September. I read some say it's a big mistake to join the military to make a carrier, whst do you think? He's gonna be 0300 which makes me a little worryed but im 55 i lived my life it's been his dream. Your opinion would be nice since you're a Marine..
@@m42037 0300 is a solid platform to dive from into a career Marine. He can change his MOS over the years. All my career Non-Com buddies are dedicated Marines. Those who bailed out did so due to better-paying jobs, the disciplinarian life, and family issues. It's tough for married Marines cause we moved around a lot especially overseas.
@@mrsertech He don't want no relationship! Nope, a jump in a sack he says. After all the fighting he saw with his late mum and me (she committed suicide in 2016) and my girl over seas in Berlin, all the yelling he could hear in my bedroom on the phone with her plus he knows of buddy's and what he's read about women sleeping around on GIs gone he don't want no worrys he says! And he says NO WAY do i want any kids! Lol. He is 19 and never had a girlfriend, and no he's not gay i was worryed about this but no we had more than one talk he's not. So ya he can change from Infantry to something else well i don't know if he will do it. His dreams since he was a kid was this. Only thing he's a bit lazy but this isn't Germany, those people are work and clean freaks that woman drove me crazy whenever i was there. Real bossy and patronizing me like a child a lot. Strange those women, but it could be i just got a bad apple, she's always working and her father abused her as a child then going through the GDR days those Russians were skum back in the days, the krouts needed payback yes from the war but not 45 years! Oh ya the recruiters want him in their office every Thursday to do exercises! He only scored a 31 on his Asvab but he didn't finish high school not till June, he flunked one year because of being depressed over his mother's death so he's a late starter. He'll be taking another test in June. He knows he needs to bring it up, a 31 is just borderline flunking. Anyway maybe we'll talk again thanks for your service rah!
@@m42037 he'll be fine the marines will make a man outta him they'll train him well i did my time paris island 1989
@@m42037 i went in alone no jodies for me uh uh nope
To whom it may concern? Just want to thank who ever posted the combat series it was my father's favorite series of all time we was from the greatest generation
AS A KID AT AHE 5 YRS OLD TO 9 URS OLD. I WATCHED COMNAT ALL THE TIME. IT WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITE TV SHOWS GROWING UP IN THE MID TO LATE 1960,S. I WAS 5 URS OLD TO 9 YRS OLD. I ENJOY VOMBAT ALLOT
GREAT CHAT PIECE GROWING UP IN SCHOOL, BESIDES STAR TREK.WHICH ALL CAME OUT IN THE 1960,S AS LOST IN SPACE DID. ANOTHER FAVORITE 1960,S TV SHOW. BRETT L. WA
Did you notice when they throw a grenade it doesn't turn into a fireball like most of the shows today and movies! Combat was very accurate, because most of the cast, if not all, including directors and producers, we're in the military or saw combat! That's why it's realistic!
And a good Piromaniac!
The 60s had great war films and TV. The longest day, Guns of Navarone, Von Ryan's Express, The Dirty Dozen, Mchales Navy, and best of all......COMBAT!
We were only 20 years removed from WW2.
Plenty of the actors/writers were WW2 vets
En cazt'ellano
Kenneth morris lol you forgot 12 O’clock High
@@donlove3741 Ya Rick was. I still wanna know why he killed himself, my wife took her life also
Don't forget where eagles dare!
I watched this through high school and by 1966 I was totally motivated to sign up (USMC) and get my share of the action in the war at that time - Viet Nam. I didn't have to go due to my draft number but I paid no attention to that. However, things didn't work out as I anticipated. It was a miserable 13 months. I came home with a purple heart and PTSD that haunts me to this day. This show looks different to me now.
Thank you for your service and am glad you made it home alive. My son came home w a purple heart and ptsd, too. God bless all our veterans and those in active duty!❤
Loved Kirby and that B.A.R ! The sound of it in full auto was amazing even on TV .
Would love to have fired one! Kind of unfortunate for the guy carrying one, as the enemy would tend to pick on him first. Like the guy carrying the M-60. Kirby added a lot to the show.
Many of these episodes are really good.
love watching this series.
Не знаю почему,но фильм вливает какой-то позитив в жизнь.
Combat was my favorite show when I was a kid and I love seeing these old episodes again after all
these years. If you’re not familiar with the name Robert Pirosh, here is some information I took from Wikipedia ;
Pirosh served in World War II as a Master Sergeant with the 320th Regiment, 35th Infantry Division. He saw action in the Ardennes and Rhineland campaigns. During the Battle of the Bulge, he led a patrol into Bastogne to support the surrounded American forces there.
He earned an Academy Award for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay in 1948 for his script for the World War II drama 'Battleground', a film he also produced, that was the first based on the Ardennes battle.
In 1951, he was nominated for another Academy Award for the screenplay 'Go for Broke!', about the 442nd Combat Regiment of Japanese Americans. This was his directorial debut. He would go on to write the story for the highly regarded Steve McQueen World War II film 'Hell Is for Heroes', directed by Don Siegel, believed to be the basis for TV's 'Combat!' (which he created).
Lieutenants and Captains had short shelf lives.
I watched every show, every season as a kid,
growing up in chicago, and I respect your dis-
agreement, thanks, kirby
Great. The plot was very well written. Realistic and logical
Great show never saw anything like it since
The Dad at the farmhouse, actor Louis Mercier, is "Frenchie" from the original Sahara (1943) one of my absolute fave war movies. Highly recommended! Sgt. Joe Gunn, "Bogey," says, Check it out!
Great movie. Frenchie was impressive then as now in Combat.
Some things just never change God Bless America
I think Lt. Douglas suffered from "survivor's guilt," but, in the end, he redeemed himself AND gained the respect of the men in the squad.
Can't think of a better way to spend some quarrentine time than watching Combat 😉
This TV series was the main motivation for me taking three years of German language training (1967-1970)
a skill set that served me well during my cold war tour of duty in Nuremberg (1976-1979)
Ah so GDR tag, scheisse! The reds were skum
I have learned alot from this movie. thanks
My older brother and I would wait impatiently when we were kids in the 60s!
best tv war show ever made PERIOD
love the show ever since i was a child watching it with my dad. i like it just as much today as i did back then. but nowadays i watch it and see how many glaring mistakes i see during each episode. one of my favorite errors is they always walk in a straight line and bunched up and completely vulnerable to a single grenade taking the entire squad out. another favorite is i dont think i have ever seen the Germans using the standard MG-42. always some ww1 era water cooled machine gun.
just sayin'. still my favorite old tv show
They have actual MG34s and MG42s in some of the episodes. I was surprised to also see a lot of G43s (or one of them, over and over). Haven't seen a 1903A4 nor M1C/D yet but a few views of Jaeger 98 with optics.
Love this show.
Another great episode.
Love this thank you! My favorite line in the series. “Kirby.......knock it off “
Joseph Campanella always does a good job, l know this because at the start I wanted a mutiny and at the end I liked him. Good script, good performance.
I've been studying or watching RUclips videos lately about how quickly the Allies bridged the Rhine. The Germans destroyed every Rhine bridge in the Allie's path, except the one at Remagen. It fell apart after two weeks of Allied use. The Allies replaced all the bridges with either pontoon bridges or Bailey bridges.
For those of us who grew up in the 1960s watching this show, our fathers would have been very familiar with the name George C. Marshall. He was Chief of Staff of the US Armed Forces during WW 2 & later became Secretary of State. The Marshall Plan for humanitarian relief for Europe after the war bears his name.No one was more responsible for organizing Allied victory than he was.
One of the areas in which he made a key contribution was in infantry tactics. He knew that, since we would need to train millions of men to fight in a very short period of time that tactics would need to be simple. Accordingly he developed the simple plan of having one group of men lay a base of fire in front while another group went around the enemy's flank. This simple tactic was followed by GIs all across Europe & the Pacific...and by Sergeant Saunders & his men throughout the COMBAT! series.
Hogwash. Fire & Maneuver was not invented by the US. The Germans pioneered the tactic. It was merely copied by the other belligerents. Get your facts straight. The Germans used the MG-34 (later MG-42) as their base of squad firepower.
@@jimp9151 I have my facts straight. Educate yourself. books.google.ca/books?id=42Mh23JI8dQC&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=Benning+Revolution&source=bl&ots=5L5th-495F&sig=ACfU3U0KGJqtqGILS5mB6c1iDcgrXmDY5w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi_jca9kffrAhUJFjQIHfGsCz8Q6AEwEnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Benning%20Revolution&f=false
VMI man.
@@ralphshelley9586 Yes he was.
Ah man! Combat! One of my favorite shows
As a kid growing up in the 60's loved the intro The Rifleman was a close second.
Only show that came close to my personal enjoyment was BATMAN!!!!!
Love how the Lt's helmet bobs up and down when he gets shot at. It's like a demented game of wack a mole, lol!
WOW I use to watch this while growing up ! I even have some of the trading cards that came out with a stick of gum in the package with the cards ! I wish that I could find the rest of the cards to make a complete set of them ! I had just happened to see this video as I was looking around RUclips . You have a new subscriber cause I loved watching Combat then and will enjoy watching it now ! Thank you !
Combat baseball cards? Man, those might be worth a buck or several now.
Yeah. And, I wish I still have that Combat! board game. It was such fun playing that game when I was a kid....
One of the best series ever.
Louis Mercier, the old Frenchman, played "Frenchie" in the WWII classic film "Sahara" staring Humphrey Bogart. Great movie!
The action , acting is first class , just brilliant . Pluss storylines...
Taking the tags is the hardest thing you ever do, they can't train you for that. Rest well Brothers
God bless ALL who gave their lives for freedom and democracy.!!!
A lot of people commenting about the bridge scenes being the same footage from a previous show with Lee Marvin. And they're perfectly right. But no one ever talked about that fact back when the show was first airing. Because seeing the show only once week with many months in between using the same scene was no problem as hardly anyone would ever remember seeing it before at such a long interval. It's only possible to catch the same scenes now because we're able to see one episode right after another.
3Ddude101," True. But still, one has to wonder was re-using the footage a budget necessity, a 'running out of time' move, etc. In contrast reusing footage of the squad walking the terrain or engaged in a 'ordinary' firefight can be considered more generic so the producers can 'get away with it' without too much notice or complaints. THIS, however, is a set-up, a series of scenes SO SPECIFIC it's instantaneous recall to the "Combat!" faithful leaving them to wonder "why?" or "what's up with that?".
Shows constantly reused footage, Baa Baa Black Sheep was notorious for showing the same scene over and over, even more so than Battlestar Galactica.
You just know that your days are numbered when you're an extra on Combat!. It's like being an extra man on Star Trek and you're wearing the red uniform on the Away Team...👽👾👽👾👽
lol
love the background music,,,,just so right.....
Combat in 1964 and Tour of Duty in 1987 the best war series of TV.
That bridge was blown up with Lee Marvin, down the same road by truck. They often used scenes filmed for prior episodes. One is where the Germans pull up with axes to cut Doolittle trees on the hill, etc. The dialogue and storyline makes the difference.
There was a documentary about the COMBAT program. One
thing that really caught my eye was when the narrator said that
shooting of the episodes took only 6 days each. To me that was
shockingly quick. Editing must have been a fascinating thing to see.
Another thing about the filming was that except for a few episodes
shot around the Korbel Winery, north of SF the program was filmed
at a few locations in SoCal. If you know anything about Cali geography
you know that that except for the far North Coast (redwoods country)
many, many thousands of eucalyptus trees were imported and planted.
They came mainly from Australia where they are native. They are very
easy to spot, even in black and white episodes. I have never been to
France but I strongly doubt that France has many, if any, eucalyptus
trees although I could be wrong. My dad was a paratrooper & combat vet
in the Pacific Theater and we loved watching COMBAT togerher. When
he was home my younger brother & I didn't have to combat our 2 older
sisters over what program the TV would be tuned to.
! I wish I could Go back 25 Years and Be Assigned to Saunders Platoon! That is a Real NCO!
i know 1943 wasnt 25 years ago, but I mean to when I was in! It was a great episode!!
I learned much about tactics and leadership watching "Combat."
Kirby sure turns his ankle alot. 🤣🤣🤣
Vic blew that same bridge the same way in season 1, lol. He had a pain in the rear Lt. then also.
Bridge at challon?
Yea saw that also
Vic Morrow..........sadly missed after that terrible helicopter crash on the set of 'Twilight Zone' in 1983. RIP to him and the two children with him, Le and Chen.
go to "youtube, vic morrow death site'
I was 14 years old in 1962 when combat TV series on black and white T V very popular war movie my dad and whole family watch it, Vic Morrow ,Rick Jason and the whole cast are good actors very realistic war movie , 50's 60's TV movie are lot better than todays, im 76 years old now and still watch the re runs, my life is better in the 50's and 60` . I missed all the TV movies of that Era.
I agree I'm 30 and I wish I was in the 50s so much I hate today's stuff on TV just trash
Saw this with my dad(USMC) every week!
Either John Hogan was a really great actor or he just had to be himself because he was a natural. Smart alec, total pain the the ass to Saunders. And Vic Morrow played the annoyed Sgt just perfect. What a great show.
The Kirby character was an egoist with an abrasive personality. Over time he matured and learned to think about the others in his squad.
I. Loved. That. Show. Way back. When. And im so. Happy that they are running. This. Wonderful. Iconic. Series. Once. Again. The. Best of the best acting. On a. Very. Tough. Subject matter
Like get a chance for your own personal experience with your favorite new York city
I agree. Oh, it's Jack Hogan not " John ".
I'd take 'smart aleck" Kirby with that B.A.R. in a heart beat in a fire fight. Robert at 69.
my father and i always watched this together. he always said it was pretty close to the real thing. he would know. he went through the whole war in the 2nd armored division. hate that jean bayard got killed. he may have been a relative of mine, since that 's my mothers maiden name.
Another great episode! Thank you.
Filmed on area now LAX airport.
Many of the c-rations that we ate when I was in the army in the late 60s had been canned during the early 40s. I actually liked most of of what we got in our c-rat boxes.
I ate a lot of ham and lima beans. No one else would.
@@garyletterle9412 GOT THAT RIGHT
In 1983 I ate a C-rarion that was canned i 1963. I was only 18 at the time, so the ration was 2 years older than I was.
@@lyletanner744 PORFAVOR PONGALE EN CASTELLANO
C-rations were good eating. Non-GMO, organic, grass-fed, etc.
LOL so do I. What a smartass. I'm glad he finally made B.A.R. man in the 2nd season. It fits his personallity perfectly. Everything about it is LOUD LOL.
Sarge should have said they'll be ready in 20 minutes so he could get his men 10 minutes. You know, it's the whole "Art of The Deal" thing! Ask the lieutenant double what you want knowing the lieutenant will give you half what you want. The strategy works great on building inspectors too!
Me (SARTS OPNS NCO): Colonel, we're gonna need at least twenty-eight thousand rounds of 4-n-1 7.62 for the LMG clinic.
Light Colonel (State Marksmanship Coordinator); Cut it down to twenty K.
Me: (grinning) yes sir yes sir three bags full!
MSG (SARTS Ammo Custodian) *grins and winks at me*
Later at range after clinic: (everybody) dumps out fired 7.62X51 brass they brought from home into fired MG brass bin, stuffs belted rounds which just became "excess" into their rucks so they can have more than their normal take-home issue for practicing. Ball ain't as good as Match but it beats having nothing.
Same dry greed hills where Beau Bridges, the 15-year old, pointed out the snipers in the trees.
Doesn't matter! The plots are much better than the phony crap you see in today's action movies.
The series was shot in the same canyon on the outskirts of LA. It has now been turned into a park. Cartridge brass can still be found there if you look.
it would be impossible to do a modern version of Combat! I can't think of anyone who could provide the proper amount of charisma and intensity that Vic Morrow put into the role.
One actor that comes to my mind is Jeremy Renner - he is not a big guy (neither was Morrow), but he reminds me of him a lot
I was just thinking that, he was a fine actor. Not sure what happened to him.
Just looked it up, pretty sad ending for a fine actor.
@@JohnDoe-tw8es yes very sad. he was always afraid of getting killed in a helicopter accident, and it is very strange how that became a reality for him
@@mikes1097 Yes that is ironic. I remember seeing the accident on the news, but never put it together that it was Vic.
My last name is m a r r o w I used to tell the kids at school Vic Morrow was my uncle thanks for all the great memories
Lots of fresh new faces in this one, meaning someone just had to die.
That's what I thought when I saw the new soldiers in the group!
I think it's the same part of that episode too S2 E1..thanks to the uploader
My Lord, I was 6 years old when this episode aired!
Well I hope you looked older in your 6 year old pics than the supposed little girl who was 3
in this episode. She was no more than 16 months...lol.
My favorite all-time 60 sitcom
my ole man was in 2, he said the man next to ya was your back, you didn't have to look back much,he said the men he fought with were seasoned killers,most the old boys he fought with were hunters,here at home,he said germans weren't allowed to shoot firearms in their own country as often as we do,we had superiority,because of 2nd amendment here,our children shoot better most countries today,and by god it's gonna stay that way,this show was very intertaining when I was 10 showed me a viewofWW2
I agree that the American hunting tradition was a big advantage especially
for those who were from small towns and rural areas. The only way that
the Germans could come close to negating that huge advantage was that
thru the 1930s the Nazis compelled the boys to join the Hitler Youth where
they were trained to be soldiers and use of firearms was part of that
training.
It’s a pity that they only produced 100 odd episodes. They should gain an award for the series!
Their reward was being employed in a non-essential and very successful TV show, and Paid Pretty Well. Far beyond the average citizen.
Actually, they produced 152 episodes. 1962 thru 1967.
AMEN!!!
Not easy to do. Only 11 month campaign after d day
this is quality up there with "decision before dawn" when ww2 vets were still everywere.
Looks-wise, Campanella reminds me of Gene Simmons a little bit. This was a great episode. I wonder how many squad leaders got (and still get) men killed because of their personal baggage. And then they finish their tours and return home as ticking psychological time bombs. God bless everyone who serves. A shitty job they never get thanked enough for.
COMBAT! definitely invented the TV notion of what became known as the "Red Shirt." The name came about from the original Star Trek TV series. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and an unknown "security" troop with a Red Shirt would beam down onto a planet, and you KNEW the new red shirt guy was going to die a gruesome death. In COMBAT, it's the replacements, the soldiers that aren't regulars. When you see fresh faces moving out with the regulars, you know they are going to be casualties.
+KurtB: Not always. Some of those replacements lived through one episode. Others didn't. Remember also that Kirby wasn't a regular, nor was the part that Tom Lowell played. In fact, "The Short Day of Private Putnam", "The Celebrity (Del Packer)" lived through the episode.
openmind1966
I don't disagree, but you have to admit I was on to something. ;-) Most of the one-episode wonders ended up dead or wounded. Those that didn't, it was part of the story to have them survive, and LEARN something, like how to be a better soldier, etc.
+KurtB Understandable...I think in a sense that these shows were in TV's "Tweenie" age where WW2 shows had to do more with less in money and time/episodes. While I would agree that it would be more real if the new guys didn't always pay the ultimate sacrifice, but it would require many episodes, and not have as many guest stars such as Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, and many others...
But it would be good if they did as you say also. So the way I see it, it's not a preference issue, but a production problem...that only TV/Production folks deal with...
@@openmind1966 Kirby (Jack Hogan) not a regular? He was in 111 episodes. That's like saying that Ken Curtis wasn't a regular in Gunsmoke.
@@goldwinger5434 Yes he had 111 episodes, however he was a special guest star in one episode, and they found him perfect to be in most episodes. However he did a cameo in the D-Day episode. So he wasn't exactly with Saunders company to begin with. Not particularly sure why...
At first, I thought the new lieutenant wasn't that bad, until he made Adams burn the picture of his daughter. :(
More enjoyable now, than ever.
nice one good storytelling in this one
Looks like the same bridge they had to destroy in the Combat episode, THE BRIDGE AT CHALONS
The absurdity is, of course, that the 'bridge' is too light & narrow to take tanks and probably trucks, and could be replaced within a few hours if destroyed.
lee marvin right. he had an attitude 2
central casting bridge
This show was too good to reuse scenes from other episodes. Still a great hour!!