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"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 RU-vid for us!
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.
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!
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!!
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!!!
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've been studying or watching RU-vid 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.
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.
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).
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!
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!
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
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.
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.
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)
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
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!❤
! 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!!
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
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...👽👾👽👾👽
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.
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?".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 RU-vid . You have a new subscriber cause I loved watching Combat then and will enjoy watching it now ! Thank you !
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.
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.
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.
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...
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
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.
Love it, Kirby lugs around a REAL B.A.R. on the set for believing in realism..weight at 20 odd lbs. Saunder's Thompson and the squads M-1's are plastic/wood mock up replicas..Robert at 66. Hats off to Jack Hogan (Kirby)
i own a WWII era M-1 carbine with shoulder strap and extra mags. "Combat" TV show first turned me on to this rifle when i was 11 years old. Always one of my favourite guns.
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
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.
joe campanella was a fine actor and served his country in ww2 in the navy...one of few men to achieve "commander" at a very young age...simple straightforward actor lacking any platform or agenda so common in todays "actors"...semper fi squid
I watched Combat TV series between 1964-1966 in Australia along with other American TV series like Voyage to the bottom of the sea, Rawhide, Laramie, gunsmoke ... But Combat was probably the one I liked best even I didn't fully understand what they said as English was brand new to me at that time :-) Here I see American troops conducting guerilla warfare tactics against the German military operations in Europe probably France... trying to do sabotage work and blow up bridges in order to slow down the Germans.
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.