I remember watching Combat with my brother and my Dad, Dad served but he never saw war. He was in the Pentagon, he typist he had College degree, but he said a lot about the men he knew who served. He got emotional knowing so many perished he cry watching some shows. He met my Mom she too served in the service. This show blows my mind the emotions shown, its classic its awesome. The writers amazing, just amazing.
My father and I watched this show together every week. Then he'd get out a WWII map and we'd find the area of the show for that week and look it up in the encyclopedia. This show gave me a deep respect for the men and women who served. A WWII veteran, my father liked it because it showed the day to day grind of the infantry and the fact there was no glory in war.
My dad was a Korean War veteran, nam and lifer. My 4 brothers and I watched when my dad was in nam and also with him when he was home, along with 12 o'clock high and Rat patrol.
To CYNTHIA I just read your one year old comment you posted on that COMBAT episode OPERATION FLY TRAP with guest star GARY LOCKWOOD* Your FATHER is to be ADMIRED!! The actor who was the GERMAN CAPTAIN captured by SARGE SAUNDERS was FRANK MARTH who was seen on the HONEYMOONERS TV SERIES and from 1955 tru the early 1970s was seen on dozens of TV SERIES* And I believe is a GERMAN AMERICAN* And of course GARY LOCKWOOD as the grouchie new replacement (doesn,t SAUNDERS allways get a grouch each week?) and GARY was a popular TEEN IDOL TYPE back in the early 1960s and also speaks GERMAN!! Thanks once again for your comment and if you type into keyboard :COMBAT TV SERIES: INTERNET ARCHIVE you will get EVERY COMBAT EPISODE (as well as on YOU TUBE)******
An interesting side note on the series: Executive Producer Selig Seligman was an Army lawyer before going into TV production. Among his cases: representing the United States as a prosecutor in the Nuremburg trials!
Saunders is too much of a gentlemen, he just sits back and lets any fool self-destruct. But of course with Saunders around they can’t help but learn from his cool, level headedness and redeem themselves in the end. Got to hand it to Saunders, just love his character.
Sargent Saunders as portrayed by Vic Morrow had real leadership qualities. Years later, when I became an Army Officer myself, I looked for Sgts with qualities like Vic but never did find one. They are a rare breed indeed. During WWII, Saunders would have been a prime candidate for battlefield commission, although I have a feeling Saunders might have refused it, for he thrived on leading a squad of hardened combat infantry soldiers.
I always looked up to Vic Morrow's character ...always looked forward to watching him go to work every week! Vic Morrow seemingly LIVED his character... it's as if he was just being himself y know?
After 1945, a rule or rules made in regard to the USA military, there are other areas. Such as to be an officer, a college degree was required: College, Military Academies; PLC, ROTC. For the non-commissioned officers [NCO's], at least an Diploma or GED. Being literate is very important, and as interactions occurred, e.g. State Department, Barracks, Seaports with liberty or furlough, this, literacy,, and being tactful, helps. Yet, a person needs to know what they are getting into. Know the not pleasant side: sleeping on the ground, being in mud, sand, snow, mountains, at sea [know how to swim, yet use a flotation device]. Dealing with adversity helps us grow spiritually, and emotionally. Looking from another's view point helps to understand why certain actions happened. We're the actions not moral, being on the moral side is where we are to be.
If you have a B.A.R. man AND a Thompson gunner, you have a CHANCE against a German MG. 34 or 42 machine gun sgainst your squad..Love Kirby (Jack Hogan lugging arouund a REAL B.A.R. at 20 odd pounds for his conviction for realism, rest of cast lugged wood and plastic mock ups for television..Robert at 69.
Born in 1962 but remember watching the reruns on our black and white tv with my dad back in the late 60's. Dad was a platoon Sgt in the Korean war. Always loved this show.
Me born in 1061 in Germany. To the German TV responsible the show was to militaristic in those days. Wonder if a German station would buy a remake of this show nowdays.
Nice to meet you whose father is a veteran who participated in Korean War. I am a Korean who always thank US for sending troops and saving Free Korea in Korean War . We don't forget 35 thousand American soldiers who were killed in our country. If it had not been for US ,there would not be present developed Korea. God bless you and your family, from South Korea.
Gary Lockwood was in the 2 part episode of Gunsmoke entitled The Raid as the leader of the Stark gang. By the way Conlan Carter was also in numerous Gunsmoke episodes as well. In just about every episode I see people who were in Gunsmoke.
I just can't believe that in the real US army, they would have tolerated such insubordination. Or maybe that's why the US has lost every war they entered since WW2!
I was born 1952 Watched this series with my WW2 combat veteran father This TV series was the principle reason why I took three years of German language instruction during High School [1967-1970] A skill set that served me well during my Cold War tour of Duty in Nuremberg [[1976-1979]
Lee Zeidel I was born in 58 and watched Combat with my brother and father, mom watched it too I think. I probably had my GI Joe out with me or my Stonies. I still remember some of the episodes.
The universe of old Hollywood, especially back when Metro Goldwyn Mayer was an active motion picture and TV producer, where ABC-TV's "COMBAT!" was shot and filmed at in the 1960s, among other TV shows. ("COMBAT!"s last TV season was shot and filmed at CBS Studio Center when ABC aired the show In Color) the guest star in this episode is Gary Lockwood, who, by an interesting coincidence, had just finished filming the NBC/Metro Goldwyn Mayer TV series, "THE LIEUTENANT" (1963-64) that "STAR TREK" creator Gene Roddenberry had created and produced with Norman Felton. the actor playing the high ranking German officer in this episode is veteran actor Frank Marth, who graced the film and TV business, playing a variety of roles in his distinguished career!
@@kensellers4082 lol I think we had one but it never worked! It sat in a corner for a long time while we watched on a newer set. We didn't get our first color set until '69.
This TV series was the principle reason why I took three years of German language instruction during High School [1967-1970] A skill set that served me well during my Cold War tour of Duty in Nuremberg [[1976-1979]
What an Irony, I grew up in the Sixties in Germany. Shows like that had been seen as to militaristic for the German responsibles. So this one or 12 O´CLOCK HIGH never came up. Just watch them nowdays over TH-cam more out of curiosity why Americans like them . Schöne Grüße aus Deutschland.
Gary Lockwood is a rather sarcastic jerk in this episode, as he is in most parts he played, but he did play a good guy marine in the short lived series "The Lieutenant".
@@kathymcmahon6582 Absolutely! (although several years ago when I bought a jeep I wondered how cool it would look with .50 cal. mounted in the back...)
Seems like as realistic a TV show or film Hollywood could put out at the time, esp . with substantial real Ami & Deutsch footage put in at times, mostly artillery being loaded & fired. The actors HAD to have earned every penny & More, getting sweaty, filthy, & wet... after serious training to look like real soldiers in combat.
As in all things, planning and timing are everything. Saunders had a good plan and his timing was excellent. Results: The Americans got a German Colonel and transportation, while the Germans were left with NOTHING.
That was par for the series for "guest sgts"....Paul Burke, Lee Marvin, Gary Lockwood, Jack Lord, Robert Culp. All played Sgts who gave Saunders and the Squad nothing but attitude.
They got their prize in the end. But as Wellington said about Waterloo, " It was a close run thing." For Sgt. Saunders it was a calculated gamble. But, he knew from the beginning that he, and his squad had the upper-hand. The German commander was always a threat. But Sgt. Saunders pulled it off - only just as I said. A great tension filled episode. Brilliant direction.
You HAVE to go with a 'calculated gamble' sometimes, it works for me in life 80/90% of the time, but sucks in those few times when it doesn't. In the end, those instincts pays off for the most part, Robert at 67.
I agree with you about calculated gambles. Sometimes you win sometimes you lose. But I think sarge wanted some revenge for what the colonel did to his unit in Normandy. He mentions it when he over heard that colonels name and then that was his objective for the rest of the show. And for Doc : physician heal thy self hahahaha …
Actually the Guest Star, Gary Lockwood, who played Sgt. Meider, did. He played, Lt. Commander Gary Mitchell in the Star Trek episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (1966). Gary Lockwood (born John Gary Yurosek; February 21, 1937) is an American actor known for his role as the astronaut Dr. Frank Poole in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). --Wikipedia
Haven't finished watching this. However, the scene where the kraut officer has given a smarmy comment to SGT Saunders is great. I forget some of the details, but when SGT Saunders replies he'll kill him if he does something (?!) and the officer believes him is priceless. It was great watching that jackass grin disappear.
Harry Ohrt You do realise that this is television. Where actors act, recreating a work of fiction written by some biased, dogmatic, xenophobic, obtuse U.S. git just like yourself who thinks absolutely ALL the Germans were bad and ALL the Allies (especially the Yanks) wore white hats and were really, really good. Even the ones that were executed (49) and the others who had their sentences commuted to life in Leavenworth - Rape and Murder - naughty, naughty !! Must have been Nazi imposters, couldn't have been good clean U.S. servicemen.
How many contentious Sgts did Sarge encounter......Lee Marvin....Albert Salmi ......Jack Lord....Richard Anderson.....Gary Lockwood......Robert Culp..... oh yeah....I forget Jeff Hunter.
Pvt. Caje is of French ancestory from Acadia Canada. Relocated to Louisiana when the British took over Canada, the name Acadian (one from Acadia) morphed into the English word Cajun. Cajuns are well aware of their French heritage and identify more with France than Canada. So Pvt. Caje is very sympathetic to the European French people.
everyone questions the sarge's actions, he was on a mission to capture a high level officer, you don't do that by hiding in bushes, and he assumed correct!
Gary Lockwood is still with us. Always loved his acting style. He was great in Star Trek, 2001 A Space Odyssey and in the film Firecreek with Henry Fonda. He always provided a real 'presence' in his acting, a talent most actors these days haven't even heard of. I'm still a fan Gary!
Gary is still with us. I talked with him 3 times at Star Trek conventions a few years ago. We talked mostly about 2001: A Space Odyssey and I got autographs. He's very outspoken, interesting, usually cordial, and occasionally funny.
What I can't figure is why Saunders and the guys didn't just jump into the bushes off the road when they first heard the german truck coming, instead of running ahead and occupying a building.
How many times did Saunders lose his helmet only to get a new one and manage to find a piece of camouflage parachute silk to make a cover for it. No, that's not a USMC camo helmet cover. Those had seams on the top. If you closely at Saunders, it is the correct field expedient helmet cover worn by some soldiers after D-Day, the deep pleats around the sides show that it is just a flat piece wrapped around the helmet.
Never did figure out why Saunders had a USMC issued Duck camouflage cover on his helmet, it was quite common in the south pacific in Marine Corp combat newsreels not so in European theater newsreels of USARMY
Actually he got it from a obviously FUBAR airborne camo chute. Probably after D-Day. Would be easy enough to cut it out with a knife and fit it on his helmet. I was curious as well. And that was the official explanation.
@@mrtravdawg That is what my investigation found too. Plus, I think it was done so he would stand out to the audience. Camo uniforms were tried in the ETO. But were quickly dropped once it was found GI's were confusing US troops with the Germans, who were already wearing camo.
A soldier is trained to disrupt the enemy every chance he got or gets. Poor soldiers like the tech sergeant did not want to do anything more than he had to...
*Hey Vic, what in the bloody hell are you waiting for? Open up on them jerry's with that Chopper duder. Play the flight of the bumblebees in lead on those swine, you pillock ( ; )*
He was making a movie at 2 am with 2 kids ..an explosion for the scene went off and hit the rotor blades of the chopper flying overhead it crashed decapitating Vic and landing on the two kids who died as well/l
No Vic morrow no combat He got a leadership quality as Sargent Saunders and timeless actor He died in a twilight zone movie The director John lands have to be blamed When I watched combat I really missed the great Vic morrow
Agreed. I couldn't finish watching it. No real story or plot...just a bunch of events strung together to fill an hour episode not to mention the ridiculousness of it all, as you said.
I was saying I do that won a created chattel disregard what I was doing by TH-cam I do not want to create exciting this regard what I was doing I didn't know what I was doing
So, during the opening scenes is a battle. There was a BAR firing. Rules say you don't leave the BAR on the field. So where's the BAR? I find my blood pressure rising as I watch this episode. Intense
I'm sure that the captured German officer is a American as he has appeared in a Second world war Series as a U.S. General, called the Dirty Dozen starring Ben Murphy
Half a dozen Krauts turn up in a truck. Saunders is at a loss as to what to do: they are trapped. In another episode he would have mowed them down as soon as they alighted from the truck.
9:13 RARE that an American Actor on this show speaks German so well ! :) But if they had used more German phraase so well modified it had looked unrealiistic for commen G.I.s
Ok, I don't know if anyone else has mentioned it, but, well here goes: the German National Insignia (the "breast eagles") look absolutely ridiculous---something I just don't understand--Combat! was made less than 20 years after WW2--didn't anyone in costuming either, a) get any real breast eagles? They used to sell originals at army-navy stores back in the 1960's cheaply (I got an original officer version for $5--which was "a lot of money" for a 10 year old), or b) ever look at a book?
+Johannes van Deventer I thought the same thing. Guess the producers back then knew the general public was not very intelligent, like the majority today.
Scratching my head over Caje not checking out the cellar, just opening the door and looking in. Seems unlike him not to go down into the cellar and make a closer inspection. And then he tells Saunders all is clear?
Beyond ironic that Vic Morrow died saving 2 young vietnamese refugees...crushed by a helicopter in the movie "twilight zone"...be careful what you play...reality is close by!
Landis should have gone to prison for life for he made(force I would say) the pilot of Huey Helicopter performing unsafe flying , result in deaths actors he was responsible there safety.
I remember Vic Morrow visited our DoD school at Clark Air Base in late 1964/early 1965. He gave at Mimeo copies of his autograph. He said he didn’t smile in the show due to powder burns they used on his face.
I'm new to this show, but I've watched it in sequence to this point and enjoyed it. But I must say, I find it extremely annoying that EVERY single time they run into another solider, or soldier(s) from an Allied army, they are either completely incompetent, outrageously and needlessly hostile, or both!
What is not generally known is that the US Army in WWII frequently loaned half tracks, tanks, and trucks to the Germans to make things more sporty. That is why you see the Germans driving these in Combat!
Enjoyed the episode but Sgt Saunders ran into the dumbest Germans ever. 1) If your a German who wonders into a barn and blood drips on your hand....you don't look for where the blood is coming from without some backup. 2) If you have a missing squad mate....you don't wonder into the barn without back up. 3) If you now have two squad mates who have wondered into the barn without coming back....you don't go into the barn when the 2nd guy calls for you. Geeze no wonder the Germans lost the war :)
I remember watching Combat with my brother and my Dad, Dad served but he never saw war. He was in the Pentagon, he typist he had College degree, but he said a lot about the men he knew who served. He got emotional knowing so many perished he cry watching some shows. He met my Mom she too served in the service. This show blows my mind the emotions shown, its classic its awesome. The writers amazing, just amazing.
Cp ngu tù binh k trói lại để súng bên cạnh no no 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Transmitan las películas completas en español
No hagas renegar
No aguas renegar
My father and I watched this show together every week. Then he'd get out a WWII map and we'd find the area of the show for that week and look it up in the encyclopedia. This show gave me a deep respect for the men and women who served. A WWII veteran, my father liked it because it showed the day to day grind of the infantry and the fact there was no glory in war.
My dad was a Korean War veteran, nam and lifer. My 4 brothers and I watched when my dad was in nam and also with him when he was home, along with 12 o'clock high and Rat patrol.
Ok thanks you of film yes please i speack français it no english thank you .
My dad was in 30th INF DIV, Normandy, PH, BSM. We would watch each episode together every week.
To CYNTHIA I just read your one year old comment you posted on that COMBAT episode OPERATION FLY TRAP with guest star GARY LOCKWOOD* Your FATHER is to be ADMIRED!! The actor who was the GERMAN CAPTAIN captured by SARGE SAUNDERS was FRANK MARTH who was seen on the HONEYMOONERS TV SERIES and from 1955 tru the early 1970s was seen on dozens of TV SERIES* And I believe is a GERMAN AMERICAN* And of course GARY LOCKWOOD as the grouchie new replacement (doesn,t SAUNDERS allways get a grouch each week?) and GARY was a popular TEEN IDOL TYPE back in the early 1960s and also speaks GERMAN!! Thanks once again for your comment and if you type into keyboard :COMBAT TV SERIES: INTERNET ARCHIVE you will get EVERY COMBAT EPISODE (as well as on YOU TUBE)******
Gary Lockwood was an excellent actor, I remember seeing him years later as a guest star on Barnaby and Jones.
Starred in the second pilot of Star trek original series
He was also in 12 o’Clock High, 2nd season.
2001: A Space Odessey.
One of my favorite shows as a kid.every time I see a walkie talkie I always say the famous words...CHECK MATE KING TWO THIS IS WHITE ROOK OVER...
An interesting side note on the series: Executive Producer Selig Seligman was an Army lawyer before going into TV production. Among his cases: representing the United States as a prosecutor in the Nuremburg trials!
Now I watch every day Thanks a lot
Saunders is too much of a gentlemen, he just sits back and lets any fool self-destruct. But of course with Saunders around they can’t help but learn from his cool, level headedness and redeem themselves in the end.
Got to hand it to Saunders, just love his character.
Saunders = super cool And Vic Morrow had that magic look.
He' (Vic) a dream!!
DEE LISH US
I really like Saunders he's a good Sgt I've learned from him and his tactics
YES ---- VIC MORROW WAS ONE OF THE BEST..!..
Vic was and Still is COMBAT!!! Love the others as well 😁😁😁
11 Bravos doing what they do.
Sargent Saunders as portrayed by Vic Morrow had real leadership qualities. Years later, when I became an Army Officer myself, I looked for Sgts with qualities like Vic but never did find one. They are a rare breed indeed. During WWII, Saunders would have been a prime candidate for battlefield commission, although I have a feeling Saunders might have refused it, for he thrived on leading a squad of hardened combat infantry soldiers.
What about staff sgts? none either?
Vic Morrow = Great casting for the role.
I always looked up to Vic Morrow's character ...always looked forward to watching him go to work every week!
Vic Morrow seemingly LIVED his character... it's as if he was just being himself y know?
@@mikedag1176 Yup. He was Sgt Saunders.
After 1945, a rule or rules made in regard to the USA military, there are other areas.
Such as to be an officer, a college degree was required: College, Military Academies; PLC, ROTC.
For the non-commissioned officers [NCO's], at least an Diploma or GED.
Being literate is very important, and as interactions occurred, e.g. State Department, Barracks, Seaports with liberty or furlough, this, literacy,, and being tactful, helps.
Yet, a person needs to know what they are getting into. Know the not pleasant side: sleeping on the ground, being in mud, sand, snow, mountains, at sea [know how to swim, yet use a flotation device].
Dealing with adversity helps us grow spiritually, and emotionally.
Looking from another's view point helps to understand why certain actions happened.
We're the actions not moral, being on the moral side is where we are to be.
If you have a B.A.R. man AND a Thompson gunner, you have a CHANCE against a German MG. 34 or 42 machine gun sgainst your squad..Love Kirby (Jack Hogan lugging arouund a REAL B.A.R. at 20 odd pounds for his conviction for realism, rest of cast lugged wood and plastic mock ups for television..Robert at 69.
Born in 1962 but remember watching the reruns on our black and white tv with my dad back in the late 60's. Dad was a platoon Sgt in the Korean war. Always loved this show.
Me born in 1061 in Germany. To the German TV responsible the show was to militaristic in those days. Wonder if a German station would buy a remake of this show nowdays.
Nice to meet you whose father is a veteran who participated in Korean War.
I am a Korean who always thank US for sending troops and saving Free Korea in Korean War .
We don't forget 35 thousand American soldiers who were killed in our country.
If it had not been for US ,there would not be present developed Korea.
God bless you and your family, from South Korea.
Gary Lockwood was in the 2 part episode of Gunsmoke entitled The Raid as the leader of the Stark gang. By the way Conlan Carter was also in numerous Gunsmoke episodes as well. In just about every episode I see people who were in Gunsmoke.
Once again, Cage is The Unsung Hero! All the dirty jobs he did so well. Karl
Great T.V. Thank you so much for posting these great videos!
Imagine if TV shows were good again. Forget it. Never gonna happen.
If his parents had called him Tom, instead of Vic, he would always have been ahead of his time. A great actor who died too young.
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Sometimes you just feel like slapping these guys who don't want to listen to Saunders.
Bnhhh
Right you are!!
I just can't believe that in the real US army, they would have tolerated such insubordination. Or maybe that's why the US has lost every war they entered since WW2!
I was born in 56 and at 6 years old I was watching this show I loved it then and still do today 😉
I was born 1952 Watched this series with my WW2 combat veteran father
This TV series was the principle reason why I took three years of German language instruction during High School [1967-1970]
A skill set that served me well during my Cold War tour of Duty in Nuremberg [[1976-1979]
Lee Zeidel I was born in 58 and watched Combat with my brother and father, mom watched it too I think. I probably had my GI Joe out with me or my Stonies. I still remember some of the episodes.
Metoo 19⁵etp1⁹⁵57?
Metoo?!!
Same, 01-13-1956...Friday the 13th at that! Was watching this 1st run.
The universe of old Hollywood, especially back when Metro Goldwyn Mayer was an active motion picture and TV producer, where ABC-TV's "COMBAT!" was shot and filmed at in the 1960s, among other TV shows. ("COMBAT!"s last TV season was shot and filmed at CBS Studio Center when ABC aired the show In Color) the guest star in this episode is Gary Lockwood, who, by an interesting coincidence, had just finished filming the NBC/Metro Goldwyn Mayer TV series, "THE LIEUTENANT" (1963-64) that "STAR TREK" creator Gene Roddenberry had created and produced with Norman Felton. the actor playing the high ranking German officer in this episode is veteran actor Frank Marth, who graced the film and TV business, playing a variety of roles in his distinguished career!
I feel lucky to have been able to see this and so many other great shows on tv back in the sixties. Great time to have a TV Set.
BLACK AND WHITE RULES
@@kensellers4082 lol I think we had one but it never worked! It sat in a corner for a long time while we watched on a newer set.
We didn't get our first color set until '69.
Excellent episode
This TV series was the principle reason why I took three years of German language instruction during High School [1967-1970]
A skill set that served me well during my Cold War tour of Duty in Nuremberg [[1976-1979]
What an Irony, I grew up in the Sixties in Germany. Shows like that had been seen as to militaristic for the German responsibles. So this one or 12 O´CLOCK HIGH never came up. Just watch them nowdays over TH-cam more out of curiosity why Americans like them . Schöne Grüße aus Deutschland.
Ah, Vic, so great! So missed and loved.😪❤🙏
YEP. Even after all this time, 39 years ago July 23, 1982. He was gorgeous and sexy
@@kathymcmahon6582 Amen!
Superb episode, great Gary Lockwood performance
Gary Lockwood is a rather sarcastic jerk in this episode, as he is in most parts he played, but he did play a good guy marine in the short lived series "The Lieutenant".
The greatest show ever, TV or movies! Nothing, NOTHING, compares to COMBAT! 👏🏼😎
We used to debate which was better Combat, Gallant Men or Rat Patrol....good times in a simpler world. lol
@@dmutant2635 there's NO comparison!!! Please!!!
@@kathymcmahon6582 Absolutely!
(although several years ago when I bought a jeep I wondered how cool it would look with .50 cal. mounted in the back...)
Lockwood was great in Star Treks "Where no man has gone before"
And in 2001.
And his own show THE LIEUTENANT
Keep them coming, I am having a fine time reliving my childhood.
The characters in this series, both German and Americans seem to spend an awful lot of time chasing chickens.
Seems like as realistic a TV show or film Hollywood could put out at the time, esp . with substantial real Ami & Deutsch footage put in at times, mostly artillery being loaded & fired. The actors HAD to have earned every penny & More, getting sweaty, filthy, & wet... after serious training to look like real soldiers in combat.
As in all things, planning and timing are everything.
Saunders had a good plan and his timing was excellent.
Results: The Americans got a German Colonel and transportation, while the Germans were left with NOTHING.
Google heinrich severloh...nothing...try 2500 dead Americans on Omaha beach.
YEP
That was par for the series for "guest sgts"....Paul Burke, Lee Marvin, Gary Lockwood, Jack Lord, Robert Culp. All played Sgts who gave Saunders and the Squad nothing but attitude.
Lee Marvin...a real USMC vet of all island missions...was only 16 years old...family was well fixed...the energy and verve of youth!
@@johnrogan9420 Lee Marvin was a real Hero on Iwo Jima PFC USMC
@@kensellers4082 Yeah Said he got shot in the Ass, won his battle and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery PFC Lee Marvin USMC
@@cullenroden3917 supposedly there was some issue with this story. Some ppl say all of what Lee said was not true, so, who knows???
Damn! Good episode!!!!!!
A great show!
Stein love
Folks.. don't stand up and run while in a close range firefight. CRAWL. Crawl like your life depended on it, cause it does.
Gary Lockwood had Polish decent so he spoke German polish and Russian.
They got their prize in the end. But as Wellington said about Waterloo, " It was a close run thing." For Sgt. Saunders it was a calculated gamble. But, he knew from the beginning that he, and his squad had the upper-hand. The German commander was always a threat. But Sgt. Saunders pulled it off - only just as I said. A great tension filled episode. Brilliant direction.
You HAVE to go with a 'calculated gamble' sometimes, it works for me in life 80/90% of the time, but sucks in those few times when it doesn't. In the end, those instincts pays off for the most part, Robert at 67.
I agree with you about calculated gambles. Sometimes you win sometimes you lose. But I think sarge wanted some revenge for what the colonel did to his unit in Normandy. He mentions it when he over heard that colonels name and then that was his objective for the rest of the show. And for Doc : physician heal thy self hahahaha …
Actually the Guest Star, Gary Lockwood, who played Sgt. Meider, did. He played, Lt. Commander Gary Mitchell in the Star Trek episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (1966). Gary Lockwood (born John Gary Yurosek; February 21, 1937) is an American actor known for his role as the astronaut Dr. Frank Poole in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
--Wikipedia
He also had a short-lived tv show called the Lieutenant. He played a USMC LT. Came out before Combat I think. 63 ish.
Open the pod bay doors Hal...
Wow! I saw this 8 months ago back again in the wee hours @ work overnight
Es ce une ADRESSE ? Pour VOIR en FRANÇAIS ?
Assistia estes filmes na TV todo sabado a noite.n ano de 71 72
Haven't finished watching this. However, the scene where the kraut officer has given a smarmy comment to SGT Saunders is great. I forget some of the details, but when SGT Saunders replies he'll kill him if he does something (?!) and the officer believes him is priceless. It was great watching that jackass grin disappear.
+Harry Ohrt A reckless hunter becomes the first victim.
Harry Ohrt You do realise that this is television. Where actors act, recreating a work of fiction written by some biased, dogmatic, xenophobic, obtuse U.S. git just like yourself who thinks absolutely ALL the Germans were bad and ALL the Allies (especially the Yanks) wore white hats and were really, really good. Even the ones that were executed (49) and the others who had their sentences commuted to life in Leavenworth - Rape and Murder - naughty, naughty !! Must have been Nazi imposters, couldn't have been good clean U.S. servicemen.
When.a Reckless hunter sets a trap he is often it's first victim!! That was said twice by the same german soldier 😉😑
How many contentious Sgts did Sarge encounter......Lee Marvin....Albert Salmi ......Jack Lord....Richard Anderson.....Gary Lockwood......Robert Culp..... oh yeah....I forget Jeff Hunter.
The dispatch rider had a great bug eyed expression when he realized he had been captured......worthy of Marty Feldman.
....... thought the same thing
LOL
Pvt. Caje is of French ancestory from Acadia Canada. Relocated to Louisiana when the British took over Canada, the name Acadian (one from Acadia) morphed into the English word Cajun. Cajuns are well aware of their French heritage and identify more with France than Canada. So Pvt. Caje is very sympathetic to the European French people.
The guys playing Germans are often times overlooked, but fine actors too. they make it all work.... bravo guys.
Yea they play guys you want to hate. So in that regard, yea Selig and the boys made sure you wanted to hate them.
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I just found sharing the shows in FACEBOOK! I had no idea. This was a very good show. I sent them another good one, the other one!
everyone questions the sarge's actions, he was on a mission to capture a high level officer, you don't do that by hiding in bushes, and he assumed correct!
My cousin Sara married a guy who could pass for Gary Lockwood.
Germans sure love to chase chickens in this series.
Gary Lockwood is still with us. Always loved his acting style. He was great in Star Trek, 2001 A Space Odyssey and in the film Firecreek with Henry Fonda. He always provided a real 'presence' in his acting, a talent most actors these days haven't even heard of. I'm still a fan Gary!
Don't forget him as a Marine Corps. Lieutenant in the early 1960's series ' The Lieutenant '.
@@hermanator74301 That's right! Forgot about that one.
Loved the Lieutenant. They did have them all for free on TH-cam. But they just got taken down.
Gary is still with us. I talked with him 3 times at Star Trek conventions a few years ago. We talked mostly about 2001: A Space Odyssey and I got autographs. He's very outspoken, interesting, usually cordial, and occasionally funny.
@@beyond_the_infinite2098 that is great you got to see him. would love to do the same
What I can't figure is why Saunders and the guys didn't just jump into the bushes off the road when they first heard the german truck coming, instead of running ahead and occupying a building.
You make a good point. You never trap yourself in a structure like that.
Wasn't in the script!!!!
Not sure who is in bldg either!!!!
Lockwood was married for six years to Stephanie Powers. Great career or not, I'd say he did all right for himself in that regard.
That’s soooooo true!!
She was SUPER hot! Lucky guy, I would have been into her a long time!
Just great as ever ! Great squad and brilliant actors, direction and production !
How many times did Saunders lose his helmet only to get a new one and manage to find a piece of camouflage parachute silk to make a cover for it.
No, that's not a USMC camo helmet cover. Those had seams on the top. If you closely at Saunders, it is the correct field expedient helmet cover worn by some soldiers after D-Day, the deep pleats around the sides show that it is just a flat piece wrapped around the helmet.
I always wondered about that. Thanks!
@@dmutant2635 Maybe he kept the whole parachute when he found it. That would explain the endless supply for New covers. Lol.
@@dmutant2635 he had a brother in another branch. That's where to cover comes from!!!
@@kathymcmahon6582 NOPE per the flashback episodes, he scavenged a camo chute canopy on/after D-Day.
Yes! Best show ever! Clever! Real! Vic morrow rocks! Sad he lost his head!!! Really!!!!!
Don't forget Gary in a show called The Lieutenant
「コンバット」は、吹き替えよりもオリジナルが「台詞」の大切さを感じます。
ドイツ軍大尉の「諺」に、サンダースが「listen,too mucgh late」と言い返す所。
たしか、吹き替えでは、「待てば海路の日和あり」でした。意味は通りますが、
違和感がある。又大尉が「American verwelle,」降服したでは無く、管理している
と連絡兵に告げてる所など、やはり吹き替えや字幕には限界があります。
The definitive TV show about WWII. Thanks for posting.
Never did figure out why Saunders had a USMC issued Duck camouflage cover on his helmet, it was quite common in the south pacific in Marine Corp combat newsreels not so in European theater newsreels of USARMY
sarges brother sent to him from pacific side watch and learn
Actually he got it from a obviously FUBAR airborne camo chute. Probably after D-Day. Would be easy enough to cut it out with a knife and fit it on his helmet. I was curious as well. And that was the official explanation.
@@mrtravdawg That is what my investigation found too. Plus, I think it was done so he would stand out to the audience. Camo uniforms were tried in the ETO. But were quickly dropped once it was found GI's were confusing US troops with the Germans, who were already wearing camo.
(sigh) Per flashback episodes, he scavenged a camo parachute canopy on/about D-Day.
Vic is Great
I’m amazed that the Germans captured so many American vehicles!
That look on the despatch rider - Priceless... 😂🤣
This is one of my favorite episodes!!! I have watched it several times
A soldier is trained to disrupt the enemy every chance he got or gets.
Poor soldiers like the tech sergeant did not want to do anything more than he had to...
Antony Andre' The tech sergeant was pretty much a uniformed civilian.
The measly freighter significantly waste because orange neurochemically attract within a madly pamphlet. serious, wandering earth
Good Morning Dave this is Hal. I have found Frank , see he's alive and well and he's not floating out past Uranus .
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Watch it as a kid still notice that the guns shoot without reloading
The best TV show about the war I've seen yet
YEP
Operation Fly Trap, another masterpiece! L.A. Wood
En français je pourrai comprendre !?
@Marki Faux come on Marki don't sugarcoat it tell him what you really think ;-)
*Hey Vic, what in the bloody hell are you waiting for? Open up on them jerry's with that Chopper duder. Play the flight of the bumblebees in lead on those swine, you pillock ( ; )*
Can you write any smaller? Hahaha
Combat is realistic, because most of the actors, directors and producers were veterans!
One of the very good episodes. I like Lockwood's wit.
I love Vic Morrow. He was one hell of an actor.
He was making a movie at 2 am with 2 kids ..an explosion for the scene went off and hit the rotor blades of the chopper flying overhead it crashed decapitating Vic and landing on the two kids who died as well/l
Miss Vic like crazy!!!
No Vic morrow no combat He got a leadership quality as Sargent Saunders and timeless actor He died in a twilight zone movie The director John lands have to be blamed When I watched combat I really missed the great Vic morrow
@@nadarajah2468 after yrs of Combat he must have had PTSD bad.
@@glendooer6211 I pray Vic was a believer and went to Heaven!!!
Wonder how many signed up from watching this show???
(raises hand...)
Operation Fly Trap, another brilliant masterpiece of Combat, the greatest war series on television to date!
Surely you jest, this episode was on the order of a Rat Patrol episode. Ludicrous.
Agreed. I couldn't finish watching it. No real story or plot...just a bunch of events strung together to fill an hour episode not to mention the ridiculousness of it all, as you said.
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@@mondonico2010 ok get over it!!!
L.A. Wood ... don't forget the exclamation point after Combat ... Combat!
With the political craps going on I'm learning a different procedure of things . like Patton said always prepare for war in peace time..
Too bad they didn't get Gary Lockwood as a regular, it was fun seeing him act with Saunders, these two don't agree about anything.
Bri G. "C'mon C'mon! "
Stone love
I was saying I do that won a created chattel disregard what I was doing by TH-cam I do not want to create exciting this regard what I was doing I didn't know what I was doing
I love when Saunders shoots the krauts mercilessly
So, during the opening scenes is a battle. There was a BAR firing. Rules say you don't leave the BAR on the field. So where's the BAR?
I find my blood pressure rising as I watch this episode. Intense
Man what I would pay for that dispatch riders' leather overcoat!
I'm sure that the captured German officer is a American as he has appeared in a Second world war Series as a U.S. General, called the Dirty Dozen starring Ben Murphy
It's always someone's job ta', you guessed it,...ta' chase those f*ckin' chickens !!!!
Sgt Saunders always seems to get one awful soldier in in group that argues and endangers them.
Half a dozen Krauts turn up in a truck. Saunders is at a loss as to what to do: they are trapped. In another episode he would have mowed them down as soon as they alighted from the truck.
Retired LEO: I would follow Saunders to Hell and Back.
Saunders is code 4 all the way!
But then came the Korean war (Men in War) when Aldo Ray slapped him around. Yes, yes, I know that movie came out before Combat.
24:30 Always has to be one who is insubordinate and endangers the others.
9:13 RARE that an American Actor on this show speaks German so well ! :) But if they had used more German phraase so well modified it had looked unrealiistic for commen G.I.s
I caught some Deutsche slang close to the beginning - Guch'n Mal - Take a look.
Ok, I don't know if anyone else has mentioned it, but, well here goes: the German National Insignia (the "breast eagles") look absolutely ridiculous---something I just don't understand--Combat! was made less than 20 years after WW2--didn't anyone in costuming either, a) get any real breast eagles? They used to sell originals at army-navy stores back in the 1960's cheaply (I got an original officer version for $5--which was "a lot of money" for a 10 year old), or b) ever look at a book?
+Johannes van Deventer I thought the same thing. Guess the producers back then knew the general public was not very intelligent, like the majority today.
Poetic licence, I believe we all are aware of who they are and they manage the majority of the costumes wonderfully... Hail Vardrobe!
Vic Morrow dropped out of high school at age 17 and joined the Navy!
Scratching my head over Caje not checking out the cellar, just opening the door and looking in. Seems unlike him not to go down into the cellar and make a closer inspection. And then he tells Saunders all is clear?
Talk to the writers about it.
Great story
Dang Boche, assaulting our Allied chickens! There was no end to their depravity! ;)
Beyond ironic that Vic Morrow died saving 2 young vietnamese refugees...crushed by a helicopter in the movie "twilight zone"...be careful what you play...reality is close by!
Vic and those 2 precious babies were MURDERED!!!
@@kathrynmcmahon4048 think the director did jail time ...John Landis?
@@johnrogan9420 NOPE
@@johnrogan9420 No jail time for anyone, EVER!!!
Landis should have gone to prison for life for he made(force I would say) the pilot of Huey Helicopter performing unsafe flying , result in deaths actors he was responsible there safety.
Gol dang SUPER episode! This one has it all.
I remember Vic Morrow visited our DoD school at Clark Air Base in late 1964/early 1965. He gave at Mimeo copies of his autograph. He said he didn’t smile in the show due to powder burns they used on his face.
I'm new to this show, but I've watched it in sequence to this point and enjoyed it. But I must say, I find it extremely annoying that EVERY single time they run into another solider, or soldier(s) from an Allied army, they are either completely incompetent, outrageously and needlessly hostile, or both!
What is not generally known is that the US Army in WWII frequently loaned half tracks, tanks, and trucks to the Germans to make things more sporty. That is why you see the Germans driving these in Combat!
Great combatants
Enjoyed the episode but Sgt Saunders ran into the dumbest Germans ever. 1) If your a German who wonders into a barn and blood drips on your hand....you don't look for where the blood is coming from without some backup. 2) If you have a missing squad mate....you don't wonder into the barn without back up. 3) If you now have two squad mates who have wondered into the barn without coming back....you don't go into the barn when the 2nd guy calls for you. Geeze no wonder the Germans lost the war :)
Agree...totally. And you don't set up a communication HQ without first searching the farmhouse and barns. Poorly written.
@@mondonico2010 Combat runs on personalities, not on Combat