I'm in my 60's too. I was a boy and watched it with my Dad. It was special watching with him. He used to say to me with a smile, "the sergeant, he watches out for his squad". Just me opinion, but I think no actor cast for a role did it better than Vic Morrow. He has a couple of Emmy's for best actor in a recurring series. Kirby is the last living cast member!
That’s cause Kirby has been in the stockade since the war ended. He’s been jailed for insubordination and mouthing off to Saunders. Plus all the times his right arm and hand got wounded he’s been having lifelong issues with them and has been having therapy and rehab. He might get paroled in 2025. 80 years after the end of WWII. Just sayin …😅😂
I used to follow Combat in brisbane QLD:(AUS) in 1963-64 and 1965. Now i am 72 years of age. Living in Norway. Seeing Combat again. Brings back a heap of memorys. Thanks Mate. for posting.
I want to Thank You SO much for posting all these great episodes. Takes me back to childhood, watching Combat when it first ran in prime time. Also, I enjoy the sometimes lively conversations these great old shows spark to life. Thanks again, Randy
The learning curve in this one? A former tank driver with claustrophobia learns to overcome it as he drives a German tank in a tank dual in close-in combat. Wonderful, magnificent, superb, just plain Wow! Combat was the best ever!
I watch it as a boy 7years old now iam retired at 60 years old the series is still the best can beat any tv show today Again Vic morrow is superb as Saunders the story the script the music excellent Combat is a real masterpiece
My grandfather served in 3 different battles / conflicts in north Africa in WWII. He received 3 bronze stars,and never told us when he was alive. There were and are many men like him in every war. These are the anchors to winning.
Same thing with my Dad. Got a Bronze Star and Purple Heart at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941. We grew up not knowing about any of what happened until after he passed away. He never talked about his war experiences.
Frank Gorshin by far the best impressionist! He starred in two Combat episodes: - The Hell Machine (1965) … Pvt. Gavin - The Medal (1963) … Wharton. Thank You Mr. Gorshin. RIP.
To commenter IZZY you are right on about Frank Gorshins 2 COMBAT appearances.Ever notice how the scriptwriters on these tv shows RECAST the same great ACTOR in a VARIATION of a previouse episode he starred in. In Gorshins case the MEDAL episode had him jump on the tank and use the machine gun to cut down the enemy-while this episode the HELL MACHINE had him drive the tank!! I guess hen the scriptwriters need a few more episode story lines they come up with a variation of a previous story.
@@gator6551 The episode was called "The Duel" with Bobby Rydell as the trapped private under a truck axle while Saunders battled a German tank on his own.
I love this show I grew up watching it at my grandma's house in the 70 on channel 44 in Venice Florida and then after combat went off I watch Creature Feature
A simple plot yet so suspenseful! I bet the inspired scriptwriters summed their plot up in 2 sentences! Action packed at the end. What an adrenaline rush! It’s stories like these viewers rave about to their friends recommending to watch this particular episode.
Well .... what can I say .... I am very impressed about this particular part of the whole series. I love the most this part of the two "dancing around" > "German" tanks, which prevented the German one of using its main gun !!!! That was so cool !!!! It was a great pleasure to watch it !!!!
Yes, it seems ashamed to kill someone who was just trying to help, even if they were SS, who would have thought we'd be helping each other get to the moon 20 years later, just learned myself that the Germans invented the air driven torque wrench around 1980 type ALKITRONIC if you're interested...
I watched this series as a 6 year old. Interesting production note: The series was largely filmed on a Winery in Central California with orchards throughout. The owners agreed to explosions only if the crew would blow up a tree stump for each blast. Many of the blasts are actual tree stumps being destroyed. Another side note: Saunders hates guns in real life. Rick Jason brought rifles to the set and would offer to take him shooting when not filming. Vic Morrow always declined. Another side note: Little John always removes his helmet inside a Church. When a new Director told him not to he had a rage fit and almost quit. They left him [and his helmet] alone after that.
I remember watching Combat when I was 5 years old when my Dad was stationed in Ft Benning, Georgia....I liked this tv show because my father was a Decorated Veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam...RIP Dad...
Gotta Love Frank Gorshin! Always plays the "weasel", kind of scared, "Tough Guy". Gorshin fills a niche that no other actor could quite provide. Gorshin is part of my lifetime of TV memories. Almost feel like I knew the guy...
Watched it as a kid. Loved it and the Rat Patrol. Something about these old shows. Not like today all soap operas and how much T&A and swearing can they get away with. You know Not 1 actor in this episode use a single swear word, not 1 !!! And it was still good. Just could never figure out at the end why Sgt. Saunders, smart as he was, didn't load and fire the tanks main gun when they pulled them out of the ditch. Could have destroyed it in one shot of course that would have meant the Riddler wouldn't have been able to make all those nice circles in the dirt driving the tank around but it would have been exciting to see them fire the main gun and take out that tank. Still a great show every week. Combat and the Rat Patrol. Where did time go????
How refreshing to see all the episode's exterior scenes filmed at Thousand Oaks -- truly "opening up" the show -- and not on the over-used, already-seen-from-every-angle Franklin Canyon Reservoir and MGM backlots. The added production expense and time that resulted in the aerial views pays off magnificently. Act III: When the German officer's car finally outran the tank and Saunders sprayed the four occupants with waist level firing of his uncanny Thompson (accurate from any firing position and at any distance ; never requires reloading), the camera clearly shows the terminal damage to the enemy's radio on board. A key point. Yet, viewers don't witness whether all the fired-upon Germans' wounds were instantly fatal. In a similar, real life, war-time situation Saunders would have approached the vehicle and administered the coup de grace -- a grisly measure to insure information of their tank being commandeered by Americans isn't blasted all over the enemy's radio broadcast system. Presenting it "delicately," perhaps off camera, we could have heard the gunshot(s) from Saunders' pistol, "finishing off" the wounded. I suggest "off camera" because the fatal elimination -- and at point-blank range -- would be too graphic for many viewers, including too many parents sure to complain about disturbing their impressionable children's entertainment viewing. A fault: The grisly wounded American officer would have been experiencing shock by Act IV. And been less communicative. OR screaming for Saunders to administer a morphine shot. I like 'The Hell Machine''; it's within my personal "Combat!" Top Ten. Again, on behalf of fans, "thank you" to provider GR160289.
SC Vandy I f you grew up in the 60's the vietnam war was raging and the FCC was on a mission to reduce the violence or tone it down. Lots of good shows were cancelled
65. I watched this show with show with my Dad all the time. It was fun watching with him. He was in the 327th, 101st Airborne. If it was just him and I watching (had two older sisters, younger brother besides mom) he would point out things. Like this episosde "The Hell Machine". He said, "Well, that tank looks pretty scary. They all looked scary even while they were idling. But the Kraut tanks were more squat looking, different turret and wider tracks". Back then we just had encyclopedias or books. I finally found a paperback novel translated to English, written by his Aide de camp, "With Rommel In The Desert" it had a lot of black and white photos of the North African campaign with the Afrika Korps. Yup, their armor sure looked different.
It was also broadcast in Japan in the 1960s. Of course, the voice actors said the lines in Japanese, so it wasn't until the 1990s that I first heard the voices of Vic Morrow and Rick Jason. Perhaps because I was used to the voice of a voice actor, I was shocked in a sense, saying, "Eh! Such a voice!" I have some on VHS and DVD, but I'm lucky to see them on TH-cam now. By using Google translation.
UNBELIEVABLE! It never won an award! The 1960s TV show Combat! received four nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards and one nomination from the American Cinema Editors, USA:
Watched this show as a kid, then starting in my high school years I worked with my Dad in a machine shop manufacturing parts for these very same tanks! Also, Dad was a tank driver in WWll.❤
What happened to the crew of these shows? The actors, directors, writers all phenomenal talent! I know they have passed but they should have taught their children how to write and act. Hollywood does not make shows like this anymore. Shot in 6 days and with a low budget. Amazing!
Love the jeeps. When I was stationed at Ft. Hood in 1979 with the 1st Cavalry division, the 2nd Armored and III Corps, they still had WWII era jeeps for us in the motorpool. Really fun to ride in but hard to get parts for at times.
What a great show better than half the stuff now the old sarge tuff as nails pity he accidentally died making a movie I remember Theis shows were on a Friday nights when I was 12 years old . Brian Perth Australia.
4:10 Saunders approaches the stalled tank right where the tank's coaxial or eyebrow MG could have ripped him in half. He'd have approached a buttoned-up tank from the rear.
@@adamnoman4658 Many of the people behind this show actually served in WWII as did quite a few of the guest actors and directors. You are a fool of the first order.
@@adamnoman4658 Saunders represents 50 or more seargents who faced problems in WWII. This is realistic. My dad served in the Korean occupation in 1949 and faced wicked snipers. K
Could have grabbed that German staff car but that would have required moving the captain again. Would have made faster going once they did, though. Frank Gorshin was an Army veteran. He was assigned to Special Services, naturally.
I remember when I lived in Gibraltar in the sixties my father used to watch COMBAT. Like most men at that time they had fought with the British Army, in WW2 ,and was in Regiment of with a high percentage of Irish Republic citizens. Over 100,000 from Eire fought to destroy Nazi Germany, and were treated very badly by the Republic Ireland Government, that many were forced to go back to Britain to get away from the hostility of their own Nation, after the war. Irish Goverment had a plan called operation starvation to exact revenge on their own citizens who fought against the Nazis. Please look it up. They were forgotten Hero’s.
If that's so, there's not a thing about any Irish "Operation Starvation" on the Internet. Maybe you're thinking of the Irish from Northern Ireland, which wasn't part of the Republic. I cannot imagine that many Irish from the Republic joining the British after the Brits seized all the Irish ports during the war.
Imperdible esta serie por canal.4 en nuestro el salvador querido esos anos 70tas un saludos desde el sur de california bendiciones camaradas de la 3/2 de artilleros
This used to scare my granny to death because all of my uncles went abroad durning that time. I never could understand it when it was new to tv, but I understand now.
When you are in a tight spot you have to keep a level head. Sometimes the most craziest ideas will work long enough to get further if you didn't. Saunders knew he didn't have a chance if they were on foot.
@@danielpitti9761 There is a line in one of the shows, where Kirby is sitting by a tree, complaining of group of other soldiers being "clowns" or something like that. Saunders reply is, "I got you, don't I?"
This is very accurate. Complaining is part of the psyche of the American Soldier. If he's not complaining, somethings wrong. From my 22 year experience in the Army as both NCO and officer.
This was one of my favorite shows grew up in England never missed it when I new series came on we had two channels lol tv BBC1 and ITV wow it was awesome when BBC2 showed up Kirby was the man for sure 👍
Great tv show from the 60s which I watched frequently as a kid. Other good war shows from the time: 12 O'Clock High and The Rat Patrol. Didn't know much about the geography of SoCal and Germany then as a do now, having visited both locales. Love that "Bavarian sagebrush" LOL !
I always loved Frank Gorshin! Growing up in the 50's and 60's he seemed like an old friend. Played such a great variety of Characters. As a young man he could play an ageless character in such Classics as "The Untouchables" and more. He is missed...
THE craziest episode yet! German tank drives up & crew keels over; captain happens to speak German with no accent even though badly wounded, comes to at right moment; Germans don't notice uniform, etc. - they would have been shot as spies for wearing enemy hats & stolen vehicle, ooh boy
I'm in my 60's too. I was a boy and watched it with my Dad. It was special watching with him. He used to say to me with a smile, "the sergeant, he watches out for his squad". Just me opinion, but I think no actor cast for a role did it better than Vic Morrow. He has a couple of Emmy's for best actor in a recurring series. Kirby is the last living cast member!
That’s cause Kirby has been in the stockade since the war ended. He’s been jailed for insubordination and mouthing off to Saunders. Plus all the times his right arm and hand got wounded he’s been having lifelong issues with them and has been having therapy and rehab. He might get paroled in 2025. 80 years after the end of WWII. Just sayin …😅😂
Doc is.
I used to follow Combat in brisbane QLD:(AUS) in 1963-64 and 1965. Now i am 72 years of age. Living in Norway. Seeing Combat again. Brings back a heap of memorys. Thanks Mate. for posting.
I'm on the GC. You've travelled.
I want to Thank You SO much for posting all these great episodes. Takes me back to childhood, watching Combat when it first ran in prime time. Also, I enjoy the sometimes lively conversations these great old shows spark to life.
Thanks again, Randy
Love this old show, watched it when I was a kid, thanks for sharing them :)
When was that?
The learning curve in this one? A former tank driver with claustrophobia learns to overcome it as he drives a German tank in a tank dual in close-in combat. Wonderful, magnificent, superb, just plain Wow! Combat was the best ever!
The Riddler can DRIVE!
I just love this series!!!! I can watch the episodes over and over again. These characters immortal!!!
I watch it as a boy 7years old now iam retired at 60 years old the series is still the best can beat any tv show today Again Vic morrow is superb as Saunders the story the script the music excellent Combat is a real masterpiece
I just turned 59 years and loving this series all over again🙂
I agree with you 😊😊😊
Im 63 still d best for me ...
Agreed. It is the realistic characters, particularly Saunders, that made this an absorbing show.
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I'm from Indonesia, this is my favorite series when I was little. Thank you for posting
My grandfather served in 3 different battles / conflicts in north Africa in WWII.
He received 3 bronze stars,and never told us when he was alive.
There were and are many men like him in every war.
These are the anchors to winning.
Same thing with my Dad. Got a Bronze Star and Purple Heart at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941. We grew up not knowing about any of what happened until after he passed away. He never talked about his war experiences.
Tours... Haha our SOLDIERS REAL SOLDIERS serves in war as long it took. and not for some weeks like those us bimbos pussies.. 🙄🙄🙄😴😴😴😴
3 tours ?
Makes no sense..
WW2 didn't have Tours..
You were in til the end.
@@donlove3741 3????? Bronze stars?
@@lsusmuggler probably means 3 stars on Campaign ribbons
It’s amazing how much France and Germany resembles Southern California LMAO!
Combat was my favorite show as a kid.
les montagnes de santa monica
And the fences at the roadsides! Very French.
Dave K ...i know...you were a Casualty on the screen before the show even started...lol...
Malibu hills.
WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT?!
These episodes keep me on the edge of my seat. Sgt. Saunders always makes the right decisions.
I remember me and my two brothers used to love watching this family don't look at TV anymore togethera I miss them good old days
9 years old back then, 68 years old now, and I still love watching the episodes.
thank you so much, my favorite movies when i was 7 years old.
Frank Gorshin by far the best impressionist! He starred in two Combat episodes:
- The Hell Machine (1965) … Pvt. Gavin
- The Medal (1963) … Wharton.
Thank You Mr. Gorshin. RIP.
To commenter IZZY you are right on about Frank Gorshins 2 COMBAT appearances.Ever notice how the scriptwriters on these tv shows RECAST the same great ACTOR in a VARIATION of a previouse episode he starred in. In Gorshins case the MEDAL episode had him jump on the tank and use the machine gun to cut down the enemy-while this episode the HELL MACHINE had him drive the tank!! I guess hen the scriptwriters need a few more episode story lines they come up with a variation of a previous story.
@@johncasciello4123 I have also seen another variation of guy trapped under vehicle as germans approach.
@@gator6551 The episode was called "The Duel" with Bobby Rydell as the trapped private under a truck axle while Saunders battled a German tank on his own.
He played the Riddler in Batman.....
....
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loving how side skirts and a black cross really does make any tank look german. a newly discovered gem for me
M41 Walker Bulldog , looks great as a German tank
I love this show I grew up watching it at my grandma's house in the 70 on channel 44 in Venice Florida and then after combat went off I watch Creature Feature
Ha creature feature, and then The Midnight Special. Then to bed
A simple plot yet so suspenseful! I bet the inspired scriptwriters summed their plot up in 2 sentences! Action packed at the end. What an adrenaline rush! It’s stories like these viewers rave about to their friends recommending to watch this particular episode.
Loved seeing Frank Ghorshin ..funny impressions...also as The Riddler in the 1960s Batman TV show
Well .... what can I say .... I am very impressed about this particular part of the whole series. I love the most this part of the two "dancing around" > "German" tanks, which prevented the German one of using its main gun !!!! That was so cool !!!!
It was a great pleasure to watch it !!!!
All the two tanks needed for their dancing was some waltzing music by Straus or Bach. Just recommending …
@@manuelbermudez211 I'll prefer the Austrian maestro Strauss !!!! German J.S. Bach - is too heavy and monumental.
I'm 74yrs old and i ,still watch COMBAT. 🎉😅
66 here I watch em every 3 years or so
Those trees and background in the Starting moments have featured in so many US films they deserve an Oscar of their own.
Excellent Television
Mr. Gorshin
Was an excellent dramatic actor
And a very hilarious comedian
thanks for pulling us out, here's a reward from Mr Thompson.
Yes, it seems ashamed to kill someone who was just trying to help, even if they were SS, who would have thought we'd be helping each other get to the moon 20 years later, just learned myself that the Germans invented the air driven torque wrench around 1980 type ALKITRONIC if you're interested...
Eu via sozinho a noite essa série quando tinha 9anos. 🇧🇷🇧🇷
Este capítulo no lo había visto hasta ahora de esta mítica serie. Simplemente genial el mismo.
One of the best TV series ever. Thank you, Vic. And great to see Frank Gorshin in something besides the Riddler.
I watched this series as a 6 year old. Interesting production note: The series was largely filmed on a Winery in Central California with orchards throughout. The owners agreed to explosions only if the crew would blow up a tree stump for each blast. Many of the blasts are actual tree stumps being destroyed.
Another side note: Saunders hates guns in real life. Rick Jason brought rifles to the set and would offer to take him shooting when not filming. Vic Morrow always declined.
Another side note: Little John always removes his helmet inside a Church. When a new Director told him not to he had a rage fit and almost quit. They left him [and his helmet] alone after that.
The Hell Machine, another masterpiece of Combat at its ultimate best!
Here comes the M41 Walker Bulldog. Love the side shield to make it look like a Panzer Tank. Lol! Great show tho.
That was a great looking tank!
@@dmutant2635 All U.S Tanks look good. To bad you can't put the German Tiger guns on them. The Pershing tank came along later on tho.
I remember watching Combat when I was 5 years old when my Dad was stationed in Ft Benning, Georgia....I liked this tv show because my father was a Decorated Veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam...RIP Dad...
I AM.....SON
@@vincentcarnemella Thank you...
Wow! I remember this from when I was young. Didn’t know who Frank Gorshin was then. Later got to know him as an incredible comedian and impressionist.
He was also Riddler on the Batman series. Also did an episode on Star Trek.
Frank Gorshin, really played this part well with the worried facial expressions, and anxiety of driving the tank.
Truly the face of 50's angst, no one sweats like Frank..
Gotta Love Frank Gorshin! Always plays the "weasel", kind of scared, "Tough Guy". Gorshin fills a niche that no other actor could quite provide. Gorshin is part of my lifetime of TV memories. Almost feel like I knew the guy...
right on, good points.!
I think he did the best impressions of Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas that has ever been done.
I remember my Marine father watching Combat and yelling at the TV “Don’t bunch up!!!” Like a flash back…
Thank you for keeping full episodes of Combat on You Tube!
Watched it as a kid. Loved it and the Rat Patrol. Something about these old shows. Not like today all soap operas and how much T&A and swearing can they get away with. You know Not 1 actor in this episode use a single swear word, not 1 !!! And it was still good. Just could never figure out at the end why Sgt. Saunders, smart as he was, didn't load and fire the tanks main gun when they pulled them out of the ditch. Could have destroyed it in one shot of course that would have meant the Riddler wouldn't have been able to make all those nice circles in the dirt driving the tank around but it would have been exciting to see them fire the main gun and take out that tank. Still a great show every week. Combat and the Rat Patrol. Where did time go????
WASN'T THE TURRET AND MAIN GUN DAMAGED(?)
No one used the word Nazi, either. It was the Germans or the Krauts.
How refreshing to see all the episode's exterior scenes filmed at Thousand Oaks -- truly "opening up" the show -- and not on the over-used, already-seen-from-every-angle Franklin Canyon Reservoir and MGM backlots. The added production expense and time that resulted in the aerial views pays off magnificently.
Act III: When the German officer's car finally outran the tank and Saunders sprayed the four occupants with waist level firing of his uncanny Thompson (accurate from any firing position and at any distance ; never requires reloading), the camera clearly shows the terminal damage to the enemy's radio on board. A key point. Yet, viewers don't witness whether all the fired-upon Germans' wounds were instantly fatal. In a similar, real life, war-time situation Saunders would have approached the vehicle and administered the coup de grace -- a grisly measure to insure information of their tank being commandeered by Americans isn't blasted all over the enemy's radio broadcast system.
Presenting it "delicately," perhaps off camera, we could have heard the gunshot(s) from Saunders' pistol, "finishing off" the wounded. I suggest "off camera" because the fatal elimination -- and at point-blank range -- would be too graphic for many viewers, including too many parents sure to complain about disturbing their impressionable children's entertainment viewing.
A fault: The grisly wounded American officer would have been experiencing shock by Act IV. And been less communicative. OR screaming for Saunders to administer a morphine shot.
I like 'The Hell Machine''; it's within my personal "Combat!" Top Ten. Again, on behalf of fans, "thank you" to provider GR160289.
You whine like a bitch!
SC Vandy
I f you grew up in the 60's the vietnam war was raging and the FCC was on a mission to reduce the violence or tone it down. Lots of good shows were cancelled
I’m surprised that Saunders didn’t shoot out the tires. That would’ve delayed any messages being broadcast. Just sayin …
Good story, love the use of props, must have been fun for the tank crews playing demolition derby.
I had wacth this combat when I was 5 years old, i am 68 yrs old still watching this tv series i love it thanks for sharing this video
65. I watched this show with show with my Dad all the time. It was fun watching with him. He was in the 327th, 101st Airborne. If it was just him and I watching (had two older sisters, younger brother besides mom) he would point out things. Like this episosde "The Hell Machine". He said, "Well, that tank looks pretty scary. They all looked scary even while they were idling. But the Kraut tanks were more squat looking, different turret and wider tracks". Back then we just had encyclopedias or books. I finally found a paperback novel translated to English, written by his Aide de camp, "With Rommel In The Desert" it had a lot of black and white photos of the North African campaign with the Afrika Korps. Yup, their armor sure looked different.
Excellent script, acting, direction and photography.
It was also broadcast in Japan in the 1960s. Of course, the voice actors said the lines in Japanese, so it wasn't until the 1990s that I first heard the voices of Vic Morrow and Rick Jason. Perhaps because I was used to the voice of a voice actor, I was shocked in a sense, saying, "Eh! Such a voice!" I have some on VHS and DVD, but I'm lucky to see them on TH-cam now.
By using Google translation.
UNBELIEVABLE! It never won an award! The 1960s TV show Combat! received four nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards and one nomination from the American Cinema Editors, USA:
They should have gotten more than nominations😮
Im 71:and this was my favorite tv show. I had a lot of old shows i loved . Those we're the days of great tv to watch.
Great show!!!! Watched it when I was growing up!!!!!! No shows today any better!!!!!!
Watched this show as a kid, then starting in my high school years I worked with my Dad in a machine shop manufacturing parts for these very same tanks! Also, Dad was a tank driver in WWll.❤
What happened to the crew of these shows? The actors, directors, writers all phenomenal talent! I know they have passed but they should have taught their children how to write and act. Hollywood does not make shows like this anymore. Shot in 6 days and with a low budget. Amazing!
Jeep tire runs over a mine, no damage to tire at all. Good quality American Rubber.
sure wasn't goodyear
....that's a bit of a stretch-!!!
Yeah, that blast shoulda wrecked that whole front quarter.
My top two favorite Combat! episodes involve Saunders and German tanks.
Love the jeeps. When I was stationed at Ft. Hood in 1979 with the 1st Cavalry division, the 2nd Armored and III Corps, they still had WWII era jeeps for us in the motorpool. Really fun to ride in but hard to get parts for at times.
2/5 cav Bert’s nights
Combat was so full of unwritten history. Little did I know that after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor they invaded Southern CA!!!
Gavin's goggles are on upside down...but only part of the time. Still my favorite episode of the series.
What a great show better than half the stuff now the old sarge tuff as nails pity he accidentally died making a movie I remember Theis shows were on a Friday nights when I was 12 years old . Brian Perth Australia.
Couldn't find any black tanker berets so they went with surplus navy caps, but I thought the Walker Bulldog in a skirt was a nice touch.
Frank Gorshen was in season one of this show. His second time on combat.
This was my first show when I was a child I saw about world war II. It is a great showman wish they would rerun it on TV
The tank dance, lol. So that's how crop circles happen. LMAO
4:10 Saunders approaches the stalled tank right where the tank's coaxial or eyebrow MG could have ripped him in half. He'd have approached a buttoned-up tank from the rear.
There are no MGs on tanks in Combat!, except for The Duel (S3E4) :D
He was ripped on half by a helio prop.
Yeah, my thought exactly. Lucky Sarge, the German tank crew died when they rolled up on the overturned jeep, of all things.
I love this show. A reminder of a time when there were shows on TV aimed toward Real Men. Not the soylent infused crap called "entertainment" nowadays
Ithink
robert watts : What the hell makes you think any of this trash created by alien Hollywood schmucks is "real"?
@@adamnoman4658 Many of the people behind this show actually served in WWII as did quite a few of the guest actors and directors. You are a fool of the first order.
@@adamnoman4658 Saunders represents 50 or more seargents who faced problems in WWII. This is realistic. My dad served in the Korean occupation in 1949 and faced wicked snipers. K
So 'Band of Brothers' and 'Pacific' were "... soylent infused crap called "entertainment"? Who knew?
Amazing !!! Great movie, Excellent !!! The best action I´ve seen by far.
Could have grabbed that German staff car but that would have required moving the captain again. Would have made faster going once they did, though.
Frank Gorshin was an Army veteran. He was assigned to Special Services, naturally.
THE STOOD A LOT BETTER CHANCE INSIDE OF THE TANK- THEY WERE NOT OUT IN THE OPEN!!!
they couldn't call it "Hell Machine" then.
How does Saunders always get stuck with these basket cases? LOL!
Damn, isn’t that the truth!
P u in the in iboo
@@강필성 e.
8 years old back than. Always cane in to watch - hasn't changed.
I remember when I lived in Gibraltar in the sixties my father used to watch COMBAT.
Like most men at that time they had fought with the British Army, in WW2 ,and was in Regiment of with a high percentage of Irish Republic citizens.
Over 100,000 from Eire fought to destroy Nazi Germany, and were treated very badly by the Republic Ireland Government, that many were forced to go back to Britain to get away from the hostility of their own Nation, after the war.
Irish Goverment had a plan called operation starvation to exact revenge on their own citizens who fought against the Nazis.
Please look it up. They were forgotten Hero’s.
If that's so, there's not a thing about any Irish "Operation Starvation" on the Internet. Maybe you're thinking of the Irish from Northern Ireland, which wasn't part of the Republic. I cannot imagine that many Irish from the Republic joining the British after the Brits seized all the Irish ports during the war.
This is was so magnificent had to watch it again
Oh no, the rascally Riddler! The Prince of Puzzlers piloting a purloined Panzer!
Too damn funny.
phillyflash43 Here he is as Robin, driving the Batmobile.
😂😆😂 damn good! Read that with the voiceover guy from Batman, it's just right! 👏🏼😎
Lmao he was iggy in that darn cat too
precariously parading a panzer thru parisian pastures !
My childhood memories are flooding back.
that's M41 walker bulldog tank. love this film
Riddle me this: What does Gavin want to tell Sgt. Saunders when he's ordered to drive? *"NO TANKS!"*
The episode ¨The Duel¨ also has a wonderful german tank as a Guest Star!
Imperdible esta serie por canal.4 en nuestro el salvador querido esos anos 70tas un saludos desde el sur de california bendiciones camaradas de la 3/2 de artilleros
Watched it growing up! Great show even with today's standards! Too bad the tanks were actually American tanks, but still great!
Yeah, kinda hard to come by German tanks after the war. Most of them were scrapped or put in museums.
GREAT EPISODE!! LOVE COMBAT.
It's 1965 and a whole new generation of American young men is about to find out the real war is nothing like this.
Its amazing that decades later the Dukes of Hazard filmed in that same part that was liberated from the nazis.
I love fighting WW II in California amidst the Valley Oaks.
Shut up you're wrecking the damn show.
Ha, did they have California State permission to run over the brush or were they fake.?
This used to scare my granny to death because all of my uncles went abroad durning that time. I never could understand it when it was new to tv, but I understand now.
“Sounds like the accelerator linkage is hung up”! 🤣👌
Dunka 4 luzening.
Claustrophobia with anxiety. Horrible. He overcame it due to will to survive. Amazing episode.
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When you are in a tight spot you have to keep a level head. Sometimes the most craziest ideas will work long enough to get further if you didn't. Saunders knew he didn't have a chance if they were on foot.
Infantry patrolling against the skyline? They were not that silly.
How else are the viewers supposed to see soldiers - who are not supposed to be seen?
Early part of episode, what was kraut shot by Saunders doing in that field alone?
Get over it it's a movie
I was Infantry. I came here looking for this.
1965 ,l am 7 years old now..combat my fv ..full memory
Sorry 1965 ,l am 2 years old.
I thought I’d not seen this show before, but as soon as the title music came on I recognised it straight away.
FranK G. complains every inch of the the way, I'm sure the SGT was happy not to have this guy on his squad.
Lol! Kirby? :)
@@danielpitti9761 There is a line in one of the shows, where Kirby is sitting by a tree, complaining of group of other soldiers being "clowns" or something like that. Saunders reply is, "I got you, don't I?"
No kidding! He's already got Kirby!
This is very accurate. Complaining is part of the psyche of the American Soldier. If he's not complaining, somethings wrong. From my 22 year experience in the Army as both NCO and officer.
i have the COMBAT lunch box
Thanks a lot for making these available.
Many thank's,your videos are really appreciated
Since I was 13 years old i watch combat at this present ...
This was one of my favorite shows grew up in England never missed it when I new series came on we had two channels lol tv BBC1 and ITV wow it was awesome when BBC2 showed up Kirby was the man for sure 👍
Fourth day in BingeWatch loved this series still do
Great tv show from the 60s which I watched frequently as a kid. Other good war shows from the time: 12 O'Clock High and The Rat Patrol. Didn't know much about the geography of SoCal and Germany then as a do now, having visited both locales. Love that "Bavarian sagebrush" LOL !
I always loved Frank Gorshin! Growing up in the 50's and 60's he seemed like an old friend. Played such a great variety of Characters. As a young man he could play an ageless character in such Classics as "The Untouchables" and more. He is missed...
I agree - he was a great actor.
Esta es una de las series que mas me han gustado...
The greatest movie is the best I am watching always from Philippines 🥰
THE craziest episode yet! German tank drives up & crew keels over; captain happens to speak German with no accent even though badly wounded, comes to at right moment; Germans don't notice uniform, etc. - they would have been shot as spies for wearing enemy hats & stolen vehicle, ooh boy
Hey the Sgt and Capt had the heads up play all the way.
Driving a captured tank wouldn't make them spies. Wearing those hats, though... Kinda maybe...
Great episode! The wonderful german tank was the real Guest Star in this episode!
He was a very good Impressionist. One of the top all-time.