What an illustration of the cruelties of war. When Saunders is looking up at that apple, it's like the ultimate cruel irony. Later, when Saunders starts hitting his breaking point, that's when Vic Morrow's acting prowess really gets into high gear......great show!!!
I really wish Vic could see how much he was loved and appreciated!!! Vic was black listef for sure. Either Vic spoke up once too often or Vic didn't play the game. Is there anyone out there that ever met him???
@@kathymcmahon6582 It seems as though Combat! still has a lot of fans! I started watching the show when I was ten, and Saunders soon became my favorite character. Morrow did guest star on a few other shows after Combat! was cancelled, but never again got an opportunity like this. I think he probably did get blacklisted...
MISS MR. MORROW FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HART!!! GREAT GUY!!! 😢 SAW COMBAT SINCE I WAS I KID, MY MOTHER AND FATHER AWAYS WATCHED, IT AIRED IN VENEZUELA SATURDAYS AT 7PM.
@@ShutupKirby-he was the only one I remembered. He didnt deserve to be blacklisted. I hope karma got the ones who did that to him. He was the best, Rick Jason was great, too.
For those who don't know, Jennifer Jason Leigh (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Delores Claiborne, etc.) is Vic Morrow's daughter. Guess the talent doesn't fall far from the apple tree.
Vic was a handsome talented guy...kinda of an oddish episode but any anything with Morrow in it was good..except the trash movie where he wad killed. The episodes he directed were some of the best. He had some real strong srx appeal...show debuted when I was young and I adored him from the get go. Morrow is what keeps Combat going strong in reruns after so many yrs.
What a great acting performance by Vic Morrow here . This is a classic episode that got Altman sacked for going ahead with it while the producers were away . Vic Morrow nominated for an Emmy award for this one . Damn good , all the way from the opening battle scene to the final moments . May His Soul rest in Peace , Vic Morrow .
Combat series? Nothing else could compare, been watching it for fifty years. I love it now as much as I did when I saw the first episode around 1963 or 1964!
Either Vic pissed off a few suits or Vic didn't play the Hollywood game _ or both). Everyone knew Vic got screwed!!! I wish Vic knew how much he was loved/liked abd appreciated!!!
This episode really gives a glimpse into some of the horrors of war. I almost feel guilty drinking a pop while watching this. Outstanding performance by Vic!
It was less of a tribute and more of a mockery,even if that wasn't the intention. I just wish that people would focus more on Morrow's contributions as a top-notch actor and not on the fact that he was decapitated by a helicopter blade! He was truly talented and why he wasn't ranked up there with Brando and the other greats is beyond my comprehension. He was one of the BEST actors I have ever seen. He could do so much with just a glance or a grin. He didn't even need to say anything!
Vic was DEFINITELY BLACK LISTED IN HOLLYWOOD!! He knew what he wanted to say and it always came out better!!! Some called that being difficult!!! I don't think so. You know it in your head what will work!!!
You are ABSOLUTELY correct in stating a real fact he was and always will be a better actor than those that beat him to an Emmy award and more, he is was a super superb actor and a super hero a real one he could play anything there aren't any great actors now but the publicity and agents are the ones that shove them.at you. VIC MORROW YOU ARE STILL THE BEST SECOND TO NONE!! THANK YOU LIGHTNING FOR STATING FACTS. I SALUTE YOU!!❤
This has got to be Vic Morrow's greatest performance... it's actually painful to watch him suffering, although one knows that he will survive some how in the end.
It is also amazing how many times the Vic Morrow character was wounded and still went back to the line. Each episode has a life of its own. Vic Morrow was a great actor- director-writer.
Sounds like Audie Murphy being wounded over and over again until he finally got that "million dollar wound" as he had a MoH episode stopping an armored infantry attack ending with calling artillery on his own position. That movie came out in 1955 as I was in the sixth grade.
The burned hands bit is straight out of "Western Union" (1941) with Randolph Scott, directed by Fritz Lang. This is one of the artsy Combat! episodes, very German Expressionism from the 1920's.
@@kathymcmahon6582 don't know about Felicity, Kathy but I write fanfic as well and have brought the Sarge and the guys home in my story 'Chance Encounters'. Sarge ends up with a little redhead who works for the Manhattan Project. I never forgave the Network for not letting us see the war end for our boys. We had invested so much time in their lives...we deserved a decent farewell. I am so proud to have known Kirby, Little John, Billy, Caje, and our favorite Sarge! Hope you can hope over to Archive Of Our Own and check out callih. Sarge will never die as long as we live and share his story with others.
@@kathymcmahon6582 during Combat! Morrow's wife had an affair with the director of the show Robert Altman and Morrow divorced her. It hit him really hard
Thank you for posting the best show ever, Combat, power packed with life lessons and illustrated sermons to inspire us onward and to not give up, accompanied by great patriotic music.
Would you hang around in the tent to try on the boots or would you get the hell out of harms way and put the boots on in the woods when your clear? Guess that’s why it’s TV. Still love my Combat show though.
Sgt Saunders also proved that the everyday soldier actually won the war: Unfortunately within all U.S.A. Military Armed Services average soldier receives very little credit for winning decisive battles.
Sgt. Saunders, played by Vic Morrow, was always so interesting. He had his own little saunter or walk, if you ever noticed. COMBAT, the best tv war series, ever!!!
L.A. Wood... agreed. His particular reluctant to be here 'gait' has yet to have been exceeded. i've said it before and i'll say it again... Vic was as close as the viewers will ever get to a James Dean in a Tv series. -Former Recondo Sgt. "Rock" 82nd Abn. 1/504 Inf. Div. 71-74
one of the BEST performances I've ever seen. He should have gotten and Emmy , Oscar or something for this role. Makes you believe you were there in WW2
At 8:30, LT and the others go left under the bridge. At 11:00, Saunders goes right away from the bridge. How in the hell did they all end on the same road?
Vic's STILL the man,even though he's no longer with us. We fans still love him and his work. That way he'll never truly die. And to hell with the shitheads who take jabs at him.
I used the name Vic Morrow to dig up combat on UA-cam, and I my joy has no bound to watch it again after more than forty years that I watched it last on Television.
Combat was my favorite TV show as a kid growing up in the 60's. This particular episode stuck with me like no other. Vic Morrow as Sgt. Saunders was the prototype of a leader we all grew up admiring and wanting to emulate. The Thompson .45 caliber Sub-machine made the character more unique. For the longest time, I thought every Army Sgt. was issued a Thompson. So glad to see all these "friends" again; Lt. Hanley, Cage, Kirby, Littlejohn, and Doc, but Sgt. Saunders was Combat!
It is amazing how many times they used the same set of a French town in the first season. In later seasons, especially t he fifth, you recognize California hills. But the shows were excellent.
I have never been in the military. but to me this seems like it looks very real in WW II. If there is a WWII vet that is watching that served in the European theatre i'd like to know his opiinion.
Watched Combat with my dad when it aired in the 1960s. He served in Europe in tank destroyers. He said it was the most realistic war series he’d seen. Plots delved into issues related to but well beyond just the actual fighting.
One of those episodes that I clearly remember watching 50+ years ago....before JFK was assassinated, before the March on Washington, before Vietnam became a quagmire. And why not? Hard to forget that one. Watching Saunders MY hands hurt. I wonder if, as a 7 year old, I got the irony of Saunders thinking the German was his brother.
Great comment. I have been in a Combat Zone thought I have never had to fight. I suppose only a person who had evr been in a Combat Zone and exoierenced the horrors of war would truly understand it.
So you have a crush on him,too! Sweet! He was quite an actor and an incredibly sexy,attractive man. They don't makes men (or actors) like Vic Morrow anymore.
Vic Morrow had the talent to play any role... This series memorializes stories that captured the experience of many WWII veterans who were still able to watch it as relatively young men in 1963. For future generations, it's a way that passes that real life test of capturing on film the type of experiences of many who went through combat in WWII.
Great ep. The whole thing almost has a kind of French new-wave cinema look and feel. The handheld camera combined with the unusual soundtrack (for the series) is wonderful.
Wow... When Sgt Saunders (Vic Morrow) staggers out of that barn with burned hands, you can FEEL the agony. He was a hell of an actor. Sucks to get decapitated by a damned helicopter later in life. He was GOOD.
I hate helicopters,took VIC MORROW,STEVIE RAY VAUGHN AND TWO WONDERFUL CHILDREN,VIC MORROW was equal to STEVE MCQUEEN,RIP TO ALL OF THESE GENIUS TALENTS
I do remember seeing this episode back in 1963, and I was impressed how Sgt. Saunders (Vic Morrow) and Lt. Hanley (Rick - Jason) and the other American soldiers escaped from the krauts in that farm prison.
I was 8 when I saw this for the first time. I'm 67 now and it still haunts me today like it did back then. The painful burns on his hands unable to use them. Him being in agony. The burning battlefield and picking up the dead german soldier. This episode still haunts and saddens me because of the cruelty of war. Vic Morrows performance was staggeringly real.
Survival is arguably Altman's best of the ten episodes he directed. Robert Altman, John Black, and Vic Morrow should have got an Emmy for this episode. Instead allegedly Director Robert Altman was fired because "Survival" was too Disturbing (NY Times).
The most emotionally painful of all episodes to watch. While I have seen all of them many times over, this is only the second time that I am watching this one and I don't think I can watch it all the way through.
My favorite hero was burn up and in pain My dad tried to make me watch this I was only 6 going 7 took me forty years to get over this.Vic morrow got a emy award for the part in combat.My favorite actor;
I was 6 when he died so I obviously don't remember it. I've known who he was for quite some time,mainly because of 'The Bad News Bears' and his horrific,untimely death. It wasn't until recently that I became a fan.It probably sounds a little crazy but I actually have a crush on him. :)
James - You’re in luck, someone compiled the stats. Here's a truncated list I copied for you. Some shows had multiple injuries so these won’t add up. Saunders was wounded in 40 out of 152 total episodes. Bullet Wounds-19 Beatings-9 Burns-2 Passed out-13 Knocked off feet by Explosions-5 Misc. Cuts/Bruises-8 Hanley was wounded in 36 out of 152 episodes: Bullet Wounds-8 Beating-1 Passed out-5 Knocked off feet by Explosions-6 Misc. Cuts/Bruises-1
amazing ,makes me chuckle someone would compile statistics on this! But it is interesting.They shoud have has an episode where Sarge resurrected from the dead!
Did anyone notice the tank driver at 1:55 getting hit in the face with the tank drivers hatch? The tank comes to abrupt stop after the hit. It looks really bad and not sure he was ok after that.
This episode was one of the best and most confusing! Vic Morrow's best ever performances with out a doubt! but the part that always was confusing was the ending and the start of the next episode! seems like they screwed up and didn't finish!
Great episode. Love Altman's Direction. They always reminded me of short movies because of the great effort of his work. Note camera angles, lighting and such. With Robert Altman they were ALWAYS top notch!
Heard EVERYONE loved him as a director but was a real ah and self absorbed jerk who slept with Vic's wife. That's not so nice!!! Rick even said RA wasn't a nice fellow.
Anyone else notice the German soldier landing on the goat when he got blown off the truck in the beginning artillery barrage? I know that wasn't in the script!
a man named Peter told me to watch this and let him know how they did the effect with Vic Morrow's hands after walking out of the burning barn. basically, they put a protective jelly over his hands and the clothes he's wearing are super fire resistant. then they put some low-burning fuel on the hands (the fuel doesn't actually get that hot for the brief amount of time that its on fire). i'm guessing for this shot they extinguished his hands so that they would smoke instead of burn. they also definitely put some ashy make-up on his hands too.
That big Little John reminds me of this guy at boot camp he was always asking are you going to eat that and I always gave him food that I didn't want well one day the DI caught him asking him asking for food he grab him from the collar and made sure the cook filled him his tray filled with chow and made him eat every morsel
What an illustration of the cruelties of war. When Saunders is looking up at that apple, it's like the ultimate cruel irony. Later, when Saunders starts hitting his breaking point, that's when Vic Morrow's acting prowess really gets into high gear......great show!!!
Superb acting. Vic Morrow is unbeatable!
Just a great performance by the talented Vic Morrow. R.I.P. Sir you are missed.
"I never thought HE'D die." With that line, LIttleJohn helped cement the myth of Sgt. Chip Saunders.
I know
True well said
Excellent acting performance by Vic Morrow.
Definitely
I am hooked on this great show. Better than anything today. Only discovered it recently. Too you to watch it when it first aired..
Watching this in remembrance of Vic Morrow, who was taken from this earth thirty-nine years ago today. RIP Sarge...your fans miss you!
I really wish Vic could see how much he was loved and appreciated!!! Vic was black listef for sure. Either Vic spoke up once too often or Vic didn't play the game. Is there anyone out there that ever met him???
@@kathymcmahon6582 It seems as though Combat! still has a lot of fans! I started watching the show when I was ten, and Saunders soon became my favorite character. Morrow did guest star on a few other shows after Combat! was cancelled, but never again got an opportunity like this. I think he probably did get blacklisted...
MISS MR. MORROW FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HART!!!
GREAT GUY!!! 😢 SAW COMBAT SINCE I WAS I KID, MY MOTHER AND FATHER AWAYS WATCHED, IT AIRED IN VENEZUELA SATURDAYS AT 7PM.
I loved watching him as a young girl@ShutupKirby-
@@ShutupKirby-he was the only one I remembered. He didnt deserve to be blacklisted. I hope karma got the ones who did that to him. He was the best, Rick Jason was great, too.
Vic Morrow was a GEM....What an actor Vic was!!!! Vic Morrow MADE YOU BELEIVE....
The casting department hit the lottery with him. Others as well.
For those who don't know, Jennifer Jason Leigh (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Delores Claiborne, etc.) is Vic Morrow's daughter. Guess the talent doesn't fall far from the apple tree.
She's a spitting image of her Dad.😎
Outstanding acting by Vic Morrow.
Utterly and absolutely the VERY BEST series of all time.
Man that episode got to me....Vic Morrow, MAN......
Rick Jason was great, underrated actor
True he and Vic Morrow were a good duo in a great show
One of the best they did about combat and survival do what you need to do to survive and get back to the command alive !...
I was about 9 then and Vic Morrow was and still is my hero. He is missed by many.
My oldest Cousin went to the army for 4 and a half years and BECAME a Second Sgt. because of Vic Morrow, such was the impact on the teens back them
Vic was a handsome talented guy...kinda of an oddish episode but any anything with Morrow in it was good..except the trash movie where he wad killed.
The episodes he directed were some of the best. He had some real strong srx appeal...show debuted when I was young and I adored him from the get go. Morrow is what keeps Combat going strong in reruns after so many yrs.
Gteatsadtoo,
What a great acting performance by Vic Morrow here . This is a classic episode that got Altman sacked for going ahead with it while the producers were away . Vic Morrow nominated for an Emmy award for this one . Damn good , all the way from the opening battle scene to the final moments . May His Soul rest in Peace , Vic Morrow .
Vic Morrow was a great actor!
@@dallaslarue5051,. He was a great actor, but this wasn't close to his best performance, nor close to the best episode of Combat.
Exactly why didn’t the executives not want this episode on the air? I don’t understand.
I wanted to run in and rescue him. WTF were his men thinking, leaving him in there?😠🇺🇸
Vic Morrow R.I.P. you are greatly missed 😪❤️🙏
Combat series? Nothing else could compare, been watching it for fifty years. I love it now as much as I did when I saw the first episode around 1963 or 1964!
+L.A. Wood Give me my ball and glove. I gotta go home, Combat is coming on!
MAY GOD WELCOME YOU HOME VIC MORROW I THINK YOU WERE A HERO TO US ALL GROWING UP IN THE 60S
@@davidmyers4252 nicely put 😊
You're right!!!😁😁😁
Morrow was incredible actor and he should've been recognzed as such.
Either Vic pissed off a few suits or Vic didn't play the Hollywood game _ or both). Everyone knew Vic got screwed!!! I wish Vic knew how much he was loved/liked abd appreciated!!!
Watched this great show when I was 11. I am now 70 and still see the greatness of this show.
Same As Me😎
Me three.
Saunders should have ended the war with the Medal of Honor, the DSC, the Silver Star, 10 Bronze Stars and 25 purple hearts!
He should have had 2 - 3 DSC's and 6 - 7 Silver Stars.
At least.....
🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
Yes another Audie Murphy
How about the Congressional 🏅 of Honor 🤔
This episode is great! Combat is the best war drama ever made, it's better than any old war movie.
This episode really gives a glimpse into some of the horrors of war. I almost feel guilty drinking a pop while watching this. Outstanding performance by Vic!
Excellent acting from my favourite actor of all times .1Cecille Archer Barbsdos
At almost 63 I still love this show and Vic Morrow is still my hero.
VOICE Morrow got a ton of credit for his acting abilities. More than anyone gives him credit for.
Not ONE flinch by Vic Morrow from 10:20 to 10:40 !!! God, what a great actor he was.
It was less of a tribute and more of a mockery,even if that wasn't the intention.
I just wish that people would focus more on Morrow's contributions as a top-notch actor and not on the fact that he was decapitated by a helicopter blade!
He was truly talented and why he wasn't ranked up there with Brando and the other greats is beyond my comprehension. He was one of the BEST actors I have ever seen. He could do so much with just a glance or a grin. He didn't even need to say anything!
Shotz Brewery Yes agree totally.
Vic was DEFINITELY BLACK LISTED IN HOLLYWOOD!! He knew what he wanted to say and it always came out better!!! Some called that being difficult!!! I don't think so. You know it in your head what will work!!!
You are ABSOLUTELY correct in stating a real fact he was and always will be a better actor than those that beat him to an Emmy award and more, he is was a super superb actor and a super hero a real one he could play anything there aren't any great actors now but the publicity and agents are the ones that shove them.at you. VIC MORROW YOU ARE STILL THE BEST SECOND TO NONE!! THANK YOU LIGHTNING FOR STATING FACTS. I SALUTE YOU!!❤
Isn't that the TRUTH. Sorely missed.
This has got to be Vic Morrow's greatest performance... it's actually painful to watch him suffering, although one knows that he will survive some how in the end.
Fantastic job portraying someone who is so badly burned, but instict drives him to keep going to escape.
It is also amazing how many times the Vic Morrow character was wounded and still went back to the line. Each episode has a life of its own. Vic Morrow was a great actor- director-writer.
Sounds like Audie Murphy being wounded over and over again until he finally got that "million dollar wound" as he had a MoH episode stopping an armored infantry attack ending with calling artillery on his own position. That movie came out in 1955 as I was in the sixth grade.
Audie Murphy was real! He recieved 3 Purple Hearts but who knows how many "Just in the shouder, Sarge!"
My dad told me about this show he watched it as a kid. He said every time Saunders Thompson went off the ratings went up. Greatest war show ever.
@7:29 is the greatest stunt shot of all time when the guy lands on the goat.
The burned hands bit is straight out of "Western Union" (1941) with Randolph Scott, directed by Fritz Lang. This is one of the artsy Combat! episodes, very German Expressionism from the 1920's.
@Texasforever Tex, you stole my line LOL.
Poor Goat
A very Altman shot.
@@gallantrycrossx1915 James Whale's Frankenstein is also highly referenced.
Morrow was the best. He still inspires me to write Combat! fanfiction every week. Always centered around Sgt. Saunders.
As it should be. How can I read your material?
@@kathymcmahon6582 don't know about Felicity, Kathy but I write fanfic as well and have brought the Sarge and the guys home in my story 'Chance Encounters'. Sarge ends up with a little redhead who works for the Manhattan Project. I never forgave the Network for not letting us see the war end for our boys. We had invested so much time in their lives...we deserved a decent farewell. I am so proud to have known Kirby, Little John, Billy, Caje, and our favorite Sarge! Hope you can hope over to Archive Of Our Own and check out callih. Sarge will never die as long as we live and share his story with others.
Do you have any good gossip about Vic. He and his former 1st wife never liked to do interviews.
@@kathymcmahon6582 during Combat! Morrow's wife had an affair with the director of the show Robert Altman and Morrow divorced her. It hit him really hard
@@felicitym14 Vic was cheating on her many times and threatened to Maine her. That's why she told him to leave before she came out of the hospital
Thank you for posting the best show ever, Combat, power packed with life lessons and illustrated sermons to inspire us onward and to not give up, accompanied by great patriotic music.
Would you hang around in the tent to try on the boots or would you get the hell out of harms way and put the boots on in the woods when your clear? Guess that’s why it’s TV. Still love my Combat show though.
Take boots and run like the wind.
Sgt Saunders also proved that the everyday soldier actually won the war: Unfortunately within all U.S.A. Military Armed Services average soldier receives very little credit for winning decisive battles.
They know and GOD ALMIGHTY knows!!! That's what counts!!!
Another great episode. what a performance by Vic !
Sgt. Saunders, played by Vic Morrow, was always so interesting. He had his own little saunter or walk, if you ever noticed. COMBAT, the best tv war series, ever!!!
L.A. Wood... agreed. His particular reluctant to be here 'gait' has yet to have been exceeded. i've said it before and i'll say it again... Vic was as close as the viewers will ever get to a James Dean in a Tv series.
-Former Recondo Sgt. "Rock" 82nd Abn. 1/504 Inf. Div. 71-74
The bad ass walk.
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Yeah, I callit the "anti Rambo" walk...strutting not in his game or persona!
L.A. Wood Oh yes I noticed !!
Don’t forget how great the musical scoring is.
"Walking down the road, carrying a dead German thinking its his brother"
They don't do TV like that anymore. Powerful.
The Apple scene was the greatest!! With both the troops and Saunders!!
one of the BEST performances I've ever seen. He should have gotten and Emmy , Oscar or something for this role. Makes you believe you were there in WW2
Vic does a great zombie impression!
At 8:30, LT and the others go left under the bridge. At 11:00, Saunders goes right away from the bridge. How in the hell did they all end on the same road?
Vic was great. He was also underused and underappreciated.
I like him even more in the 70's. He was sexier in that decade.
Combat and Sgt Saunders taught me valuable lessons like “flank them” playing Combat as a kid. Ah the great memories playing Combat. 😆😆😆😆
Vic's STILL the man,even though he's no longer with us.
We fans still love him and his work. That way he'll never truly die.
And to hell with the shitheads who take jabs at him.
Amen to that 😁 😁😁
You bet. God bless Vic and the children.
I used the name Vic Morrow to dig up combat on UA-cam, and I my joy has no bound to watch it again after more than forty years that I watched it last on Television.
26:59 Lt says worried about being followed and leaves ration wrappers everywhere
yah at least Sarge got a munch out of them!
In 1997, TV Guide ranked the episode "Survival" #74 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.
WHAT A GREAT SHOW...like I said before WHY don't they make them like this anymore???!!!!
Could not afford too!?!
made me wince each time he bumped his hands, great acting - this series is really good.
Combat was my favorite TV show as a kid growing up in the 60's. This particular episode stuck with me like no other. Vic Morrow as Sgt. Saunders was the prototype of a leader we all grew up admiring and wanting to emulate. The Thompson .45 caliber Sub-machine made the character more unique. For the longest time, I thought every Army Sgt. was issued a Thompson. So glad to see all these "friends" again; Lt. Hanley, Cage, Kirby, Littlejohn, and Doc, but Sgt. Saunders was Combat!
Combat would NOT be as popular WITHOUT VIC. VIC IS/WAS COMBAT!!!
I love the other guys as well!!! They are all so missed!!!!
56 years later... nothing as good as this on TV today.
Sorely sorely missed!!! I pray you are in Heaven Vic!!!
Nope nothing on TV like this
2013 July 17th
Yep
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As a youth , this episode was traumatic , the sarge badly hurt , in pain , no solution ..
That's 'an incredible actor'.
This series is amazing, the best series about the second world war I've ever seen
Acting, cinematography, music, writing, editing. "Combat!" is the definition of spontaneity.
Thanks much for posting these (as always, much appreciated for kids like us from the 1960's).
It is amazing how many times they used the same set of a French town in the first season. In later seasons, especially t he fifth, you recognize California hills. But the shows were excellent.
The show was costly but excellent!!! NOTHING compares!!!!
I have never been in the military. but to me this seems like it looks very real in WW II. If there is a WWII vet that is watching that served in the European theatre i'd like to know his opiinion.
Watched Combat with my dad when it aired in the 1960s. He served in Europe in tank destroyers. He said it was the most realistic war series he’d seen. Plots delved into issues related to but well beyond just the actual fighting.
One of those episodes that I clearly remember watching 50+ years ago....before JFK was assassinated, before the March on Washington, before Vietnam became a quagmire. And why not? Hard to forget that one. Watching Saunders MY hands hurt. I wonder if, as a 7 year old, I got the irony of Saunders thinking the German was his brother.
Great comment. I have been in a Combat Zone thought I have never had to fight. I suppose only a person who had evr been in a Combat Zone and exoierenced the horrors of war would truly understand it.
Mark Paxton Thanks! I have served in a Combat zone but not in Combat. War is terrible. The more we are able to solve problems without it, the better.
So you have a crush on him,too! Sweet! He was quite an actor and an incredibly sexy,attractive man. They don't makes men (or actors) like Vic Morrow anymore.
Shotz Brewery Certainly don’t.
Vic Morrow had the talent to play any role...
This series memorializes stories that captured the experience of many WWII veterans who were still able to watch it as relatively young men in 1963.
For future generations, it's a way that passes that real life test of capturing on film the type of experiences of many who went through combat in WWII.
Great ep. The whole thing almost has a kind of French new-wave cinema look and feel. The handheld camera combined with the unusual soundtrack (for the series) is wonderful.
Thank you! Vic Morrow is and extraordinary talent! Saludos.
Wow... When Sgt Saunders (Vic Morrow) staggers out of that barn with burned hands, you can FEEL the agony. He was a hell of an actor. Sucks to get decapitated by a damned helicopter later in life. He was GOOD.
I hate helicopters,took VIC MORROW,STEVIE RAY VAUGHN AND TWO WONDERFUL CHILDREN,VIC MORROW was equal to STEVE MCQUEEN,RIP TO ALL OF THESE GENIUS TALENTS
That was Vic's biggest fear, helicopter!!! Always thought he would leave this earth because of helicopter!!!!
I do remember seeing this episode back in 1963, and I was impressed how Sgt. Saunders (Vic Morrow) and Lt. Hanley (Rick - Jason) and the other American soldiers escaped from the krauts in that farm prison.
I was 8 when I saw this for the first time. I'm 67 now and it still haunts me today like it did back then. The painful burns on his hands unable to use them. Him being in agony. The burning battlefield and picking up the dead german soldier. This episode still haunts and saddens me because of the cruelty of war. Vic Morrows performance was staggeringly real.
excellent episode .
Survival is arguably Altman's best of the ten episodes he directed. Robert Altman, John Black, and Vic Morrow should have got an Emmy for this episode. Instead allegedly Director Robert Altman was fired because "Survival" was too Disturbing (NY Times).
Ra was fired because he never listened to anyone!!!!
i'm sorry, but I know saunders would have gone back to check
Word!
"If he's alive he'll make it." Such concern by this officer for the men serving under him...
Hanley could be heartless.
Hanley was NOT A LEADER!!!
I'm sure in real life and war similar decisions were made. Not easy and terrible but made. And this is a TV drama.
Sarge would have made sure EVERYONE was accounted for. Lt was a real not so leader in this tv show!!!
I would have been very concerned if I had It as a leader. He could really care less. Sarge all the way.
The most emotionally painful of all episodes to watch. While I have seen all of them many times over, this is only the second time that I am watching this one and I don't think I can watch it all the way through.
Vic Morrow garnered an Emmy nomination for this episode.
He got an Emmy nomination for the season.
Vic believed Survival clinched it for him.
Vic totally deserved that Emmy!!!!
Happy b'day Vic - you were born on Valentine Day. You would have been 90 this year. RIP
He was 10 years younger to the day of my grandmother, a fellow Valentine's Day baby and Aquarian.😎
I miss you terribly. God rest your soul!!!
My favorite hero was burn up and in pain My dad tried to make me watch this I was only 6 going 7 took me forty years to get over this.Vic morrow got a emy award for the part in combat.My favorite actor;
He was nominated, but did not win.😠
Vic got an Emmy nomination. That show should have gotten plenty of awards!!!
He lost to Peter Falk. I truly believe Vic was blacklisted!!!
I remember this episode when I was a kid. Those terrible blackened hands....
I was 6 when he died so I obviously don't remember it. I've known who he was for quite some time,mainly because of 'The Bad News Bears' and his horrific,untimely death. It wasn't until recently that I became a fan.It probably sounds a little crazy but I actually have a crush on him. :)
I cannot believe his men left him in the barn....then I cannot believe his men didn't go back for him. That's bullsh*t........
Billy wanted too!!!
@@kathrynmcmahon4048 So did Caje.
Vic Morrow is impersonating the creature from the black lagoon and Lon Chaney as the wolf man🥸
And to think there's no mf,fc or any swearing at all and still tell a Good story.we had good t.v back then.the stuff we have to day is rubbish
James - You’re in luck, someone compiled the stats. Here's a truncated list I copied for you. Some shows had multiple injuries so these won’t add up.
Saunders was wounded in 40 out of 152 total episodes.
Bullet Wounds-19
Beatings-9
Burns-2
Passed out-13
Knocked off feet by Explosions-5
Misc. Cuts/Bruises-8
Hanley was wounded in 36 out of 152 episodes:
Bullet Wounds-8
Beating-1
Passed out-5
Knocked off feet by Explosions-6
Misc. Cuts/Bruises-1
amazing ,makes me chuckle someone would compile statistics on this! But it is interesting.They shoud have has an episode where Sarge resurrected from the dead!
Did anyone notice the tank driver at 1:55 getting hit in the face with the tank drivers hatch? The tank comes to abrupt stop after the hit. It looks really bad and not sure he was ok after that.
Good catch.OW! Yeah that guy is missing a few teeth.
It's explained in this interview (start at 3:50) with Vic Morrow: ua-cam.com/video/4XoPuPrUXto/v-deo.html
That thing slingshot fast as hell. Looks like a broken 👃
Of all the episodes of "Combat!" I watched as a kid this is the one that stands out in my mind.
This episode was one of the best and most confusing! Vic Morrow's best ever performances with out a doubt! but the part that always was confusing was the ending and the start of the next episode! seems like they screwed up and didn't finish!
Each episode was considered a mini movie, but I agree. Should have been a part 2
First time I've seen them worried about running out of ammo 🤣
God bless Vic... For the moral compass
The best episode of all seasons actor excellent and unforgettable live forever!! God Bless you Vic Morrow I love you!!
Wow! This is why I don`t watch regular tv. That was breath taking...…...
Great episode. Love Altman's Direction. They always reminded me of short movies because of the great effort of his work. Note camera angles, lighting and such. With Robert Altman they were ALWAYS top notch!
So agree...
Heard EVERYONE loved him as a director but was a real ah and self absorbed jerk who slept with Vic's wife. That's not so nice!!! Rick even said RA wasn't a nice fellow.
RA was VERY self absorbed!!! Greatly noted!!!!
Anyone else notice the German soldier landing on the goat when he got blown off the truck in the beginning artillery barrage? I know that wasn't in the script!
Right? I cracked up laughing when I saw it. I'll bet the camera & set guys did too, at the time. :-D Fortunately, the goat wasn't hurt.
LT leaves Sgt...Sgt would have checked on all his men before leaving..........
Not in that situation...
The slightest sign of trouble they throw him under the barn .they skedaddled .
I believe that the sergeant was losing it at end probably do not having anything to eat and extreme pain dilerios.
I hope Sarge's hands heal so he can punch Hanley in the face.
It's not Liutenant Hanley fault.
a man named Peter told me to watch this and let him know how they did the effect with Vic Morrow's hands after walking out of the burning barn. basically, they put a protective jelly over his hands and the clothes he's wearing are super fire resistant. then they put some low-burning fuel on the hands (the fuel doesn't actually get that hot for the brief amount of time that its on fire). i'm guessing for this shot they extinguished his hands so that they would smoke instead of burn. they also definitely put some ashy make-up on his hands too.
Hayden great thus tv series was cool.
Vic Morrow was a Navy Vet. who would have thought.
It’s the best time of childhood with my family
That big Little John reminds me of this guy at boot camp he was always asking are you going to eat that and I always gave him food that I didn't want well one day the DI caught him asking him asking for food he grab him from the collar and made sure the cook filled him his tray filled with chow and made him eat every morsel
Littlejohn is a big guy. Kind of like feeding a shark .Not just going to have one cheeseburger and fries with a drink, you know???