Met Telly at LAX in the 70's or maybe the early 80's, helped his wife and baby with their luggage because the airline had no porters, shook my hand, it was cool.
It’s amazing how obnoxious people can be & a guy like that probably does carry luggage as he wonders why everyone screws him over. I was going to ask who Telly was until I saw him appear, he is possibly my favorite actor!!! No one, maybe Henry Winkler, was EVR cooler & he does a fair accent here as well. Appreciate your LAX story
" What we get done before tomorrow comes, is what matters." A great line from Telly Savallis. Quite a mad commander of course. Telly Savallis was of course of Greek descent.
BIG BIG UPS TO YOU BRO WHEN I LIVED IN DA BRONX YEAH THERE WUZ A PIZZA JOINT AT 170th AND MORRIS AVE PARTNER I LUV YOU BABY (KOJAK) UP UP BLESS UP YOUR SELF BROTHER
Telly Savalas ..!! I thought it was going to be " The Dirty Dozen " , but it turned out to be " Zorba the Greek ." I would like to see Anthony Quinn in one of these episodes . There have been so many good guest Actors in this show , just who are we going to be lucky enough to see next ..?
i know what you mean.....but our youngest have had 20 years of uninterupted war....more vets now than ever....its not our society its the stinking corpse of the federal government thats responsible
Telly Savalas was not a playing glory seeking hero, but a Greek patriot. What the Nazis did to Greece is unspeakable. There are many books for those interested but the destruction of whole villages, the burning alive of civilians - women, children and the old - in their churches, the utter horror of the torture of teachers and priests - - - all of it was real and the need for vengeance just as real.
no no chris..you must stick to the script and ignore the facts...germans all bad...allies all good..havent you read the latest anti german propaganda?? dindin private knows all of this..most like him will ignore the facts
Dindin Private TheNazi’s wreaked havoc on Greek citizens.. Any vengeance the Greeks felt was well deserved and the Germans felt their wrath! I would definitely want a Greek on MY side in a fight... FEARLESS and UNSTOPPABLE .. I have the upmost respect for Greece 🇬🇷🇺🇸
Telly was in 3 great war Movies. As tank Sgt Guffy in The Battle of the Bulge, he was one of the Dirty Dozen. And again he played a Sgt. Big Joe in Kelly's Heroes.
"Life is a snowflake. It rests on your hand and you watch it's beauty, eh. Then you watch it and from your own heat it melts and it dies. It happens...." on Combat!!
This is another of those episodes where COMBAT!'s creators said, "Who cares if it never could have happened? It'll make a great episode." And so it did. I wonder if this episode was the genesis of "The Rat Patrol"? You may be familiar with Telly Savalas from his role as "Kojak" and his many movies including WW 2 themed movies like "The Dirty Dozen" & "Kelly" Heroes". What you may not know is that Savalas was awarded the Purple Heart for his WW 2 service. You may also not know that he turned down the lead for the movie "Patton" which ultimately won George C. Scott an Academy Award for Best Actor which he declined to accept. Savalas went to his grave believing that he would have been a better "Patton" if he had accepted the role. His family, including goddaughter Jennifer Aniston, still believes that. I doubt anyone else does. Scott's "Patton" is generally regarded as one of the great performances of all time.
“ 😮The Battle of the Bulge “ With Henry Fonda Robert Shaw James McArther Charles Bronson Robert Ryan Dana Andrews Savalas playing Guffy an American tank commander who was also in the black market. That’s a favorite role of his for me …
It looks to me as if those jeeps are mounting a Browning M1919 .30 cal on the side and a .50 cal "Ma Deuce" in back. Pretty good firepower combo for a fast-attack gun platform. Those german MP 40s in the gun battle at the start of this episode were hopelessly out gunned.
Both of those mounts were common on WW2 'Jeeps'. The frames of MB/GPW as well as the later M38 (MC) and M38A1 (MD) military models had provision for an M31C pedestal mount to bolt on just behind and between the front seats which fit either .50 or .30 Browning guns: ordnanceresearch.com/m31c-pedestal-mount/ A commonly issued dash mount was the M48, and there were others: www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/ww2-willys-gpw-jeep-m48-dash-mount-249727197 Field modifications were often employed, such as dual Lewis guns on aircraft mounts used by British SAS on 'Jeeps' and other vehicles.
This one used proper MB/GPW vehicles, though one may wonder where the Germans got those nice Dodge WCs. Rat Patrol often used later civilian Jeeps done up in 'desert sand'.
@Patricia Thames True, Ford had done business with pre WW2 Germany, but the word is 'medal'. The automobiles were made of metal: medium.com/be-unique/henry-ford-helped-hitler-prepare-for-world-war-ii-afbf07ba1021 Ford, however, did not produce Dodge WC, or 'weapons carriers', which were built for the U.S, military and its allies.
Another interesting guest cast. In addition to Savalas, Pete Duel (Alias Smith and Jones) is seen briefly as the wounded solider in the beginning; and one of Telly's troop is played by John Aniston, known for the soap Days Of Our Lives as well as being you-know-who's dad.
I believe he shot himself in the head while playing with guns on the set of “ Alias Smith And Jones “. Ben Murphy took his place as Smith / Hannibal Hayes and Roger Davis took the place of Jones / Kid Curry.
Telly Savalas was great in the 2 best human T.V. dramas ever. The Fugitive and Combat. What Human Dramas. Today,s T.V. is such politically correct garbage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is it just me or does it seem that the 31 episodes Bernard McEveety directed along with the 7 Vic Morrow directed were the best of the series. All of the others just seemed to lack quality.
the cast and crew of this series was just incredible luck or genius,i say genius, and having VIC AND RICK JASON playing different moods and actions makes it not only believable,but insanely genius,nothing ,no war movie,every made came close to the head high vision of what war in the European theatre was like,except this one,my dad was there,he saw this picture series and said it was like being there,as on the front lines no one knew anyone too long,it was war,he was there,north Africa and in a lot of bloody situations and including the PO VALLEY,he said it was barbaric,blood bath,war sucks and so do those who love it
Telly Savalas is in his element and one of the best if not best guest stars of the entire Combat series IMO, and I consider this one of the best single shows of all Combat episodes. Years later he was also best actor, again IMO, in the film "Kelly's Heroes" playing the toughest soldier in his US outfit.
Yes drink some hard liquor..thatll get the bleeding to stop. Anybody who had a beer or two while getting a tatoo knows how it instantly thins your blood and makes you bleed more.
growing up our next door neighbor was in the greek army fighting nazi's and then the communists before immigranting to American in the 50's He ran a small breakfast lunch dinner. He made the papers when some idiot tried to rob him. He broke the guy arm and threw him out the front door.
@@garymazur2217 Nope, early model P51 - the tail gives it away. Early 51's didn't have the bubble canopy. P40 had a rounded rudder and the air scoop was under the engine, not the fuselage.
Mega looool! ...That was my FIRST TV series I ever watched, back there to early of '70s!!! And I was fascinated when I watched that episode and... few soldiers were speaking my own language and they were Greek troops!!! ...Hahaha... Lovely years, in my youth (I was 5). ...Obviously, that TV series had a lot historic inaccurate elements. I remember in few episodes, watching the Wehrmacht troops shooting with... Bren machinegun (British), or watching IN THIS episode here a German officer wearing BRITISH beret (they Tank officers worn beret too in the very early stage of WW2, but not that type of cloth). OBVIOUSLY as 5 years old I didn't knew these... Anyways... one of the MOST AMAZING TV series I ever watched... so young... and it was very impressive (during the very first steps of the Greek National TV Channel). I still remember the epic tune/music of the opening credits...and I was running like mad towards the living room to watch the next episode.
kojak:-) :-) :-) what a moustache what an episode. mad plain mad " pity for toothless tigers and dancing bears" fighting to the end of the end l l ove it
That there was one of them rare NA F-51 B's that was captured and used as a adversary in dog fight training. But that day it was needed for film making, so, into Combat! it flew.
The Wyllis CB was an excellent jeep, nowadays some of them are still seen in the streets, probably not so much in the US but in countries of the Third World some prIvate owners drive them evereyday to work or for shopping. In the North Africa campaign the SAS mounted MGs with vertical magazine, probably those jeeps arrived to England via the Lend Lease program, boarded in US and Latin American ships to the Allies. It was equipment like these and mainly food that the Axis wanted stop from getting to England and Russia, and that's why the U.boat campagin in the Atlantic got so hot. As we see in this episode of combat -which by the way great show, it has quality- the Wyllis CB was so versatile and maneuverable, and apparently so easy to mantain.
And Tellys brother George was also on Combat in the episode "Counter Punch". Season 2 Episode 22. He played a cook who became a a soldier in Saunders squad One of the few episodes I watched with Hanley and no Saunders
Telly Savalas was so good in this story he held his own his did. Never really watched his movies but seen him in some. Its an art showing madness and going bonkers..
Amazing how the same half track with the gun tub always gets burned up, but shows up in later episodes. Now, in Jan 2021, I wonder if the track still exists and is functional today; and who has it.
With the barely passable exception of Savalas’, those other guys’ command of Greek sucks. Also, while the valour of the Hellenic Army in WWII (and in every other war, before or since) is well-known, and Combat! itself was an amazing TV series, this episode is just...fromage - it’s got Savalas’ fingerprints all over it: who luvs ya, baby?...
+Dan Reese Agreed. I think he was definitely cheated on the Emmies for Most Pronounced Over-Acting in a Dramatic Series, Cheesiest Costume in a Dramatic Series, and Worst Foreign Accent in a Dramatic Series - for both episodes. Sometimes Hollywood just ain't fair! (Although the Alpine episode was a bit tough for me in a way despite the excellent skiing and cinematography - I lived in Louisiana for a while and never met a Cajun who could begin to out-ski a German Alpine trooper!)
I am glad you shared that with us because, I wondered how "real" any of it was thinking, Ok, so this is just "TV." I saw this episode a long time ago and what I remember to this day was the phrase "Wopa" (or however you spell it - and, does that phrase have any meaning?). What I suspected before I read your email was, that, Tell Savalas, being a pretty big star of the time would ensure that some "Greek" originality would be preserved. I didn't realize that it would be near total... Cool....
There was a family of Greeks whose kids attended my high school. They are now running almost every single steakhouse in our home town. "Opa" is just a common interjection like Spanish ole' or bravo, Mexican epa, Texan Yee-Haw, etc.
Same thing happened the New Zealanders in WW1, cannon fodder for English generals, Never again, in WW2 we brought with us our own command structure and generals, and we did pretty well according to history, no more Gallipoli's for us.
P.s to Symptahizers I recommend two Videos one of chanell " Kings and Generals" with title " Battle of Greece" about ww2 and one with title "Corean War what US military men say about Greek soldiers" both on youtube enjoy
I loved these shows when I was young but now I find a lot of just Hollywood. Poor fire displine. Many blanks fired without hitting anybody. No aiming. Maybe I am just to critical. But I still enjoy them
Met Telly in Restaurant Lausanne, Switzerland in the 1968 around the time of the production of One Her Majesties Secret Service (1969) got his autograph. - P51 Mustang with Swastika?
The only international troops my dad's unit (B co. 16th Infantry, 1st Inf Div) worked with were Brazilians... who he said were mostly drunk most of the time!
The "Messerchmitt" was absolutely a P-51B Mustang. But here's the kicker... the B&W film of that P-51, which had German markings, was perfect. The Germans absolutely had captured P-51's that were used for operational testing of their enemy. They re-marked them with Luftwaffe markings. I think what we are seeing here was captured German film of one of their P-51 Mustang's. This series was made long before CG. I'm not seeing any post-production airbrushing or replacement of the P-51 Air Corps USA markings or roundels. It's odd because there are hundreds of B&W clips of true German attack aircraft that they could have used. Why the Mustang?
I don't think that is captured footage, maybe there was no stock footage of a real 109 and there were no ,air worthy 109s available. take the Movie fighter Squadron with Edmond O'Brian, the passed P 51 D as FW 190s.
I think you're right. Still think they maybe just took a shot of a American plane and put the German Cross on it, as there are no other markings on the plane that all German planes had.
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i was born in 1964 when combat episodes were shown. it’s great to watch them now, the stories were great. thanks for uploading!
Love the Greeks. Great food. Great music. They know how to live.
Met Telly at LAX in the 70's or maybe the early 80's, helped his wife and baby with their luggage because the airline had no porters, shook my hand, it was cool.
Can I have your autograph?
@@garpikemike1 No but you can carry his luggage
It’s amazing how obnoxious people can be & a guy like that probably does carry luggage as he wonders why everyone screws him over. I was going to ask who Telly was until I saw him appear, he is possibly my favorite actor!!! No one, maybe Henry Winkler, was EVR cooler & he does a fair accent here as well. Appreciate your LAX story
" What we get done before tomorrow comes, is what matters." A great line from Telly Savallis. Quite a mad commander of course. Telly Savallis was of course of Greek descent.
Savalas did not chose the name Kapsalis by accident. It is his mother's maiden name. Rest in peace Aristoteli.
BIG BIG UPS TO YOU BRO WHEN I LIVED IN DA BRONX YEAH THERE WUZ A PIZZA JOINT AT 170th AND MORRIS AVE PARTNER I LUV YOU BABY (KOJAK) UP UP BLESS UP YOUR SELF BROTHER
"He's a dirty old man but I would even wax his beaver for him if it gets us out of this mess." Best quote by Kirby, no doubt.
Beware of Greeks getting their beavers waxed
Shit how did that get by the censors
A beaver is just a vicious little creature. Sometimes angry. Approach with caution.
Much better than the run-of-the-mill waxed beaver flicks.
Didn’t Priscilla Presley have a “ nice beaver “ ? Didn’t she just have it stuffed ? Just asking …😅
Man !!! I haven't seen that episode for almost 35 years !!!! I don't know where you found it but THANK YOU !!!
What a great ww2 show thanks for sharing with us.
one of the best episodes of Combat!
Telly Savalas ..!! I thought it was going to be " The Dirty Dozen " , but it turned out to be " Zorba the Greek ." I would like to see Anthony Quinn in one of these episodes . There have been so many good guest Actors in this show , just who are we going to be lucky enough to see next ..?
That episode called mountain man was really good. Hopefully they have more of them in the snow.
Less than a year later Telly was Sgt. Guffy in the Battle of the Bulge. "It's like hitting them with tennis balls!"
Watching these old Combat episodes makes a person realize how shallow of a society we've become in the last 60 years.
i know what you mean.....but our youngest have had 20 years of uninterupted war....more vets now than ever....its not our society its the stinking corpse of the federal government thats responsible
It was a war that differed from every other war US has fought. They goal was internationally approved.
I agree. What would the Patriots have thought about DEI and cancel culture ? What a disgrace .
@@Tom-t8fDon’t you have some Orange Kool-Aid to drink? 34 felony convictions…so far.
Telly Savalas was not a playing glory seeking hero, but a Greek patriot. What the Nazis did to Greece is unspeakable. There are many books for those interested but the destruction of whole villages, the burning alive of civilians - women, children and the old - in their churches, the utter horror of the torture of teachers and priests - - - all of it was real and the need for vengeance just as real.
Thank you Pavlos Karoustas.
no no chris..you must stick to the script and ignore the facts...germans all bad...allies all good..havent you read the latest anti german propaganda?? dindin private knows all of this..most like him will ignore the facts
Right...and they gotten shelacked in their own country then came out and showed the cowardly Americans how to really fight..lmao whatever!
Dindin Private TheNazi’s wreaked havoc on Greek citizens.. Any vengeance the Greeks felt was well deserved and the Germans felt their wrath! I would definitely want a Greek on MY side in a fight... FEARLESS and UNSTOPPABLE .. I have the upmost respect for Greece 🇬🇷🇺🇸
chris richard Are you for real?? Another Nazi sympathizer, I see... your parents must be proud..
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Telly Savalis - Kojack - one of my favorite actors of the 60-s and 70's....
Telly was in 3 great war Movies. As tank Sgt Guffy in The Battle of the Bulge, he was one of the Dirty Dozen. And again he played a Sgt. Big Joe in Kelly's Heroes.
Who love's ya baby!!
"Life is a snowflake. It rests on your hand and you watch it's beauty, eh. Then you watch it and from your own heat it melts and it dies. It happens...." on Combat!!
Great lines
This is another of those episodes where COMBAT!'s creators said, "Who cares if it never could have happened? It'll make a great episode." And so it did. I wonder if this episode was the genesis of "The Rat Patrol"?
You may be familiar with Telly Savalas from his role as "Kojak" and his many movies including WW 2 themed movies like "The Dirty Dozen" & "Kelly" Heroes".
What you may not know is that Savalas was awarded the Purple Heart for his WW 2 service. You may also not know that he turned down the lead for the movie "Patton" which ultimately won George C. Scott an Academy Award for Best Actor which he declined to accept.
Savalas went to his grave believing that he would have been a better "Patton" if he had accepted the role. His family, including goddaughter Jennifer Aniston, still believes that. I doubt anyone else does. Scott's "Patton" is generally regarded as one of the great performances of all time.
Agree. His best role of all time was in Kelly's Heroes, and he stole the show IMHO just by playing his usual straight-up tough guy.
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“ 😮The Battle of the Bulge “ With Henry Fonda Robert Shaw James McArther Charles Bronson Robert Ryan Dana Andrews Savalas playing Guffy an American tank commander who was also in the black market. That’s a favorite role of his for me …
@@manuelbermudez211 Liked first part where Fonda plays detective and Savalas romance. Goes wildly inaccurate in 2nd half. Ike condemned it publicly.
Telly is a legend!!
14:15 ROTF!!!! Kirby:"I'll even wax that beaver for him, if it'll get us out of this mess.."
Gotta admit it's better than most of the waxed beaver flicks.
It looks to me as if those jeeps are mounting a Browning M1919 .30 cal on the side and a .50 cal "Ma Deuce" in back. Pretty good firepower combo for a fast-attack gun platform. Those german MP 40s in the gun battle at the start of this episode were hopelessly out gunned.
Both of those mounts were common on WW2 'Jeeps'.
The frames of MB/GPW as well as the later M38 (MC) and M38A1 (MD) military models had provision for an M31C pedestal mount to bolt on just behind and between the front seats which fit either .50 or .30 Browning guns: ordnanceresearch.com/m31c-pedestal-mount/
A commonly issued dash mount was the M48, and there were others: www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/ww2-willys-gpw-jeep-m48-dash-mount-249727197
Field modifications were often employed, such as dual Lewis guns on aircraft mounts used by British SAS on 'Jeeps' and other vehicles.
The Greek version of Rat Patrol
1:06
@Patricia Thames Long Range Desert Group (LRDG): lrdg.hegewisch.net/lrdgvehicles.html
This one used proper MB/GPW vehicles, though one may wonder where the Germans got those nice Dodge WCs.
Rat Patrol often used later civilian Jeeps done up in 'desert sand'.
@Patricia Thames True, Ford had done business with pre WW2 Germany, but the word is 'medal'. The automobiles were made of metal: medium.com/be-unique/henry-ford-helped-hitler-prepare-for-world-war-ii-afbf07ba1021
Ford, however, did not produce Dodge WC, or 'weapons carriers', which were built for the U.S, military and its allies.
@Patricia Thames What has that to do with the DODGE vehicles used in this episode, which were built by Chrysler?
"Dance, great man! You have no home when war is over... !"
The Rat Patrol just joined in. Lol!
Days of patriotism.. Athanati Hellas, immortal Greece. Bravo
Telly goes full Kamikaze in this one! Opa!
Finally they show the guest star finally. It’s been awhile.
4:28 I see Jennifer Aniston's father, John Aniston, who is currently known for playing Victor Kiriakis on days of our lives!
I got Rat Patrol flashbacks at the beginning....
+Bill Hiers yes me too
+Bill Hiers True!
Bill: I said to myself is this how The Rat Patrol was piloted?? lol,lol.
Those were my thoughts as well.
lol
LOL I've been watching Kojak on ME TV here in Denver CO. Haven't even tried to get them on UA-cam yet. Been too busy with Combat.
Toujours aussi bien cette séries
Loved this one. Combat rules!
Ah to have Telly make that final charge and to take out a lollipop and say to Hanley, "Who loves you baby"
Wow! Incredible dedication to fight on to the end!
Who loves you baby!
The gunfire effects are terrific.
As Marlon Brandon said in self-criticism of his performance of "On the Waterfront," in-out, in-out," of character. So for Telly. Missing Vic.
Gregory Powers Ditto.
Great episode !!
Another interesting guest cast. In addition to Savalas, Pete Duel (Alias Smith and Jones) is seen briefly as the wounded solider in the beginning; and one of Telly's troop is played by John Aniston, known for the soap Days Of Our Lives as well as being you-know-who's dad.
Oh ya, Pete Duel was hot property for 2 or 3 years in the early 70's..Robert at 66.
Pete Duell was also Gidgets sisters husband on Gidget.
We spelled his name incorrectly. It's Deuel.
I believe he shot himself in the head while playing with guns on the set of “ Alias Smith And Jones “. Ben Murphy took his place as Smith / Hannibal Hayes and Roger Davis took the place of Jones / Kid Curry.
This must be how they came up with "Rat Patrol"
Telly Savalas was great in the 2 best human T.V. dramas ever. The Fugitive and Combat. What Human Dramas. Today,s T.V. is such politically correct garbage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TS also did TZ.
Love that Kerby guy "funny guy" thanks for the upload....
Is it just me or does it seem that the 31 episodes Bernard McEveety directed along with the 7 Vic Morrow directed were the best of the series. All of the others just seemed to lack quality.
the cast and crew of this series was just incredible luck or genius,i say genius, and having VIC AND RICK JASON playing different moods and actions makes it not only believable,but insanely genius,nothing ,no war movie,every made came close to the head high vision of what war in the European theatre was like,except this one,my dad was there,he saw this picture series and said it was like being there,as on the front lines no one knew anyone too long,it was war,he was there,north Africa and in a lot of bloody situations and including the PO VALLEY,he said it was barbaric,blood bath,war sucks and so do those who love it
Telly Savalas is in his element and one of the best if not best guest stars of the entire Combat series IMO, and I consider this one of the best single shows of all Combat episodes. Years later he was also best actor, again IMO, in the film "Kelly's Heroes" playing the toughest soldier in his US outfit.
Yes drink some hard liquor..thatll get the bleeding to stop. Anybody who had a beer or two while getting a tatoo knows how it instantly thins your blood and makes you bleed more.
BRAVO RE TELLY,SYMERIZOME TO MISOS SOU GIA TOUS GERMANOUS,ATHANATOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
not one flat tire...they don't make em like they used to...
They used BF Goodrich "All Calibres" ;-)
M151a1 Jeep
Telly Savalas MADE this episode!
growing up our next door neighbor was in the greek army fighting nazi's and then the communists before immigranting to American in the 50's He ran a small breakfast lunch dinner. He made the papers when some idiot tried to rob him. He broke the guy arm and threw him out the front door.
One of the actors, playing a German, used the term: "Amis", very unusual for that term to appear on American TV in the 60s.
I personally loved the P-51 Messerschmitt fighter lol.....gawd!
It wasn't a p 51 that was a p 40 warhawk
@@garymazur2217 Nope, early model P51 - the tail gives it away. Early 51's didn't have the bubble canopy. P40 had a rounded rudder and the air scoop was under the engine, not the fuselage.
Mega looool! ...That was my FIRST TV series I ever watched, back there to early of '70s!!! And I was fascinated when I watched that episode and... few soldiers were speaking my own language and they were Greek troops!!! ...Hahaha... Lovely years, in my youth (I was 5).
...Obviously, that TV series had a lot historic inaccurate elements. I remember in few episodes, watching the Wehrmacht troops shooting with... Bren machinegun (British), or watching IN THIS episode here a German officer wearing BRITISH beret (they Tank officers worn beret too in the very early stage of WW2, but not that type of cloth). OBVIOUSLY as 5 years old I didn't knew these...
Anyways... one of the MOST AMAZING TV series I ever watched... so young... and it was very impressive (during the very first steps of the Greek National TV Channel).
I still remember the epic tune/music of the opening credits...and I was running like mad towards the living room to watch the next episode.
Greece sucks!
@@garpikemike1 usa sucks, you clown🤡
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Gotta love how some of the actors playing German soldiers were wearing WWI-era Model 1916 stallhelme! LOL!
kojak:-) :-) :-) what a moustache what an episode. mad plain mad " pity for toothless tigers and dancing bears" fighting to the end of the end l l ove it
I love Shmelly in this, but that 'stache has GOTTA GO! Hey! Izzat a ME-51 or a FW-51? Shmooth lookin' aircraft!
Real Me-109s were hard to come by in the 60s.
That there was one of them rare NA F-51 B's that was captured and used as a adversary in dog fight training. But that day it was needed for film making, so, into Combat! it flew.
I can tell already, Hanley is just gonna LOVE this guy!
Interesting tidbit: Telly Savalas portrayed Col. Kapsalis. He apparently chose that name, because it was his mother's maiden name (Wikipedia).
The German plane was a P51 Mustang early model before the bubble canopy.
Telly's brother George was in season 2 episode 22 "counter punch".
excellent episode of
Telly Savalas , this is one of the best . The Greeks have been fighting for three thousand years ! Opa !
The Wyllis CB was an excellent jeep, nowadays some of them are still seen in the streets, probably not so much in the US but in countries of the Third World some prIvate owners drive them evereyday to work or for shopping. In the North Africa campaign the SAS mounted MGs with vertical magazine, probably those jeeps arrived to England via the Lend Lease program, boarded in US and Latin American ships to the Allies. It was equipment like these and mainly food that the Axis wanted stop from getting to England and Russia, and that's why the U.boat campagin in the Atlantic got so hot. As we see in this episode of combat -which by the way great show, it has quality- the Wyllis CB was so versatile and maneuverable, and apparently so easy to mantain.
They don't make em like Telly
Telly Savalas group looks like a patrol of the Long Range Desert Group from North Africa, not something you will find in France! Regards
Lazarus0357 yeah, looks like something from the rat patrol
there were independent combat groups and teams that fought like the Greek one seen here.
Hey it's the Rat Patrol. They must have gotten the idea from this episode. Telly and his mustache , lol
Combat version of the Rat Patrol....pretty cool and with Telly Savalas :)
Great episode.
Col. Maggot before he was brought up on charges and imprisoned.....
They made war look like so much fun !
For the adrenaline junkie it was. They knew they were in a bad spot,(war), and some went all in. Horrible situation.
The opening reminds me of Indians circling the wagon train!
P-51C for a Messerschmitt 109?? Unacceptable. They would have been better off using archive footage of an actual ME-109.
And Tellys brother George was also on Combat in the episode "Counter Punch". Season 2 Episode 22. He played a cook who became a a soldier in Saunders squad
One of the few episodes I watched with Hanley and no Saunders
Poli kala episode! Thanks for uploading!
I thought "Hot dogs was a great nickname.🍻
OPA!
Telly Savalas was so good in this story he held his own his did. Never really watched his movies but seen him in some. Its an art showing madness and going bonkers..
Amazing how the same half track with the gun tub always gets burned up, but shows up in later episodes. Now, in Jan 2021, I wonder if the track still exists and is functional today; and who has it.
A U.S M-3 Half Track. My favorite WW2 Armored vehicle. I like it so much. I made 11 models of it. Lol!
With the barely passable exception of Savalas’, those other guys’ command of Greek sucks. Also, while the valour of the Hellenic Army in WWII (and in every other war, before or since) is well-known, and Combat! itself was an amazing TV series, this episode is just...fromage - it’s got Savalas’ fingerprints all over it: who luvs ya, baby?...
As has been said multiple times below, Combat meets The Rat Patrol. I love both shows, but Combat is definitely more realistic.
That plane looks like a new kind of Messersmit/P40.
If it was a P40 with German markings *I don't know what to tell ya.Blame Hollywood.*
+ ebutuoy406 , Maybe it was a Focke Wulf 190 ..?
Perhaps *it was a flying Volkswagen!!!*
+ Howard Fortyfive , you're talking ( Volkswagen ) Kombi , in Combat .
lol,lol,lol.
Combat meets Rat Patrol...... at 2:00
Git sum GOHOT GIT SUM!!!!!!
Boy, it must.ve been over a hundred degrees out there shooting under that blazing hot sun. Hanley's makeup is running, expecially his brows.
Great actor
GR - Thank you so very much for all your work posting these!!!A great series but this is one of the weaker episodes.
+MemphoOnTheMississippi this is a throwaway episode . Made up for last weeks in the Alps episode. Like Tellys's phony mustache .
+Dan Reese Yep - they sang, they danced, they drove jeeps into a fuel dump...
MemphoOnTheMississippi Telly was in 2 terrible episodes , this one and one in the last year .
+Dan Reese Agreed. I think he was definitely cheated on the Emmies for Most Pronounced Over-Acting in a Dramatic Series, Cheesiest Costume in a Dramatic Series, and Worst Foreign Accent in a Dramatic Series - for both episodes. Sometimes Hollywood just ain't fair! (Although the Alpine episode was a bit tough for me in a way despite the excellent skiing and cinematography - I lived in Louisiana for a while and never met a Cajun who could begin to out-ski a German Alpine trooper!)
MemphoOnTheMississippi That stunt guy who played the German skier took a nice spill down that hill.
I think the producers were reaching out for the viewer segment known as "Sgt Rock" readers with this episode.
I am glad you shared that with us because, I wondered how "real" any of it was thinking, Ok, so this is just "TV." I saw this episode a long time ago and what I remember to this day was the phrase "Wopa" (or however you spell it - and, does that phrase have any meaning?). What I suspected before I read your email was, that, Tell Savalas, being a pretty big star of the time would ensure that some "Greek" originality would be preserved. I didn't realize that it would be near total... Cool....
There was a family of Greeks whose kids attended my high school. They are now running almost every single steakhouse in our home town. "Opa" is just a common interjection like Spanish ole' or bravo, Mexican epa, Texan Yee-Haw, etc.
Same thing happened the New Zealanders in WW1, cannon fodder for English generals, Never again, in WW2 we brought with us our own command structure and generals, and we did pretty well according to history, no more Gallipoli's for us.
P.s to Symptahizers I recommend two Videos one of chanell " Kings and Generals" with title " Battle of Greece" about ww2 and one with title "Corean War what US military men say about Greek soldiers" both on youtube enjoy
and at1:05, the crew from Rat Patrol just happens upon the Combat boys just when they needed them most.
9:02 looks like a P-51 painted to look like an ME-109
P 40 warhawk
I loved these shows when I was young but now I find a lot of just Hollywood. Poor fire displine. Many blanks fired without hitting anybody. No aiming. Maybe I am just to critical. But I still enjoy them
This was before his kojak days along with his brother who also stared in an episode of this series combat
The opening sequence with the armed Jeeps was a little hokey.
As someone said, "Who loves ya baby!"
One of the Germans at 14:50 wears an M1916 WWI helmet. I think I've seen a few of these before in earlier episodes.
Met Telly in Restaurant Lausanne, Switzerland in the 1968 around the time of the production of One Her Majesties Secret Service (1969) got his autograph.
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P51 Mustang with Swastika?
The only international troops my dad's unit (B co. 16th Infantry, 1st Inf Div) worked with were Brazilians... who he said were mostly drunk most of the time!
Oh
Yeah, probably along with your dad.!
Opa!!!!
.50 cal mounted on jeeps, sounds like the Rat Patrol that aired on the same network as Combat a few years later, coincidence?
The "Messerchmitt" was absolutely a P-51B Mustang. But here's the kicker... the B&W film of that P-51, which had German markings, was perfect. The Germans absolutely had captured P-51's that were used for operational testing of their enemy. They re-marked them with Luftwaffe markings. I think what we are seeing here was captured German film of one of their P-51 Mustang's. This series was made long before CG. I'm not seeing any post-production airbrushing or replacement of the P-51 Air Corps USA markings or roundels.
It's odd because there are hundreds of B&W clips of true German attack aircraft that they could have used. Why the Mustang?
I don't think that is captured footage, maybe there was no stock footage of a real 109 and there were no
,air worthy 109s available.
take the Movie fighter Squadron with Edmond O'Brian, the passed P 51 D as FW 190s.
+Curt Brown That was a P51
P-51 had a bubble canopy. That looked more like a P-40 Warhawk and a Hawker Hurricane.
I believe that the P-51D was the first variant with the bubble canopy.
I think you're right. Still think they maybe just took a shot of a American plane and put the German Cross on it, as there are no other markings on the plane that all German planes had.
Is that Telly Savalas or The Iron Sheik in this episode? Lol