This TV series was the main motivation for me taking three years of German language in High school [1967-1970] it was a Skill set that served me well during my cold war tour of duty in Nuremberg Germany [1976-1979]
My father served with the OSS training french resistance on radios behind enemy lines prior to D-day He survived the war and Korea I am the direct result of his (wounded) return from Korea
Then you might like to watch again the Episode A CHILD´S GAME - it was done as a reaction to the German War movie from the Fifites DIE BRÜCKE ( movie, 1959 ) direccted by Bernhard Wicki who also had coworked on THE LONGEST DAY. Both that episode and the German movie are on UA-cam right now The BRIDGE ( Die Brücke ) was based on a German Past War novel by GREGOR DORFMEISTER, under the pen-name Manfred Gregor . Dorfmeister sait to have based it on his personal War year experiences.
Served as a medic with an artillery battalion not too far from you (Herzogenurach), but ETSed in '76. Took two years of German in high school (70-72). Used it a bit in Germany, but not much since.
My Dad was a Tech Sgt. in the Signal Corp in Europe in WW2. Four different areas of operations. In both CP's and field ops. He never talked about the war except a couple of funny stories. It wasn't til I watched Band of Brothers a few years back what he must have seen and been through. He never mentioned the smell that must have been everywhere. Dead, burnt, blasted and ruined everywhere. Growing up he took us camping out in forests, no people around. He love being away from civilization, except for brief stops in tiny towns in the mountains.
When these episodes originally aired, I was between 10 and 14 - too young to appreciate the quality of the storylines and the acting. I am so glad that I can watch them now.
Mark, I was same age as you....I never missed an Episode. I would later "saddle up" with my GI Surplus store WW2 surplus gear and go on a make believe patrol!!!! All the episodes are on a high quality DVD set at a reasonable price that you make be interested in purchasing!!!
Same w/ me. I was in 1st yr hi school, living in the dorm & we watched w/o fail this Combat series every Friday evening!! 58 yrs hence, Combat is ever exciting to watch!! We'll Keep on... Thanks...
What I love about all this is that when I was a kid in combat would come on you got to watch the show there was no watching it again it was live on TV right then. I always remember at the end listening to the last musical notes as the credits went by and realizing I had not done my homework. It's so much fun to be able to watch these wonderful episodes over and over again. Thank you
82 Germans voted thumbs down! My mother, who was German and came to the US after the war, hated this show. My dad, a GI who fought in France and Germany during the war, loved it. As did I. We watched it together every week when I was a kid. Combat and Sea Hunt were our favorite shows. Thanks for posting.
My Dad was in WWII and Korea and we used to watch this together and both loved it. He thought ole Sarge portrayed the role like a 'real' one. But a lot of the scenes where Germans get mowed down so easily wasn t realistic. We know it was the show's way of dealing with combat and the individual stories. But Dad remarked many times just how good the German soldier was, a deadlly force to be reckoned with. He never told me much about any real action he was in, just stuff like this or funny occurances. Miss ya Dad!
Real Germans didn't like Combat any more than real Native Americans liked watching John Wayne shoot Indians, or Japanese liked watching Hiroshima get vaporized. You should see how Americans are portrayed in foreign movies.
@@mach1gtx150 After you watch a few episodes you come to believe that German soldiers were incompetent idiots who thought bullets would be stopped by bushes and it was OK to run in front of Saunders and his Tommy Gun. Germans were actually pretty good soldiers. They didn't do so well fighting Russians in the Winter at Stalingrad, but no Army would. The Germans simply did not know how bad Russian Winters could be. As far as Combat goes, every once in a while they would show an American getting killed. Generally it was always a new guy.
@@christopherfranklin1881 Yeah, my brother and I would identify who was cannon fodder in the beginning of each episode....usually the new guy in the squad as you related. My Dad had a Thompson in Korea and a .45. He said that he liked to carry as many grenades as he could handle too. That was always my contention when watching war movies, an extra grenade could get you out of a lot of scrapes! When my Dad was assigned to Ft McClelllan Alabama in '63, the local kids and I would play soldiers in all of the wood around there. My Dad was a Major then. Our last name is Sanders. Guess who go to play Sgt Saunders all the time??
I was in primary school when these episodes were first screened. It opened my eyes to war. There are a few episodes that are a bit silly and unbelievable, but the majority are realistic and sensitively done. I love that there is little blood and no gore. I love that they devote a few episodes to showing that not all Germans were inhumane.
Courage is not the absence of fear, it's the capacity to manage it. The young Frenchman seems to have mastered this as depicted in this scene: 31:04. I taught this to my skydiving students. I don't care who you are, if you are going to exit an aircraft at any altitude AGL, fear will be a component of your operation. This we must accept and manage. We cannot deny that we are experiencing fear and cope appropriately with it. And yes, sometimes that involves hiding the fact that we are experiencing it.
Oh so true about courage and managing it. I'm a 74 ye old Vietnam Era Navy WAVE. I was an ETN2. I sometimes has to climb a weather RADAR tower. Later I 1981-- 1991 I worked at the Kennedy Space Center as a technician which required climbing various structures, working from a cherry picker, working atop the VAB and climbing on overhead grates to install cables and equipment. I am desperately afraid of heights. One thing the Navy taught me was if there's a job do suck it up, do the job and panic later. LOL
I'm not well versed in Shakespeare but I thank you for sharing that I wouldn't never known so much you hear and don't pay attention to and you miss the world of things
Holy shit..i Love it!as i was a kid i used to watch 'Nam,tour of duty' drama.but this combat are much better!very simple and straight forward story line!! So much fun watching this for 6 days now,episode after episode!
Since I've watched every episode from S1-E1, I notice a lot of the same scenes during battles & firefights. It doesn't bother me at all, this is the greatest show ever!
Not just same scenes..but same background sets.and same actors playing other parts/roles too..maybe they had small budgets and sets..but still funs to watch if we dnt think about it too mch..lol
@@zadzad879 AND THEN there are people nowdays complaining why the scenarios in Tactical Shooters - Computer Games are so repetitive. So some things really not change ::)
Thank you for posting Combat, the best show ever, power packed with life lessons to inspire us onward, and to not give in or give up, during this snake venom Nazi take over, and to know what we ought to do, even when all we have left is a silent cry.
And the funniest part was..when shit starts to hit the fan,i seldomly see kirby reloading his mag!!only saw him pull his BAR trigger and sprayed the krauts with his BAR like it has infinite rounds in his mag!!but, it still fun movie to watch if we put all the logics to the side.
@@zadzad879 You can say the same thing about Saunders' Thompson. It never runs out of ammo. BTW, a BAR mag holds 20 rounds. That is around two bursts before empty.
@@christopherfranklin1881 Doctrine was four to six-round bursts. The two in the TX military museum at Cp Mabry (and their Thompsons, Garands & Carbines) get warmed up quite regularly by the SARTS, and I can tell you it's a hoot to do "walking fire" with them or just work out with short bursts on plastic 55 gal drums from 50 t0 200 yds. The museum has literally footlockers full of obscure magazines so we sit and load them up the night prior to a range day and cache them all over the firing line and load up the load bearing belts & vests before going hot.
I was born in1990 and I found this show about a year ago and I watched all of it season 5 in colour was good any other shows like this one from back in the day I should look for
Glad a younger person like yourself likes it. In the mid-1960's, when i was a 10 year old kid, most boys loved this show and talked about it and played it all week.
My 2 buddies and I got an ice cream off the truck and watched Combat! Didn't realize they alternate and were bummed when it was Hanley not Saunders. That's Victor Morrowzoff from da Bronx. Jason was from 'the lower East side "
Richard Anderson as sergeant Perkins is a long ways from being one of the boss's of the six million dollar man. And Robert Crawford Jr. as Jaques. Pretty good players.
6:07 That scene had even better fit into the episode FLY AWAY HOME when Saunders had to babysit an almost fanatc homing prgeon specialist, played by the great Neveille Brand,, who had loved his animals more as people
31:33 Hospital folks, just strange they just offer the Radio Expert Sgt Perkins ( Anderson ) something to eat. :) Robert Crawford jr. had played in two episodes but different roles Here he had done the grandson of the old couple keeping up tha station. He himself had played a kid genius being the local radio man. Because of him I had been a fan of the Western series LARAMIE in my youth.
I love this movies coz my to brother are in the army old bro looks like ric and my secon bro look like vic and ive been watching this movie when i was a kid 1960s
Richard Anderson was on quite a few Perry mason episodes also during this time. In about 10 years he would star or co-star in the Six Million Dollar Man series with Lee Majors. As his boss, then Martin Balsam will be his boss. But this is the first time I have seen Richard Anderson in a role where he is not the director giving orders.
Richard Anderson was a full Colonel in 12 oclock high...army air corp...here he is a sgt in the infantry...Paul Burke was in the infantry too in combat....a Colonel in 12 high...lol
Kirby (Jack Hogan) carries around a REAL B.A.R. on the set, at 20 odd lbs. for realism, of course with the trigger group disasembled for live rounds, rest of cast lugs around wood/plastic knock off weapons (In real life Vic Morrow hated guns, AND Rick Jason/Liutenant Hanley was an avid hunter and a crack shot)..so hats off to Kirby! (Jack Hogan)..Robert at 67.
@@SDsailor7 Because at least the write ups/news feeds says on the Combat set series reports Jack Hogan (Kirby) demanded realism for his own Combat character TV role in equipment presentation, at least what I researched, you look it up and draw your own conclusion...
@@SDsailor7 I think he did it partly to represent men and women in uniform accurately. Lugging around a 20 odd pound weapon is not light for sure, hence carrying around his neck/shoulder in the rifle sling often.
@@bobmalack481 Yes I agree. Since he was a staff Sargeant in the Air Force. I read the Wikipedia article and it has a lot of info on how the show was created.
Loved this series. i was 11 when this was on. We used to call it "German's in Ford's".I used to think it was unlucky to be with that platoon. A bunch of guys always get it but somehow the sarge never does.Next week another minor tv star gets whacked. Still one of my favorites.
This guy's made it feel so real..many actor's from that time,had served in ww2.Some like lee marvin had the the medal of honor n Audie Murphy.You had the guy's that stayed out,like clint eastwood. He stayed in the states,cuz he was in a car accident.Ronaldo Reagan,only made military reel's about serving.They the movie star's were d one's that fixed their uniforms to look sharp.All active military men,their uniforms didn't fit right.Arnold Schwarzenegger,was in the country working,but was not drafted.A friend of mine in nam,with a work permit,was given the choice to join or loose his permit.Many of the hollywood crowd did serve, including Elvis Presley.
Richard Anderson. He played Major Coltrane in Gunsmokes " The Guns of Cibola Blanca ", which had some killer pyrotechnics at the end. That was in Season 20. LHS
hey gr buy watching all your great uploads i might not have to open my complete dvd set of COMBAT lol thanks again for doing this my friend cant tell you how much i loved (love) this show
"So you are expert in field radios?" " I read the manual." "Well, I wrote most of it" "Did you do a good job on it?" "Yes" "Then I must be expert. You wouldn't have written an inadequate manual."
We actually see for the first time, I believe, or rather hear Sgt. Saunders (Vic Morrow) complaining about a dirty deal he is receiving by having this detail with Sgt. Perkins (Richard Anderson) as he feels that this man is a risk to his squad. This demonstrates how Sgt. Saunders deals with a bad hand that is dealt to him: he goes about doing his best in a bad situation. This speaks of the professionalism and resiliency of the character as portrayed by Vic Morrow. Sgt. Perkins (equal rank) although a brilliant earlier day IT guy lacks human interaction even though he speaks 4 languages. Notice how Sgt; Saunders chastizes him for showing a huge lack of respect for the résistant fighters when Perkins calls them "fools" - espèce d'idiot. Still, the character played by Richard Anderson does indeed develop as he meets a younger more human version of himself (Jacques)and finally redeems himself. Perkins wants to give up the mission when the going gets tough. Sgt.Saunders does not.He hangs on, the tenacity, the true fighting spirit of an individual who will not foolishly risk the lives of his men (going back to his quevetching with Lieutenant Hanley) until he is either beaten or achieves his mission. This épisode is an interesting lesson in life: don't give up and respect your fellow men (men in the archaic sense of the word: man=person)As to the technical détails mentioned elsewhere by others, it does really not bear repeating but here goes: the anomalies in this series are légion. The script writing is spot on and the acting here make modern TV series look often pale in comparison. In my opinion, these two éléments are what make this séries work. Richard Anderson is known in many films and séries: the 6 Million Dollar Man, the Forbidden Planet, Gettysburg, Dynasty and so on. Born in 1926, Richard Anderson was still active a couple of years ago. A long and fine career. Merci pour le téléchargement.
+Iain Scholfield; Well covered aspects... The very same Characteristics The Creator was pleased of, within His own Son. Mat. 3:17&17:5,Mk. 1:11, Lk. 3:22 "For there are none in the flesh who reflect the actions of the Author of Sacrifice Himself... Than those Sacrificial Actions of The American Soldier." -Former Recondo Sgt. "Rock" 82nd Abn. 1/504 Inf. Div. 71-74
First movie I saw him in was Forbidden Planet. He was also on the Tora Tora Tora movie. As well as a great Wild Wild West episode. You could hardly tell it was him when he played General Meade on the Gettysburg movie.
Richard Anderson, he was on Rifleman about 13 times and later was Oscar Goldman on the six million dollar man with Lee Majors and a hundred other guest spots.Good actor!
@@timkeays8165 How I miss the clarity of that kinda starch tim keays. Blessings for you're Support. Here's to you Brother... apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/392622.pdf
@@Cainer444 Tickled to recall that out of all the Rock character names thrown @ me that one fit me to a tee. Cause every jump, that was how I'd land. Now @ 68, the one I'd like best is the following one... To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. Now that's the kinda White Star for me; specially if it has planets similar to our's. To His kingdom... there'll be no end.
The opening battle scene on this one is cut from parts of a prior episode. Don't remember the other episode name but think it had Saunders & his squad rescuing a downed pilot & his recon camera and then having to fight their way against a Kraut platoon who was also dispatched to get the recon camera. This battle scene was originally a Kraut ambush where they set up between Saunders and a river they had to cross to get back to their lines. You'll see recycled scenes in other episodes on occasion.
SCR 300 weighed either 32 lbs or 38 lbs with batteries. Most of those early portable radios had two batteries , one for vibrator that supplied grid voltage the other battery supplied the tube plate voltage for the receiver and transmitter. It has something like 18 tubes in it which is pretty unbelievable that it worked at all on FM 40-48mhz with 1/3W output.
My generation of doggies bitched about the PRC-25 being heavy, but it was waaaaaay lighter than the older tube sets. And they bitched about the PRC-77 as well, and it was even lighter. Then they bitched about the little snail-shell receiver that clipped to the steel pot not having any range. Ya just can't please some people.
Also in S1 Hans Gudegast (Now Eric Braeden of "Young and Restless") appears in 4 episodes. My wife is a big Y&R fan and it really irks her when I call it the Hans Gudegast Show!
Perhaps I missed some lines, but why the title "A Silent Cry", I wonder. The lines Jacques and Perkins recite in the cellar are from A Midsummer Night's Dream, when Bottom awakes from his dream of being an ass (which does fit in a way) and claims no one could understand his crazy dream (but in the next lines after these says he'll ask Peter Quince to write a ballad about it anyway): "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was."
Yea..I had read everything was on a backlot...on at least a couple episodes, but not on this one, u can actually see 50-60s cars zipping by on expressway, thru the shrubs and trees.. I loved this show as a kid...still watch the reruns. Nice to Robert Crawford jr......Johnnys older bro in this edisode.
Mr Data, is there anyway you can boost the signal Transmission? Yes Captain Picard, if I can use a tachyon converter to induce a trans-phase pulse through the low band subwaves, I believe we can send out a signal to starfleet.
No Star Trek extras in this one, but the incidental music from 21:23 to 21:35 is similar to that of Star Trek. Richard Lapham was the music editor for this episode and 148 others plus 24 episodes of TOS from 1968-69.
I was curious about something. Would the use of an ambulance as a military RDF communications van have been considered as a violation of Geneva agreements against the misuse of noncombatant facilities to shield military operations?
This TV series was the main motivation for me taking three years of German language in High school [1967-1970]
it was a Skill set that served me well during my cold war tour of duty in Nuremberg Germany [1976-1979]
My father served with the OSS training french resistance on radios behind enemy lines prior to D-day
He survived the war and Korea I am the direct result of his (wounded) return from Korea
Then you might like to watch again the Episode A CHILD´S GAME - it was done as a reaction to the German War movie from the Fifites DIE BRÜCKE ( movie, 1959 ) direccted by Bernhard Wicki who also had coworked on THE LONGEST DAY. Both that episode and the German movie are on UA-cam right now
The BRIDGE ( Die Brücke ) was based on a German Past War novel by GREGOR DORFMEISTER, under the pen-name Manfred Gregor . Dorfmeister sait to have based it on his personal War year experiences.
Ja, ich auch Major. Danke.
A btry 1st BN 1 ADA Hawk Missile 75 -79 ....6 clicks from Czechoslovakian border.(.for ever)....RE3 code Alpha..... Sgt E-5
Served as a medic with an artillery battalion not too far from you (Herzogenurach), but ETSed in '76. Took two years of German in high school (70-72). Used it a bit in Germany, but not much since.
My Dad was a Tech Sgt. in the Signal Corp in Europe in WW2. Four different areas of operations. In both CP's and field ops. He never talked about the war except a couple of funny stories. It wasn't til I watched Band of Brothers a few years back what he must have seen and been through. He never mentioned the smell that must have been everywhere. Dead, burnt, blasted and ruined everywhere. Growing up he took us camping out in forests, no people around. He love being away from civilization, except for brief stops in tiny towns in the mountains.
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When these episodes originally aired, I was between 10 and 14 - too young to appreciate the quality of the storylines and the acting. I am so glad that I can watch them now.
Mark, I was same age as you....I never missed an Episode. I would later "saddle up" with my GI Surplus store WW2 surplus gear and go on a make believe patrol!!!! All the episodes are on a high quality DVD set at a reasonable price that you make be interested in purchasing!!!
Same w/ me. I was in 1st yr hi school, living in the dorm & we watched w/o fail this Combat series every Friday evening!! 58 yrs hence, Combat is ever exciting to watch!! We'll Keep on... Thanks...
What I love about all this is that when I was a kid in combat would come on you got to watch the show there was no watching it again it was live on TV right then. I always remember at the end listening to the last musical notes as the credits went by and realizing I had not done my homework. It's so much fun to be able to watch these wonderful episodes over and over again. Thank you
Correction : none of those episodes was “ live tv “. They were filmed and then shown once a season and then later on reruns. Just sayin …
Yep! Watched this w/Dad when WWII stuff was big in the early 60's. My Dad was a USMC aviator(Enterprise) along w/Grandad in WWII. What memories!
82 Germans voted thumbs down! My mother, who was German and came to the US after the war, hated this show. My dad, a GI who fought in France and Germany during the war, loved it. As did I. We watched it together every week when I was a kid. Combat and Sea Hunt were our favorite shows. Thanks for posting.
My Dad was in WWII and Korea and we used to watch this together and both loved it. He thought ole Sarge portrayed the role like a 'real' one. But a lot of the scenes where Germans get mowed down so easily wasn t realistic. We know it was the show's way of dealing with combat and the individual stories. But Dad remarked many times just how good the German soldier was, a deadlly force to be reckoned with. He never told me much about any real action he was in, just stuff like this or funny occurances. Miss ya Dad!
@@mach1gtx150 I miss my Dad too.....I wish we could spend even a little more time together. Oh well...
Real Germans didn't like Combat any more than real Native Americans liked watching John Wayne shoot Indians, or Japanese liked watching Hiroshima get vaporized. You should see how Americans are portrayed in foreign movies.
@@mach1gtx150 After you watch a few episodes you come to believe that German soldiers were incompetent idiots who thought bullets would be stopped by bushes and it was OK to run in front of Saunders and his Tommy Gun. Germans were actually pretty good soldiers. They didn't do so well fighting Russians in the Winter at Stalingrad, but no Army would. The Germans simply did not know how bad Russian Winters could be. As far as Combat goes, every once in a while they would show an American getting killed. Generally it was always a new guy.
@@christopherfranklin1881 Yeah, my brother and I would identify who was cannon fodder in the beginning of each episode....usually the new guy in the squad as you related. My Dad had a Thompson in Korea and a .45. He said that he liked to carry as many grenades as he could handle too. That was always my contention when watching war movies, an extra grenade could get you out of a lot of scrapes! When my Dad was assigned to Ft McClelllan Alabama in '63, the local kids and I would play soldiers in all of the wood around there. My Dad was a Major then. Our last name is Sanders. Guess who go to play Sgt Saunders all the time??
I was around 10 back then and I still enjoy watching. Every show was a lesson in life. War is hell, but the show was great.
When I was a boy, where ever i was, I would RUN home to watch Combat!
I was in primary school when these episodes were first screened. It opened my eyes to war. There are a few episodes that are a bit silly and unbelievable, but the majority are realistic and sensitively done. I love that there is little blood and no gore. I love that they devote a few episodes to showing that not all Germans were inhumane.
Courage is not the absence of fear, it's the capacity to manage it. The young Frenchman seems to have mastered this as depicted in this scene: 31:04. I taught this to my skydiving students. I don't care who you are, if you are going to exit an aircraft at any altitude AGL, fear will be a component of your operation. This we must accept and manage. We cannot deny that we are experiencing fear and cope appropriately with it. And yes, sometimes that involves hiding the fact that we are experiencing it.
True heroism is coping and acting despite fear. The French boy in this episode is a perfect example. "The thing to do is to hide the fear".
In skydiving part of overcoming fear is trust and knowledge of your equipment....
Oh so true about courage and managing it. I'm a 74 ye old Vietnam Era Navy WAVE. I was an ETN2. I sometimes has to climb a weather RADAR tower. Later I 1981-- 1991 I worked at the Kennedy Space Center as a technician which required climbing various structures, working from a cherry picker, working atop the VAB and climbing on overhead grates to install cables and equipment. I am desperately afraid of heights. One thing the Navy taught me was if there's a job do suck it up, do the job and panic later. LOL
@@donnajarrell8103 LOL 😆 Don't panic until you've had at least two beers.
I really like this episode. I memorized the line from Shakespeare just after I saw this. Bobby Crawford is the best! Thanks a whole lot for uploading!
Much ado about nothing!
I'm not well versed in Shakespeare but I thank you for sharing that I wouldn't never known so much you hear and don't pay attention to and you miss the world of things
I always liked Bobby and Johnny Crawford..Word on Westerns has interviews with Bobby and Johnny. It's a UA-cam channel.
I was a freshman in high school I would watch combat we would build snow forts in the winter in Wisconsin I always wanted to be Vic Morrow
Holy shit..i Love it!as i was a kid i used to watch 'Nam,tour of duty' drama.but this combat are much better!very simple and straight forward story line!! So much fun watching this for 6 days now,episode after episode!
Since I've watched every episode from S1-E1, I notice a lot of the same scenes during battles & firefights. It doesn't bother me at all, this is the greatest show ever!
Not just same scenes..but same background sets.and same actors playing other parts/roles too..maybe they had small budgets and sets..but still funs to watch if we dnt think about it too mch..lol
@@zadzad879 AND THEN there are people nowdays complaining why the scenarios in Tactical Shooters - Computer Games are so repetitive. So some things really not change ::)
I read recently that the budget was in the neighborhood of $160,000 per episode, which is minimal for a one-hour episode.
filmed at mgm studios
What a great episode. Best ww2 t.v. ever
Thank you for posting Combat, the best show ever, power packed with life lessons to inspire us onward, and to not give in or give up, during this snake venom Nazi take over, and to know what we ought to do, even when all we have left is a silent cry.
Your Right Karen . We are fighting for our countries Life
GR YOU ROCK,and to my way of thinking,after watching combat for years, A GRENADE FIXINGS EVERYTHING
"When in doubt, FRAG OUT!"
@@edbecka233 yeah man,frag out,got it
Always liked how Kirby handled that BAR. ;-)
And the funniest part was..when shit starts to hit the fan,i seldomly see kirby reloading his mag!!only saw him pull his BAR trigger and sprayed the krauts with his BAR like it has infinite rounds in his mag!!but, it still fun movie to watch if we put all the logics to the side.
@@zadzad879 You can say the same thing about Saunders' Thompson. It never runs out of ammo. BTW, a BAR mag holds 20 rounds. That is around two bursts before empty.
@@zadzad879
Yes, bullets endlessly come out from BAR and Thompson.
@@christopherfranklin1881 Doctrine was four to six-round bursts. The two in the TX military museum at Cp Mabry (and their Thompsons, Garands & Carbines) get warmed up quite regularly by the SARTS, and I can tell you it's a hoot to do "walking fire" with them or just work out with short bursts on plastic 55 gal drums from 50 t0 200 yds. The museum has literally footlockers full of obscure magazines so we sit and load them up the night prior to a range day and cache them all over the firing line and load up the load bearing belts & vests before going hot.
I was born in1990 and I found this show about a year ago and I watched all of it season 5 in colour was good any other shows like this one from back in the day I should look for
Glad a younger person like yourself likes it. In the mid-1960's, when i was a 10 year old kid, most boys loved this show and talked about it and played it all week.
Man sargeant Saunders has a cool walk and ahead of his time. He's a no-nonsense battle hardened guy!
In an episode a British Officer said to him...you don't give much after he asked a few questions. Best character acting in all shows ever made.
Vic Morrow was 37 during these filmings and his character Sgt. Saunders was around 25. He was very athletic and flexible and youthful.
@@JamesJohnson-qm6gh And gorgeous!!! And manly!!!
Morrow was perfectly cast in this role
@@JamesJohnson-qm6gh ty..I know he was born in 1929..so he was 35yrs old in 1964
After the firefight Saunders picks up a pistol souvenier from dead Krauts, that's an authentic touch.
I noticed him pocketing that Luger too. GI ' s brought home alot of them.
Got a 9mm Luger, nice.
Who doesn't want a German Luger?..Robert at 66.
My 2 buddies and I got an ice cream off the truck and watched Combat! Didn't realize they alternate and were bummed when it was Hanley not Saunders. That's Victor Morrowzoff from da Bronx. Jason was from 'the lower East side "
Great episode. I love Richard Anderson.
I was 9 year old watching this with My DAD and my Brother love it’s miss myDAD 😢😢😍😍😍😍
Richard Anderson as sergeant Perkins is a long ways from being one of the boss's of the six million dollar man. And Robert Crawford Jr. as Jaques. Pretty good players.
Yes, good ole Oscar Goldman
In Tora Tora Tora ! as a Navy Officer "I want confirmation !"
Liked Robert Crawford in Laramie also. You can watch his interview along with Johnny's at Word on Westerns UA-cam channel.
The german tossing the grenade from behind the birch tree at 30 seconds was James Caan.
He appeared in other episodes as well. I think one was called "Anatomy of a Patrol" where he played a German squad commander.
Yeah they recycled a lot of clips. That's from the show where Caan guest-starred.
6:07 That scene had even better fit into the episode FLY AWAY HOME when Saunders had to babysit an almost fanatc homing prgeon specialist, played by the great Neveille Brand,, who had loved his animals more as people
31:33 Hospital folks, just strange they just offer the Radio Expert Sgt Perkins ( Anderson ) something to eat. :)
Robert Crawford jr. had played in two episodes but different roles Here he had done the grandson of the old couple keeping up tha station. He himself had played a kid genius being the local radio man.
Because of him I had been a fan of the Western series LARAMIE in my youth.
@@rogerlynch5279 thanks
I love this movies coz my to brother are in the army old bro looks like ric and my secon bro look like vic and ive been watching this movie when i was a kid 1960s
For me I'm 70 years old and this I've never seen this episode before or maybe I was ten when I saw it a fire fight inside a house beautiful
Richard Anderson was on quite a few Perry mason episodes also during this time. In about 10 years he would star or co-star in the Six Million Dollar Man series with Lee Majors. As his boss, then Martin Balsam will be his boss. But this is the first time I have seen Richard Anderson in a role where he is not the director giving orders.
Yes he had played Lee Majors body and boss in the Six Million Dollar Man. Not a bad series even though I liked others more
he also played on a few rifleman episodes...w/bobby crawford
Serving in the Army from 63 to 68, including duty stations in S. Korea and Vietnam, gave me a different perspective on fiction war movies.
Richard Anderson was a full Colonel in 12 oclock high...army air corp...here he is a sgt in the infantry...Paul Burke was in the infantry too in combat....a Colonel in 12 high...lol
In this role he is even better as in 12 O´CLOCK HIGH AND IN THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN together.
Kirby (Jack Hogan) carries around a REAL B.A.R. on the set, at 20 odd lbs. for realism, of course with the trigger group disasembled for live rounds, rest of cast lugs around wood/plastic knock off weapons (In real life Vic Morrow hated guns, AND Rick Jason/Liutenant Hanley was an avid hunter and a crack shot)..so hats off to Kirby! (Jack Hogan)..Robert at 67.
How can you tell is a real BAR?
@@SDsailor7 Because at least the write ups/news feeds says on the Combat set series reports Jack Hogan (Kirby) demanded realism for his own Combat character TV role in equipment presentation, at least what I researched, you look it up and draw your own conclusion...
@@bobmalack481 Ah ok. Thank you did not know that.
@@SDsailor7 I think he did it partly to represent men and women in uniform accurately. Lugging around a 20 odd pound weapon is not light for sure, hence carrying around his neck/shoulder in the rifle sling often.
@@bobmalack481 Yes I agree. Since he was a staff Sargeant in the Air Force. I read the Wikipedia article and it has a lot of info on how the show was created.
Love vic morrow lack of energy and fear as he kicks ass
I like how enemy patrols are dropped by trucks right infront of our heroes and while our heroes can see them the enemy never does
Hollywood
Loved this series. i was 11 when this was on. We used to call it "German's in Ford's".I used to think it was unlucky to be with that platoon. A bunch of guys always get it but somehow the sarge never does.Next week another minor tv star gets whacked. Still one of my favorites.
The co pilots to Savage in 12 o'clock high had a high rate of death too...hollywood star system!
the truck was a Dodge
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This guy's made it feel so real..many actor's from that time,had served in ww2.Some like lee marvin
had the the medal of honor n Audie Murphy.You
had the guy's that stayed out,like clint eastwood.
He stayed in the states,cuz he was in a car
accident.Ronaldo Reagan,only made military
reel's about serving.They the movie star's were d one's that fixed their uniforms to look sharp.All active military men,their uniforms didn't fit right.Arnold Schwarzenegger,was in the country working,but was not drafted.A friend of mine in nam,with a work permit,was given the choice to join or loose his permit.Many of the hollywood crowd did serve, including Elvis Presley.
Richard Anderson. He played Major Coltrane in Gunsmokes " The Guns of Cibola Blanca ", which had some killer pyrotechnics at the end. That was in Season 20. LHS
hey gr buy watching all your great uploads i might not have to open my complete dvd set of COMBAT lol thanks again for doing this my friend cant tell you how much i loved (love) this show
Jacques, (Robert Crawford Jr.) was the brother of Mark (Johnny Crawford) from "The Rifleman."
+Mishawaka Post You're right now I do see the resemblence between Johnny Crawford and him.
Wow *that's the second new thing I've learned watching this. Thanks Mishawaka. Love your Clark Kent look!!*
I could see the resemblance but could not figure it whom it was.
He also played the first couple or three seasons on the western series Laramie !
Liked both Crawfords. RIP Johnny. Word on Westerns on UA-cam has interviews with Bobby and Johnny Crawford.
"So you are expert in field radios?" " I read the manual." "Well, I wrote most of it" "Did you do a good job on it?" "Yes" "Then I must be expert. You wouldn't have written an inadequate manual."
That scene reminds a bit at A BRIDGE TO FAR when the two Radio Operators discuss the models used in the Africa Campain.
"COMBAT" series was banned in Germany when I was there as in the 70's. I wonder if it still is?
Yes, it still is
It wasn't on when I was there in '74-75. Komrade sho do love him some Lone Ranger, though - "Mach schnell, Silber, FARHT!"
As great now as it was the first time in 63
I love these watched when a kid, very well done.
We actually see for the first time, I believe, or rather hear Sgt. Saunders (Vic Morrow) complaining about a dirty deal he is receiving by having this detail with Sgt. Perkins (Richard Anderson) as he feels that this man is a risk to his squad. This demonstrates how Sgt. Saunders deals with a bad hand that is dealt to him: he goes about doing his best in a bad situation. This speaks of the professionalism and resiliency of the character as portrayed by Vic Morrow. Sgt. Perkins (equal rank) although a brilliant earlier day IT guy lacks human interaction even though he speaks 4 languages. Notice how Sgt; Saunders chastizes him for showing a huge lack of respect for the résistant fighters when Perkins calls them "fools" - espèce d'idiot. Still, the character played by Richard Anderson does indeed develop as he meets a younger more human version of himself (Jacques)and finally redeems himself. Perkins wants to give up the mission when the going gets tough. Sgt.Saunders does not.He hangs on, the tenacity, the true fighting spirit of an individual who will not foolishly risk the lives of his men (going back to his quevetching with Lieutenant Hanley) until he is either beaten or achieves his mission. This épisode is an interesting lesson in life: don't give up and respect your fellow men (men in the archaic sense of the word: man=person)As to the technical détails mentioned elsewhere by others, it does really not bear repeating but here goes: the anomalies in this series are légion. The script writing is spot on and the acting here make modern TV series look often pale in comparison. In my opinion, these two éléments are what make this séries work.
Richard Anderson is known in many films and séries: the 6 Million Dollar Man, the Forbidden Planet, Gettysburg, Dynasty and so on. Born in 1926, Richard Anderson was still active a couple of years ago. A long and fine career. Merci pour le téléchargement.
+Iain Scholfield;
Well covered aspects... The very same Characteristics The Creator was pleased of, within His own Son. Mat. 3:17&17:5,Mk. 1:11, Lk. 3:22
"For there are none in the flesh who reflect the actions of the Author of Sacrifice Himself... Than those Sacrificial Actions of The American Soldier."
-Former Recondo Sgt. "Rock" 82nd Abn. 1/504 Inf. Div. 71-74
First movie I saw him in was Forbidden Planet. He was also on the Tora Tora Tora movie. As well as a great Wild Wild West episode. You could hardly tell it was him when he played General Meade on the Gettysburg movie.
Nice Analysis!
Richard Anderson should have been billed as "Guest Star"!
Ich habe vergessen wie mann diese Deutschen Worden sagt!
The gauntlet was kind of funny when Saunders was tripping on morphine while riding that German bike through a barrage...LOL...
Star Trek learned by Combat: always have a new soldier in the group, the designated one who gets killed
Gotta have a steady flow of red shirts.
When Sgt. Saunders says, "...and don't you forget it," you'd best not forget it.
Con Richard Anderson!! Un gran capítulo.!!
Richard Anderson is a long way from his character Oscar Goldman in The six million dollar man
Couldn't remember his name, but recognized the face right off.
I guess both roles worked for the government.
Rick Jason (Liutenant Hanley) a very underated role in Combat..I'd serve under him in a heart beat. Robert at 68.
me too hes a very good strategist
Sgt Perkins was on several episodes of The Rifleman.
Yeah, he not a good guy one.
Richard Anderson, he was on Rifleman about 13 times and later was Oscar Goldman on the six million dollar man with Lee Majors and a hundred other guest spots.Good actor!
He was in the epic Gunsmoke episode The Guns of Cibola Blanca in the 20th season.
That German hiding behind the curtain, that was hilarious... What was he thinking? Iron curtain??!! 🤣😂
Most of the guest star here become big star in hollywood. I was only 10 years old when it was air here in the Philippines.
The Greatest Enemy Defeated within the each of these series... Is Fear.
-Former Recondo Sgt. "Rock" 82nd Abn. 1/504 Inf. Div. 71-74
"We have nothing to fear but fear itself.": Winston Churchill
“Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself”: FDR’s First Inaugural Address.
Company A 82nd Support Bn RVN 68-69..BTW Its 1st Bn 504 Inf Regiment 82nd Abn Div "Strike Hold"
Sgt. Rock was the name of a Comic Book series during my childhood in the late 60's. Would it be one-in-the-same by chance?
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How I miss the clarity of that kinda starch tim keays. Blessings for you're Support. Here's to you Brother...
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Tickled to recall that out of all the Rock character names thrown @ me that one fit me to a tee. Cause every jump, that was how I'd land. Now @ 68, the one I'd like best is the following one...
To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Now that's the kinda White Star for me; specially if it has planets similar to our's. To His kingdom... there'll be no end.
The opening battle scene on this one is cut from parts of a prior episode. Don't remember the other episode name but think it had Saunders & his squad rescuing a downed pilot & his recon camera and then having to fight their way against a Kraut platoon who was also dispatched to get the recon camera. This battle scene was originally a Kraut ambush where they set up between Saunders and a river they had to cross to get back to their lines. You'll see recycled scenes in other episodes on occasion.
Anatomy Of A Patrol.
So what. LHS
The German truckload of soldiers they dodge is the woodcutting party from "Hill 256" in S1.
Yeah Axes and all!
Warched combat every saturda morning when i was a kid loved it
A touching episode. Brilliant show.
The boy was played by Robert Crawford, Johnny Crawford's (The Rifleman) older brother.
Word on Westerns UA-cam channel has interviews with Bobby and Johnny Crawford.
43:30 Saunders gets the Luger! Nice!
Nice Episode thks!
Perkins was a character actor in the 60's. He was on the Rifleman a lot.
Guys like Perkins (who usually spend all their time BEHIND the front lines), become a real LIABILITY on the front lines.
I always wondered why Sergeant Saunders never carried extra ammunition pouches for that Tommy gun, even as a kid I wondered.
He never carried extra magazines because his Thompson never ran out of ammo no matter how often he fired it. LOL.
He did, they just dont always show it in every episode and also reloading..a very minor T.V. optics pick..Robert at 66.
There are several episodes where you can see the three-mag pouch on his belt. He wore it behind the right hip.
A major part in my recruitment process.
I watched it with my pop.
Another G.I.
Oscar Goldman was about one syllable away from getting slapped around by the legend Sergeant saunders
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
gr,thanks again for your wonderful uploading.do you have the _"THE MEDAL"??
I lost it ,and i cant re-upload it,can you help me?
thanks
It's on the playlist from this provider and others. Season one, episode 14.
Teringat masa lalu nonton combat di tv,bareng sama orang tua.
Good thing stock footage is cheap; makes for a much more interesting show
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Saunders took a Luger as a souvenir... :-)
i saw that too,lol
@@gregspain6855 43:36 it's touches like this that makes Combat great 👍
"well I helped write it" big f'ing deal
If he was so brilliant, why wasn't he at MIT developing new equipment in their secret war time labs?
That furniture must have been heavy duty to protect you
"I can't go. I'm in the rear with the gear". Shirley, you...
Thanks! Very grateful for the recommendation!
I wish I had a luger, stay together.
COMBAT, what more can you say!
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holy moldy, I really understand what he is talking about on fixing the Radio. of course I built a few simple radios as a teenager
speaks for the quality of this dialog. Often those lines are usually make believes. Here also it is genuine good to know,, thanks.
Super merci beaucoup
Never realized living room furniture was bullet proof
I thought that too,
I can't stand egocentric people. They are in every profession.
YEP
Interesting that the “staring” positions changed between Saunders and Jason in the credits.
I imagine the weight of those radios was pretty heavy, like 2 car batteries and tube radio circuit.
SCR 300 weighed either 32 lbs or 38 lbs with batteries. Most of those early portable radios had two batteries , one for vibrator that supplied grid voltage the other battery supplied the tube plate voltage for the receiver and transmitter. It has something like 18 tubes in it which is pretty unbelievable that it worked at all on FM 40-48mhz with 1/3W output.
My generation of doggies bitched about the PRC-25 being heavy, but it was waaaaaay lighter than the older tube sets. And they bitched about the PRC-77 as well, and it was even lighter. Then they bitched about the little snail-shell receiver that clipped to the steel pot not having any range. Ya just can't please some people.
Also in S1 Hans Gudegast (Now Eric Braeden of "Young and Restless") appears in 4 episodes. My wife is a big Y&R fan and it really irks her when I call it the Hans Gudegast Show!
Hans Gudegast was also the baddie in The Rat Patrol.
@@jeffkrane88 Well...the good baddie anyway LOL
Doesn't Saunders ever get another stripe?
after the war he gets promoted to Colonel and starts selling fried chicken
If he earned too much rank, he wouldn't be going out on patrols.
Those damn German MG 34's can really tear up a sqaud in no time if you don't keep your head down.
boy Kirby never shuts up does he? lol.....didnt notice that 50 YEARS AGO
The opening fight is taken from "Anatomy of a Patrol". They just re-used the same scene.
Perhaps I missed some lines, but why the title "A Silent Cry", I wonder.
The lines Jacques and Perkins recite in the cellar are from A Midsummer Night's Dream, when Bottom awakes from his dream of being an ass (which does fit in a way) and claims no one could understand his crazy dream (but in the next lines after these says he'll ask Peter Quince to write a ballad about it anyway): "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was."
You certainly know your Shakespeare.
maybe that was the title of the verse the boy & sgt. was saying
Ol' Billy must've been munching 'shrooms. Sounds like synesthesia.
Classic episode
Love these do
never knew tables and chairs are effective against rifles, nice
Yea..I had read everything was on a backlot...on at least a couple episodes, but not on this one, u can actually see 50-60s cars zipping by on expressway, thru the shrubs and trees..
I loved this show as a kid...still watch the reruns.
Nice to Robert Crawford jr......Johnnys older bro in this edisode.
And at 43:47 you can see someone walking along in the bushes behind the actors.
Word on Westerns on UA-cam has interviews with both Crawfords.
Only 2 sector guards? & why didn't other German troops come running when heard shooting? Were they on bier break?
How embarrassing, that kid was more combat savvy than the tech sergeant(Richard Anderson).
Jim Nesta he's been at it for at least 3 years longer than Perkins
Mr Data, is there anyway you can boost the signal Transmission? Yes Captain Picard, if I can use a tachyon converter to induce a trans-phase pulse through the low band subwaves, I believe we can send out a signal to starfleet.
No Star Trek extras in this one, but the incidental music from 21:23 to 21:35 is similar to that of Star Trek. Richard Lapham was the music editor for this episode and 148 others plus 24 episodes of TOS from 1968-69.
Fire mission: "Wooded area".
Red Legs: expend million-dollar minute on treeless pasture...
Department of home land security inspector general should always have radio directional finder on hand
I was curious about something. Would the use of an ambulance as a military RDF communications van have been considered as a violation of Geneva agreements against the misuse of noncombatant facilities to shield military operations?
Absolutely!
Yep!