COMBAT! s.2 ep.14: "Thunder from the Hill" (1963)
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Episode written by Edward J. Lakso and directed by John Peyser, with Rick Jason, Peter Whitney, Jack Hogan, Pierre Jalbert, Dick Peabody, Robert Carricart, John A. Neris, Ben Wright, George Sawaya, Jacques Sorel. Original air date: 17 December 1963.
I love it when the Lt. Leads a patrol. We need more of that.
I was 13 years old when I watched Combat. I loved the show. I tried to watch all the series. I missed some of them. It is a damn good show to watch. Thank you for bringing it Bach.
I love every single show of combat. ♥️🇱🇷👍
I was 5 years old in 1963 and watched this show all the time
I was also born in 55, most of my HS teachers fought in WW2, some talked about it, some did’t. Later those that didn’t fight in WW2 went to Vietnam. I grew up & joined the AF, for 20. I served in some campaigns & Desert Shield/Storm.
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I was born a yr earlier, my compatriot. Was an MP. Blessings..... These Combat shows actually do things correctly for the most part. Miss good ole' shows like these. Be well.
I had a 5th grade sub. Who was in Vietnam he scared us taught us but damn
I can emphatise with the comments. I was 9 years old in 1963 and simply adored the series. Now as a 66 I see why I was so taken with it. Combat is simply the best war series ever made. It is also a very insightful study of men at war and civilians caught in between. The character studies are brilliant. Great acting, and profound screenplay writing define this in-depth depiction of a sadly lost narrative in which America showed its greatness. I am Irish living in the Republic of Ireland. And yes we had this outstanding series on our TV screens in the 1960's here Very sad to reflect on the tragic fate of Vic Morrow. And the fact that most of these unforgettable actors are now no longer with us. But they live on in our minds and hearts.
I wish they were ALL still here. No tv series has come close!!! God bless you all!!!!
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Our lives are short, we're not here long. I am also part Irish, born in the states. I think out of the squad only Kirby and Doc is still alive. Happy soon March 17th Paddy's Day mate!
@@m42037 Billy who was the youngest and left after 4th year is also alive. Happy St. Paddy's day to you as well!!!
I was 7 when it started, and couldn't wait for it to come on TV every Tuesday night at 8pm I believe! Next day we would play army outside with neighborhood kids! Best times of my life!
Thank you for these wonderful shows
Thanks for sharing. Watching from European Union, Lithuania.
Ich schaue aus die Europäische Union, Litauen.
Excellent episode.
This was one of my favorite shows reruns should play.
If your TV system gets the Heroes & Icons channel, they rerun Combat! Black Sheep Twelve O'Clock High Rat Patrol Tour of Duty etc on Saturdays and The Unit on Tuesdays.
loved the show and got a few pointers I could use on my way to Nam
Thank you for these wonderful Combat series uploaded! God bless
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I love combat I'm glad that I can still watch these shows thank you
There are repeated scenes with German tanks and armor in a giant traffic jam that are actual photos of German troops invading France but stalled in a traffic jam for days. The French general refused to believe reports and figured Germany would not attack so far North but would attack the main French defense line. Despite France having the largest modern air force, 70% of planes were not immediately ready to attack. Other scenes showing German motor units driving up hills are repeated. The mix of war film and Hollywood film is interesting.
This was an epic episode . Very intense!
I grew up on this show. Thanks so much for the upload!
Esta muy buena toda la serie de combate pero si la pasaran doblada en español seria mejor es una sugerencia
When growing up, we would always watch Combat, then play Army the next several days!
I grew up on this show. Thanks so much for the upload!
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I was born in 1956 I watched this program every time it came on. It was among my favorite
Peter Whitney played heavies in a hundred TV Western episodes, including 9 episodes of The Rifleman
I really love these shows along with " Have Gun Will Travel " , " The Untouchables " with Robert Stack . They remind me of better times maybe not for the country but for myself . watching these that were brand new , at that time , having a friend or two playing with a box of soldiers and sometimes with my Lionel train , capturing the station , pretending to blow the bridge or tunnel .
I'm thankful to whom ever found and posted these .
But for the person ( S ) who just can't leave a good thing alone and has to tell everybody the entire show bolw by blow and tries to ruin a good time , I say this to you ,
" KISS MY SHINY HIP REPLASEMENT !!!!! " JERK
Shut up and just sit back abd watch the show already. God how I miss these guys!!!!
some times it takes a madman to solve a problem,some times it just takes man that's mad,this was pretty good show,notice how CAJE jumps around on those rocks like he is at home,excellent cast selection,thx for the upload COMBAT ROCKS
That means you only think mad if think mad is the answer👎
Esta serie es muy buena. Les recomiendo porque enseña valores importantes que se pueden aplicar en la vida diaria. Muchas gracias por subir esta serie.
thanx for uploading i love this series
We lived too far out for TV. For years we had a radio that could "patch" into the telephone system because there were no telephone lines out were we lived. We did have electricity. So, I never saw these shows until many years after they were made. I like them, some of them at least. They're entertaining.
Among the best show ever
I love the strategic aspect of Combat.
I used to watch combat when I was a child. But my dad wouldn’t he‘d say been there done that. He was in the second wave at Omaha. Pop spoke French and German his parents immigrated from Germany long before WWI.
I like the Rick Jason episodes. (In particular.)
Vic Morrow is awesome, of course, but it's nice to spend more time with Jason sometimes, as well. (I mean, he IS credited at the opening of the show right along with Morrow as well anyway lol so, it's only appropriate to expect an episode every so often centered around Rick Jason, more primarily.)
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I feel like I should be laying on the floor watching this, like I did when I was 7 in '63. lol
I was 6 in 63,,I did the same thing,, Lol!!
Red Bar Rebel Yes, but would you be able to get up after the show was over,Lol.
Yes Sir! Class of 1956. 😎
Peter Whitney, not yet big enough for "guest star" billing as of this 1963 air date but what a great character actor. He had been on "The Rifleman" six or so times and takes on whatever persona you ask for...hero, coward, dumber than a brick hillbilly etc. Great job.
very good information, indeed, he was very good, you can tell because even if both characters are different, also the actor gets in character so well you don't realise it is the same person actually. Greetings
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This is great movie tank you so much
What great show!
Combat,Rat Patrol,Six Million Dollar Man, we were hooked on our tv sets way back then.
Thunder from the Hill, an effective live free or die avalanche strategy against this snake venom Nazi take over today. Thank you for posting the best show ever, Combat, power packed with profound patriotic inspiration to keep us going and to not give up.
It is the Khazarian Kabal, the group the Nazis fought against to their last breath, that has taken over our society. They were doing the same social rot ops in Germany in the 1920s before the Nazi government was voted in.
GOOD SHOW
thanks uploading combat episodes!
Cage is THE MAN! You can always count on him!
I was 6years old when I first watch
Combat early 60s in Bayamon Puerto Rico.....🌴😎💯🌴🌴🌴
And still does....
It is one of the best.
UNA DE LAS MEJORES SERIE CLASICAS DE TODOS LOS TIEMPO, CUANTOS RECUERDOS BUENOS QUEDAN ATRAS, GRACIAS A LAS PERSONAS QUE SUBEN ESTOS VIDEOS
No lol mmmmm mlgra cv IAS muy bien
Muy bonito recuerdo
Life is hard, but soldiers have always made sure that it doesn't get any more so.
Bulange was played by Ben Wright. He played Herr Zeller in sound of music.
Skier Pierre Jalbert is a mountain goat and awesome radio work by Hanley in the underground fortress
I know! Even a Prick 77 would not have been effective there.
I watched this show when I was 10 years-old and loved it.. I don't have to wait until 2:00 am. now to watch it on tv. Did anyone notice the coffee cup left on the running board of the truck around 20:12...I guess it was overlooked. Anyway, I love Combat.
21:12
did you notice the disappearing spare tire on the walking wounded? It appeared and disappeared in the spare tire rack.
Combat old story battles .. like to follow the storyline since I was still in primary school again ...
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One of the best TV shows ever. They tried for authenticity with the German's speaking in German and the French speaking in French. That was the best part of it. Unfortunatley, this,and other episodes, show them fighting in mountains. There were no mountains anywhere near Normandy or the rest of the area of France they moved through. Sadly the series jumped the shark when it went color. It woke you up to the fact that it was all filmed in California and looked nothing like that area of France.
Very accurate depiction. The truck was running on wood gas due to the gasoline shortage/rationing.
Good
Gasification - neat history
See you learn something new every day.
First time I have ever seen this series. Not baf
Ok guy's , at least take the harness off that poor horse. Thank you very much for these show's.
That's exactly what I was thinking they should have freed the horse too
@@rachelward7499 I was thinking they should butcher it and cook it up. It would taste pretty good if you're a hungry soldier.
Shadow Wolf nobody in combat got time for that😂
@@rachelward7499 lol.!
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Kirby handled that 21 pound (fully loaded) BAR like it was a broom stick!
Right dakota...and he rarely runs outta ammo ~ lol!
also one of my favorite shows as a kid along with Rat Patrol and Hogan's Heroes...
I love both those too.. although I'm 37 and ovcoarse wasn't around when they were on..but tv these days is absolute crap..I really love war shows and movies
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I'm thinking about showing "Combat", "The Rat Patrol" and some other WWII tv shows to my university students next summer session here on Taiwan. I always cover the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as they happened in August. Time to write up some worksheets.
I've seen the French guide Peter Whitney act in a lot of westerns..but never a war show..Dam good actor!
yup, the rifleman and others
Why do they discontinue a great show like this ?? You need to bring all of these shows back .
Because the producers were too cheap to continue, that's why it went off the air. Shame in the suits above for doing that. Combat should have had a 6th season to close!!!!
It would probably cost to much money. Or maybe not.
5 seasons is long for a weekly show... original star trek was 3 seasons...
Popularity rises and sinks and rises again. Season 5 was aired in 1966-67, a year after the Tet offensive in Viet Nam. The country was getting sick of war. The U.S. was on the brink of the disastrous year of 1968. Everything has its time, and its end.
I heard at the time that because The Vietnam War was ramping up and the start of body bags were coming home. The timing of the discontinued series dove tails this 1966.
This so ccoolll thanks for this grt post
Ben Wright was i n EVERYTHING!!!
Pretty good reception inside a mountain.
la mejor serie
spacepatrolman - I'm very glad you can distinguish between outside and inside. I wouldn't want you to be wearing your close inside out.
You make me laugh!!! :)
What an intensive soundtrack! They just don’t spend money these days on soundtracks like that. Expensive.
Try to imagine today’s Hollywood version of Combat, boggles the mind.
Puffin Vapor yep, today's version would be full of digital explosions, shallow plots, bad acting and lack of character development. The know-nothings would love it. Off topic, I vape a Vaporesso SWAG improved model, 0.4 ohm GT2 coils and 2600 mAh 18650 batts. Wright Flyer, USAF (1968-1972).
it would be considered too 'male centric' because of all of males in positions of power. Hollywood could never have that.
Kuya Wayne's Media Company Well instead of Sergeant Saunders you could have Sergeant Sandra, Lol.
No tough men, too worried about their hair and nails!😎
43:22 *A Greater Love hath no man than this, that a man should lay down his Life for his Friends or his Enemies, as Christ did( : )*
They don't make shows like this anymore
Wow, a wood stove-powered truck.
“Wood gasification system”. Burning the wood made flammable fumes that were inhaled by the engine for compression & reburning.
@@edbecka233The engine was called a Korting Engine. It utilized burning heavy oils to create a vapor that would be compressed similar to a Diesel engine and ignited under compression and this yielding power. The German U-boots from the early days of WW I used them but not for long as they switched to Diesel engines early on to avoid the dirtyness of the Korting Engine and increase the power of the Engine. It was a good engine but the Diesel was better. I remember watching old news reels in the 1960s showing the Korting Engine in U-Boots and how dirty they were. One can easily see why the Diesels won out in the end though burning Cosomoline grease had a peculiarly pleasant smell.
He said, " The most interesting in this episode is the truck gkazozen. a popular modification of the time, the absence of liquid fuels for on-site production of fuel gas from wood, which is then fed to conventional internal combustion engines. something similar to the current autogas ..."
I thought that was what I was seeing
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Yes i have seen pictures of these wood burning vehicles from collecting war memorabila over the years.Very interesting history.
Better to die with honor than to live without.
" It blowed up good! It blowed up REEAAL GOOD!!!" - Billy Sol Hurok
I agree I liked rat patrol too wish I could see the shows again.
In Virginia on Comcast channel264 on Saturday night, you get your wish
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The truck had a wood gasification system for fuel
Robert Payne is that what I was seeing at 9:55!?
That old radio going to transmit through that rock in the cave at @ 34:00?
Dave C They were finicky at best. Obstructions and weather limited them. Three miles with the hand held and ten maybe a little more with the 35 pound backpack radio set. That is why direct line ground cable was preferred but cables could be cut.
What is the story of the fire box on the passenger side?? Never seen that before!
You can actually run a car by burning the gases that are thrown off and vented to the engine.
Hmmm.... such terrain I could see possibly in Italy or perhaps North Africa but in northern France??? Oh well, its Hollywood.... Still love Combat!
UNO DE MIS PROGRAMAS FAVORITOS CUANDO ERA UN JOVENCITO,
虽然不听不懂英语，但是且很怀念这套小时候看过的戏，蛮好看的。谢谢上传
Thunder from the Hill, Season 2, Episode 14, aired Dec 17, 1963. Rick Jason as Lt. Hanley; Vic Morrow as Sgt. Saunders (credit only); Peter Whitney as Massine; Jack Hogan as Kirby; Pierre Jalbert as Caje; Dick Peabody as Littlejohn; Robert Carricart as Diebold; John A. Neris (as John Neris) as Jean; Ben Wright as Boulange; George Sawaya as Pierre; Jacques Sorel as Andre; Paul Busch, German Patrol Leader; Charles De Vries, German Soldier; Jacques Roux, Frenchman.
9:55 Is it just me, is the truck on fire, or is there a wood-burning stove underneath the cab of the truck?
When the truck broke down in daylight you can see it is a stove. I was scratching my head on that one.
Converted to steam. Gas was in short supply. Steam conversions were common, just another note of authenticity.
@@blondbowler8776 Two other commenters above have said this was a conversion for running on wood gas. One of those commenters said engines fueled that way were "dodgy at best" (I think those were his words).
That's a gasification system to cook flammable vapor out of wood. It's not steam. The wood vapor was fed to a carburetor-like system on the engine which ran on the vapor as do natural gas/propane fed engines now.
They start off with 4 Americans and 5 French men then at 29:47 there are 6 men yet 4 of the french men are dead or ran off and then at 30:00 they are back to only 5 men. Someone forgot to keep track of the bodies.
He freed the pigeons, but what about the horse at 3:48 ?
@@bolinfan1519 horses are very smart, who knows how long it would be until the next traveler
The last one he kept was for dinner. He made the motion of wringing its neck when the picture changed.
I kept a lookout for the 'Hollywood' sign, lol!
It's been many many years since I've watched a "Combat" TV show. Had to laugh....takes the radio phone into the cave. I'm sure reception was better there.
Anyhow, can you imagine this show today! TOXIC MASCULINITY! Pttttttttttttttttttttt.
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And I’m sure the “German Lobby” would howl over the Wehrmacht being portrayed as bad guys, just as you can’t play Cowboys & Indians anymore. Life was sure easier in black & white, figuratively and literally.
folks, is anyone knows if there is a combat t-shirt/merchandise for sale? I love combat and these great actors.
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Hanley would never have thrown away that 10-cap buzz box.
You would think Little John would be the BAR man he is huge the M1 looks like a toy in his hands the BAR was a heavy weapon to lug around
no, he rarely fired his weapon. so, no. But Kirbey really liked firing that weapon as early episodes provides evidence of.
@@thomasconway7634 Kirby was an idiot. I'm surprised Hanley and the boys didn't give him up to the Krauts!!!!!!😎
that would have been a good episode
I thought the same thing. Little John is way bigger than Kirby and probably stronger since growing up on a farm.
I always thought the same way, make Caje a corporal and asst squad leader, give the BAR to Littlejohn, who would be a PFC, and make Kirby his ammo bearer (which wore a similar magazine belt to the BAR Gunner, but without the Walking Fire brace riveted to the belt). The belt had six pockets and held 12 BAR magazines, making their basic combat load a total of 500 rounds of .30-06 including the magazine in the BAR. Extra loaded mags and boxed or belted (or even bandos of clipped) .30-06 ammo would have been in both their rucks.
Then again Kirby was more of a maniac than any of the others, and he was really infatuated with the BAR, so...
Let the horse loose.
Or eat it
I agree
VERY GOD COMBAD BRAVO
I thought Peter Whitney looked familiar. He also played the banker in 'The Ballad of Cabel Hogue'
Two of the actors in this also had parts in "The Untouchables'
nice ep
I think The Gallant Men borrowed this episode from Combat.
They also had an episode about an avalanche that buried a German column.
LT: 2kia, 5 trucks Sgt: Caje:4kia Kirby: LJ: 1kia
Cool the truck runs on producer gas from wood or what ever would burn.
The producers took literary license, these wood fueled trucks were slow and dodgy as he11.
That opening scene made me think. If America was occupied by the British, and the French came to save us.. you're an American civilian leading a patrol of French soldiers to an American officer. You find a local American bringing a cart full of goods - goods bordering on luxury items given the war and the suffering - in the general direction of a British camp. You know some Americans are openly working with the British.. what do YOU do?
I say the old man made the right call, all the way down. And best yet that he nabbed the kippers. Always need portable food. If not today, then tomorrow.
Unbelievable three of them take out 2 boxes of explosives 🧨. And there’s little John the bigger one out of all of them. He carry’s just one box. Hahaha 🤣
I admired the Frenchman for his thinking that he more valued his mission than his life.
At 37.51 German shoots Frenchman with automatic weapon however sound effect is two shots of a single shot rifle.
Those hills really look like So Calif. in the summer
That's because a lot of it was filmed in SoCal.
It's a good trade. Later, they filmed spaghetti westerns in Italy, Spain, and France!😎
1 am 6 yrs old then...
Why does every rifle have a sling except BAR? It weighs 20 lb.
Mrfrenchdeux yes it has a sling, across the back, would play hell on one shoulder remember 20 pounds. Watch Kirby wipe his nose with left hand and you can see the strap. You really should have known,lol.
Steve Lopez Haha you are the first to have said so. I noticed my mistake soon after original post. Thank you for not being too snarky lol.
Don't know. I used to love the swivel handle on my M60 though. Carried it in Korea for a year or so until I got promoted. Then I got to carry an M3 grease gun. Only place I saw them and I was in the Army 23 years. The 1SG was always asking "who wants to go to the range today?". I always volunteered my section. 11 men and I'd take a few from motor maintenance so we could borrow their 50 cal. No restrictions, just me and guys cutting loose at the range. We even got to shoot our M203 grenade launchers from the M16's. My soldier's loved me. Who wouldn't want a day to screw off at the range and sling lead? Beat the monotony of alerts and other crap. I was with 2nd Infantry Division Artillery in Korea from 82 - 85 on a one year tour. Met my wife 😎
See my response to Mrfrenchdeux above. Doesn't answer his question. Just my little experience in Korea.
It's got a sling
Why was there a stove with a lit fire in it, attached to the side of the truck? 18:25 and earlier times with fire visible at night, as they entered the kraut compound.
During World War II , gasoline was rationed and in short supply. Lack of gasoline from petroleum, older people build gasifiers for both wood and coal to convert internal combustion engines to run on gaseous fuel, and wood gas generators were in active production.
I think it's funny that the producers of this show could try to have a mountain in the Mojave desert double as a mountain in France
I think most of scenes for the series was shot in northern California as it has the same landscape as France.