Originally Posted By JABBER-JAW:
I loved watching this series as a kid


Combat!

Vic Morrow and Rick Jason in Combat!
FormatWar Drama
StarringRick Jason
Vic Morrow
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons5
No. of episodes152 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time46 to 52 minutes per episode
Production company(s)Selmur Productions
Broadcast
Original channelABC
Original runOctober 2, 1962 – August 29, 1967
Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. (The exclamation point in "Combat!" was a stylized bayonet.) The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II and stars Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders.

Created by Robert Pirosh, Combat! ran for five seasons. The first four were filmed in black and white, with a move to color for the final season. Although the series ran for five seasons, King Company never fought its way out of France, despite the fact that the real U.S. Army fought there for less than a year.

CBS Television Distribution (inherited from ABC Films, Worldvision Enterprises and Paramount Television) owns American television distribution rights to the series, while Disney-ABC International Television has international rights—original producer and copyright holder Selmur Productions was a division of ABC. The domestic rights for DVD are held by Image Entertainment, under license from co-copyright holder Buena Vista Television (now ABC Studios).

Combat! is currently (October 2011) aired on Me-TV at 3 AM Eastern/Pacific Time, Tuesday thru Saturday.

Originally Posted By DaddyPig:
Never heard of it..... Was it in black & white..

Victor "Vic" Morrow (February 14, 1929 – July 23, 1982) was an American actor whose credits include a starring role in the 1960s TV series Combat!, prominent roles in a handful of other television and cinema dramas, and numerous guest roles on television. He and two children died when a stunt helicopter crashed on them during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie.

Death

In the early morning hours of July 23, 1982, Morrow and two children, My-Ca Dinh Le (age 7), and Renee Shin-Yi Chen (age 6), died in an accident while filming on location for the Twilight Zone: The Movie in Ventura County, California, between Santa Clarita and Piru. Morrow was playing the role of Bill Connor, a racist who is taken back in time and placed in various situations where he would be a persecuted victim: as a Jewish Holocaust victim, a black man about to be lynched by the Ku Klux Klan, and a Vietnamese man about to be killed by U.S. soldiers. Morrow, Le, and Chen were filming a scene for the Vietnam sequence in which their characters attempt to escape from a pursuing U.S. Army helicopter out of a deserted Vietnamese village. The helicopter was hovering at about 25 feet above them when pyrotechnic explosions damaged it and caused it to crash on top of them, killing all three instantly.[4] He was decapitated along with one of the child actors.
Morrow is interred in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.[5]
Director John Landis and other defendants, including producer Steven Spielberg and pilot Dorsey Wingo, were ultimately acquitted of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment. The parents of Le and Chen sued and settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. Morrow's children also sued and settled for an undisclosed amount.[6

Originally Posted By SOTA:
When I was a kid I would have loved that.

Now I'm just thinking, shut up, spread out and stop being an undisciplined rabble.

Originally Posted By JABBER-JAW:
Found another one there's lots on you tube.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eZpF6v6wjY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Originally Posted By surplus-gunnut:
Never have the hills above Hollywood looked more like France 1944...
Iverson and Spahn movie ranches were popular even with the nekkid ladies crowd. (Mondo Topless etc)
Soren (weird hobbies, I know...)