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Posted: 3/24/2019 9:40:06 AM EDT
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I remember that show as a child. If you watch it long enough, you'll notice the eucalyptus trees and that they use the same set over and over.
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Posted: 3/24/2019 9:40:55 AM EDT
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Nice find. I've always loved that show.
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Posted: 3/24/2019 9:41:36 AM EDT
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I grew up watching the show. A lot of those guys in front of and behind the cameras were vets.
I bought the set a bunch of years ago and when I binge watched them, I noticed they would use the same sets and just attack from different directions! 
Sgt Saunders, FTMFW! 
GODDAMIT, I type slow!!! 
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Posted: 3/24/2019 9:42:54 AM EDT
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Haven't seen that in years! It used to be shown later at night back in the 80's so I would catch it when I could as a kid.
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Posted: 3/24/2019 9:43:47 AM EDT
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IIRC it was very popular in Japan, German bad guys.
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Posted: 3/24/2019 9:44:03 AM EDT
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"The good-life network" used to play it all the time around 2000 or so.
Me and my sister used to watch it every day. |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 9:45:24 AM EDT
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I remember that show as a child. If you watch it long enough, you'll notice the eucalyptus trees and that they use the same set over and over. IIRC there is one area with a concrete lined ditch that you see in multiple episodes. |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 9:49:30 AM EDT
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I watch it now and again on Kodi
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Posted: 3/24/2019 9:51:31 AM EDT
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CAGE! KIRBY! COVER ME! KOWALSKI! GET THAT B-A-R UP HERE!
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Posted: 3/24/2019 9:53:47 AM EDT
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The episodes are on YouTube. I grew up with it also. Sgt Saunders was the coolest, toughest guy on TV at the time. My name here is only Checkmate King 2 because Whiterook was already taken. Watch the show and you'll understand.
One of my favorite episodes is "The First Day" but there are lots of great ones. Lots of big name stars just getting into TV were on the show. |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 9:54:01 AM EDT
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The episodes are on YouTube. I grew up with it also. Sgt Saunders was the coolest, toughest guy on TV at the time. My name here is only Checkmate King 2 because Whiterook was already taken. Watch the show and you'll understand.
One of my favorite episodes is "The First Day" but there are lots of great ones. Lots of big name stars just getting into TV were on the show. |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 9:56:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: CAGE! KIRBY! COVER ME! KOWALSKI! GET THAT B-A-R UP HERE! |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 9:56:21 AM EDT
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I've seen a few episodes, yes, it's much better than todays tv options.
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Posted: 3/24/2019 9:58:52 AM EDT
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It was filmed in the MGM backlot so yes,they did keep fighting over the same village. If they advanced too far they would have freed the prisioners from Stalag 13.
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Posted: 3/24/2019 9:59:04 AM EDT
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I remember that show as a child. If you watch it long enough, you'll notice the eucalyptus trees and that they use the same set over and over. ETA, also used for outdoor screens in Star Trek. |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 9:59:50 AM EDT
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The episodes are on YouTube. I grew up with it also. Sgt Saunders was the coolest, toughest guy on TV at the time. My name here is only Checkmate King 2 because Whiterook was already taken. Watch the show and you'll understand. One of my favorite episodes is "The First Day" but there are lots of great ones. Lots of big name stars just getting into TV were on the show. 
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Posted: 3/24/2019 10:00:38 AM EDT
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Sure, I grew up loving it too.
Which ones do you guys prefer: the B/W episodes or the ones in color? I think I like the B/W ones. |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 10:02:37 AM EDT
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It was filmed in the MGM backlot so yes,they did keep fighting over the same village. If they advanced too far they would have freed the prisioners from Stalag 13.
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Posted: 3/24/2019 10:06:59 AM EDT
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As a kid, some of the episodes really shocked me like when they captured a bunch of Germans and were trying to determine who the leader was, Saunders had one of the prisoners taken out of sight to be interrogated. There was a shot and the other soldiers nervously looked to one guy and he had his leader. In another episode he ambushed a squad of German soldiers and shot them in the back with his Thompson.
That was my first inkling that warfare was a nasty business!
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Posted: 3/24/2019 10:07:04 AM EDT
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I thought it was Little John on the BAR. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: CAGE! KIRBY! COVER ME! KOWALSKI! GET THAT B-A-R UP HERE! |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 10:08:21 AM EDT
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Great show loved it as a kid. I also loved 12 o'clock High. Great movie too.
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Posted: 3/24/2019 10:08:49 AM EDT
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It was filmed in the MGM backlot so yes,they did keep fighting over the same village. If they advanced too far they would have freed the prisioners from Stalag 13. |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 10:17:10 AM EDT
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I Loved it as a child. My "long gone" Dad did his part in WWII serving in the Navy in Philippines. I watched every episode on the lap of my hero and best friend. I think I'll just dwell for a lifetime with the great memories. I don't want to "see" the show through the eyes of an old skeptic.........
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Posted: 3/24/2019 10:18:38 AM EDT
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Same backlot set used for the opening sequence for The Andy Griffith Show, with Andy and Opie walking to go fishing. ETA, also used for outdoor screens in Star Trek. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I remember that show as a child. If you watch it long enough, you'll notice the eucalyptus trees and that they use the same set over and over. ETA, also used for outdoor screens in Star Trek. |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 10:19:25 AM EDT
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Great show loved it as a kid. I also loved 12 o'clock High. Great movie too. |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 10:19:27 AM EDT
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Vic Morrow....RIP.
Gave us Jennifer Jason Leigh |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 10:32:11 AM EDT
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Used to watch the show all the time growing up.
Recorded the rerun marathon onto many VHS tapes and I'd watch constantly. Some of the soldiers in Vietnam apparently grew up on Combat! and actually used what they had watched for tactics, especially urban warfare tactics, which they had no training in. |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 10:33:26 AM EDT
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It stands up quite well IMO,especially if one understands the limitation of technology and considers how movies and TV had to come into their own from effectively being plays that were filmed in regards to everything from camera angles to character development and overall story telling.
Robert Pirosh and Vic Morrow were very innovative and don’t get as much credit as they deserve in this regard. Battleground is one of the first realistic war movies, still one of my favorite 3 WWII movies,and Combat’s scripts carried a very similar feel. Vic Morrow did a great job not just with his character but the episodes he directed were really strong too. Toss aside the repetitive scenery and German M3 halftracks and look at camera angles,change of POV,moral ambiguity,that Germans spoke German und not diss akzented English and such,it really made other movies and TV shows strive to be better. I say this as someone watching it as an adult. Had I seen it as a child in the 60s would probably look at it differently but have watched all of them a couple times. |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 10:48:40 AM EDT
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This was the first episode that I saw. It really drew me in to the show:
 COMBAT! s.3 ep.4: "The Duel" (1964) |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 10:54:13 AM EDT
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My recollection was that Sgt. Saunders had manged to fight all the way across France without ever having to reload.
A couple of years ago I saw one of the last episodes (filmed in color) in which he actually changed magazines during a firefight. 
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Posted: 3/24/2019 12:53:35 PM EDT
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The Gallant Men is worth watching too:
https://www.amazon.com/Gallant-Men-Complete-Collection/dp/B008NNY89A |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 1:02:55 PM EDT
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I remember that show as a child. If you watch it long enough, you'll notice the eucalyptus trees and that they use the same set over and over. |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 1:35:29 PM EDT
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I remember watching it when I was a kid, back in the 70's.
Rat Patrol was another fun show. |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 1:59:11 PM EDT
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A friend of mine owns a Reising that they used in some of the episodes as a mocked up MP40
It has a clamshell metal body that goes over the Reising. |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 2:03:58 PM EDT
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My Mom would watch it with me and translate what the Germans were saying. She could make out most of it, something to do with High German and Low German. I wanted a Thompson from the first time I watched Combat.
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Posted: 3/24/2019 2:08:54 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/24/2019 2:16:09 PM EDT
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I remember that show as a child. If you watch it long enough, you'll notice the eucalyptus trees and that they use the same set over and over.   Combat Blooper |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 2:20:18 PM EDT
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Combat! was great, but I liked Rat Patrol better.
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Posted: 3/24/2019 2:32:00 PM EDT
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I lived for that show as a kid! We would go play Army and pretend to be the characters on Combat!
"Checkmate King Two, this is White Rook. Over." 
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Posted: 3/24/2019 2:42:36 PM EDT
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COMBAT was on prime time network TV when I was in middle school. There were no VCRs back then so you dropped what you were doing and watched it, or whatever your favorite TV show was. I was okay with the civilian chicks having 60s hair and makeup.
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Posted: 3/24/2019 2:51:58 PM EDT
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"Starring Vic Morrow!"
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Posted: 3/24/2019 2:55:26 PM EDT
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Yep. IIRC there is one area with a concrete lined ditch that you see in multiple episodes. |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 3:25:11 PM EDT
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The Gallant Men is worth watching too: https://www.amazon.com/Gallant-Men-Complete-Collection/dp/B008NNY89A Connelly Wright was based on Ernie Pyle. |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 5:44:25 PM EDT
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This was the first episode that I saw. It really drew me in to the show:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jfKFnhPKE8I just watched it. Thanks for the link. That single episode is so much better than what we see these days. Afternoon as a kid was Combat! and Twilight Zone. No wonder. |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 6:16:45 PM EDT
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Watched "Combat!" as a kid when it was originaly on. I even had a "Mattel Tommy Cap Machine Gun" that looked similar to Sgt. Saunders famed Thompson.
Trivia: The Thompson is a fairly heavy gun, so in many scenes, they substituted an aluminum casting for scenes where there was no gun fire. They did the same with Kirbys BAR. 
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Posted: 3/24/2019 7:46:31 PM EDT
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I remember that show as a child. If you watch it long enough, you'll notice the eucalyptus trees and that they use the same set over and over. Korea, too.
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Posted: 3/24/2019 7:49:56 PM EDT
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I Loved it as a child. My "long gone" Dad did his part in WWII serving in the Navy in Philippines. I watched every episode on the lap of my hero and best friend. I think I'll just dwell for a lifetime with the great memories. I don't want to "see" the show through the eyes of an old skeptic......... |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 7:58:49 PM EDT
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Watched "Combat!" as a kid when it was originaly on. I even had a "Mattel Tommy Cap Machine Gun" that looked similar to Sgt. Saunders famed Thompson. Trivia: The Thompson is a fairly heavy gun, so in many scenes, they substituted an aluminum casting for scenes where there was no gun fire. They did the same with Kirbys BAR. |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 8:07:37 PM EDT
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When I was a wee lad in the 70s I lived for the TV trifecta. Combat on during the week, Rat Patrol on Saturday and 12 O'Clock High on Sundays.
Then toss in Baa Baa Black Sheep on network TV on Tuesday. Those are the only TV shows I really remember. Other than SWAT, Adam 12 and Emergency. |
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Posted: 3/24/2019 8:14:59 PM EDT
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Not much on tv or online interests me anymore... Check out MeTV. There's a lot of old stuff there, maybe you can find something that interests you. "Rawhide" and "Wanted Dead Or Alive" show Clint Eastwood and Steve McQueen during their early days. |
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