Combat! episode -- closing scene (1965)

[matrox]

Actually the most poignant Combat episode is titled "The little Carousel" The one where sarge begins to get attached to the 15 year old french nurse, then she steps on a mine. Its the only episode where Saunders breaks down a cries.

[Ronclown]

Combat was a good show. This was one of the better episodes. Putting differences

and hostilities aside (American and German) to help a grief-stricken woman. So

poignant.

[Krylogenic]

What a scene, in fact this senario did occur and my friend John Coker told me about it when he was in WWII in the 101st Airborne, he had two combat jumps and was hit by a grenade and bayoneted, and ended up in a truck with wounded Germans and American soldiers and he said he found out that we are all the same just on different sides.

[MargaretTD]

A year later and still no sound?

[kganes]

check mate king 2 this is white rook ,,over...

[rrhfactor]

no sound.

[k11miura11]

英語わけわからん

[Bidil6]

They will discuss it in time and when others that were there are around!

[kenpalmer1965]

I own the entire series of DVD. I bought off of e-bay and was slightly under $200.00. This is every single episode in both black and white as well as color in the later years. Great tv series. I liked it even better than Rat Patrol.

Ken Palmer

[doggysector]

The color episodes were also very good, but you lost just a little bit when they went to color and I know that Vic Morrow was very concerned about going to color. The show was canceled only due to costs and they tried to do a spinoff of the show the following season hiring cheaper actors. The show bombed and was canceled out the first season. I don't remember the name of the show but it was awful.

[foglinerider]

I CAN'T GET ANY SOUND.. GREAT CLIP!

[jupitr2]

Actually, that's my error. I accidentally posted it with the sound level in the dirt and haven't yet reposted with better audio. You can hear it if you bring up your speaker volumn adjustment on your computer and your manual speaker volumn. Just don't forget to bring it back down AFTER.

[JFinSD2]

@jupitr2 Afraid not....I have my computer volume at full blast and at best I can make out the sound track music and if I strain my ears a little of the dialogue. Too bad....this was a great episode,

[bonzoAU]

neither can i

[u2poz]

what season was this episode on?

[jupitr2]

This was episode 27 of Season 3. There was one more season of the b/w episodes for '65/'66 before the show switched to color in their 5th, and final season, '66/'67. This is one of my favorites as the story itself is timeless.

[u2poz]

thanks

[vegrsix]

@jupitr2 Just watched Combat! episodes through year 3. I procrastinated but finally reviewed them at first because Paul Burke (Naked City & 12 O'clock High) guested in seas 3 "Point of View". The more I watched the more I wanted to see. This posted episode, as you may know, was directed by Vic Morrow. Every episode under his direction was special. And as a Lieutenant Hanley fan since childhood I hold his first, "The Pillbox" and "Hills are for Heroes" in high regard. Combat! had it all.

[spacepatrolman]

@u2poz thats william smithers he was in the pilot episode of combat with jack palance called attack [ thats a little inside joke ] it was in hulu it will be back

[doggysector]

This scene is very powerful as i have watched it over so many times thinking about the real tragedy of war. The story surrounds a woman who believes her baby is buried in the rubble and the GI's and German's lay down their weapons temporarily to help dig out her child. The ending is a smack dab of reality of the true irrationality of war and its senselessness. This is not meant to convey an "anti-war" statement as much as it coveys the horror of war.

[Gvieto]

That is why members of my family or friends who have served in wars do not discuss their war stories.

[doggysector]

My grandfather was in the 101st and parachuted into Holland in September of 1944 and was wounded about two weeks later in the leg by a German Mauser. He never spoke of it until him and I saw Saving Private Ryan. While he was in therapy for his leg in England he was told the war would be over by Chrismas and the doctors sent him home. He later found out that all of the guys in his platoon were killed in the Battle of the Bulge. He felt horrendus guilt his whole life.

[Gvieto]

My late father served in Guadacanal around 1942 and he knew the late Don Yancy (later Don Adams of Get Smart fame). After he passed in 1998 my late mother told me of the horrible conditions he and his soldiers suffered due to the terrible conditions that led to him to get malaria and leave for Panama to find work with the Panama Canal Company after he was discharged. Thank you for your story and sorry for your loss.

[Gvieto]

I don't blame them. Seeing the death of a relative or friend is very painful. I should know,

[jsilence418]

@Gvieto I thought Don Adams real name was Yarmy?

[Gvieto]

@jsilence418 According to the TV Land story of Get Smart I thought the annoncer said Yancy but I could be wrong.

[jsilence418]

@doggysector And of course your grandad shouldn't have had any guilt, guys like him really did save democracy, they were the real heroes, of course they would never say that .

[newfrontier28]

Combat was a great show that still holds up today.

[jupitr2]

Agreed! War is war. The parties involved may be different, but so many of the stories and situations can be the same. I think this was one of the best television shows ever created. Even Steven Spielberg credited 'Combat!' for it's realism when he was making the movie 'Private Ryan'.

[lanainfla]

@newfrontier28

you say "still holds up today"???

there is nothing today that can compare.

[GOOSEYGOOSE9]

after the selmur logo had the ABC Notice.filmed at METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIOS.

[linuxrodo]

most awesome series of 60s

[imrnlil]

My Dad never missed this...so in the days of one TV in the living room, or front room as we called it, the whole family watched it. I hated it, til I somehow in my 7 year old mind realized the importance of this show to my Dad, although he was an old salt. Now it is a great memory to me of time spent with my Dad.

[mrgears]

I used to watch this with my dad too.  In 1965 I was 9 years old but I remember it. Dad loved it but laughed at how many rounds Vic Morrow could put thru his tommy gun.

[CJurasin]

Imrnill: I KNEW you were a female while reading your post here. No guy I knew would say such a thing!! We grew up watching it and had the TV set turned to the channel BEFORE it came on each evening during the commercials. We 3 boys (and dad) NEVER missed it.......nor McHales Navy !! ;-)

[r4vn0s2]

no this show rocks but "band of brothers" is the best but band of brothers isnt a TV show its a movie, so Combat! still best TV show! and they still air reruns!

[Kubelwagen]

Lol the show is funny to watch, because all the German uniformes are wrong and none of the tanks are ww2 German tanks.

[cathytreks]

Why don't you shut up kraut!, you lost the war and are still the enemy in my house in New Zealand, you bastards killed my Grandfather!

Combat!...The Greatest American WW2 series EVER!

[mrcart]

cathytreks, you're an idiot.

[roudy1689]

Not to mention your mispelling of uniforms.

[CJurasin]

Kubel: I take it you're a Kraute?? You think the show was FUNNY??? Maybe the tanks were "wrong" because we DESTROYED so many of them BEATING your army during the war???? Hello???

[SgtSaunders011]

um.....does anyone have a clue why Combat! was taken off the air?? That show was better that "band of brothers", and any other show involving the army. This show has been on longer than any other show ever. And it will stay that way. Also, whenever i see Combat!, i remember all the heros of WW2...along with my grandpa.

[jupitr2]

The joke at the time was that the show ran far longer than our participation in that campaign of the war itself! Also, the last season saw budget cuts and they were forced to use other outdoor locations for filming which proved difficult. But they managed to keep it on the air for one last season with some fresh stories and filmed those in color. Quite different looking for sure...

All things considered for it's time, a very good run on network television and a good way to go out.

[jadesroom]

Insofar as the show running longer than the war, the same could be said for MASH

[actionsub]

Another factor in the demise of Combat! was the "political correctness" of that era, in which the growing unpopularity of the Vietnam conflict was projected back onto shows and films portraying past wars.

[doggysector]

SgtSaunders-If you ever read this, the show was taken off the air to do problems with the actors in that they were very underpaid and Vic Morrow constantly battled with the producers to increase the pay for the actors. The show was canceled in the 5th season and was replaced by cheaper actors and the show was renamed "Garrions's Guerilla's" and it stunk and was canceled almost immediately. Hey that's show biz. Morons. However the producer of Showtime is trying to get a movie going.

[Saracen11]

Tragically, Vic Morrow was killed in a horrible helicopter accident while filming an episode of the Twilight Zone movie.

[JxT1957]

lt. hanley looks like g.i. joe!

[RJBFIRECHIEF1]

Even tough guys share a moment to help a woman in need!

[55102]

looks a little bit like Band of Brothers

[Spaz342]

.....I remember this episode.....

[gmaxinet]

This is the Grandfather of the Band of Brothers.xD

[jsilence418]

@gmaxinet thankfully without tom hanks junior!

[raoult73]

genial esta serie quisiera saber si alguna señal de cable lo transmite

[Hassar100]

I remember the episode: the Germans and the Americans had called a truce to find that woman's child buried during a bombardment. In the end they found out she was shellshocked and remembering a child that had been dead for years.

[servicioamigo]

Bien muy bien me gusta ver mas series de COMBAT con los malogrados VIC MORROW y RICK JASON Adelante vamos a subir mas episodios o minisodios para disfrutar