COMBAT!

[MDFrench]

Just recently grabbed the first three complete seaons of Combat on DVD. I have always loved this show and I am experiencing a Combat renaissance lately. After watching the two on Encore each morning, I spend an hour in the evening watching an episode or two. Man what an awesome series!

Anyone else out there a Combat fan???

Mike

 

[Winkydink]

vic morrow lives

i think combat was a very good series. gritty. complex.

i watch it on cable. it is on the american life network channel. that used to be the nostalgia channel i think.

i would really like to see victory at sea on tv.

winky d.

 

[Canadian Cowboy]

I have the whole series it was on for 5 years the last year was in color 40 DvD set.
CC

 

[Widebrim]

Used to watch it's first run with my father. Didn't know that the last season was in color, due to our having a black and white TV at the time. (I don't think I would have liked it in color.) If I remember correctly, Rick Jason was a WWII veteran.

 

[Harp]

Recall the show as well acted/scripted; and Rick Jason reminds me of a team CO
I had-dour, taciturn, humorless, and the most distant ba***rd I ever served under; but like
Jason's character, Lt Hanley, a fine officer. Saunders was another exceptional leader,
though more personable than Hanley. I don't recall either Saunders or Hanley getting hit,
which is even more remarkable for a line outfit, but that's Hollywood.

 

[Stearmen]

Color TV

I watched it in the 60s also. We didn't have color TV until the 70s, so I didn't know either. Good show, we watched it every week, but we also watched Hogans Heros, so don't go by me. Was Rat Patrol in color?

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Recall the show as well acted/scripted; and Rick Jason reminds me of a team CO
I had-dour, taciturn, humorless, and the most distant ba***rd I ever served under; but like
Jason's character, Lt Hanley, a fine officer. Saunders was another exceptional leader,
though more personable than Hanley. I don't recall either Saunders or Hanley getting hit,
which is even more remarkable for a line outfit, but that's Hollywood.

Just watched two of the color episodes. One in which Saunders escapes from behind German lines in a German uniform, another in which he receives a letter from his kid brother who happens to resemble a replacement that he takes under his wing and is overly protective towards. He was wounded in both episodes!
In fact, I don't recall an episode in which he was not shell shocked or received some sort of flesh wound.

 

[Widebrim]

Can someone explain, though, why Saunders had the cammi cover on his helmet? As far as I know, that design was used only in the Pacific.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Can someone explain, though, why Saunders had the cammi cover on his helmet? As far as I know, that design was used only in the Pacific.

Artistic License.

 

[Harp]

Just watched two of the color episodes. One in which Saunders escapes from behind German lines.. He was wounded in both episodes!
In fact, I don't recall an episode in which he was not shell shocked or received some sort of flesh wound.

...now that is Hollywood. opcorn:

 

[Tango Yankee]

I watched it in the 60s also. We didn't have color TV until the 70s, so I didn't know either. Good show, we watched it every week, but we also watched Hogans Heros, so don't go by me. Was Rat Patrol in color?

I also watched it in the '60s, on a B/W TV and didn't know it had gone to color, either. I started watching the TV show while truck driving (Netflix) but only got through a few episodes. They're back on my list to get and watch while working out.

Yes, The Rat Patrol was in color. I know this only because I just started watching it from the beginning during my workouts. The second episode guest-starred Ed Asner. That half-hour format was rather limiting, though.

One thing that renting DVDs of TV series from different decades does is quantify the feeling most of us had that "they're showing a lot more commercials lately." An hour-long show from the '60s (or two half-hour episodes of a show) clocks in at 48-50 minutes or so. The most recent show I've watched, Enterprise, clocks in at 40 minutes.

Cheers,
Tom