COMBAT! s.1 ep.20: "Off Limits" (1963)

[@carpenterbluechicken]

Oh I so remember my Dad watching Combat, my brother and I. Its so good a show I didn't know Mickey Rooney was on it! How cool it is seeing the stars young and fresh for work. Vic Morrow he was awesome, great shows I love watching it.

[@karencupples1339]

Thank you for posting the best show ever, Combat, power packed with life lessons and illustrated sermons, all accompanied by great patriotic music to spur us onward and to not give up.

[@toddrajewsky1514]

One of the great shows on TV of all times

[@bobsempek]

As a kid I watched every time it aired on Sunday Nights,, I’d take my bath as quick as possible (Monday morning school).. 🤔 then at 17yrsold I became a MARINE,, COMBAT! (ARMY).. best military tv show ever

[@leezeidel3630]

I never really realized how great this show is until now I was 7 when I started watching it 👍

[@efrenaragoza3046]

Same as me in the Philippines together w/ my uncles they never missed an episode i was only 5 yrs old then.

[@FBlackRules]

@@efrenaragoza3046 Yep Efren, Filipino's are great Patriots and friends. Glad the Allies helped you all. Many good trips to Olongapo and Manila, USN.

[@FBlackRules]

All these episodes have comments from people who feel the same. So do I. I probably missed S 1-3 so I started off at the beginning.

[@generalkaffenberger8675]

​@@FBlackRules It is their CHRISTIANITY that was the outstanding recipe of the Filipino People. IF they abandon Christianity, they will be as screwed up as lots of other people.

[@FBlackRules]

@@generalkaffenberger8675 Concur, Aye General. Thanks for commenting.

[@mikemoore4702]

This series was way ahead of it's time in many ways. Had Vic Morrow not died young he would certainly have been an actor on the level of Robert Duval or Robert Denero.

[@RockandrollNegro]

Morrow was 53 when he died. He was certainly taken too fast, but let's not kid ourselves into thinking he would've ever won an Oscar like Duvall or DeNiro. Duvall's breakout role came in The Godfather at age 40, and DeNiro in Godfather II at age 31. Morrow's film career was all but over by 1982, and he needed the Twilight Zone Movie money badly, which was why he overlooked all the dangerous unprfessionalism on set. He was a great actor, and certainly as good as Duvall and DeNiro, but it wasn't like had he not died in '82 he would've been the next hottest property in Hollywood.

[@generalkaffenberger8675]

​@@RockandrollNegro But while many of "The Hottest Properties in Hollywood" have DIED from Drug Addiction and/or A.I.D.S. from Homosexual perversion; Vic Morrow participated in neither. He championed a BETTER TIME, IN A BETTER AMERICA

[@seanpetersen9326]

@@RockandrollNegroboom.

[@baxtermason6909]

...don't think so...his career was going downhill when Twilight Zone came out...the justice done to actors is not fair...he was great...

[@brianwills8689]

William Windom stars in this episode , He has been in many films . Kirby got the beating he deserved for once . This is a very emotional episode , all the characters are believable and the acting is as good as ever . Thanks for the opportunity to watch this enthralling series .

[@lawnmowermanTX]

"The commander is responsible for the lives of his crew, and for their deaths. Well, I should have died with mine." - Matthew Decker to James T. Kirk, 2267 ("The Doomsday Machine") Commodore Matthew "Matt" Decker was a 23rd century Human Federation Starfleet flag officer assigned as the commander of the USS Constellation. In this episode, he was saving lives as a surgeon. :) I remember that Star Trek Episode "The Doomsday Machine". Commodore Matt Decker steals the Enterprise Shuttle to die for his Officers and Crew, yet proved by using the impulse engines of the Damaged U.S.S. Constellation to explode in the Doomsday Machine, later killed the Threat.

[@alexeimscruz2893]

Windom is not as intense as in The Doomsday Machine Trek episode... but he was well billed here as in that Trek episode...

[@ismaelrosado7390]

Traducción a español

[@terrycrowley9323]

I was 4 or 5 when l first saw this show,l know l never missed an episode.Then it went off the air and l have not seen it in fifty years until tonight 👍😁

[@bullitt7544]

This Episode was as good as a whole season of M*A*S*H. Minus the laughs. Incredible cinematography, acting, set design, truly a CLASSIC War Series. PURE GOLD...

[@gdblackthorn4137]

Personally, I really learned to hate MASH!!! Just another soap opera with hippies crying over serving their country (whether or not you think that we should have been in the Vietnam war or not! ...Yes, it supposedly was the Korean war, but we all know it was about the Vietnam war). I will never watch MASH again! Just another trashy show! Sure there were a few good episodes but it isn't worth it to me to go through them all again! It was after all the hippies that caused us to leave the Vietnam war in the face of a real victory! They caused more deaths than the entire war put together! Check your history and see how many they murdered once we pulled out!!!!!!!

[@motomark9736]

@@gdblackthorn4137 I love mash didn't care for Dr pearse left wing attitude but the show was entertaining

[@coleparker]

MASH the TV series in the beginning was good show. Also some of the early Potter, BJ replacements were good. But the later ones just became preachy, predictable and boring. The preachy were really bad. I expected Pierce to walk across the cess poole on his way to the operating room.

[@stevenhamilton5342]

Robert Altman, the director, went on to direct the movie version of M*A*S*H among others.

[@stevenhamilton5342]

General Blackthorn it is YOU who need to read YOU'RE history, or at least watch a documentary (post Nam; not the propaganda and lies spewed out by our government before and during the war). The American people were duped, while the rest of the World laughed at us. Duped by a Propaganda Machine not seen since Nazi Germany. Before you close your ears to your closed mind let me tell you I was duped too and enlisted. And saw and did a lot of things that cannot be unseen or undone because I BELIEVED these lies that were told to me by a country that I believed in. I am not bitter because I lost a limb like Ronny Kovac, (a true Hero who you would probably label as a Hippie Sympathizer) or saw many of my Band of Brothers slaughtered. It is because I KILLED ANOTHER HUMAN BEING BECAUSE OF LIE!!!! I've seen a lot of people blown to bits, shot to pieces, bayoneted and beheaded. Funny. There wasn't a Hippie in sight.

[@dhart8451]

Sergeant Saunders, always the voice of reason. That is why we love him.

[@dindinprivate3477]

Well one of the reasons anyway...

[@kathymcmahon6582]

That and he's gorgeous!!!

[@darksky5985]

I love this series! yay combat!!!

[@dindinprivate3477]

The Kirby character needs to learn respect for women. The pig marked Off Limits was hysterical! Loved that. Thanks for the uploads of this series. One of the very best on all of KZbin.

[@kwacker45]

love,can't live with it,can't live without it:-) cheers

[@robfninh]

Funny how the thumbs down people don`t give a comment. This is the best show that everyone should see!

[@kevinwilson9589]

How could anyone give this show a thumbs down. The term, "shit for brains" comes to mind.

[@dindinprivate3477]

@@kevinwilson9589 Yup - peaceniks.

[@kathymcmahon6582]

@@kevinwilson9589 yes

[@CowgirlfromMT]

Thank you so much for putting these episodes on, I love this show! :D

[@GrimDontGiveAFuck]

I think Sarge just gave his Emmy winning angry Jimmy Stewart scolding performance on Kirby, when they got back with her husband in the hospital. That might be some of the best Vic Morrow I've ever seen on COMBAT!

[@eplnfl]

GrimDontGiveAFuck have to agree this may have been the best of Morrow, he showed a humorous touch not seen in other episodes. Kirby was very good also.

[@triciajohansen7124]

I wouldn't want to cross Vic Morrow, he was tough as nails! God bless him!

[@mikeywilkinsjr3769]

“SHUT KIRBY, JUST SHUT UP, SHUT UP SHUT UP!” Lol

[@alexeimscruz2893]

they don't make shows like this anymore especially those that shows the human side of that last great war... I only saw this show when I was a kid during the early half of the 70s so I can't relate with the stories much... it is only now with the magic of KZbin and the efforts of these people who has passion to share great shows like these that we get to appreciate these great shows in the 21st Century and pray we don't get to live the horrors of war today ion our lifetime...

[@jamesbetker6862]

We used to have the Mattel Tommy gun. It used rolls of caps and when you would squeeze the trigger it would sound almost like the real deal, but no kick back like live rounds.

[@opiumtrail7032]

SOC

[@marvinheemeyer9768]

OMG, forgot I had one also, late 60's or real early 70's! Even talked mom into buying a wood stock, sheet metal top/parts bolt action tot rifle from Woolworth's. Remember when Daisy made a "pop gun"- that was a red rider lever action that just "popped" with its air being released but barrel was blocked (inert)?

[@dancrawford829]

I had one too! My favorite before I got into the real things 😊

[@unclemikeb]

Kirby reminds me of that kid in grade school who complained because he thought somebody got a bigger cookie than him. Always mouthing off, complaining looking for a way to get one up on everybody. But, they write him in because too often there really IS one guy like him in every unit of the army. That adds realism to the show. And stress like combat will bring out the worst in a complainer like him. Sometimes when the guys get fed up with his crap they throw a blanket over him and whop the hell out of him. Before they walk away, they make it clear why they whopped him and that they will do it again if the bad behavior returns. That is usually enough but in some cases the whiner can't stand the embarrassment so he insists on a transfer to a different unit. Once there he might behave but sometimes he reverts back to being a whiner and has to have a second lesson. The cute little gal who played the wife looked familiar. Then it hit me, I saw her in an episode of Have Gun Will Travel about a week ago.

[@kathymcmahon6582]

Also, as a child, a tree grows in Brooklyn

[@manuelbermudez211]

Hey uncle Mike. Kirby reminds me of Eddie Haskell from “ Leave it to Beaver “. Same kinda wise cracking attitude and trying to get over on someone. Just sayin AGAIN …

[@uncatila]

the Sarge is about the most moral person I ever saw.

[@JCarlosMois]

Yep

[@paulftdrum]

He is the reason i joined the INFANTRY and stayed there on Active Duty for over 20 years. I molded my career as a Non Commissioned Officer on Sgt Saunders!

[@uncatila]

+felcher davee my hat goes off to you sir.

[@brianwills8689]

+ felcher davee . Good on you , how inspiring to read your words . I volunteered for Military Service and did my basic training for the Territorials , a truly character building experience that I am proud of also .

[@soldtobediers]

Headgear off to your Burst of 20 Sgt. Davee. Reckon there'll never be another Sgt. Saunders. had to register for the draft in 70... so i dodged it by joining the Paratroopers. Never regretted a day or night of it. Missed the clarity ever since. -Former Recondo Sgt. "Rock" 82nd Abn. 1/504 Inf. Div. 71-74

[@mikeywilkinsjr3769]

11:41, need more people like Caje. He broke up the fight and made Kirby get in the back of the line.

[@sursurrus]

In most groups/teams I've been on, there's someone like Caje... who doesn't talk much but everyone respects way too much to cross

[@stevenhamilton5342]

They could have at least given Kirby's stunt double a hair cut.

[@hankterreros223]

Instead of letting his hair down, Kirby seems to have gotten the "hair" knocked out of him. [laughter]

[@yannschonfeld5847]

Another superbe épisode of Combat. Interesting rôle for Willam Windom whose long career stretched until 10 years ago and William Windom left us in 2012. I personally always thought that William Windom would have done better playing strictly villainous rôles despite his zentih with The Farmers Daughter. Perhaps almost tellingly, he was once thrown of kindergarten by his teacher (Maragaret Hamilton - The Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz) for rambunctiousness. Thank you for a very interesting épisode directed by Altman. Yes, I agree, the rôle played by Vic Morrow is the most moral I have seen on any screen, big or small.

[@mf7482]

+Iain Schofield I first started seeing William Windom in the series "My World and Welcome To It"

[@perpieta]

@@mf7482 Yes, and much later on he also had a recurring role on the long-running series Murder She Wrote, in which he played a doctor :)

[@MrSebastiananthony]

Painting "off limits" on the pig...nice touch! Thanks for loading this

[@artemioramirez4440]

Kirby is a candidate for a fragging from his fellow platoon mates.

[@mattalltucker6868]

The stunt double for Kirby had more hair on his head. May has well have been Tony Curtis! LOL!!

[@mishawakapost2681]

William Windom served as an Army paratrooper in Europe in WW2.

[@patrickmcshane7658]

@JustAintThatWay 82nd on D-day

[@stevedandy973]

Kirby must have trouble counting. I mean, 3 against 1? He should've apologized and walked away. No. Not Kirby.

[@mikepaz8385]

wow! thats the heaviest episode of combat that iv"e ever seen.

[@briangard951]

I really cracked up when I saw "Off Limits" on the mother sow Hog!

[@LuvsDebbie]

Ty for loading these great episodes. :)

[@jiraiyaaddams7592]

I liked that the Frenchmen that gave Kirby his whuppin' were using their feet as much as their fists; a nod to savate, the French martial-art.

[@mikeywilkinsjr3769]

Kirby Got Knocked The F**k Out!

[@matta3968]

Man Saunders was sure pissed off at Kerby!!

[@mikeywilkinsjr3769]

Because Kirby can’t seem to follow orders and or can’t stay out of trouble.

[@onslought2]

The Dr. also played a captain on star Trek [ the War Machine]

[@kidgreenhorn]

I remember The Doomsday Machine he flew the shuttle craft and destroyed the machine

[@gaylealston4089]

The doc looks like a psychotic serial killer.

[@hanimetobias9023]

Ee

[@zacharycat603]

I know a veteran who has been on disability for 45+ years for wounds incurred in "action" just like Kirby.

[@howardkerr8174]

How odd, William Windom didn't have a guest starring credit at the opening. I realize that in 1963 Jeremy Slate was a rising star....but still?

[@reynaldofortuna5124]

After all the episodes that I've seen Kirby in he's the greatest with his three friends the most Sargent Saunders Caje and little John

[@LoneWolf051]

I love how the pig was marked "off limits" as if its a metaphor for Kirby's personality towards women

[@Invictus13666]

No, it was common practice-to keep soldiers from eating the animals. Read some history.

[@FireCaptainJason]

@@Invictus13666😂

[@mohityadav9188]

Wow this show was good

[@johnfeltes7614]

As I always say "Words of Wisdom From Sgt. Saunders"

[@dehdeh55]

Far too many fighting men lost their girls and wives to "men" who are not even in combat. At least the Doctor was in a front lines hospital. I was just waiting for the nurse to learn that the Doctor had a wife at home!

[@bailey9r]

Nah she wont learn that till the war is over!

[@stevenhamilton5342]

Man! Kirby was a real horn-dog in this one.

[@unitedwestand5100]

I like how they had to write off limits on the hog... lol

[@bob_btw6751]

Kirby gets his butt wupped good and that begins the change of his character to someone you trust to guard your six.

[@laserboy5783]

This show was head and shoulders above *Mash* by far. Better writing better acting.

[@ZM7241994]

Indeed, and Combat! doesn't have near constant bashing of the U.S. Army, U.S. Government, and traditional morals. M*A*S*H* was a good show in the episodes/seasons when it decided to be a comedy/drama rather then a piece of anti-Vietnam War propaganda.

[@Timinator62]

@@ZM7241994 Yep that guy BJ Hunnicut (Mike Ferrel) in MASH was one of the First Woke bullshit morons spewing his opinions back in the 70's...and NOBODY CARES, LGBTQ123, the BLM, Joe Biden, AOC,... NOBODY cares...he's like a War Victim that NOBODY heard about...that's how the Democraps are, they don't care about you unless you're a CURRENT Topic and they'll drop you faster than a hot apple pie just out of the oven, when somebody else comes along...

[@kevinhughes1673]

it is funny seeing the german/allied extra as part of the platoon. This guy played the tank driver in Hills are for Heroes. he usually wears a kraut uniform and he dies really well.

[@craig4867]

Watching from Russia Russians love Combat 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

[@oldiesfreek]

LOL The bar brawl stuntman was so "un-Kirby-like"...

[@priscilamoraleda3851]

Your right, keep your men, soldier

[@billhensley8324]

Ol kirby was quite the hound dog. Lol

[@williamwyckoff3963]

Romance in any war is a bad omen !

[@Mrfrenchdeux]

Somebody wrote "OFF LIMITS" on the pig.....but Kirby needs to hear it from the pig herself.

[@simul8guy75]

Kirby's stunt double for the fight had a fuller head of hair...

[@palerider660]

Kirby’s the one guy in outfit that wouldn’t be missed if he got a million dollar wound and sent home.

[@billcotton1551]

Kirby is never gonna get the BAR at this rate.

[@snobear41]

The MP that delivered kirby to the hospital was 'tate" a replacement killed on his "first day"

[@buddydog1956]

I coulda swore Kirby had a pack of Lucky Strikes during one of the scenes while in the bed ~

[@jorgeveytia395]

like this episode

[@thetruth3768]

oh what a wicked web we weave

[@spinfowars8958]

yeah the woman essentially says - i'm a whore but it's not as bad as it sounds - if my husband stays alive i don't mind so much being a whore, but if he dies then i will stop ... satanic hollywood ' i'm a whore, but i'm a nice whore ' logic

[@jimc6687]

Ha!! Gaffe! You can spot the overhead roving microphone around the 31:30 mark in this episode! Jim C.

[@mishawakapost2681]

I met a female USMC captain at Ft. Harrison who insisted on being called "Sir." I'm sure he appreciated a good of coffee. When I served in the 70s we might get the occasional meal of C-rations (this was before MREs) but the cooks always had a large urn of coffee. You could fill a thermos if you had one. I don't remember even trying C-ration instant coffee.

[@soldtobediers]

Every instant paper packet of granules had turned into the consistency of hard candy... but melted down to a fine cup in the end. Traded my cigarette rations for the canned fruits. Stay in the field for a month on those C- rats without the fruit... things get jest a little too tight. Closest thing in the C's to chopped BBQ was called Spiced Beef... being from Texas, i traded fruitcake and date pudding for a lot of it. Got a lot more cans just given to me when i showed my squad what appeared to be an artery in one can of it. -Former Recondo Sgt. "Rock" 82nd Abn. 1/504 Inf. Div. 71-74

[@genebatchelor5186]

my c rats had 3 cigs in it,,,,russian straw

[@DonFahquidmi]

When I was a private I worked in the Fire Direction Center of an artillery battery. Sleep was a luxury. After the gun bunnies went to bed we usually stayed up running dry fire exercises. To stay alert, I would mix one pack of C-rat coaco and four packs of instant coffee. The coffee had white specks in it.

[@artemioramirez4440]

Caffeine and Nicotine kept the Army moving along.

[@stephenpratt6032]

Don't forget THC

[@videomaniac108]

I felt sorry for the guys in my company who would get Dear John letters from their girlfriends and wives. I guess that the nurse just liked the sparkle of silver bars better than yellow stripes.

[@mikeywilkinsjr3769]

William G Kirby, you got knocked the fuck out!

[@marhamdollah7351]

The best memory...

[@jimiplayscobo5877]

I've watched in order from episode 1 and I think this is the 5th or 6th one directed by Robert Altman :) Peace

[@coleparker]

That is what made the series so good. Good directors, acting, for the most part, and a sense of neutrality or reality to the situation. By that I mean they were not trying to push a politically driven narrative.

[@coleparker]

BTW, there was an episode on the Vietnam based series Tour of Duty called THE HILL. Combat! had an episode also dealing taking a hill with the same theme and also the futility of it.

[@jimiplayscobo5877]

@@coleparker Thanks I will have to check that episode out :-) Peace

[@coleparker]

@@jimiplayscobo5877 The Episode was called Hills are for Heroes. It is a b/w episode.

[@bailey9r]

At 31:03... Capt. you're The Man, look at the used Xtra Lg condoms hanging over the curtain! LOL

[@markadams7597]

Silly me, I thought there were rules about fraternization between the enlisted and officers. (The kind of mingling that would send spouses into the opposite ends of distant theaters.) (Guess Hollyweird gets away with it this episode.)

[@kidgreenhorn]

Kirby is a hot head but good in a fight.

[@SteveSabbai]

@31:26 you can see a microphone or some type of set equipment at the very top of the screen.

[@patbackus7668]

I smell a dear John ? Coming on !

[@roywhl1]

Good one

[@clmv3456]

my opa in holland said that they did that too keep the pig

[@williamrichards3707]

So that the soldiers wouldn't appropriate the bacon

[@dmode79]

31:29 i can see the mic hanging up there!

[@derrickcox7761]

I want a Combat blooper reel.

[@gornhegemony5327]

AHH! COMMODORE DECKER, U.S.S. CONSTELLATION NCC_1017.MY FAVORITE TREK EPISODE THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE. MY FAVORITE STARSHIP COMMANDER.

[@ashman187]

LT: Sgt: Caje: Kirby: LJ: Doc:

[@thatdewd]

oh geez....kirby has been trash for so long....hard to even watch this without knowing for sure that pig is gonna get what's his, LOL.

[@flufanga]

Commodore Decker from Star Fleet - time tick 5:06.

[@anti-Russia-sigma]

I wonder if the the army would have assisted,if they understood the scripts for the series.

[@onslought2]

At 31:27 I saw the microphone hanging down when they brought the wounded in.

[@KansaiSamurai]

What I also noticed in that scene was the pig with "Off Limits" written on it.

[@Thompson-xp1mk]

March couldn't be with his wife because of Kirby who fought with French guys in town.

[@robertpeters4075]

So the first scenes are at a familiar road surrounded by eucalyptus trees. They have used this road a few times.

[@Timinator62]

Oddly enough, my family had the UNFORTUNATE necessity of dealing with William Windom's Ex Wife in business, she DAILY would remind everybody who her Ex was...never realizing people, would say behind her back... "good for him dumping her"

[@robertscott7625]

I've also seen him in Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury

[@deborahlangnese7645]

I hate this part where Kirby gets the stuffing knocked out of him.

[@richarddewitt2072]

Is it coincidence or has Altman a thing for field hospitals from Combat to MASH? Just say'n.

[@duyenthien8379]

L' Homme sens l' amour comme canh chua sens la me .

[@mikeburkholder9153]

TBH - Kirby was acting like an ass, or worse.

[@jimblue39]

Kirby always acts that way, every unit had/has one.

[@mattposko1869]

The doctor was smoking a cigar during the surgery.

[@BrianR.]

Excellent episode... Any episode without Braddock is a good one.

[@tomortale2333]

LOOKS LIKE IT WAS ALL FILMED IN 1000 OAKS BACKCOUNTRY.....NICE JOB IF U CAN GET IT...CRUIZAMATIC....

[@redtobertshateshandles]

There's certainly a lot of Eucalyptus trees there. An Aussie/ South American tree transplanted in Cali.

[@motomark9736]

Why everybody giving Kirby a hard time for he was just trying to get with a girl and it went wrong he felt bad for what happened to his buddy getting wounded and then finding out his wife was a cheater playing Patty cake with the doctor

[@dindinprivate3477]

Kirby is an egotist that couldn't conceive of the fact that the French girl wanted nothing to do with him!

[@theotterguy]

Guys who try to ''get'' with a girl like that (who are not interested) are borderline rapists,I've seen it before,they are creepy as hell.

[@Robbi496]

Kirby is a certified jerkaholic!

[@cortezbellbell3960]

Kirby got kicked to sleep. Ha, ha, ha.

[@mf7482]

+Cortezbell Bell My dad told me long ago that the way he was attacked was called "Savat"

[@danrobinson572]

He swallows that coffee loud at 43:02.

[@gscop1683]

I agree this was one of Vic's BEST.....But Nurse Marsh was Awful...and I think she had a visible mustache !

[@redtobertshateshandles]

Realistic I guess. The hot nurses were probably in the Generals bed.

[@doctorartphd6463]

Kirby is a lecher. Sometimes he's disgusting.

[@Thompson-xp1mk]

Company commander should have given March leave to be with his wife for a night who was a nurse of field hosital. And the nurse had something to do with the doctor ?

[@awarriorscall1]

Then Kirby turns gay.