COMBAT ! S04E04 The Linesman

[@richardquan2108]

I watched Combat all the time ! And I am 73 years old and still enjoy it 🇨🇦❤️🇺🇸😇🙏🐂🐃🦬🐖👀

[@JuanWan-tp5in]

Yr n n a! X

[@albagubrath3813]

Lucky you. I only just discovered it. Great show.

[@chrisdeason27]

Hands down the best tv show this and Rat patrol 👍💯

[@davidcummins475]

I am impressed by the quality of the scripts, the great acting, and blown away by the music score. What a great tv series.

[@kellycrouch9576]

As a young boy in the 60s I watched this show with my companions every chance and were glued to it. Later in life spending 4 years in 82d Airborne Infantry,I can’t help but think these shows contributed to my being a great combat soldier. Thanks for keeping them alive(and me).

[@pjbikerful]

Ha.. Me too. Vietnam 1968-69 173rd Airborne. My vet brothers over the years have told me how cool and calm i always was under fire. I told them i think it was from watching combat and Vic Morrow for so many years. It prepared me for combat.😏

[@chefpetey]

The series was shot almost entirely in Rancho Cucamonga when I was a little kid. My mom and I were having lunch in a coffeeshop when a group of armed "Krauts" came in. Dammit I was terrified!!! Never will forget it.

[@UberLummox]

Too funny! Did you show them your papers?

[@Bronzeone1956]

This show is and was the Holy Graille of me growing up. I loved it, wish they had made a lot more of them !

[@jamesbetker6862]

We had a a Mattel Thompson that used rolls of caps so it would sound like the real thing.

[@craig4867]

It was on for five seasons and that's a lot of shows, so be thankful for that! 🇷🇺

[@letunityblossom5733]

Thanks for uploading. Watching and enjoying from European Union, Lithuania.

[@bob_btw6751]

That town set sure got used a lot. The people who had to clean it up and prepare it for looking the way it would be used the next time must have put in a lot of overtime. Some times it need to look blasted and other times like people still lived there. Amazing that they could do such good work preparing for another episode a couple weeks later.

[@bryanbell7816]

I've been watching Combat for decades. Been a while since I have seen the show. So glad I found this or it found me lol. Believe me I'll be binge watching for quite a while. Great show, great cast, great writing. There's nothing like it around anymore. 👍

[@juandelacruzancco4085]

👍COMBAT👍 Es Lo Mejor Tengo 61 Años y no me cansaré de seguir viendo Los Capitulos Especialmente cuando el Sargto ayuda Asus Compañeros en sus dificultades del Combate👍☺️; Solo pediría que Cambien Al Castellano o Español Por Favor gracias Saludos Del Perú 🇵🇪 ☺️👍

[@bendimacco2768]

This was the best show of the 1960s.

[@joelhenderson802]

I never saw this episode back in 1963-64, but Lt. Hanley and Sgt. Saunders helped straiten this linesman out.

[@jamesglynn3231]

I can't believe how critical the comments are that people are making about this show. This was great "TV" back in the day and its even better today. Who cares if some things are inaccurate. Just watch it for what it is, really good television, and keep your derogatory comments to yourself!

[@jeremybear573]

james glynn Touché Sir, Touché

[@waynebhase4436]

??? I haven't read many negative comments here, just one about whether or not a coil of wire would float, that wasn't much of a negative comment, in fact, he was right. So what? I think everyone likes this that is commenting. I doubt most young people will even try to watch this, not enough trash talk or glitzy costumes with weird hairstyles, so relax and enjoy it, it is by far the best on youtube. In fact, I can't even watch any of the new movies in 2017, every movie is now feminism on parade, totally bullshit.

[@moonmunster]

My favorite TV show as a kid.

[@paulaguenon1660]

I think people just like being negative. this is TV not nuclear disarmament. I usually ignore them. this was a well down show that veterans watched.

[@Skinny_Karlos]

I'm an Aussie, 52, nearing 53 and as a prepubescent scallywag this was one of my favourite TV shows. I admit I loved this macho stuff. We'd watch these shows, go to the bush that was all around my home, literally just across the road and "play" our war games, where no-one ever really died and everyone was a hero (if only in their own mind). Sadly, (though I can't argue with people wanting to live in a house) that bush is now developed and all houses. Still, watching this, or I should say rewatching, this show has me reminiscing about those days when we didn't lock our doors, leash our canines (they just followed us on our adventures and like us it was "out of the house 'till lunch, or dinner" - sadly those days seem long gone for keyboards pixel screens and fear of serial killers), or worry about every little thing, well, maybe one - back then (and I know the youth of today grows up very fast) for us, it was very, very bad to get "girls germs" - Sadly today it's a very different world.

[@LAWood-cp6oy]

Brilliant episode with Vic Morrow and Jack Lord, what a pair! Combat, the best there ever was, or will be. L.A. Wood

[@ZM7241994]

Jack Lord was right when he referred to Little John as a "clumsy ox" as that's what his character is often reduced to in order to propel the plot forward. In season 2 he trips while throwing a grenade and ends up killing a squad mate, in season 3 he leaves behind a package and attracts the attention of the Germans while retrieving it, and now he fumbles a spool of phone cable into a river. Little John in the first season was far better written, and had more depth to his character. Still enjoying Combat, and this episode was amazing with Vic Morrow, Rick Jason, and Jack Lord all together.

[@robertcooper411]

I was a small boy in the 60's and I don't recall ever seeing this .Maybe it wasn't broadcast in the UK.Thoroghly entertaining ,thanks for the uploads.

[@richardgalli7262]

One of my very fave shows growing up in the 60s

[@brianwills8689]

One of the best episodes of Combat . .!!

[@jeremybear573]

brian wills Touché Sir, Touché

[@brianwills8689]

Especially when there's plenty of Action .

[@joshlonewolf4412]

Jack Lord Again! He’s A Well Known Artist! I’ve Seen His Work! Very Talented! His Work Hangs In Many Museum’s In Hawaii & Around The World!

[@haydeefelix684]

The best TV show, I love, my favorite actor, Vic Morrow

[@kathymcmahon6582]

The man had it going on.

[@mdmmysocialmedia254]

Combat is an exceptional show: To me it is not about nostalgia, rather about good acting and writing. Nostalgia comes much later after a movie or tv series proves it's artistic worth.

[@blindbat2416]

Damn, the good ol' days, Combat, 12 O'clock High, Rat Patrol and the Invaders

[@buddydog1956]

don't forget the 'Gallant Men'... ~

[@kathymcmahon6582]

No, COMBAT all the way. No other show compares!!!

[@letunityblossom5733]

Sergeant will always finds the way out.

[@richardsales3009]

This is a good episode where Vic Morrow goes up against a perfect jerk portrayed by Jack Lord. The line has been laid and the mission accomplished back to the home front.

[@TWS-pd5dc]

Another good solid episode. I read somewhere that the antagonism between Morrow and Lord was real. They had done a movie together a few years earlier and came to blows supposedly. Might be a legend but I don't find it hard to believe. Both were very strong willed actors who were known to be pains in the butt. A friend of mine had a sister who dated Morrow when he was still in NY. His comment was "if Vic ever smiled his face would fall apart". I know Quinn Martin in an interview said he had a ton of respect for Morrow as an actor but warned producers that he could be a bit of a problem. And Lord would later do a series, Stoney Burke, with Bruce Dern. Word is Dern hated him. Still, both actors' body of work will live on.

[@UberLummox]

Thanks for the insight!

[@nicholascollora6709]

Running for our lives...true scenes

[@matthewbulger4080]

The Late Jack Lord Worked With Vic Morrow 3 Times.The 1958 Film "God's Little Acre" This Episode Of Combat! And A 4th, Season Episode Of The Original TV Classic "Hawaii Five-O" Entitled "Two Doves And Heron" Broadcast On CBS-TV October 12th,1971.

[@TWS-pd5dc]

Oddly, I've read that the 2 of them had real animosity towards each other. Supposedly got into a fist fight on the set of God's Little Acre. I do know that both were very intense and often were at odds with directors, producers, etc.

[@kathrynmcmahon4048]

I heard they had a fist fight on God' little acre i real life. I hope Vic won😃😃😃

[@kathymcmahon6582]

JL was a more!!!

[@matthewbulger4080]

This 100th Milestone Episode Of Combat! Was First Broadcast On ABC-TV Tuesday Evening 7:30-8:30Pm (DST) On October 5th,1965.

[@danrobinson572]

Kirby broke that Germans jaw when he hit him with his butt of his BAR at 43:25.

[@10832894]

The rivet counters need to shut up, this was and still is one of the best military series ever produced !

[@franklinhuimanreyes192]

Muy buenas películas Si fuera en español mucho mejor

[@kathymcmahon6582]

Amen!!!

[@pinetree9343]

@@franklinhuimanreyes192 expand your mind. Learn English. By the way, American soldiers during world war II spoke English. The Spanish were in the Nazi camp, and the Mexicans were seduced by the Nazis to invade the southern part of the U.S..

[@Francisco4375]

Sou Brasileiro e também cresci assistindo a esta serie de guerra com meu saudoso pai veterano ( 2ª Guerrra mundial ) da FEB Força Expedicionária Brasileira. Já solicitei inúmeras vezes ao canal TCM mas infelizmente não exibe mais aqui no Brasil.

[@stevenrussell5340]

No matter what, Little John is my favorite character.

[@David-su2vv]

Agreed Jim. Much better than the crap that is on tv today.

[@waynehankinson8210]

Really good tv series when compared to Rat Patrol. Some movies about WW2 weren’t this good.

[@jameshoran8]

Duke. Thanks for upload. A lot of Season Four had the producers in France the summer before at famous French site, but the stars, Morrow and Jason stayed home as they would not be paid. The outside shots are wide angle as there are extras playing Saunders, Hanley and the rest, esp this episode, The Linesman.

[@LonoTheOno]

The eucalyptus trees are a distracting give-away as to when they are in Southern California, and I wondered where they got all that lush terrain as seen in the long shots. Different locations, but of course.

[@kathrynmcmahon4048]

Producer's were cheap. Vic , some say, may have difficult but he always did better and got better results. Vic is the one who new what worked and what didn't!!! Remember that!!!

[@garfieldsmith332]

Jack Lord always played a hard nosed bad ass. It made him perfect for the role of Steve McGarret.

[@stanrabbo1264]

The old man and me never missed an episode.

[@cookingsingle4887]

Fantastic show.

[@DukeBeers]

I have all combat episodes. Look in my playlists under combat.

[@donlunn792]

It’s such a pity the the series cannot be remastered! It is an icon .

[@johnulrich5572]

Ft Hood and Ft Riley have thousands and thousands of miles of commo wire out in the training areas. Back in the 70's every time we went to the field for training exercises we would lay more wire and of course leave it when we were finished. Combat! was my favorite tv show as a kid.

[@craig4867]

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

[@radarstationalexchiander4285]

Great show !!!🪖🪖🪖🪖

[@franzhohlen9655]

Château de Chambord its beautiful

[@joseignacioguraya1227]

LA mejor series nunca vista

[@robertburch8912]

Great show

[@DressedByTheTrueDiVine]

Being on edge is the nature of the beast of war, but that linesman took it up a notch.

[@ashokkumarsithu8798]

Whatever may be the shortcomings it shows yester years reality of life to a major extent to be noted by current and future generations

[@davemaxa5263]

What reality? It just a scripted tv show to entertain.

[@hivicar]

Was just reading about Lord and wife left well over $40 mil to Hawaiian charities when they died. He's also the star of the Colonial Williamsburg Patriot film, which has been screening nightly for 60 + years, a movie record only to be increased by itself.

[@EricLehner]

The opening credits are good for any man's testosterone level...

[@__jack________________2225]

That's one hell of a troubleshooting when one of the splices failed.

[@williamwyckoff3963]

I like Saunders he's a good Sgt ! You always listen to the Sgt ! I know that and I was Navy Lol

[@melvinyoung3474]

I date self. I remember Combat as new. Loved it then, love it now.

[@danrobinson572]

This looks like it was filmed over in France 🇫🇷. That dam 👀 old.

[@doctorartphd6463]

Little John always seemed like a "Baby Huey" , nice guy but simple and, yes, clumsy.

[@rebelwalzt]

Most of this episode was filmed in France, in The Loire Valley. That's way the long are very different Than most episodes filmed on the back lot...

[@dhart8451]

The stars of the show never were in France. The parts that were filmed in France are distant shots with fill in actors from France. All the scenes that are close up were filmed in CA.

[@josephwolosz3205]

d hart I knew California had some wineries that were used to film COMBAT! But it definitely looks like France. And back to the backlot for close up shots.

[@kathymcmahon6582]

The suits were too cheap to pay Vic and Rick

[@doromamire]

our lovely littlejohn often screws up.

[@markmccarty1275]

"stumblebum" I love it. Every squad in my experience has one.

[@jacktheripoff1888]

I forgot what episode it was, but the best scene was this one when they got a new guy in their squadron. Saunders asked him if he had seen any combat and the new guy replied that he saw some on TV, but only the ones where Rick Jason was the featured star.

[@johncasciello4123]

Yes there are a lot of nit pickers who comment on small slights seen on each episode of COMBAT but take into consideration there are plenty of stagehands creating the EPISODES and from time to time while filming one or two of the stagehands is called away (possible family matter to take care of) while someone else takes his or hers place during the filming sequence and perhaps an item or two is left as is and the PRODUCERS,DIRECTORS are pressed for time:sending out the 98% almost finished product (episode) to the film editors and music cue-ers and maybe announcing a voice over on the opening theme and saying (for example) SPECIAL GUEST STAR JOE BLO FROM IDAHO!! and getting the finished product over to MANY MANY TV BROADCAST STATIONS across the country for thier respective BROADCAST DATES!!!! So sit back and enjoy the squad as they get the ole job done******

[@jwm7749]

still fun compared to reality tv

[@jameshoran8]

At 0.13, that is not Saunders, but a stand in. They shot the scene in France, but Morrow told the producers, "not paying me, I am not going." Stand in does a pretty good Saunders walk.

[@speedracer1945]

+James Horan Good eyes, nice call . Hollywood sometimes send a second unit out to location without the Actors but stand ins to save money too

[@markmccarty1275]

Actually they filmed quite a bit of this in France (Loire Valley) with the MGM backlot and Franklin Canyon. They had stand-ins for the whole squad. Also used some of the same footage from the episode "Bridge at Chalons". A great episode none-the-less.

[@jameshoran8]

What I would have love to have heard was the Jack Lord character saying, "Book em, Chip O.!

[@kathymcmahon6582]

Earl Parker was Vic's stand in

[@TheFishdoctor1952]

This isn't the first time they traveled the road at the end of his episode.

[@palerider660]

The way the Sarge finally died in real life is truly tragic and bizarre. Killed by a helicopter blade while shooting a Vietnam war scene. War is deadly even on TV.

[@jstetzer01]

Wow! Kirby butt smashed that dude so hard with the BAR I could feel it. Hope the guy didn't get hurt. It is TV. In reality , think the guy would be dead.

[@mecano572]

Adorava a série e queria ir para guerra hehehehehe

[@LJHuang-jn8bj]

The scenes are very beautiful in this episode.

[@davidsnyderWisdomTrollBlocker]

about a third of this episode was the krauts chasing Saunder's squad...haaa....a lot of filler there ; but still plenty of quality viewing.

[@PaulJersey]

I watched this as a kid. These guys never got any tank support, nothing! I wondered about that watching it as a kid. Now as an adult I understand that tanks were to expensive for a tv show…LOL!

[@shanegabbard6861]

So where is all those spoils coming from..lol 3 miles worth! 😄

[@shanegabbard6861]

Combats kinda like start trek..you know the new faces are going to get it…lol

[@carlosnoriega9540]

La mejor serie

[@gspowers51]

OK. Hold on a minute. At 11:54 they are going to cross a big, empty bridge. How likely would that have been? Ok, back to story.

[@seegurke93]

Gregory Powers :D you are right. in reality there would have been guards and maybe some FLAK (if it was behind the line, if it was frontline there would have been a division and AT etc.)

[@memphoonthemississippi642]

+Gregory Powers Very true - except the Allies or the Germans would probably have taken it out - the Allies to block a German retreat or the Germans to block an Allied advance. But if it was still there, someone would have been around in force!

[@speedracer1945]

+Gregory Powers only in end of world films or Zombie films , but it looks unnatural and naked LOL

[@nicholascollora6709]

Rick and Vic would call our ancestors..thx

[@nonamegame9857]

Uh-oh. Jack Lord got the Saunders stare 🤯🤯

[@kathymcmahon6582]

Just Sgt has the Vic stare!!!

[@nazerimustafa4670]

Yes.This is combat. I am watching along time ago. 1970an.

[@mediamike693]

+++++++I LIKE IT+++++++A GOOD SHOW++++++++

[@paulsuprono7225]

Wonder whether Vic Morrow . . . is still amongst us ? 😎

[@kathrynmcmahon4048]

Vic and two children were MURDERED making a movie that SUCKED and Vic told several ppl it did!!!

[@kathymcmahon6582]

In our thoughts and prayers and 💓

[@louisgriffin69]

The village looks like the village used in the movie Frankenstein.

[@tyates4398]

TO be fair, they probably had advisors on the set that were actually there, so it's probably more accurate than you think

[@kathymcmahon6582]

They did

[@nicholascollora6709]

These are true scenes

[@stephaniemoore8639]

Doesn’t anyone in this man’s army ever follow orders? They did spend a lot of time portraying Little John as a well-meaning but incurable klutz!

[@mingkwong9277]

Don't we miss those wireless phone

[@graemethomsett7587]

Jack Lord was the boss in the original series of "Hawaii 5-0" rarely smiled.

[@chefpetey]

Jack Lord needs to be in a blue suit!

[@danrobinson572]

Book him Dan-O

[@darrenblaszka4438]

That guy is a marksman with his auto Thompson.

[@larryturner8712]

Book 'em, Danno !

[@kingforaday8725]

Thats a lotta wire!!!!

[@scottstolper4218]

Sergeant Saunders has attitude he's the original tough guy and they're surprisingly good Rapport between him and the lieutenant

[@danrobinson572]

Kirby hot to be tired 😓 running with that BAR.

[@lelandsmith2320]

H eseemed like a high-energy guy.

[@danrobinson572]

@@lelandsmith2320 very high strung hahaha 🤣

[@johncasciello4123]

Would of been a good story line if the writers could have made an episode with a RUSSIAN SOLDIER who for whatever reason made HIS way to FRANCE for a secret mission and SAUNDERS and HANLEY had to ensure that HE gets to where he is to rendevous with other INTELLIGENCE OPERATIVES! and the information between the RUSSIAN and whomever could possibly shorten the war!!!!!

[@robertpeters4075]

Eucalyptus tree forest only in So Cal, baby.

[@billboth4814]

Book 'em, Dano!

[@buddydog1956]

LOL!!! I was just a/b to post that ~ lol!

[@chillymoe0331]

Book em Dano!

[@danrobinson572]

Is it me or my eyesight? For some reason this episode is really really in black an white.

[@jjboyd01]

show is hilarious, just noticed Little John helmet too small. LOL.

[@shadowwolf2524]

There is only 1 size M-1 helmet

[@lelandsmith2320]

@@shadowwolf2524 Maybe his head was too big!

[@darrenblaszka4438]

Anybody ever think about the hollywood casting couch and how these guys got there rolls?

[@manfredlebaron7489]

Jack Lord aka Steve McGarrett "Hawaii 5 "O" ...Book em Danno!

[@MegaFoot1234]

me my Dad and brothers watched every tuesday at 7:30

[@oldermuscleguy]

Lmbo Jack Lords right Little John is a clumsy Ox

[@dindinprivate3477]

Yes he is, but he has other very important redeeming features and is a full participating member of the squad.

[@gscop1683]

I knew there was some reason I never liked Hawaii 5 O......Jack Lord....;-)