COMBAT ! S04E04 The Linesman

[@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.

[@richardquan2108]

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

[@JuanWan-tp5in]

Yr n n a! X

[@DL_Videos_14]

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

[@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.😏

[@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! 🇷🇺

[@juanvera3800]

​@@jamesbetker6862ppo

[@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?

[@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.

[@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 🇵🇪 ☺️👍

[@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

[@letunityblossom5733]

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

[@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.

[@joelhenderson802]

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

[@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!

[@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..

[@bendimacco2768]

This was the best show of the 1960s.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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. 👍

[@haydeefelix684]

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

[@kathymcmahon6582]

The man had it going on.

[@chrisdeason27]

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

[@DukeBeers]

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

[@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!!!

[@JeffRuss-br3zc]

@@TWS-pd5dc They were probably fighting over Ginger, I mean, Tina Louise. God's Little Acre is on youtube. Check it out.

[@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.

[@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!

[@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!!!

[@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!!!

[@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.

[@matthewbulger4080]

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

[@stevenrussell5340]

No matter what, Little John is my favorite character.

[@brianwills8689]

One of the best episodes of Combat . .!!

[@jeremybear573]

brian wills Touché Sir, Touché

[@brianwills8689]

Especially when there's plenty of Action .

[@danrobinson572]

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

[@djsomali4414]

Whenever I want to satisfy my need to watch war movies or shows Combat never disappoints! The theme of this episode Is trust and betrayal. The Sergeant thought he was betrayed In the past and since then never trusted anybody. I've met people like that with a 'chip on their shoulder' always. We should all believe that there Is good deep down In every person and to make a mistake Is only human.

[@jeffyoung60]

A U.S. Army WW2 infantry squad included a three-man, light machine gun team. This included an air-cooled M2 Browning light machine gun with detachable tripod, manned by a gunner, loader, and an ammunition carrier. Sergeant Chip Saunders' squad was permanently understrength at roughly six men. I cannot recall if he ever had more, possibly eight men at best. The squad did not have the dedicated three-man light machine gun team. Kirby performed the job of the machine gun team with his BAR, one-man, light machine gun. An experienced, stalwart veteran, though prone to complaining, Kirby seems to have done a fairly good job substituting for the three-man machine gun team, even though the M2 Browning had far more sustained firepower.

[@garfieldsmith332]

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

[@David-su2vv]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@stanrabbo1264]

The old man and me never missed an episode.

[@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******

[@craig4867]

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

[@ROOKGOLDSMIT]

I GREW UP WATCHING COMBAT, AND IT SERVED ME WELL, AS I ENDED UP IN FRONT LINE COMBAT INFANTRY AS A RIFLEMAN AT THE AGE OF 18.

[@donlunn792]

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

[@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

[@nicholascollora6709]

Running for our lives...true scenes

[@williamwyckoff3963]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@letunityblossom5733]

Sergeant will always finds the way out.

[@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

[@NewCovenantCreature]

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

[@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.

[@jeffyoung60]

In every episode of COMBAT! SGT Saunders or LT Hanley with the squad have had to deal with serious, negative attitudes from privates, other sergeants, and sometimes officers. There was another episode where Saunders had to deal with a demolitions expert with just as negative and sour an attitude as Jack Lord's communications sergeant character. And if it wasn't a serious bad attitude problem from an American soldier, the squad sometimes got it from some German NCO or officer or a local Frenchman. Hanley and Saunders problem for the entire series was that the squad was seriously understrength. A WW2 U.S. Army infantry squad was typically 12 men. The American squad comprised a squad leader, buck sergeant, an assistant squad leader, corporal, a three-man light machine gun team, and seven riflemen. You never saw Saunders' squad with more than eight men. There were new squad members each week who were there to get killed in ambushes, artillery, snipers, and other run-in's with the Germans who were all over the countryside like zombies from The Walking Dead. Saunders never had an assistant squad leader, a corporal. Every week, Saunders would lead five to six men on patrols meant for twelve men. In the show that was supposed to be indicative of manpower shortages endemic to the American Army engaged in long-term combat operations against the Germans and other enemies. Saunders' squad received few replacements, never enough to bring the squad back to full strength. Usually two to three replacements at most would show up each week to be killed off so that the recurring squad members survived, even if repeatedly wounded.

[@EricLehner]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@waynehankinson8210]

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

[@monicafedel3307]

I’ve been lucky to see Chambord in the Loire Valley of France in person. Hard to picture a war going on around it.

[@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.

[@ROBERTWENDT-q9k]

Littlejohn was a loveable dope - must have held the record for mess ups and getting wounded....birthday cake from Mom episode was a favorite mess up.

[@doctorartphd6463]

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

[@davidmelendez5854]

My brother and I used to go out into the woods and play combat, good times

[@fldinosaur]

41:14 thru 41:16 in the background on the right edge...another truck appears...but where did it go? Never see it again!

[@danrobinson572]

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

[@deborahlangnese7645]

James McNeil stood in for Vic morrow on combat.

[@joseignacioguraya1227]

LA mejor series nunca vista

[@melvinyoung3474]

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

[@cookingsingle4887]

Fantastic show.

[@doromamire]

our lovely littlejohn often screws up.

[@markmccarty1275]

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

[@franzhohlen9655]

Château de Chambord its beautiful

[@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!!!!!

[@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!

[@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

[@shanegabbard6861]

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

[@LJHuang-jn8bj]

The scenes are very beautiful in this episode.

[@nazerimustafa4670]

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

[@__jack________________2225]

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

[@TheFishdoctor1952]

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

[@graemethomsett7587]

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

[@many4173]

Does anyone know where the set is at. Some of it looks like California with the eucalyptus trees yet the structures are very French.

[@edl617]

The Producers went to France and did location shots for the show. That why you never see any closeups of any of the Actors.

[@donaldocchi7422]

Loire Valley, Loire, France

[@kathymcmahon6582]

Filmed in both France and California

[@danrobinson572]

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

[@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 💓

[@radarstationalexchiander4285]

Great show !!!🪖🪖🪖🪖

[@annoyed707]

So, no chance of finding the reel of wire where it was dropped?

[@louisgriffin69]

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

[@scottstolper4218]

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

[@RonaldMarcos-j2n]

I’m 6768 in a month I love combat my mom and dad would not let me watch it when I was young

[@mingkwong9277]

Don't we miss those wireless phone

[@laurenstygar7996]

The music is much appreciated. It’s like a break. It’s very dramatic. I don’t like the movie music. It’s not as if it isn’t music, but the vehicle of the music is the problem. It’s actually patronizing. It’s very childish. I hate Speilburg movie music, it’s very childish. It’s not handled well, the insignificance at human danger. It goes very frivolous. I really appreciate this show, Combat. There’s actual severity of trying to survive and it’s very adult. The show respects loss of life and trying to survive. Whoever created it, does sense the adult dark.

[@mecano572]

Adorava a série e queria ir para guerra hehehehehe

[@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

[@danq.5140]

I wonder where in Cali this episode was filmed? Looks like a huge Orthodox church early in the episode.

[@jeffreygrossi2800]

Miss something... what happen to Cage and Littlejohn?

[@dhart8451]

Sidebar on Jack Lord. He was first choice to play Captain Kirk on Star Trek but he wanted a percentage of the show so they showed him the door.

[@9johnpaul]

Read where Jeffery Hunter (who played Captain Pyke), was also in line for the role,but his lady friend had better plans ( movies) for him, and without telling Hunter, had a secret meeting with the big wigs from the show and said he wasn't interested.

[@kathymcmahon6582]

@@9johnpaul and the suits listened to her????

[@9johnpaul]

@@kathymcmahon6582 Well I am assuming they must have since William Shatner got the part.

[@hallmobility]

At about 40:54, it's poor krauts, you're about to die for a few feet of wire, 'cept you don't know it yet.

[@davemaxa5263]

Its a tv script.

[@robertburch8912]

Great show

[@mediamike693]

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

[@kevinbarksdale7897]

Anyone have any idea what the building is at the 9 minute mark?

[@colincollins7601]

Kevin Barksdale chambord

[@DukeBeers]

I think it's season 2 episode 19.