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Release Date:
2 October 1962 (USA)
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Combat!, a one-hour WWII drama series on television, followed a frontline American infantry squad as they battled their way across Europe...
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WWII
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Sergeant
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Lieutenant
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys.
Another 1 nomination
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The Replacements Always Got Killed
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Cast
(Series Cast Summary - 6 of 220) | Vic Morrow | ... | Sgt. Saunders (152 episodes, 1962-1967) |
 | Rick Jason | ... | Lt. Hanley (152 episodes, 1962-1967) |
| Pierre Jalbert | ... | Caje / ... (115 episodes, 1962-1967) |
| Jack Hogan | ... | Kirby (112 episodes, 1962-1967) |
| Dick Peabody | ... | Littlejohn / ... (100 episodes, 1962-1967) |
| Conlan Carter | ... | Doc / ... (66 episodes, 1963-1967) |
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60 min (152 episodes)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Caje's full name and rank was Pfc. Paul Lemay, Kirby's was Pvt. William G. Kirby, Nelson's was Pvt. Billy Nelson. Littlejohn's first name was never given, and while Saunders on a few occasions was called "Chip" by soldiers who had known him in the past, including Lt. Hanley - who was in the same unit with him when both were NCOs - it was apparently a nickname and his real first name was never given.
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Sgt. Chip Saunders:
[a typical "pep talk" to his squad] ... All right, just knock it off. YOU KNOCK IT OFF! You people make me sick. Go on, look at yourselves. You call yourselves a squad? You're a bunch of GOOF-UPS! Littlejohn, you cause nothing but trouble! You mind everybody's business except your own...
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Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Creeping Terror (#7.6)" (1994)
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From its pixellated artillery airbursts above fixed bayonets title sequence, that seguéd into its rousing march theme, to the end of each show I was one fascinated child. Of course the core of Sgt. Saunders's squad lived through more combat than most WWII infantrymen (casualty figures for the period tell that it was extremely unusual for a unit to have made from Normandy to the Siegfied Line with all its members in combat-ready mental & physical health). And you knew that nearly every guest actor (fresh from the repo depot) would be the casualty in nearly every episode.
I used to think that Rick Jason as Lt. Hanley was soooo handsome! But I best loved Pierre Jalbert as Caje - ruggedly handsome, stoical, lethal to Germans in a firefight. "Caje, take the point," said it all: when Chip Saunders's chips were down he put Caje out front. (Jalbert is a Québecois, not a Louisiana Cajun, which explains his squad-saving fluency in French.)
There was another WWII TV series, 'The Gallant Men', that debuted the same season as 'Combat!' Even as a child I picked up on the rifle fire sound effects paradox between the two shows: in 'Combat!' the M-1 Garands made the the sound of the German Mausers in 'The Gallant Men', but in 'The Gallant Men' the sound effects swapped weapons & armies! I always liked 'Combat!' better than 'The Gallant Men' so that when 'The Gallant Men' was cancelled after one season I thought the better show had survived.
'Combat!'s' writers & directors did well for their time. This was long before gore was shown graphically on TV or in cinema, but the scripts tried hard, and often succeeded, in conveying the privation, filth, & stress of infantry fighting. My uncle is a veteran of Omaha Beach & he didn't think 'Combat!' was realistic, though he never said a word about his own wartime experiences: I suspect they were more like those of the first thirty minutes of 'Saving Private Ryan' & that he wasn't eager to revisit those times even though it's certain they never left him.
'Combat!' often made the German soldiers look like robotic dolts - which they most certainly were not (stats tell grimly that German soldiers inflicted more casulaties per man than any other WWII army). But it's important to be mindful that 'Combat! is Hollywood, not the European Theater of Operations.
For now, gang: "Checkmate King Two to White Rook: Out." (Not bad for a girl, huh?!)