"COMBAT" WWII show back on tv.........................

[emmagee1917]

Sorry, but I can't commit to that much couch time right now.

I bought the whole set and watched it one episode every two weeks or so. Made it last five years . Loved it , but was sad when it " ended" . Prob'ly should do a second go as it's been a couple years now. They had a set of " Rat Patrol" out , too. I have not played it yet.
Chris

[Dienekes]

Picked up the entire set on DVD on sale from Amazon last year and delayed watching it until this winter. Just got through the first season which I faithfully watched in college in 1962, so some of it I remembered. Never did catch any of the rest of it, so from here on in it's all new to me.

Unlike a lot of programs from that era, the writing was excellent; quite a lot like some of the Star Trek shows where moral issues were brought up. Needless to say, I "get it" better now than when I was 19. Definitely in the "better late than never" category. My wife doesn't much care for war movies, but she's pretty hooked as well.

[StockDoc]

Ah yess, Rat Patrol with ONE British guy in the jeep. Should have been the other way around with possibly ONE American or NONE! And I did like the germans with a White Half track instead of a german one.

Germans used a lot of Captured Allied Equipment. And SAS used jeeps at one time, don't think it would get the viewership it it was a Brit group

[John Sukey]

Of course the SAS used jeeps, my comment on "rat patrol" was that it should have been the SAS, with possibly one American instead of the other way round!

[fjruple]

Back in 1965, While in RVN, I happened into a USO in Danang. They had a real TV, first one I'd seen in country. The show on the screen was Combat. Hah, Watched it for a few minutes and had to leave. I Still remember that. Often wondered about that. I never saw the show in the states.

Same thing happen to me but a different war. I was deploy in the second Gulf war in Iraq. Walked into the NCOs tent and saw them watching Lawrence of Arabia on a DVD play and connected to a projector!! I had to get up and leave.

--fjruple

[Larry G.]

I get Combat on Comcast. Hero's and Icons (H&I) channel at 12 midnight and 1 AM CST everyday.