mikie Posted May 15, 2016 Share #1 Posted May 15, 2016 I just stumbled on a retro TV network showing a couple of episodes of Combat! Wow, I don't think that I've seen this show since I was a kid...a looooong time ago. Not the greatest thing for accuracy, but I'm high on the nostalgia trip right now. Mikie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waltz41 Posted May 19, 2016 Share #2 Posted May 19, 2016 It's definitely fun to watch old shows like that. Years ago I had bought some of the DVD collections of combat when they were released, as this show is well before my time. I thought they were good. One I have never seen is Rat Patrol. There are a couple of these new 'retro' channels that just sprung up it seems....... I actually caught several Baa Baa Black Sheep squadron episodes on the one day, might of been the same network running Combat. I love watching those, esp the flying scenes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmd62 Posted May 19, 2016 Share #3 Posted May 19, 2016 I love that show! I used to watch "Combat!" when I was a kid back in the 60's with my Dad. A few years ago I bought the 1st season on DVD, but didn't buy any of the subsequent seasons because they were pretty overpriced. Once I found it was playing on the H&I Network, I started recording them and have been watching them regularly ever since. You're right, not super accurate, but nostalgic and classic 60's TV. I think the BAR man Kirby, by the end of the series, would have had around 50 Purple Hearts and Sgt. Saunders Thompson never runs out of bullets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL THE PATCH Posted May 19, 2016 Share #4 Posted May 19, 2016 You can watch most of the combat shows on YouTube. They also have the rat patrol, Twelve o'clock high, and a few more I can't think of right now. Sent from my XT1031 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOLO Posted May 19, 2016 Share #5 Posted May 19, 2016 I have the entire first season of RAT PATROl, it's pretty cheesy but entertaining lots of the shows are very similar and predictable, almost like a comic book, the Rat Patrol seems to always find ways to infiltrate behind enemy lines and dress up in German uniforms and get inside the German camps and sabotage the enemy camp and escape without a scratch and the US Sgt had many chances to kill the German officer in charge and he always spares his life in every episode, almost like he's an old friend, very comic book like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL THE PATCH Posted May 19, 2016 Share #6 Posted May 19, 2016 The "german" in the rat patrol series is Hans gudagast, and he changed it to Eric braedon. And is a famous soap opera person Sent from my XT1031 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M422A1 Posted April 13, 2022 Share #7 Posted April 13, 2022 Reviving an old thread! I have been watching Combat! on the Heroes & Icons channel now for a few years. Love it! I watched it as a kid back in the 60's and I am enjoying watching it again. My wife knows that every Saturday, I will be watching two hours of Combat!. It is followed by two episodes of Rat Patrol and then 12 O'Clock High. I think Combat! has held up the best of all of them. I know when we were kids, we all wanted to be Sgt. Saunders when we played war. I even had a Mattel Tommy Gun. I think over the years I went through three of them. I still have two of them in the basement. But they are the green camo ones. My favorite one was the Dick Tracy Mattel Tommy Gun because it was black and brown and looked more like the one Sgt. Saunders carried... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daskrieg Posted April 13, 2022 Share #8 Posted April 13, 2022 Who remembers the board game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proud Kraut Posted April 13, 2022 Share #9 Posted April 13, 2022 Great boxart. Can we take a look inside the box? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rooster Posted April 13, 2022 Share #10 Posted April 13, 2022 All of the seasons episodes of COMBAT are on youtube. Its free! Great show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundance Posted April 13, 2022 Share #11 Posted April 13, 2022 I'm again enjoying watching Combat and Twelve O'clock High. I'm sure I watched them all in the 60's along with millions of WW2 vets. Maybe, though, the vets didn't watch them. Still enjoyable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daskrieg Posted April 13, 2022 Share #12 Posted April 13, 2022 Playing board and playing pieces Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daskrieg Posted April 13, 2022 Share #13 Posted April 13, 2022 Instructions on the box lid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linedoggie Posted April 13, 2022 Share #14 Posted April 13, 2022 On 5/19/2016 at 5:30 PM, BOLO said: I have the entire first season of RAT PATROl, it's pretty cheesy but entertaining lots of the shows are very similar and predictable, almost like a comic book, the Rat Patrol seems to always find ways to infiltrate behind enemy lines and dress up in German uniforms and get inside the German camps and sabotage the enemy camp and escape without a scratch and the US Sgt had many chances to kill the German officer in charge and he always spares his life in every episode, almost like he's an old friend, very comic book like. Don't forget the Rat Patrol knocks out Afrika Korps M7 Priests SPH by throwing a grenade at them while firing fifties with no sights and carrying Spanish Star Z-45 SMG's Hans Gudegast is now Eric Braeden and a Soap Opera star for "The young and the restless" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M422A1 Posted April 13, 2022 Share #15 Posted April 13, 2022 5 hours ago, daskrieg said: Who remembers the board game? I used to have it. Love the box art! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundance Posted April 23, 2022 Share #16 Posted April 23, 2022 Just watched a little "Black Sheep Squadron", The Japanese are using Garands, Oh the horror. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundance Posted April 23, 2022 Share #17 Posted April 23, 2022 Still like "Twelve O'clock High" and "Combat" though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANDALL 1953 Posted August 10, 2022 Share #18 Posted August 10, 2022 Me & my Dad watched it every week. He was a Sgt. in the US Army's Combat Engineer Battalion and fought in The Battle Of The Bulge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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