Wonderful character development!

Absolutely the worst movie.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

I used to love watching re-runs of this with my dad, who was a veteran himself. However, we did get quite a few laughs from the tactics used. I don't know why so many people are praising the realism of the combat situations. Some were credible, but there were more than a few errors or WTF moments and ideas done to death. For instance, they were ALWAYS unlucky enough to be laying somewhere that the entire German army needed to stop by, and would get trapped. I don't think anyone in the whole squad knew how to flank anything, except for the Sarge. They would just run straight at the Germans until all guest stars were dead. They all got wounded so many times that each would have had 200 purple hearts LOL. There were so many episodes where the guest star guys would just run out in the open to attack a MG nest, or the Germans would suddenly stand up so they could get hit easily. The "squad" was more of a fire team, at best. They were on recon missions, usually, but really? Only 3-4 men out that deep in enemy territory? They were always talking loudly on patrols, for the sake of the script. However, overall, it was a great show for the time, and did show a lot of other real things that happened. It still remains a classic, just funny at times.

Just discovered this show just recently. As it shows the men of the King's Company troop go through war and shows them as humans. Who had to fight a war to win and their mental, emotional, and physical strengths and weaknesses.Even Steven Spielberg loved the show so much, he used this for "Saving Private Ryan." The men lead by Lt Gil Hanley(Rick Jason), and Sgt Chip Saunders(Vic Morrow). As they would be for five years, and 152 episodes. Sorting out dangers while winning a war. That had to be won.How they fought one battle to move to the next. Knowing that they would have to win at all costs. Regardless of consequence.We see the men grow and develop character wise. Especially Saunders, but sadly we did not see that in Hanley. Wished that we would have. Still the show is a balance between man vs war. Showing the human side and showing the emotions that they face. In WWII!

I have this year bought the entire five seasons of this terrific series on DVD and am now just finishing series three. I was living in Cyprus when i first Combat on T.V as my father was stationed there with the British army and we used to watch it every week without fail. As stated in some of the other reviews, the characters were people who we would look up to as kids, but were also role models unlike today.In the sixties there were a lot of good T.V series with characters for kids to look up to such as Bonanza, Laredo, Star Trek and these programs were suitable for children. So i find it disturbing to find that kids of seven, which i was when i first watched Combat in 1964, looking up to people like Sylvester Stallone in Rambo or Arnold Swartzenegger in Total Recall. These films were certainly not fit for kids of that age to watch. It's nice to see some of the old Hollywood greats in supporting roles, for example Charles Bronson in a passive role James Coburn, Roddy McDowell. Also watching Richard Baseheart, James Caan and William Smith from Rich Man Poor Man and Richard Jaekel playing Germans and speaking German. In the case of James Caan in the entire episode. Also i liked it that not all the time the Germans were portrayed as the brutal Hun for example the episode A Cry In The Ruins from season three where after an American barrage on a village, German soldiers are seen trying to rescue a baby trapped under the rubble. The one thing i could never understand was after Combat the main actors with the exception of Vick Morrow, namely Rick Jason, Piere Jalbert, Jack Hogan, Dick Peabody etc etc were hardly seen again and regarding Vic Morrow, why such a terrific actor kept being given these cheap rubbishy bad guy roles in movies like Bronx Warriors and Monster with another good actor The Virginians Doug Maclure. Also it was a big tragedy the way Vic Morrow died in that terrible accident while making his last movie The Twilight Zone. So you now know that the complete series of Combat is out on DVD and therefore to all the fans please by it. Kevin Thomas.

This series was a top rated one for ABC. It is easy to see why. Vic Morrow, Rick Jason, & the regular cast were talented actors. The series also got a lot of support from top notch guest stars as well.The production qualities of this show were better than a lot of series. Somehow the action sequences would always look fresh. We'd always believe our heroes would come out and they always did thanks to so clever script writing. Amazingly, a large battery of script writers would always make things flow somehow.This show gave us some heroes to look up too when we were kids who were regular GI's instead of wearing capes & flying. The Pvts & Sgts were the heroes, not the brass. The thing I have noticed in reruns I have seen recently is that sometimes the scripts did get a little stretched. This series almost ran as long as the entire World War 2.The setting is in France & the Germans are always the enemy. If our regulars got wounded, the medics would always have them fixed up for the next episode. I'd also bet more ammunition was used filming this show than any other hit series.This series glorified war & was prior to efforts to show how horrible war really was. What is interesting is that it doesn't really get into the type of partisan political views shown later in MASH. This show rarely gets preachy letting the actions speak. That is why this show is so good. The US Military served as consultants to the program.