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Who Grew Up With The TV Show Combat?

I watched the show and others as a kid; Vic Morrow had his life cut short from a weird accident filming I think a twilight zone movie, he was hit by a helicopter during a stunt back in the early 80's. Also remember a movie when he played a wicked cop driving a '57 Plymouth with push bars on the car. He would push people off the road over cliffs...lol.
Watch the movie Blackboard Jungle !
 
I have looked at all of these postings and all that I can say is weren't we lucky!?! We lived in the Golden Age of TV.
 
this is the movie with Vic in it as a cop
 
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My favorite was 12 o'clock high, because my dad was in the Army Air Corp during WWII...flying in B26 Marauders. As I watched it I would question my dad about things, but, as I recall, he was pretty good at skirting the questions. As a matter of fact, I don't think he talked much about that time in his life, except that he flew in the Marauders. It wasn't until his last few years that he would start telling a few of his stories and after hearing/reading some, I'm lucky to have been born at all. IIRC, he flew over 30 combat bombing missions, was shot down twice, once landing behind enemy lines and spending four days working his way back to friendly lines. The other time crash landing on friendly soil.

We played "Army" a lot, had toy guns (mine was a very realistic M1 replica) and I remember loving going to the Army/Navy Surplus store........God bless the "Greatest Generation".
 
this was good movie also
 
I have looked at all of these postings and all that I can say is weren't we lucky!?!

Yes, growing up in the 60's and into the 70's was a splendid time.

It was a much simpler time.
 
Yes, growing up in the 60's and into the 70's was a splendid time.

It was a much simpler time.
The Honeymooners, The Red Skelton Show, F Troop, Gunsmoke, Green Acres, Bewitched, The Munsters, The Andy Griffith Show, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Lost in Space, and on and on and on.

I have done everything I know to pull in the MeTV signal where I live but I can't get it. That's a great channel.
 
There are several channels that serve us those old shows. We have MeTV, Cozi and Antenna TV.
 
I finally got MeTV when Dish picked it up. Great shows.
 
Speaking of playing army and cowboys running around the neighborhood with realistic looking guns, just imagine doing that today. There'd be a SWAT team deployed or the first cops arriving shooting us.
 
Speaking of playing army and cowboys running around the neighborhood with realistic looking guns, just imagine doing that today. There'd be a SWAT team deployed or the first cops arriving shooting us.

Unfortunately, you are 100% correct!
 
I finally got MeTV when Dish picked it up. Great shows.
Yeah, no cable, only satellite or rabbit ears (just showed my age) here and I have DirecTV. I tried the longest range, amplified antennas at different locations in my house and got several channels but not the MeTV station that's in Raleigh 65 miles away as the crow flies (showed it again).
 
it took several years for Dish to pick up MeTv, even though my mother in law had it on her cable.
 
I watched a few episodes the last 24 hours, including what was mentioned as one of the best "Survivor". In one of the episodes, I saw one German soldier following another German around with two metal canisters with handles on top. Must of been ammunition for the machine gun. First time I remember spotting something practical (realistic) with respect to ammo.
 
Anyone know Sgt. Saunders first name?

His platoon never called him by his first name, but it was mentioned in two episodes if you were paying attention.
 
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