The Best Series Ever!
Why was/is Combat so great? Great stories. Everybody loves a good story. For example, if you want to see an anti-war masterpiece, watch "The Volunteer." A young "gung ho" French boy learns a painful lesson--To know your enemy is to love your enemy.
The characters become like a part of your family. You care about them. Like all of us they struggle and have their strengths and weaknesses. However, their generation was "our greatest generation", as Tom Brokaw's book called them.
And Vic Morrow--what more can you say. "American cool" equals James Dean in "Rebel Without A Cause", Paul Newman in "The Hustler" and Vic Morrow in "Combat!"
These stories never get old. They are always fun to watch.

Fantastic
Fantastic show! I absolutely love it! Superb cast!! Vic Morrow (R.I.P) is an excellent actor/director. Very few people my age (18 year-olds) know about this show, which is a shame because it really is one of the best, if not THE BEST war drama ever.

One Of TV's Best
I'm on about my third watch of this set it really is amazing how good this show was for being an hour long show the attention for details was above and beyond. Of course when you marathon the show one after another you will notice a few things such as the French village that never seemed to stay in the allies hands, the difference in the bore of Saunders Thompson SMG from scene to scene as legend has it Morrow complained about having to hump the the nearly 13lb gun around all day up and own hills so they came up with a much lighter prop gun for scenes where there was no shooting involved. There's a couple more like Morrow wearing a Rolex Sub in later color episodes and my most favorite one is that of a freight train rolling along in the background with mid 60's Chevy passenger cars aboard but hey if you get caught up in the minor details you end up missing the main reason for its popularity and one must remember when they came out it was once a week not two or three episodes a night one after another. It was also a series in which the stars were not Hollywood pretty characters these guys were gritty and at times unlikable and presented the look of battlefield stress weekly. My late father being a veteran of combat in Europe just couldn't not sit and watch this show as a rule without getting up and doing something else when it was on in the 60's and the main reason why I think they hit the spots that had to hit to make it believable the memories were just too fresh just a scant 10 years after the war. If pressed he would point out little discrepancies in the show but really didn't throw a wet blanket over it either..If your are a child of a WW II vet still wanting a better understanding of what our fathers went through, a military buff, although somewhat expensive this is a series you just have to get and will flat wear out on your DVD. It comes with little antidotal info before each show of what to look for and is loaded with some of Hollywood's brightest and best of the period who guested Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Sal Mineo, Telly Savalas, Robert Duval, Robert Culp, it appeared to be one of the must do series of the period. This is one you will not regret buying.

Good Memories
I am enjoying Combat the complet series and bring back as if i was at home in my folks house watching Combat.
This was a well written storys that people should see how it was in that era.
HEW

Great! Brings back memories and provokes thought.
Well I finally got to the end of this set and I must say, I'm a little bummed that I did because I really enjoyed it. At 120 episodes, it takes a good long time to see them all, even if you watch 2 per day, lol.

I watched these as a kid and always liked Combat back then but seeing them now as a not-so-young adult brings a new appreciation. This is mostly because I realize now that this was a lot more than a war story...and a lot more that US and Nazi troops blasting away at eachother. Rather there was some excellent writing in most of the episodes. The stories are chock full of tales of morality, overcoming fear, dealing with the loss of loved ones, and the extraordinary feats that average human beings pull off when their backs are against the wall.

Rick Jason and Vic Morrow both did one heck of a job and of course Vic did some of the best directing in some top episodes. Rick really handled his part well and was a talent for sure, but it was the episodes featuring Vic which were the most believable and captivating. Vic had a way of acting in which he very seldom ever over-acted. In his case less equals more...sort of like some of Eastwood's stuff. Through dozens of episodes he's cool and collected. Then in a couple where his character sees kids who he befriended fall victim to the carnage he does lose it and nearly goes over the deep end. But he does a good job of making his portrayal real.

Vic Morrow, was the best and a complete stud at acting and directing in this series! He deserved better than the tragic death he got while filming a movie years later. But life, like the events depicted in Combat, is seldom fair.