Combat!

Combat!

Sgt. Saunders

Lt. Hanley

Caje

Kirby

Littlejohn

Doc

Although Pierre Jalbert had been employed at MGM for nearly a decade he had no actual acting experience prior to being cast as PFC Paul "Caje" Lamay on Combat. Up to that time all of his tenure at MGM had been in the capacity of a technician in the film editing department.

A feature film adaptation of the series was planned with Bruce Willis in the lead as "Chip" Saunders but the film never materialized.

Originally aired on Tuesday nights at 7:30 pm opposite NBC's Laramie (1959), CBS' Gunsmoke (1955) and The Lloyd Bridges Show (1962).

Sgt. Chip Saunders: [a typical "pep talk" to his squad] ... All right, just knock it off. YOU KNOCK IT OFF! You people make me sick. Go on, look at yourselves. You call yourselves a squad? You're a bunch of GOOF-UPS! Littlejohn, you cause nothing but trouble! You mind everybody's business except your own. From now on, you mind your OWN business and you FOLLOW ORDERS! Kirby - KIRBY! You're a hot-headed show-off who thinks of himself first and everybody else second. You fly off the handle every time you turn around! Cooling your heels off in some stockade may be exactly what you need, so you'd just better SHAPE UP! Now I've had it. I HAVE HAD IT! This squad's gonna shape up! You've been on the front so long, you're forgetting you're soldiers! I'm sick of...!

Braddock: Don't just stand there sucking on a prune pit, get these men some water!