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It's been a while since I heard "Kirby, get the BAR" but MeTV is airing COMBAT re-runs in the early hours and my DVR is working double duty.

Just watched one of the many "battle scenes" and watched Sarge with his Tommy gun, Kirby with his BAR, and Little John and the others with theirs M1's dump $100's of dollars of ammo :)
 
I loved Combat and never missed a show. I had the Tommy gun and carried my Dad's WWII inert British grenade he swiped from the Canadian Army. It made a good prop when we played Combat and nobody even called the bomb squad in those days on me.
 
My dad would screw pipes onto old military rifle stocks he had around the shop and I'd play with those. My big brother built a four wall military style tent out of old sheets. One day he tied my friend, who was wearing a real army helmet, in a chair, then he and his friend kept hitting him in the head with a chain to "make him talk". We had more fun then with three TV channels and playing outside all the time than kids now with a zillion channels and video games. Here's an old commercial of the Tommy Gun...
Mattel Tommy Burst TV commercial 1960s! - YouTube
 
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Wyatt Burp said:
We had more fun then with three TV channels and playing outside all the time than kids now with a zillion channels and video games. Here's an old commercial of the Tommy Gun...
Mattel Tommy Burst TV commercial 1960s! - YouTube
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I think that kid just shot Otis!!

I remember the commericals too. I wonder how much one of those "Tommy-Burst Detective Kits" would sell for on ebay now? I would love to have some at $7!!
 
Wyatt Burp said:
My dad would screw pipes onto old military rifle stocks he had around the shop and I'd play with those. My big brother built a four wall military style tent out of old sheets. One day he tied my friend, who was wearing a real army helmet, in a chair, then he and his friend kept hitting him in the head with a chain to "make him talk". We had more fun then with three TV channels and playing outside all the time than kids now with a zillion channels and video games. Here's an old commercial of the Tommy Gun...
Mattel Tommy Burst TV commercial 1960s! - YouTube
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HOLY COW BATMAN====ONLY $3.

Did you notice that crook was none other than Otis the drunk, from the Andy Griffith show, and the pistol he carried was a Walther P-38.:)
 
boykinlp said:
I think that kid just shot Otis!!

I remember the commericals too. I wonder how much one of those "Tommy-Burst Detective Kits" would sell for on ebay now? I would love to have some at $7!!
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You noticed that too-and he did. Otis drinks no more...
 
Better times

Wyatt,

Had the Tommy Gun as well, when we were stuck inside back then, playing was Erector Sets,,,, Lincoln Logs,,,etc.
Leonard
 
boykinlp said:
I think that kid just shot Otis!!

I remember the commericals too. I wonder how much one of those "Tommy-Burst Detective Kits" would sell for on ebay now? I would love to have some at $7!!
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Is that Otis Campbell? Is Rat Patrol being aired anywhere. That and Combat were two of my favorites. Also, seems like there was a program about WW2 named Jericho in the late 60's.
 
I had one of those tommy guns too. Me and about 6-8 other kids used play guns in the neighborhood. We'd run around the houses, find each other and then shoot. Once shot you'd have to count to 100 before you could get up and play again. I remember Denny used to be the best guy to shoot. He could really die good. Get up in a tree, get shot, fall out of tree. Up on garage roof, get shot, roll off roof to ground. Everybody wanted to shoot Denny. Man, this forum certainly brings back some weird memories. Now I'm wondering if Denny ever became a stunt man.
 
I love watching MeTV! Really enjoy the old Batman shows, but now I have a new one to record!
 
mudcat100 said:
Is that Otis Campbell? Is Rat Patrol being aired anywhere. That and Combat were two of my favorites. Also, seems like there was a program about WW2 named Jericho in the late 60's.
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I used to love Rat Patrol as a kid. I bought the DVD set from SAM's Club last year and couldn't even make it through the a dozen episodes . . . it was just to silly to watch.
 
Faulkner said:
I used to love Rat Patrol as a kid. I bought the DVD set from SAM's Club last year and couldn't even make it through the a dozen episodes . . . it was just to silly to watch.
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I saw one or two episodes when I was a kid and liked them. Fast forward about 15 years and I stumbled across them playing on WGN-Chicago--when they were worth a darn. Anyway, I managed to tape a few eps before they dropped the series. Fast forward 10 or so years, the series is out on dvd. Yippi says I, and I bought the first season at WM. I tried watching 4 episodes. I managed to do so thinkinf the stories would get better and it took my a lot of guts to watch the rest. The ONLY good things about the show were: Christopher George and Hans Gudegast. By this viewing, I found the series lacked greatly. Now had each episode been 54 minutes? that would have been a great show.

I paid $10 bucks for it and felt I was robbed of $9.98 cents. I wound up giving it away to a friend in Georgia who didnt know better. The best guest star of the series-at least in season 1, was Kurt Krueger.
 
My brother's Tommy gun

Wyatt Burp said:
"Sgt. Saunders" was one of my two TV heroes as a kid. Every Tueday night at 7:30 I'd be glued in front of the b&w TV. I went through two Mattel Tommy Guns because of that show.
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A neighborhood kid broke my brother's Mattel Tommy gun so he broke the kid's arm with a claw hammer.:D
 
rwsmith said:
A neighborhood kid broke my brother's Mattel Tommy gun so he broke the kid's arm with a claw hammer.:D
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My oldest brother intentionally broke my Mattel Tommy Gun. I cried to Mom, she said, "That's it. No more toy guns." I wanted to whip my brother's tail but she didn't.

I later began to make my "guns" out of wood stolen from my Dad's carpenter shop. I had about 30 or so.

I loved "Combat" as a kid. Never could figure out how Sgt. Saunders got a Marine helmet cover.........
 
semperfi71 said:
My oldest brother intentionally broke my Mattel Tommy Gun. I cried to Mom, she said, "That's it. No more toy guns." I wanted to whip my brother's tail but she didn't.

I later began to make my "guns" out of wood stolen from my Dad's carpenter shop. I had about 30 or so.

I loved "Combat" as a kid. Never could figure out how Sgt. Saunders got a Marine helmet cover.........
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His "brother" was in the Marines sending it to him I guess to make think of him more? as mentioned once in a 1st or 2nd season episode. However, that is a continuity mistake, because in any other episode, the kid brother was not in the military.

The only other thing I can think of, is he got it off a Marine serving on one of the ships while visiting an English port?
 
the ringo kid said:
His "brother" was in the Marines sending it to him I guess to make think of him more? as mentioned once in a 1st or 2nd season episode. However, that is a continuity mistake, because in any other episode, the kid brother was not in the military.

The only other thing I can think of, is he got it off a Marine serving on one of the ships while visiting an English port?
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Ever notice Sgt. Shultz on Hogan's Heroes carried a Krag? The actor was actually Jewish and I read somewhere that he refused to carry a German military rifle. Here he is with his Krag...

https://www.google.com/search?q=sgt...gIZDuoATs2YDwBg&ved=0CEUQsAQ&biw=1600&bih=758
 
Shooter6br said:
Dont forget "The Rifleman" . Chuck Connors can shoot 13 rounds out of a 9 shot Winchester Mod 93.(Opening scene) THAT"S A REAL MAN LOL
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Don't forget his fast firing hip shots too. And little Luke little Johnny Crawford he's still around today still little.
 
The browning BAR was the most feared weapon by the Germans. There were two BAR's in each squad I been told. One would sustain covering fire while the other one reloaded. I been told they would bounce bullets off stone, cement structures so they would rattle there way through towns. No Germans would stick there heads out.
 
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