can anyone offer some info on this show? as a kid I remember the distinct opening credits but not much more. Was it more of a character study show with inserted WWII footage or did they offer some action in the show.
thx - Craig
Taking a trip down into the deep, dank, dark rooms of my mind, I find that I watched it every week and enjoyed the cast and the action in it. It was a drama show set in WWWII. And the actor who played the Sarg. went on to play in a major Japanese Sic-Fi movie and was killed during the filming of the Twilight Zone movie.
Vic Morrow
On comcast, they play it on the action channel weekday mornings. Been doing it for at least a year.
Both. It was a moral play that you can enjoy as an adult, but young boys found it equally alluring for its action. At least that's been my experience as a child and then as an adult. Somewhat similar to Star Trek in that the story you get out of it depends on how deep you want to scratch into the subtext. Considering it was TV and the day in which it was made it suffers from being a little preachy, but given what they would do to the show if it were shot in 2005, I can live with that.
Another fun past time is to watch this series (and others of the period) and spot out of place or budding new stars early in their careers. Leonard Nimoy, Robert Duvall, etc.
WmB
vic morrow. quite a filmography.
They shot some of the episodes on our lot when I worked in LA. (What we called New York Street became a French city... or a Belgian City, or whatever they needed.)
They did a lot of action sequences, that were quite realistic for the time. What I found most interesting at that time was the Special Effects troops manufacturing absolutely accurate duplicate weapons (BAR, Thompson, M-1) our of aluminum and lighter woods. Can't have actors strain themselves lugging around all that heavy stuff in scenes when they aren't required to shoot. Too many Germans bit the dust to be realistic, and they got a little preachy.
For some reason, nobody seemed to like Vic Morrow. I never heard a specific reason why.
Don H.
Yes, I've found DeForest Kelly, Robert Horton and Marion Ross on the Lone Ranger shows.
IIRC, Rick Jason played the lieutenant and didn't he shoot himself a few years ago? Some of the other regulars were familiar faces from current TV but who remembers their names.
When it started on TV I watched it for the usual kid reasons. Somewhere along the way all the killing got to me. I began to consider the human costs of this type of activity.
Bill Banaszak, MFE
Sadly, yes.
Only those mired in useless trivia they'll never shake :-(
Dick Peabody (Littlejohn) deceased Pierre Jalbert (Cage) Jack Hogan (Kirby) Conlan Carter (Doc)
I think. There were others like Sheckey Greene andthe original Doc but I think these were the definitive ones.
I'm a sucker for "Where Are They Now" shows and Jalbert and some others appeared in one last year so it's relatively fresh in my mind. One tidbit that stands out is that I learned Jalbert was a world class skier before doing the series. He got to show off those talents in the show. Which is interesting as the character Cage was from Louisiana. Not particularly known for its skiing.
WmB
Well, we do have world class water skiing. :)
Kaliste Saloom (IPMS#30703) Lafayette, LA
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Many people were "shot" on that show, but few bled. And Morrow carried a Thompson, which as a 10-year old I thought was neat.
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