[TomServo]

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[mkmensinger]

Gallant Men. I don’t remember who spoke the words but he was addressing DeAngelo.

[yarddog]

I used to watch those shows too but don’t remember that particular episode. There was another one too. It was called “Citizen Soldier” and was similar to the others.

[Jack Deth]

‘The Gallant Men’.

[lee martell]

That sounds like a parody of Pig Latin, the use of which was popular back then in TV, and popular music. I never understood it, and always thought people were making up the sounds as they went along. Sort of like “The Name Game”, Shirley, Shirley, Bo-Berry, Banana Fanana-Mo Berry, Fee- Fi-Mo Mary, Shirley!”

[Twinkie]

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[LS]

Piece of trivia from “Combat:” Rick Jason, the lieutenant, in real life was the son of a wealthy stockbroker who volunteered in WW II.

[jeffersondem]

I thought it was Combat but maybe not. I do remember the vignette well. I didn't understand Pig Latin and had to ask “what’d he say, what’d he say?”

[greene66]

I always wondered if “Gallant Men’s” lack of success (not making it beyond its initial season) was due to the unusually large cast of regulars, each of which would invariably have episodes center around them.

In a critical sense, “Combat” was pretty clearly a better series, with often stark, harrowing scripts, and great photography. And it was an independent production, unlike GM at Warner Bros., which always suffered from a sort of cookie-cutter, assembly-line approach to its tv-fare, in terms of script and direction. Yet there is one curious aspect in which I think “Gallant Men” was better at. That was in capturing more of the actual mindset of the early-1940s WW2 attitude and cultural mindset. “Combat,” as great as it was, still sometimes reeked of that downbeat, 1960s-era psychological ‘character-study’ type of film narrative. Very 1960s-ish, in its semi-existentialism. Not of the 1940s. But still a great, great show. Both shows, in fact.

[tumblindice]

TV was for the hoi polloi. I was into literature: Budda budda budda budda ... Sgt. Rock!