Hello Stumpy and thanks for your reply.
It's hard for me to choose between the two as which I liked the best. Sergeant Schultz on H.H's was a favorite of mine as well as Col Klink but, Sgt Saunders and Caje were favorites of mine on COMBAT.
I have seen M*A*S*H as I was growing up and sometimes watch some in re-runs on the Hallmark Channel but, M*A*S*H has always been played at 10:30 PM on the ABC station since before the series ended--I got kinda tired of it. Well, for a while that is.
I loved Tour of Duty, I have I think every episode on VHS and plan to get it on DVD, now that it has been released. It was the only series I have seen to deal with the Vietnam War, that I really enjoyed. I could not stand China Beach--too soap opera-like.
Tour of Duty was more realistic than COMBAT in many areas. For instance, the equipment used in ToD was more accurate than was used in COMBAT. The uniforms were way more accurate as well. In Combat, a German Panzer, was usually a repainted American tank. A German command car sometimes was a Jeep. Also, in many earlier episodes, the Germans used ww1 vintage water-cooled Machineguns--which they did not use in late 1944.
I have seen The Blackboard Jungle as well. It is one of my all-time favorite Glan Ford movies. I thought Vic morrow was great as that punk, and I liked Sidney Poitier in his role as well. I think it was recently on TCM with in the last 2 weeks. I wanted to see it again but did not have time to do so.
Well, I bought COMBAT Season 1 Campaign 1 on DVD about two weeks ago. I watched all 16 episodes--many for the first time. They really did a great job in the first season of the show. A Day In June was the pilot episode and has Harry Dean Stanton in it.
I can hardly wait till I can get Season 2, Campaign 1 of COMBAT. It has a 2 hr episode that has Richard Basehart in it as a sinister German Officer in charge of a POW camp.