Combat Sergeant

Combat Sergeant
Genre	War drama
Starring	Michael Thomas Cliff Clark Mara Corday Dominick Delgarde Frank Marlowe Bill Slack
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	National Telefilm Associates
Distributor	ABC (1956) NTA (1957-1961)
Release
Original network	Syndication
Picture format	Black-and-white
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	June 29 – September 27, 1956

Combat Sergeant is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from June to September 1956. Starring Michael Thomas as Sergeant Nelson, the series was set in Africa during World War II. Actual footage of the war was spliced into episodes.^[1] 13 episodes were filmed.^[2]

Combat Sergeant was produced by National Telefilm Associates, and had originally been intended as a first-run syndicated program; it was offered to individual television stations in March 1956,^[2] but saw no sales. The series was offered to ABC, which purchased the program. After a brief summer run on ABC in 1956, the series was rerun on the syndicated NTA Film Network starting in summer 1957.^[3]

References

1. McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television, New York: Penguin Books, 4th ed., p. 173.
2. "Half-Hr. Series Put Into Synd. So Far In '56". Billboard: 22. 1956-08-18.
3. "NTA Block to Storer Group". Billboard: 12. 1957-06-24.

External links

• Combat Sergeant at the Internet Movie Database