Morrow was cast in the lead role of Sergeant "Chip" Saunders in ABC's Combat!,
a World War II drama, which aired from 1962–1967.
Pop culture scholar Gene Santoro has written:
TV's longest-running World War II drama (1962–1967) was really a collection of complex 50-minute movies.
Salted with battle sequences, they follow a squad's travails from D-Day on – a gritty ground-eye view of men trying to salvage their humanity and survive.
Melodrama, comedy, and satire come into play as top-billed Lieutenant Hanley (Rick Jason) and Sergeant Saunders (Vic Morrow) lead their men toward Paris ... The relentlessness hollows antihero Saunders out: at times, you can see the tombstones in his eyes."

His friend and fellow actor on Combat!,
Rick Jason, described Morrow as "a master director" who directed "one of the greatest anti-war films I've ever seen".
He was referring to the two-part episode of Combat!
entitled Hills Are for Heroes, which was written by Gene L. Coon.
Morrow was cast in the lead role of Sergeant "Chip" Saunders in ABC's Combat!, a World War II drama, which aired from 1962–1967. Pop culture scholar Gene Santoro has written:
TV's longest-running World War II drama (1962–1967) was really a collection of complex 50-minute movies. Salted with battle sequences, they follow a squad's travails from D-Day on – a gritty ground-eye view of men trying to salvage their humanity and survive. Melodrama, comedy, and satire come into play as top-billed Lieutenant Hanley (Rick Jason) and Sergeant Saunders (Vic Morrow) lead their men toward Paris ... The relentlessness hollows antihero Saunders out: at times, you can see the tombstones in his eyes."
His friend and fellow actor on Combat!, Rick Jason, described Morrow as "a master director" who directed "one of the greatest anti-war films I've ever seen". He was referring to the two-part episode of Combat! entitled Hills Are for Heroes, which was written by Gene L. Coon.
Vic Morrow