Combat! (1966)
Combat!, a one-hour WWII drama series on television, followed a frontline American infantry squad as they battled their way across Europe. With mud-splattered realism, the show offered ... See full summary »
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Episode 1 - Main Event
Release Date: 14 Sep. 1965No one is happy about the addition of boxer Willy Kleve to Saunders's unit--especially Kleve's over-protective manager.
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Episode 2 - The First Day
Release Date: 21 Sep. 1965Saunders and the squad break in four teenage replacements.
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Episode 3 - S.I.W.
Release Date: 28 Sep. 1965An already-controversial replacement adds to his reputation for cowardice by turning up with an apparent Self-Inflicted Wound.
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Episode 4 - The Linesman
Release Date: 5 Oct. 1965Sgt. Barney McKlosky and his two Signal Corps men have to lay a telephone line cross-country from the company HQ to an outpost. Saunders' squad is assigned to provide protection and assist in laying the wire. Prior to the war, McKlosky was a linesman in Wyoming who broke his leg in a fall and nearly died because his co-worker did not come back with help. Since that incident, McKlosky trusts no one and holds everyone in contempt. While laying line across a bridge on the way to the outpost, McKlosky and Littlejohn drop a roll of wire in the river. Although both men ...
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Episode 5 - The Farmer
Release Date: 12 Oct. 1965Iowa-bred Private Noah is troubled when the squad forcibly evacuates a French farm family.
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Episode 6 - Evasion
Release Date: 19 Oct. 1965Dressed in an Albanian uniform, Hanley escapes from a German prison camp.
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Episode 7 - Hear No Evil
Release Date: 26 Oct. 1965During a heavy firefight and facing overwhelming numbers the Allies are being beaten back. One of the German's shot during the firefight detonates a grenade behind the Sarge who is deafened by the blast. Alone and lost Sgt. Saunders tries to make his way back to American lines. Unable to hear anything, he is almost shot by a German patrol, but manages to get away. He finds a small dog that becomes attached to him and acts as his ears until it is killed by a German that surprises them. Saunders manages to take the German prisoner and tries to use him to guide back to ...
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Episode 8 - Crossfire
Release Date: 2 Nov. 1965Sauders accuses twice-decorated Private Stevens of disobeying an order and thereby getting two other GIs killed.
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Episode 9 - 9 Place Vendee
Release Date: 11 Nov. 1965In a German-held village, Hanley's search for a wounded OSS officer is hampered by a precocious French boy.
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Episode 10 - The Old Men
Release Date: 16 Dec. 1965The squad has to cope with three 40-something replacements on a patrol to snatch a German captive.
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Episode 11 - Soldier of Fortune
Release Date: 23 Nov. 1965Pinned under a beam, Pvt. Andy Marsh claims he has valuable intelligence--that will go back with him or not at all.
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Episode 12 - The Casket
Release Date: 30 Nov. 1965An embittered French woman resists Saunders' efforts to commandeer her truck, needed to transport the wounded Kirby.
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Episode 13 - Luck with Rainbows
Release Date: 7 Dec. 1965Hanley and Kirby join a swaggering British commando on a treacherous hunt for German V-2 launching sites.
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Episode 14 - Breakout
Release Date: 14 Dec. 1965The squad angers a Frenchman when they destroy machinery at his quarry.
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Episode 15 - Finest Hour
Release Date: 21 Dec. 1965A French countess walks a dangerous tightrope as she entertains a château full of German soldiers--while sheltering a wounded Hanley.
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Episode 16 - The Raider
Release Date: 28 Dec. 1965Hanley is captured by a brutal SS officer, Captain Reichhardt.
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Episode 17 - The Mockingbird
Release Date: 4 Jan. 1966Lt. Hanley, Caje, Kirby, and Pvt. Banning are sent behind German lines to find an American intelligence officer, Capt. Thorpe, who has important intelligence to get back to American G2. A German spy masquerades as a downed American flyer, Lt. Asher, with the intention of infiltrating and destroying the local French underground. He bails out of his American Mustang, but instead of getting picked up by the French underground, he is met by Hanley and his men. Asher initially feigns a sprained ankle and wants to wait for the French instead of going with Hanley. Then he ...
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Episode 18 - The Good Samaritan
Release Date: 11 Jan. 1966The survivor of a squad that Sauders refused to help volunteers to lead the sergeant on a patrol to the same deadly area.
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Episode 19 - Retribution
Release Date: 18 Jan. 1966Kirby embarks on a personal vendetta against an SS colonel who killed his sister's fiancé.
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Episode 20 - Counterplay
Release Date: 25 Jan. 1966Saunders' squad is sent behind enemy lines to find and destroy a German radar installation. Sgt. Rawlings, a radar specialist, is sent along to learn all he can about the German radar before it is destroyed, and a French resistance fighter, Marchand, is also sent along to guide them. From the time they leave their lines, they are under constant surveillance by the Germans, and Rawlings is killed on the way there. Little do they know that Marchand is really a German officer who has killed the real Marchand and has taken his place with the intent of taking Saunders to a...
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Episode 21 - Nothing to Lose
Release Date: 1 Feb. 1966Privates Vinnick (Sal Mineo) and Burke (Tom Skerritt) have been together since basic training and are assigned to Hanley's platoon. Vinnick is a street wise city kid who is fearless in battle. Burke, on the other hand, is paralyzed by fear when a firefight begins. Vinnick's contempt for Burke is obvious as is Burke's hatred for Vinnick. The episode opens with a firefight where Burke is frozen in fear. Vinnick charges a German MG-42 emplacement, and Hanley tells them he will recommend Vinnick for a Bronze Star. Later, Hanley receives a message that Vinnick is wanted ...
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Episode 22 - Ask Me No Questions
Release Date: 8 Feb. 1966Saunders is imprisoned in a German compound where an enemy soldier is posing as a GI.
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Episode 23 - The Ringer
Release Date: 15 Feb. 1966A cowardly deserter slaps some dirt on his suspiciously-clean uniform and joins Saunders' squad, whose wrath and distrust he proceeds to earn by repeatedly disregarding orders.
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Episode 24 - The Flying Machine
Release Date: 22 Feb. 1966Lt. Hanley acquires intelligence which could save hundreds of lives, but his plane is shot down speeding back to HQ. The bridge Hanley re-conned is much more heavily defended than U.S. Army Intelligence suspected. The old single engine monoplane will be tough to repair, especially with Brannigan the pilot, a daredevil stunt flyer, having a busted leg. But the odds of Hanley slicing through 20 miles of Boche occupied countryside alone on foot are bad too.
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Episode 25 - Hills Are for Heroes: Part 1
Release Date: 1 Mar. 1966This two part Combat! episode is the quintessential story of the futility of war as viewed through the eyes of surviving infantrymen. An American division of troops is making an assault all along their lines. At the platoon level, Lt. Hanley is ordered to take a strategic hill that overlooks a needed road, and the hill is protected by two concrete bunkers with German machine guns and infantry in each bunker. Saunders gets hit in his thigh in the first assault on the bunkers while several other GIs are killed. Hanley asks for artillery support, but his company ...
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Episode 26 - Hills Are for Heroes: Part 2
Release Date: 8 Mar. 1966An American tank arrives and knocks out one of the bunkers, but the tank is taken out by German infantry using a rocket launcher. Again the GIs are beaten down the hill - losing more men to the hill. Hanley is again ordered to take the hill even though his men are both physically and mentally beaten by what has been an impossible assignment. Finally offered large mortar support, Hanley knows the mortars cannot penetrate the remaining bunker, but they can provide smoke cover. His plan is to send two men with a rocket launcher up the hill under cover of smoke to the ...
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Episode 27 - Gitty
Release Date: 15 Mar. 1966Establishing an observation post in a deserted church, Saunders meets the daughter of a German soldier.
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Episode 28 - One at a Time
Release Date: 22 Mar. 1966After losing his entire squad to Saunders' men, a wounded German sergeant vows to kill the Americans, saving Saunders for last.
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Episode 29 - A Sudden Terror
Release Date: 29 Mar. 1966A failed night mission leaves Hanley wounded in the shoulder, and the rest of his squad dead...except for Private Wilder, a nervous young replacement, who is now trapped in a bog and ready to signal their German pursuers for help. It's up to the lieutenant to free him before Wilder drowns, or panics.
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Episode 30 - Run, Sheep, Run
Release Date: 5 Apr. 1966Guilt-stricken when he causes the death of a fellow GI, Private Corey panics when he captures a German.
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Episode 31 - The Leader
Release Date: 12 Apr. 1966Kirby, who is given command of the squad in Saunders's absence, learns a lesson in leadership.