Combat! Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Combat!: Season 5 (1966 - 1967)

• Season 5 Episode 25: The Partisan

  Wounded Saunders tries to convince a blind French girl's (Claudine Longet) fiance to help him rescue captured Caje; guest Robert Duvall.

• Season 5 Episode 24: Jonah

  Strange calamities convince the squad that a new soldier (Tom Simcox) is a jinx.

• Season 5 Episode 23: Nightmare on the Red Ball Run

  Kirby and Littlejohn volunteer to drive explosives-laden trucks; guest William Campbell.

• Season 5 Episode 22: A Little Jazz

  Saunders rescues a reckless jazz musician (Dan Duryea) and his band; guests Noah Beery, Dennis Hopper.

• Season 5 Episode 21: The Masquers

  German troops dressed as U.S. and British soldiers infiltrate Allied lines; guests Nick Adams, Gavin MacLeod.

• Season 5 Episode 19: Encounter

  An Army officer (James Daly) won't allow his war-correspondent son (James MacArthur) to go on patrols.

• Season 5 Episode 18: Anniversary

  A delirious French resistance fighter (Telly Savalas) kills allies and enemies alike to protect his family.

• Season 5 Episode 17: Gadjo

  Saunders rejects the demand of German-hating Gypsies to turn over a POW; guest Ricardo Montalban.

• Season 5 Episode 16: Entombed

  Germans trap Hanley's men in a cave which collapses around them; guests Margaret O'Brien, Michael Constantine.

• Season 5 Episode 15: The Furlough

  Saunders delivers a bequest to an orphanage and has a bittersweet romance with its director (Carol Lawrence).

• Season 5 Episode 14: Cry for Help

  Kirby objects to taking along a captured German medic (Robert Duvall), feeling he will jeopardize the mission.

• Season 5 Episode 13: The Bankroll

  The new man (James Stacy) in Hanley's squad doesn't seem interested in doing his job.

• Season 5 Episode 12: Gulliver

  Four French children wound and capture Littlejohn to sell him first to Americans, then to Germans.

• Season 5 Episode 11: Conflict

  Two days of continuous patrol in rough weather exhaust the squad and cause a morale problem.

• Season 5 Episode 10: The Outsider

  A withdrawn soldier's (Jason Evers) moods cause hostility and endanger one of his fellow troops.

• Season 5 Episode 9: Decision

  A disillusioned physician (James Franciscus) joins Saunders' unit as a demolitions expert.

• Season 5 Episode 8: Head Count

  Saunders' unit is badly outnumbered by important POWs to be transported to the nearest American line.

• Season 5 Episode 7: The Letter

  Dissension grows when Saunders becomes overprotective of a soldier who strongly resembles his younger brother.

• Season 5 Episode 6: A Child's Game

  Saunders resists attacking teenage Germans whose stubborn commander has them defending a strategic farmhouse.

• Season 5 Episode 5: Chapel at Abel Five

  A land mine kills one soldier and blinds Saunders who is then rescued by a German chaplain (Fritz Weaver) posing as a British citizen.

• Season 5 Episode 4: The Brothers

  French brothers (Fernando Lamas, Sal Mineo), one a war hero and one a boy, join Hanley's men on a behind-the-lines mission.

• Season 5 Episode 3: Ollie Joe

  A soldier (Robert Walker) who wants to be the best endangers Saunders' squad; guest Claude Akins.

• Season 5 Episode 2: The Losers

  Saunders' only replacements for a vital mission to blow up a bridge are four soldiers facing court-martial; guest Bill Bixby.

• Season 5 Episode 1: The Gun

  A soldier's maniacal hatred for a German gun that killed his men infects the survivors in Saunders' squad.

Combat!: Season 4 (1965 - 1966)

• Season 4 Episode 31: The Leader

  Kirby is in command when Saunders is called away, but his authority is challenged by a German attack.

• Season 4 Episode 30: Run, Sheep, Run

  An inexperienced soldier (Dwayne Hickman) is afraid he will be called a coward if the squad learns his panic caused another man's death.

• Season 4 Episode 29: A Sudden Terror

  A soldier (Brandon de Wilde) gets trapped in quicksand while on a night patrol in enemy-occupied territory.

• Season 4 Episode 28: One at a Time

  A German sergeant who escaped from Saunders' custody stalks the squad as a sniper.

• Season 4 Episode 27: Gitty

  Saunders' squad encounters a German girl who is waiting for her soldier father in a French convent, unaware that he has been killed.

• Season 4 Episode 26: Hills Are for Heroes

  Hanley and his exhausted men are ordered to make another assault on the hill and its German bunkers. Directed by Vic Morrow.

• Season 4 Episode 25: Hills Are for Heroes

  Two German bunkers stop Hanley's attempts to secure a strategic hill. Directed by Vic Morrow.

• Season 4 Episode 24: The Flying Machine

  A brash Army pilot (Keenan Wynn) flying Hanley on a reconnaissance mission is forced to crash in enemy territory.

• Season 4 Episode 23: The Ringer

  A lone straggler claiming to be an experienced soldier joins up with Saunders' squad and insists on going along on a dangerous mission.

• Season 4 Episode 22: Ask Me No Questions

  A German lieutenant poses as an American sergeant to infiltrate a group of POWs and learn about a future battle.

• Season 4 Episode 21: Nothing to Lose

  A soldier, secretly a coward, ridicules another soldier (Sal Mineo) for his toughness; guest Tom Skerritt.

• Season 4 Episode 20: Counterplay

  An impostor posing as one of the French underground leads Saunders' men on a mission to destroy an enemy radar installation.

• Season 4 Episode 19: Retribution

  Kirby starts a vendetta against an SS colonel (Albert Paulsen) whom he holds responsible for the death of his sister's soldier fiance.

• Season 4 Episode 18: The Good Samaritan

  A bewildered soldier (Tom Simcox) holds Saunders responsible for the deaths of his buddies during a battle to take a hill held by Germans.

• Season 4 Episode 17: The Mockingbird

  A German spy (Jeremy Slate) pretending to be an American flier fakes a plane crash, hoping to be picked up by the French underground.

• Season 4 Episode 16: The Raider

  A corporal, eager for revenge, questions Saunders' efforts to free Hanley, who is the captive of an SS captain; guest Leonard Nimoy.

• Season 4 Episode 15: Finest Hour

  A French countess (Luise Rainer) risks her life and home by sheltering wounded Hanley from the Germans and her husband (Ramon Navarro).

• Season 4 Episode 14: Breakout

  A quarry owner (Fernando Lamas) endangers troops and himself when he tries to stop Saunders' men from destroying his heavy equipment.

• Season 4 Episode 13: Luck With Rainbows

  Hanley clashes with a British major when they try to recover a camera from a downed airplane.

• Season 4 Episode 12: The Casket

  Saunders, trying to get a wounded man to an aid station, commandeers a truck carrying a woman (Nina Foch) and a coffin for her dead son.

• Season 4 Episode 11: Soldier of Fortune

  Fearing he will be left behind, a wounded soldier won't disclose information he heard over a wiretapped line; guest William Campbell.

• Season 4 Episode 10: The Old Men

  An older soldier (Simon Oakland), one of three replacements, pushes himself to prove he can keep up with younger men.

• Season 4 Episode 9: Nine Plance Vendee

  Hanley is left alone to find a missing OSS officer in a German-held town after a mine explosion injures the other members of his patrol.

• Season 4 Episode 8: Crossfire

  Saunders files charges against a double medal-winner, a veteran of D-Day, after the soldier disobeyed a direct order while on patrol.

• Season 4 Episode 7: Hear No Evil

  Saunders, deafened by a grenade explosion, hides with a scrawny dog in the ruins of an abbey.

• Season 4 Episode 6: Evasion

  Hanley disguises himself as an Albanian officer and escapes from a prison camp into the German countryside; guest Lloyd Bochner.

• Season 4 Episode 5: The Farmer

  A soldier (Dennis Weaver) endangers the squad by returning to an evacuated farm to help a newborn calf.

• Season 4 Episode 4: The Linesman

  A hostile Signal Corps sergeant (Jack Lord) threatens a mission to lay wire to an outpost.

• Season 4 Episode 3: S.I.W.

  A soldier (John Cassavetes) is accused having a self-inflicted wound when he is recognized as one of few survivors of an earlier campaign.

• Season 4 Episode 2: The First Day

  The weary members of Saunders' squad are faced with defending a road junction with only four inexperienced recruits as their support.

• Season 4 Episode 1: Main Event

  A fight manager (Jack Carter) threatens Saunders' squad when he tries to keep his boxer out of a demolition mission.

Combat!: Season 3 (1964 - 1965)

• Season 3 Episode 32: Beneath the Ashes

  Hanley is told a private (Chad Everett) lost on patrol should go home immediately because his wife is dying.

• Season 3 Episode 31: Odyssey

  Wounded Saunders wakes in a German first-aid station, wearing a German corporal's uniform and dog tags.

• Season 3 Episode 30: Heritage

  An art devotee (Charles Bronson) resists destroying an observation post because it contains priceless sculptures.

• Season 3 Episode 29: Billy the Kid

  A huge German gun mounted on railroad tracks that connect several caves prevents an American advance; guest Andrew Prine.

• Season 3 Episode 28: The Hell Machine

  Saunders orders a tank-school dropout (Frank Gorshin) to drive an abandoned tank, unaware he is claustrophobic.

• Season 3 Episode 27: A Cry in the Ruins

  Both sides cease firing when a woman runs between them to find her child, who may be buried in a wine cellar.

• Season 3 Episode 26: The Tree of Moray

  French patriots plan to hang a traitor whom Hanley's men must rescue and return to London; guest Robert Loggia.

• Season 3 Episode 25: The Long Wait

  German gunfire traps a driver (Terry Carter) and his truck full of wounded in a ravine; guest William Wellman.

• Season 3 Episode 24: A Walk With an Eagle

  The downed flier Hanley and his men rescue turns out to be stubborn, ungrateful and inexperienced in ground warfare.

• Season 3 Episode 23: Dateline

  Saunders and his men let themselves be captured to free an American correspondent (Dan Duryea) held by Germans.

• Season 3 Episode 22: The Convict

  An escaped convict (Gilbert Roland) steals the clothes and papers of a dead French underground leader and then joins with American forces.

• Season 3 Episode 21: The Steeple

  Saunders and his men rush to rescue a snagged American paratrooper dangling from a church steeple.

• Season 3 Episode 20: Brother, Brother

  A young soldier (Frankie Avalon) leans on his late brother's best friend, Kirby, for protection.

• Season 3 Episode 19: More Than a Soldier

  A soldier (Tommy Sands) who has never killed refuses to defend himself when he and Saunders are trapped.

• Season 3 Episode 18: Losers Cry Deal

  A bitter, poker-playing veteran annoys all, except for one soldier; guest Tom Skerritt. Directed by Vic Morrow.

• Season 3 Episode 17: The Cassock

  Failing to stop Allied troops from entering a village, a German officer (James Whitmore) poses as a priest.

• Season 3 Episode 16: The Enemy

  Hanley orders a captured German officer (Robert Duvall) to personally remove all the land mines in a French spa taken over by Americans.

• Season 3 Episode 15: Birthday Cake

  Littlejohn's insistence on taking a birthday cake from home on a risky patrol mission endangers his cohorts.

• Season 3 Episode 14: The Town That Went Away

  A French peasant switches road signs and sends Hanley's men away from a town they were supposed to evacuate.

• Season 3 Episode 13: The Long Walk

  A soldier (Roddy McDowall) claims he was wounded by English-speaking Germans impersonating U.S. troops.

• Season 3 Episode 12: A Rare Vintage

  Caje poses as a handicapped French peasant to rescue wounded Hanley, held prisoner in a French winery.

• Season 3 Episode 11: A Gift of Hope

  Kirby insists a presumed-dead sergeant (Rip Torn) actually deserted and is being cared for by French peasants.

• Season 3 Episode 10: The Impostor

  While spying at enemy headquarters, Hanley and his men learn a German agent is in their midst; guest Warren Stevens.

• Season 3 Episode 9: Fly Away Home

  A sergeant (Neville Brand) in the Signal Corps risks the lives of soldiers to save his specially trained flock of carrier pigeons.

• Season 3 Episode 8: The Little Carousel

  A teenage French girl, who wants to be a front-line nurse, joins Saunders' unit to help the wounded and becomes attached to the sergeant.

• Season 3 Episode 7: Operation Fly Trap

  Caje, Doc, Saunders and a sergeant (Gary Lockwood) are in a farmhouse where a famous German colonel is scheduled to arrive.

• Season 3 Episode 6: The Hard Way Back

  A terrified private (Sal Mineo) turns from coward to reluctant hero when his platoon is ordered to recapture an enemy-held village.

• Season 3 Episode 5: The Silver Service

  A know-it-all (Mickey Rooney) must prove himself when he and Kirby are trapped behind German lines; guest Claudine Longet.

• Season 3 Episode 4: The Duel

  A truck driver (Bobby Rydell) bringing fuel to the front joins with Saunders in an attempt to bust a panzer defense.

• Season 3 Episode 3: Point of View

  Another sergeant (Paul Burke) accuses Saunders of stupidity and bad judgement under fire for giving an order that resulted in two deaths.

• Season 3 Episode 2: Vendetta

  A Greek colonel (Telly Savalas) and his band save Hanley's men from enemy fire then promise to lead them to safety; guest Peter Deuel.

• Season 3 Episode 1: Mountain Man

  A war-weary French hermit (Theodore Bikel) helps the squad find a safe route over a snowy mountain range; guest Bob Beattie.

Combat!: Season 2 (1963 - 1964)

• Season 2 Episode 32: The Glory Among Men

  Two of Saunders' men die trying rescue a hated soldier trapped between them and the enemy. Directed by Vic Morrow.

• Season 2 Episode 31: Infant of Prague

  The squad encounters a German panzer division while trying to find a nun (Jeanette Nolan) searching for a religious statue.

• Season 2 Episode 30: Command

  The squad resents a surly, opinionated lieutenant (Joseph Campanella) who takes over for hospitalized Hanley.

• Season 2 Episode 29: Rescue

  Hanley helps a German-uniformed soldier claiming to be American rescue a captured colonel but later doubts him; guest Guy Stockwell.

• Season 2 Episode 28: The Short Day of Private Putnam

  Unknown to Saunders and the squad, their latest replacement soldier (Beau Bridges) is only 15.

• Season 2 Episode 27: Weep No More

  Intelligence demands answers from a mute girl (Anjanette Comer), but Hanley wants her to get medical aid; guest Ted Knight.

• Season 2 Episode 26: What Are the Bugles Blowin' For?

  Saunders is reluctant to stay but begins to think he underestimated the British soldiers.

• Season 2 Episode 25: What Are the Bugles Blowin' For?

  Saunders and his men warn a British unit of a German advance, but the British commander refuses to retreat.

• Season 2 Episode 24: The Hunter

  Saunders may have to fight to the death with a German captain (Alfred Ryder) he and Kirby found in a winery.

• Season 2 Episode 23: A Silent Cry

  The squad and a radio technician (Richard Anderson) are ambushed while repairing a radio station in a French house.

• Season 2 Episode 22: Counter Punch

  Saunders clashes with another sergeant over how to escape from surrounding German troops; guests Malachi Throne, George Savalas.

• Season 2 Episode 21: Mail Call

  Saunders orders all his men on a mission arranged by Hanley, despite a soldier's knee complaints.

• Season 2 Episode 20: The Hostages

  A German captain captures Doc, Saunders and Caje then plans to use them to obtain transportation back to German lines; guest Ken Berry.

• Season 2 Episode 19: The Eyes of the Hunter

  The sole survivor (Ed Nelson) of a previous patrol volunteers to lead the unit to a German observation post, but his motives seem strange.

• Season 2 Episode 18: The General and the Sergeant

  Saunders' men and French villagers reconsider their opinions of an elderly general (John Dehner) when he leads a capture of an enemy post.

• Season 2 Episode 17: The Pillbox

  Hanley and a wounded soldier play dead to elude German captors but find their only escape route has been cut off. Directed by Vic Morrow.

• Season 2 Episode 16: Gideon's Army

  Saunders wants to help Polish laborers escape a German advance but fears his unit is vastly outnumbered; guest Richard Jaeckel.

• Season 2 Episode 15: The Party

  Caje, Kirby and Nelson plot to win the affections of three lovely French girls during a Christmas lull.

• Season 2 Episode 14: Thunder From the Hill

  A French guide assigned to lead Hanley and his escort to a meeting with a French guerrilla leader wants them to first help him.

• Season 2 Episode 13: Barrage

  A German deserter finds wounded Saunders hiding in a cave behind enemy lines and agrees to help him.

• Season 2 Episode 12: Ambush

  A French girl blames townspeople and Saunders' squad after neighbors shoot her father as a collaborator.

• Season 2 Episode 11: Anatomy of a Patrol

  Saunders' squad is ordered to find a crashed American reconnaissance plane carrying vital photos; guests James Caan, William Wellman.

• Season 2 Episode 10: A Distant Drum

  Wounded Hanley, attempting to elude German patrols, becomes an unwelcome guest in a French farmhouse.

• Season 2 Episode 9: The Little Jewel

  A friendly French urchin with a knowledge of the area charms the soldiers, but he soon arouses suspicions.

• Season 2 Episode 8: Glow Against the Sky

  Unable to outrun a counterattack, Saunders and his men hide in the cellar of a bombed-out house; guest Warren Spahn.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Doughboy

  The elusive rifleman (Eddie Albert) who captures Saunders wears the uniform of a World War I American soldier.

• Season 2 Episode 6: The Wounded Don't Cry

  The squad captures a German field hospital inhabited by a doctor, patients and attendants left behind in a retreat; guest Leonard Nimoy.

• Season 2 Episode 5: The Long Way Home

  Saunders persuades his fellow prisoners to try a second escape; guests Richard Basehart, Simon Oakland, James B. Sikking.

• Season 2 Episode 4: The Long Way Home

  Saunders' men and other Americans are imprisoned in a camp run by a German captain (Richard Basehart); guest Simon Oakland.

• Season 2 Episode 3: Masquerade

  The squad meets two strange soldiers insisting they must bring a wounded prisoner to headquarters; guests James Coburn, Rocky Marciano.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Bridgehead

  A former jazz musician (Nick Adams) is determined to avoid injury, even at the expense of loyalty to his buddies.

• Season 2 Episode 1: The Bridge at Chalons

  Saunders' squad escorts a demolitions expert (Lee Marvin) assigned to destroy a bridge and block the enemy's retreat.

Combat!: Season 1 (1962 - 1963)

• Season 1 Episode 32: No Trumpets, No Drums

  Caje cracks after killing a French civilian he thought was a German soldier during intense fighting.

• Season 1 Episode 31: High Named Today

  A soldier (Dean Stockwell) with a reputation as a one-man army joins the squad, which fears his recklessness.

• Season 1 Episode 30: Walking Wounded

  Injured Saunders sees an Army doctor (Gary Merrill) abandon a critically wounded patient when their ambulance is caught in an air raid.

• Season 1 Episode 29: One More for the Road

  Saunders agrees to bring along an abandoned infant, even though the baby will hinder the soldiers' mobility.

• Season 1 Episode 28: Sniper

  French villagers give Harley, Saunders and their men an enthusiastic welcome before a sniper opens fire.

• Season 1 Episode 27: Hill 256

  Kirby faces court-martial when an eyewitness charges him with cowardice in battle; guest Liam Sullivan.

• Season 1 Episode 26: Battle of the Roses

  Saunders begs an emotionally shattered French girl (Antoinette Bower) to leave her garden and flee a bombardment.

• Season 1 Episode 25: The Quiet Warrior

  Hanley is chosen to parachute with another agent into France and bring out an important scientist.

• Season 1 Episode 24: No Hallelujahs for Glory

  The squad must rescue a reckless magazine photographer (Elizabeth Allen) who headed for a French town still thought to be held by Germans.

• Season 1 Episode 23: Survival

  Injured Saunders falls behind as the squad escapes from German captors and wanders alone through enemy-held territory.

• Season 1 Episode 22: Night Patrol

  A lone man (Skip Homeier) claiming to be an American officer lost and separated from his unit leads the squad to his hideout in a cave.

• Season 1 Episode 21: No Time for Pity

  German observers who directed an artillery barrage use French hostages to deter Hanley's attacks.

• Season 1 Episode 20: Off Limits

  Saunders is reluctant to send a soldier on a hazardous assignment because of the man's upcoming reunion with his wife, an Army nurse.

• Season 1 Episode 19: The Chateau

  A German force led by an aristocratic officer (Dan O'Herlihy) captures Doc, Braddock and a truckload of wounded.

• Season 1 Episode 18: Next in Command

  Saunders wonders why a seasoned soldier vacillates between extreme bravery and miserable failure.

• Season 1 Episode 17: The Squad

  A cocky but inexperienced Southerner joins Hanley's platoon and labels his comrades as cowards.

• Season 1 Episode 16: Volunteer

  A 13-year-old French war orphan begs Hanley to let him join the unit then is put to the test when Hanley is wounded as Germans approach.

• Season 1 Episode 15: Just for the Record

  The French underground rescues Saunders from his German captors, then hides him in a reluctant Parisienne's apartment.

• Season 1 Episode 14: The Medal

  Hanley recommends a soldier (Frank Gorshin) for the Silver Star, but a dead comrade performed the deed.

• Season 1 Episode 13: Reunion

  A French-born soldier (Chris Robinson) in Saunders' unit attempts to find his father, from whom he was separated 14 years earlier.

• Season 1 Episode 12: The Prisoner

  Braddock enjoys luxury treatment when German captors mistake him for a colonel (Keenan Wynn) for whom Braddock was driving.

• Season 1 Episode 11: A Day in June

  Soggy weather on the Normandy front affords Saunders' squad a break from battle and an opportunity to recall D-Day.

• Season 1 Episode 10: I Swear by Apollo

  Saunders and Caje capture a German army doctor and order him to operate on a wounded Frenchman who knows about German troop movements.

• Season 1 Episode 9: Cat and Mouse

  Saunders falls under the command of battle-hardened Sgt. Jenkins (Albert Salmi) for a hazardous mission, but questions his recklessness.

• Season 1 Episode 8: The Celebrity

  A big-league baseball pitching star (Tab Hunter) is assigned to Saunders' squad as a replacement.

• Season 1 Episode 7: Escape to Nowhere

  Prisoner Hanley helps an enemy general, wanted by the Gestapo for his involvement in a plot to kill Hitler.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Missing in Action

  The French underground guides Hanley and his men behind enemy lines to rescue an American flier; guest Howard Duff.

• Season 1 Episode 5: Far From the Brave

  A private who has always worked in the Army kitchens joins the squad, awaiting the enemy at the front.

• Season 1 Episode 4: Any Second Now

  With bombers overhead, Hanley takes refuge in a church and is trapped with a delayed-action bomb.

• Season 1 Episode 3: Lost Sheep, Lost Shepherd

  The men are grateful for a tank's arrival until they learn its commander's (Jeffrey Hunter) courage is really savagery.

• Season 1 Episode 2: Rear Echelon Command

  In desperate need of replacements, Saunders receives three misfits and then learns he must take them along on a hazardous mission.

• Season 1 Episode 1: Forgotten Front

  Saunders must decide whether to bring an exhausted prisoner on a retreat or kill him because he knows too much.