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Combat! (1962)

Rating

Run Time: 60 min

Color: Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1

Sound: Mono

Producer: Selmur Productions

Genre

Action
Drama
War

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 152

Overview

A series that follows the World War 2 combat experiences and adventures of a squad of US infantrymen in France in 1944. In particular we share the experiences of the squad leader, Sergeant Saunders, and the platoon commander, Lieutenant Hanley.

Pvt./PFC William G. Kirby

Pierre Jalbert

PFC Paul "Caje" LeMay

Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5

1. Forgotten Front

First Aired October 01, 1962

Searching for a Nazi gun emplacement, the GIs try to pump information from a German deserter who is unsure of his loyalties.

2. Rear Echelon Commandos

First Aired October 08, 1962

Sgt. Saunders has to search a deserted town for Germans with 3 very inexperienced soldiers, in which one may be a coward.

3. Lost Sheep, Lost Shepherd

First Aired October 15, 1962

A bitterly disturbed tank Sgt. escorts Lt. Hanley's men to a French town that seems to have been abruptly abandoned.

4. Any Second Now

First Aired October 22, 1962

A time-bomb dropped by the Germans crashes into a French church pinning Hanley down, and only an American-hating British lieutenant can defuse it.

5. Far From the Brave

First Aired October 29, 1962

Sgt. Saunders takes a great risk by giving a new private a Browning Automatic Rifle, when he knows he has other men better qualified with it.

6. Missing in Action

First Aired November 12, 1962

The French Resistance helps Lt. Hanley find a downed American Col. living with a beautiful woman, but leaks are getting their people killed.

7. Escape to Nowhere

First Aired November 19, 1962

Lt. Hanley is captured and forced by a Nazi general to help him and his daughter escape, after an attempt on Hitler's life.

8. The Celebrity

First Aired November 26, 1962

A top professional baseball player joins the squad and becomes a liability when he freezes up during combat, and a member is shot.

9. Cat and Mouse

First Aired December 03, 1962

Saunders is ordered to join a reconnaissance patrol whose Sergeant doesn't like him or want him along.

10. I Swear by Apollo

First Aired December 10, 1962

Behind enemy lines, Saunders and his men struggle to keep a critically wounded French partisan alive.

11. A Day in June

First Aired December 17, 1962

In a flashback story told as the men rest on a rainy night, Sgt. Saunders recalls the experiences of himself and several other men on the day of the D-Day invasion, including tales about Braddock, who won the platoon pool for when the invasion would take place; Doc Walton, who was reluctant to go into battle; Caje (called "Caddie" in this episode), who is accompanied by another Cajun; and Lt. Hanley, who at the time was still a sergeant, and had little battle experience compared to Saunders. Following the landing, the men move inland and come upon a farmstead held by a squad of German infantry.

12. The Prisoner

First Aired December 24, 1962

A private captured by the Nazis hilariously tries to impersonate his colonel for better treatment of GI POW's , but they want him to continue the playact for an officer trade.

13. Reunion

First Aired December 31, 1962

Sgt. Saunders begins to suspect a Pvt.'s doctor father is really a collaborator, when the Germans let him live so well and he is out of Underground custody after being arrested.

14. The Medal

First Aired January 07, 1963

A GI private is killed after taking over an enemy machine gun and killing dozens of Nazis, but his best friend falsely claims he did the shooting.

15. Just for the Record

First Aired January 14, 1963

A goodhearted French woman reluctantly hides Saunders in her Paris home and tries to keep her German officer boyfriend from finding out.

16. The Volunteer

First Aired January 21, 1963

An exasperated Hanley finds himself saddled with a 13-year-old French orphan who wants to join the squad.

17. The Squad

First Aired January 28, 1963

A new replacement overanxious to capture or kill Germans during a recon mission, disobeys orders and makes surprising progress.

18. Next in Command

First Aired February 04, 1963

A battle-hardened corporal joins Sgt. Saunders squad, but remains distant and aloof from the other members, causing dissension in the ranks.

19. The Chateau

First Aired February 11, 1963

A French father and his lovely daughter make room for wounded GI's in their mansion , but Nazis capture it and they must try to notify Division.

20. Off Limits

First Aired February 18, 1963

A pretty female Lt. married to a corporal, has also fallen in love with her Capt., and the husband might be killed when he has to fill in for an AWOL private.

21. No Time for Pity

First Aired February 25, 1963

Command gives Lt. Hanley 3 hours to rescue an old man, pretty librarian, and 5 children from the Germans, or they will bomb the town they are in.

22. Night Patrol

First Aired March 04, 1963

While on a night patrol to bring in a prisoner, Sgt. Saunders and his squad discover an American GI in the woods waging a one-man war on his own.

23. Survival

First Aired March 11, 1963

In enemy territory, his hands badly burned, Saunders weaves a treacherous path back to his own lines.

24. No Hallelujahs for Glory

First Aired March 18, 1963

A coldhearted photo journalist accidentally causes a town to believe they are liberated and when the Nazis move in with their murderous torture methods, she learns the true meaning of human suffering during war.

25. The Quiet Warrior

First Aired March 25, 1963

While in the front, Lt. Hanley is surprisingly summoned to go to London. He goes to a hotel, where the journalist Ted Slocum unsuccessfully sounds him out in the bar. Then he receives a mysterious phone call and heads to the informed address. Hanley is interviewed by the British intelligence and asked to go to France to bring the French physicist Dr. Barole to Switzerland. Dr.Barole is an old acquaintance of Hanley, who studied with his son when he was teenager. Dr. Barole has unsuccessfully tried to flee from occupied France but lost his son. Now he does not trust anybody and is hidden and only his daughter Marie knows the hideout. Therefore Hanley is essential for the mission and his partner will be Ted Slocum, who is indeed a secret agent that speaks French and German fluently. Ted and Hanley parachute to meet three Maquis that take them to Marie. But soon they learn that there is a traitor in the French underground. Who might be the traitor and how to find him or her?

26. The Battle of the Roses

First Aired April 01, 1963

A young woman who cannot face the horrors of the war isolates herself in an idyllic garden which is unscathed by German bombs and refuses to leave. Saunders attempts to evacuate her before more Germans come.

27. Hill 256

First Aired April 08, 1963

Kirby is being tried in a military court for desertion under fire, and the penalty could be death. As the trial proceeds, Sgt. Saunders and Caje try to gather evidence to prove his innocence.

28. The Sniper

First Aired April 15, 1963

The squad enters a French village that was recently vacated by the Germans, and receives 48 hours of R&R. A German soldier has remained behind, and is killing the Americans one at a time.

29. One More for the Road

First Aired April 22, 1963

The squad discovers an orphaned baby in a barn, and must bring the infant with them as they traverse through enemy territory en route to their own lines.

30. The Walking Wounded

First Aired April 29, 1963

A slightly wounded Sgt. Saunders travels to the aid station in an ambulance with a beautiful nurse, a doctor who has lost his nerve and a driver who never had any nerve.

31. High Named Today

First Aired May 06, 1963

Hanley, Saunders and their men are worried that the reckless bravery of a reputed one-man death-squad will get them all killed.

32. No Trumpets, No Drums

First Aired May 13, 1963

Experiencing extreme guilt, Caje neglects his duties to spend time with a young French girl whose father he accidentally killed in an assault on their village.