Combat! - Season 4

First aired: 9/14/1965 31 episodes

Episodes

1. Main Event

Aired: 9/14/1965

Saunders' latest green replacements are a boxer and his cocky fight manager, Murphy, who wants to run both the war and Saunders.

2. The First Day

Aired: 9/21/1965

The squad, worn-out and exhausted, receives four green replacements. The story follows these four teenagers as they attempt to survive their first day on the front line.

3. S.I.W.

Aired: 9/28/1965

Kirby rejoins the squad in the field, bringing with him a new replacement, Kalb. Kalb is already known to Fleming. Fleming believes Kalb is a coward who ran at Omaha Beach and has been running ever since.

4. The Linesman

Aired: 10/5/1965

A hostile signal corps sergeant, McClosky, balks at having Saunders as escort on a mission to lay wire.

5. The Farmer

Aired: 10/12/1965

Waiting for the battle, Noah plants the crops of an evacuated French farmer. His love for the land and farming overshadow his obligations as a soldier.

6. Evasion

Aired: 10/19/1965

In an ancient castle that the Germans are using as a POW camp, Hanley's fellow prisoners provide him with a fake Albanian uniform for his escape attempt.

7. Hear No Evil

Aired: 10/26/1965

Sgt. Saunders, alone and deafened by a grenade, tries to make his way back to American lines.

8. Crossfire

Aired: 11/2/1965

Saunders returns from patrol with one of his squad, a decorated veteran of Omaha Beach, under arrest.

9. 9 Place Vendee

Aired: 11/11/1965

After losing a superior officer in the field, Hanley goes alone to locate a wounded intelligence officer in German Held territory.

10. The Old Men

Aired: 11/16/1965

The Squad is saddled with three over-aged replacements: an injured vet of the Italian campaign who refuses to accept that he is incapable of fighting as he did as a youth, a homesick family man, and a politician with senatorial ambitions.

11. Soldier of Fortune

Aired: 11/23/1965

An explosion destroys the cellar of a German communication center where Saunders, Marsh, and Wallace were tapping lines. Trapped beneath a beam and fearing he will be left behind, Marsh uses information he has overheard as insurance for a safe return to American lines.

12. The Casket

Aired: 11/30/1965

Saunders, trying to get a wounded Kirby to a hospital crosses an elderly mother determined to give her son proper burial.

13. Luck with Rainbows

Aired: 12/7/1965

Hanley, Little John, and Kirby attempt to salvage film from a crashed reconnaissance plane. They are interrupted by a British Major who commandeers the film and abandons the squad as Germans approach.

14. Breakout

Aired: 12/14/1965

Facing a German advance, Saunders and squad are ordered to destroy a valley of construction equipment, to keep it out of the hands of the Germans.

15. Finest Hour

Aired: 12/21/1965

Caje forces a Frenchman to aid him and a wounded Hanley. The Frenchman takes them to a German occupied chateau where the countess must tend to his wounds while keeping his presence a secret.

16. The Raider

Aired: 12/28/1965

Hanley is captured by the infamous SS Captain Reichhardt. Saunders captures Reichhardt's men but does not learn the location on Hanley.

17. The Mockingbird

Aired: 1/4/1966

Three days before a German advance, a spy posing as a downed American flyer is sent to secure information on the French resistance.

18. The Good Samaritan

Aired: 1/11/1966

Marsini the sole survivor of an ill fated patrol blames Saunders for the fate of his fellows since Saunders has orders to keep his position and could not render aid

19. Retribution

Aired: 1/18/1966

After his sister's fiance is killed by an SS Colonel, Kirby goes after the colonel.

20. Counterplay

Aired: 1/25/1966

An impostor masquerades as a French resistance fighter to lead Saunders squad on a mission.

21. Nothing to Lose

Aired: 2/1/1966

Vinnick, a tough G.I. with no regard for danger, clashes with Burke, a soldier who covers his own cowardice with big talk.

22. Ask Me No Questions

Aired: 2/8/1966

A German Lieutenant posing as an American sergeant is placed among arriving American prisoners, including Saunders. Mastin learns locations of key American units.

23. The Ringer

Aired: 2/15/1966

A suspicious straggler joins the squad and behaves erratically, endangering the lives of Saunders and company.

24. The Flying Machine

Aired: 2/22/1966

Hanley flies in a rickety observation plane with a wisecracking pilot. Returning from their mission they see a German convoy and fly in for a closer look.

25. Hills Are For Heroes (1)

Aired: 3/1/1966

In this 2 partter Hanley & his men have to try & take out 2 bunkers. Hanley finds this almost hopeless and with Saunders wounded, (he only able to give morale support to Haley).Everything looks beck for the men of King Company they get a tank. They lose the tank. But in the end Caje& Kirby with cover of the tank take out the last bunker.

26. Hills Are for Heroes (2)

Aired: 3/8/1966

27. Gitty

Aired: 3/15/1966

The squad find a young girl at the convent they are using as OP. Saunders has to try & tell the girl her father is dead. When they are attacked by the Krauts.

28. One at a Time

Aired: 3/22/1966

After his men are all killed by Saunders' squad, a wounded German escapes and vows to kill Saunders' men, one at a time.

29. A Sudden Terror

Aired: 3/29/1966

Hanley tries to save a terrified soldier caught in quicksand.

30. Run, Sheep, Run

Aired: 4/5/1966

In his first battle, Pvt. Corey freezes. Afterworld, the squad commends him for his actions, believing he destroyed a machine gun nest.

31. The Leader

Aired: 4/12/1966

Saunders has to return to HQ for a meeting - leaving Kirby in charge. At first being left in charge starts going to his head, But! after Caje is wounded and the phone lines are cut. Things change fast, At first Kirby starts thinking what would Sarge do. But! with a little encouragement from Doc, He stops thinking what would Sarge do but what would Kirby do to get out of this