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The Best Episodes of Combat! Season 4

Every episode of Combat! Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Combat! Season 4!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Combat! Season 4 Episode 1 - Main Event
    8.0/10(107 votes)

    #1 - Main Event

    S4:E1

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

    Director:Tom Gries
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Combat! Season 4 Episode 2 - The First Day
    8.9/10(116 votes)

    #2 - The First Day

    S4:E2

    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.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Combat! Season 4 Episode 3 - S.I.W.
    8.7/10(126 votes)

    #3 - S.I.W.

    S4:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Combat! Season 4 Episode 4 - The Linesman
    8.1/10(111 votes)

    #4 - The Linesman

    S4:E4

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

    Director:Tom Gries
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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  5. Combat! Season 4 Episode 5 - The Farmer
    8.5/10(115 votes)

    #5 - The Farmer

    S4:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Combat! Season 4 Episode 6 - Evasion
    8.4/10(112 votes)

    #6 - Evasion

    S4:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Combat! Season 4 Episode 7 - Hear No Evil
    8.5/10(108 votes)

    #7 - Hear No Evil

    S4:E7

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

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Combat! Season 4 Episode 8 - Crossfire
    8.2/10(102 votes)

    #8 - Crossfire

    S4:E8

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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  9. Combat! Season 4 Episode 9 - 9 Place Vendee
    8.1/10(90 votes)

    #9 - 9 Place Vendee

    S4:E9

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Combat! Season 4 Episode 10 - The Old Men
    8.4/10(101 votes)

    #10 - The Old Men

    S4:E10

    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.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Combat! Season 4 Episode 11 - Soldier of Fortune
    8.0/10(91 votes)

    #11 - Soldier of Fortune

    S4:E11

    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.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Combat! Season 4 Episode 12 - The Casket
    8.2/10(103 votes)

    #12 - The Casket

    S4:E12

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

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Combat! Season 4 Episode 13 - Luck with Rainbows
    8.2/10(88 votes)

    #13 - Luck with Rainbows

    S4:E13

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Combat! Season 4 Episode 14 - Breakout
    7.9/10(88 votes)

    #14 - Breakout

    S4:E14

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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  15. Combat! Season 4 Episode 15 - Finest Hour
    8.8/10(110 votes)

    #15 - Finest Hour

    S4:E15

    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.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Combat! Season 4 Episode 16 - The Raider
    8.8/10(112 votes)

    #16 - The Raider

    S4:E16

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Combat! Season 4 Episode 17 - The Mockingbird
    8.5/10(93 votes)

    #17 - The Mockingbird

    S4:E17

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Combat! Season 4 Episode 18 - The Good Samaritan
    8.5/10(97 votes)

    #18 - The Good Samaritan

    S4:E18

    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

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Combat! Season 4 Episode 19 - Retribution
    8.5/10(95 votes)

    #19 - Retribution

    S4:E19

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

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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  20. Combat! Season 4 Episode 20 - Counterplay
    8.6/10(86 votes)

    #20 - Counterplay

    S4:E20

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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  21. Combat! Season 4 Episode 21 - Nothing to Lose
    8.1/10(98 votes)

    #21 - Nothing to Lose

    S4:E21

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

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Combat! Season 4 Episode 22 - Ask Me No Questions
    8.4/10(92 votes)

    #22 - Ask Me No Questions

    S4:E22

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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  23. Combat! Season 4 Episode 23 - The Ringer
    8.3/10(92 votes)

    #23 - The Ringer

    S4:E23

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Gene L. Coon

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  24. Combat! Season 4 Episode 24 - The Flying Machine
    8.0/10(86 votes)

    #24 - The Flying Machine

    S4:E24

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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  25. Combat! Season 4 Episode 25 - Hills Are For Heroes (1)
    9.4/10(169 votes)

    #25 - Hills Are For Heroes (1)

    S4:E25

    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.

    Director:Vic Morrow
    Writer:Gene L. Coon

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Main Event" is the best rated episode of "Combat!" season 4. It scored 8/10 based on 107 votes. Directed by Tom Gries and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/14/1965. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "The First Day".