7.9/1097 votes#1 - Main Event
Season 4 Episode 1 - 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.
Director: Tom Gries
Writer: N/A
8.9/10105 votes#2 - The First Day
Season 4 Episode 2 - 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.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
8.6/10116 votes#3 - S.I.W.
Season 4 Episode 3 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10101 votes#4 - The Linesman
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1965
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
8.4/10104 votes#5 - The Farmer
Season 4 Episode 5 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/10100 votes#6 - Evasion
Season 4 Episode 6 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.6/1098 votes#7 - Hear No Evil
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1965
Sgt. Saunders, alone and deafened by a grenade, tries to make his way back to American lines.
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: N/A
8.1/1091 votes#8 - Crossfire
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1965
Saunders returns from patrol with one of his squad, a decorated veteran of Omaha Beach, under arrest.
Director: N/A
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
8.0/1079 votes#9 - 9 Place Vendee
Season 4 Episode 9 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/1091 votes#10 - The Old Men
Season 4 Episode 10 - 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.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
8.0/1080 votes#11 - Soldier of Fortune
Season 4 Episode 11 - 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.
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: N/A
8.2/1093 votes#12 - The Casket
Season 4 Episode 12 - 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.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
8.1/1077 votes#13 - Luck with Rainbows
Season 4 Episode 13 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1077 votes#14 - Breakout
Season 4 Episode 14 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
8.8/10100 votes#15 - Finest Hour
Season 4 Episode 15 - 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.
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: N/A
8.8/10101 votes#16 - The Raider
Season 4 Episode 16 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/1081 votes#17 - The Mockingbird
Season 4 Episode 17 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/1085 votes#18 - The Good Samaritan
Season 4 Episode 18 - 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
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
8.4/1086 votes#19 - Retribution
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 1/18/1966
After his sister's fiance is killed by an SS Colonel, Kirby goes after the colonel.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
8.5/1076 votes#20 - Counterplay
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 1/25/1966
An impostor masquerades as a French resistance fighter to lead Saunders squad on a mission.
Director: N/A
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
8.0/1083 votes#21 - Nothing to Lose
Season 4 Episode 21 - 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.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
8.4/1081 votes#22 - Ask Me No Questions
Season 4 Episode 22 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
8.2/1078 votes#23 - The Ringer
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 2/15/1966
A suspicious straggler joins the squad and behaves erratically, endangering the lives of Saunders and company.
Director: N/A
Writer: Gene L. Coon
7.9/1076 votes#24 - The Flying Machine
Season 4 Episode 24 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
9.4/10146 votes#25 - Hills Are For Heroes (1)
Season 4 Episode 25 - 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.
Director: Vic Morrow
Writer: Gene L. Coon
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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Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Main Event" is the best rated episode of "Combat!" season 4. It scored 7.9/10 based on 97 votes. Directed by Tom Gries and written by N/A, it aired on 9/14/1965. This episode is rated 1.0 points higher than the second-best, "The First Day".