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The Best Episodes of Combat! Season 4

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Network:ABC

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

Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of...
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  • Hills Are For Heroes (1)
    9.5/10(155)
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    #1 - 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

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  • Hills Are for Heroes (2)
    9.4/10(137)
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    #2 - Hills Are for Heroes (2)

    Season 4 Episode 26

    Aired 3/8/1966

    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

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  • The Leader
    9.0/10(96)
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    #3 - The Leader

    Season 4 Episode 31

    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

    Director: Georg Fenady

    Writer: N/A

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  • The First Day
    8.9/10(107)
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    #4 - 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

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  • Finest Hour
    8.8/10(102)
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    #5 - 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

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  • The Raider
    8.8/10(105)
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    #6 - 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

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  • S.I.W.
    8.6/10(118)
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    #7 - 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

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  • Hear No Evil
    8.6/10(100)
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    #8 - 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

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  • The Mockingbird
    8.5/10(83)
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    #9 - 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

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  • The Good Samaritan
    8.5/10(88)
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    #10 - 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

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  • Counterplay
    8.5/10(78)
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    #11 - 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

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  • The Farmer
    8.4/10(106)
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    #12 - 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

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  • Retribution
    8.4/10(88)
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    #13 - 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

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  • One at a Time
    8.4/10(88)
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    #14 - One at a Time

    Season 4 Episode 28

    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.

    Director: Bernard McEveety

    Writer: N/A

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  • Evasion
    8.3/10(103)
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    #15 - 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

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  • The Old Men
    8.3/10(93)
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    #16 - 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

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  • Ask Me No Questions
    8.3/10(85)
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    #17 - 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

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  • Gitty
    8.3/10(99)
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    #18 - Gitty

    Season 4 Episode 27

    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.

    Director: Georg Fenady

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Casket
    8.2/10(96)
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    #19 - 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

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  • The Ringer
    8.2/10(83)
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    #20 - 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

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  • Run, Sheep, Run
    8.2/10(88)
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    #21 - Run, Sheep, Run

    Season 4 Episode 30

    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.

    Director: Bernard McEveety

    Writer: N/A

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  • Crossfire
    8.1/10(93)
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    #22 - 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

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  • 9 Place Vendee
    8.1/10(81)
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    #23 - 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

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  • Luck with Rainbows
    8.1/10(79)
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    #24 - 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

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  • The Linesman
    8.0/10(103)
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    #25 - 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

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Hills Are For Heroes (1)" is the best rated episode of "Combat!" season 4. It scored 9.5/10 based on 155 votes. Directed by Vic Morrow and written by Gene L. Coon, it aired on 3/1/1966. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Hills Are for Heroes (2)".