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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!

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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  1. Background image for Hills Are For Heroes (1)
    9.5/10(159 votes)

    #1 - 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.

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    Director:Vic Morrow
  2. Background image for Hills Are for Heroes (2)
    9.4/10(142 votes)

    #2 - Hills Are for Heroes (2)

    S4:E26

    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.

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    Director:Vic Morrow
  3. Background image for The Leader
    9.0/10(97 votes)

    #3 - The Leader

    S4:E31

    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

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    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:N/A
  4. Background image for The First Day
    8.9/10(108 votes)

    #4 - 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.

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    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:N/A
  5. Background image for Finest Hour
    8.8/10(103 votes)

    #5 - 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.

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    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:N/A
  6. Background image for The Raider
    8.8/10(105 votes)

    #6 - 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.

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    Director:N/A
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  8. Background image for S.I.W.
    8.7/10(119 votes)

    #7 - 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.

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    Director:N/A
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  9. Background image for Hear No Evil
    8.6/10(100 votes)

    #8 - Hear No Evil

    S4:E7

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

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    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:N/A
  10. Background image for The Farmer
    8.5/10(106 votes)

    #9 - 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.

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  11. Background image for The Mockingbird
    8.5/10(84 votes)

    #10 - 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.

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  12. Background image for The Good Samaritan
    8.5/10(88 votes)

    #11 - 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

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  13. Background image for Counterplay
    8.5/10(79 votes)

    #12 - Counterplay

    S4:E20

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

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  14. Background image for The Old Men
    8.4/10(93 votes)

    #13 - 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.

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    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:N/A
  15. Background image for Retribution
    8.4/10(88 votes)

    #14 - Retribution

    S4:E19

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

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    8.4/10(90 votes)

    #15 - One at a Time

    S4:E28

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

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  17. Background image for Evasion
    8.3/10(103 votes)

    #16 - 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.

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  18. Background image for Ask Me No Questions
    8.3/10(86 votes)

    #17 - 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.

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    8.3/10(85 votes)

    #18 - The Ringer

    S4:E23

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

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    8.3/10(100 votes)

    #19 - Gitty

    S4:E27

    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.

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    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:N/A
  21. Background image for The Casket
    8.2/10(97 votes)

    #20 - 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.

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  22. Background image for Run, Sheep, Run
    8.2/10(90 votes)

    #21 - Run, Sheep, Run

    S4:E30

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

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    8.1/10(93 votes)

    #22 - Crossfire

    S4:E8

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

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  24. Background image for 9 Place Vendee
    8.1/10(81 votes)

    #23 - 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.

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  25. Background image for Luck with Rainbows
    8.1/10(79 votes)

    #24 - 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.

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  26. Background image for The Linesman
    8.0/10(103 votes)

    #25 - The Linesman

    S4:E4

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

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    Director:Tom Gries

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 159 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)".