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The Worst Episodes of Combat!

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 The Party
    6.9/10(108 votes)

    #1 - The Party

    S2:E15

    No description available

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Town That Went Away
    7.2/10(90 votes)

    #2 - The Town That Went Away

    S3:E14

    Hanley and men are sent to evacuate the town of Bonnaire which is targeted for German attack. But the mayor, his three beautiful daughters, and the township people thwart Hanley's every effort.

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    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Weep No More
    7.5/10(103 votes)

    #3 - Weep No More

    S2:E27

    No description available

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    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Gulliver
    7.5/10(97 votes)

    #4 - Gulliver

    S5:E12

    A group of children finds a wounded Littlejohn. They take him to where they live. Then they try to sell him to the Americans & the Germans

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    Director:Vic Morrow
  5. Background image for Anniversary
    7.5/10(89 votes)

    #5 - Anniversary

    S5:E18

    A French resistance fighter who has lost his wife and daughter in the war becomes a lone avenger killing Americans and Germans alike.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Lost Sheep, Lost Shepherd
    7.7/10(164 votes)

    #6 - Lost Sheep, Lost Shepherd

    S1:E3

    Jeffrey Hunter stars in "Lost Sheep, Lost Shepherd" as tanker Sgt. Dane, a man mad at the world, mad at the war, and mad at God. He's not too thrilled with Hanley and Saunders, either. During a German breakthrough, Hanley and a squad of men become cut off behind enemy lines. They are saved from a German ambush by the unexpected appearance of Dane and his tank. Their gratitude is short-lived however, as Dane’s recklessness and anger takes on a savage edge and they discover the secret he can’t live with: that he’s a failed priest now turned killer.

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  8. Background image for Thunder from the Hill
    7.7/10(105 votes)

    #7 - Thunder from the Hill

    S2:E14

    No description available

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Infant of Prague
    7.7/10(104 votes)

    #8 - Infant of Prague

    S2:E31

    Lt Hanley and his me run into 4 Nuns looking for the American to get help for their Mother Sappier. The men must try and get the Nuns and themselves out of the town before the Germans get to the town. The old Nun goes after a statue. Sending Lt. Hanley and Caje back into the town full of Germans and right to the Germans HQ.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Silver Service
    7.7/10(109 votes)

    #9 - Silver Service

    S3:E5

    Sent to the rear to recover from injuries, Kirby and Caje encounter Harry White, a dice cheating schemer who has been fighting the war from a bar stool.

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    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Birthday Cake
    7.7/10(88 votes)

    #10 - Birthday Cake

    S3:E15

    Littlejohn receives a birthday cake from his mother, with the explicit instructions not to open it until the 21st. He carries it on a dangerous patro; into enemy territory.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ed Adamson
  12. Background image for A Sudden Terror
    7.7/10(85 votes)

    #11 - A Sudden Terror

    S4:E29

    Hanley tries to save a terrified soldier caught in quicksand.

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    Director:Unknown
  13. Background image for Any Second Now
    7.8/10(160 votes)

    #12 - Any Second Now

    S1:E4

    While in a French town on leave, Hanley's leg is pinned by some debris during a bombing raid. In the church building with him is an undetonated German bomb which is still timed to explode. Help arrives in the form of an British demolition expert who is suffering battle fatigue and is angry at Hanley for trying to pickup his girl at a local bar.

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    Director:Robert Altman
  14. Background image for Breakout
    7.8/10(81 votes)

    #13 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  15. Background image for Entombed
    7.8/10(93 votes)

    #14 - Entombed

    S5:E16

    After rescuing captive French resistance fighters, the squad regroups in an abandoned mine. When the Germans attack, Germans, French, and Americans are all trapped. They form a pact to work together to dig their way out of the cave, and soldiers learn something about the humanity of the enemy.

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    7.8/10(79 votes)

    #15 - Jonah

    S5:E24

    A new man believes he is bad luck and when things start happening the other in the squard start believing him.

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    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for The Celebrity
    7.9/10(137 votes)

    #16 - The Celebrity

    S1:E8

    Del Packer is a famous baseball star who was drafted into the army. He winds up as a replacement in the squad. While Kelly looks for a way to make some money by setting up a baseball game with a neighboring outfit, Billy, a devoted baseball fan, is awestruck to be in the same squad as one of his heroes. However, Packer has his own demons to fight, and while the other squad members are too star-struck to notice that something may be wrong, Saunders isn't.

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    Director:Burt Kennedy
  18. Background image for The Squad
    7.9/10(124 votes)

    #17 - The Squad

    S1:E17

    Saunders' and Hanley's platoon is joined by a replacement soldier from Georgia named Moseby Lovelace, who comes complete with a new set of boots that the other troops, especially Saunders, highly covet. Lovelace is eager to see action, but not interested in the ordinary work of soldiering such as digging foxholes. He jumps at the chance to join a night reconnaissance patrol headed by Hanley that will check to see whether the Germans have pulled back their lines.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Off Limits
    7.9/10(119 votes)

    #18 - Off Limits

    S1:E20

    P.F.C. Marsh runs into his wife Lt. Amelia Marsh at a field hospital. He asks for a pass to spend time with her. While he is waiting for his pass, Kirby goes AWOL and ends up at the hospital. Marsh has to go out on a mission in place of Kirby and is wounded.

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    Director:Robert Altman
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Battle of the Roses
    7.9/10(119 votes)

    #19 - Battle of the Roses

    S1:E26

    A young woman who cannot face the horrors of the war isolates herself in an idyllic garden which is unscathed by German bombs and refuses to leave. Saunders attempts to evacuate her before more Germans come.

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    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Vendetta
    7.9/10(105 votes)

    #20 - Vendetta

    S3:E2

    Hanley and the men are rescued by a Greek colonel and his men.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Brother, Brother
    7.9/10(86 votes)

    #21 - Brother, Brother

    S3:E20

    Eddie Cane, a cocky replacement, is anxious to join platoon with his old friend "Wild Man" Kirby. Cane's older brother was Kirby's best pal back home.

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  23. Background image for Main Event
    7.9/10(100 votes)

    #22 - 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.

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    Director:Tom Gries
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for The Flying Machine
    7.9/10(81 votes)

    #23 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  25. Background image for Ollie Joe
    7.9/10(96 votes)

    #24 - Ollie Joe

    S5:E3

    Ollie Joe's Lt. dies before he can Worn Saunders about Ollie. Saunders realize that something not right with Ollie. When he pulls his gun on Sarge & calls him Lt. Saunders put 2&2 together & comes up what was wrong. With Ollie dying Saunders tell him that he was GI perfect

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    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for The Gantlet
    7.9/10(85 votes)

    #25 - The Gantlet

    S5:E20

    Captured by Germans, Saunders is placed aboard a prison train bound for Germany. He escapes and is saddled with Sgt. Decker, who would have been content to sit out the war in a POW camp.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Worst Episodes Summary

"The Party" is the worst rated episode of "Combat!". It scored 6.9/10 based on 108 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/24/1963. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Town That Went Away".