6.9/10105 votesLoading...#1 - The Party
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/1963
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1086 votesLoading...
#2 - The Town That Went Away
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/22/1964
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.
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: N/A
7.5/1091 votesLoading...#4 - Gulliver
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1966
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
Director: Vic Morrow
Writer: Paul Playdon
7.5/1081 votesLoading...#5 - Anniversary
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 1/24/1967
A French resistance fighter who has lost his wife and daughter in the war becomes a lone avenger killing Americans and Germans alike.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10101 votesLoading...
#6 - Thunder from the Hill
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/17/1963
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1099 votesLoading...
#7 - Infant of Prague
Season 2 Episode 31 - Aired 4/14/1964
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1084 votesLoading...
#8 - Birthday Cake
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 12/29/1964
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ed Adamson
7.7/1078 votesLoading...#9 - A Sudden Terror
Season 4 Episode 29 - Aired 3/29/1966
Hanley tries to save a terrified soldier caught in quicksand.
Director: N/A
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
7.8/10152 votesLoading...#10 - Lost Sheep, Lost Shepherd
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1962
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.
Director: Burt Kennedy
Writer: Robert Hardy Andrews
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#11 - Silver Service
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1964
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.
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1082 votesLoading...
#12 - Brother, Brother
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/2/1965
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.
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
7.8/1075 votesLoading...#13 - 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
7.8/1087 votesLoading...#14 - Entombed
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 1/3/1967
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.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: William Bast, Paul Playdon
7.9/10150 votesLoading...#15 - Any Second Now
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1962
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.
Director: Robert Altman
Writer: Gene Levitt
7.9/10129 votesLoading...#16 - The Celebrity
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/27/1962
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.
Director: Burt Kennedy
Writer: Art Wallace
7.9/10114 votesLoading...#17 - The Squad
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/29/1963
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10112 votesLoading...#18 - Battle of the Roses
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/2/1963
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.
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: N/A
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#19 - Vendetta
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1964
Hanley and the men are rescued by a Greek colonel and his men.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1076 votesLoading...#21 - 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
7.9/1089 votesLoading...#22 - Ollie Joe
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1966
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
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.9/1080 votesLoading...#23 - The Gantlet
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/7/1967
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1070 votesLoading...#24 - Jonah
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 3/7/1967
A new man believes he is bad luck and when things start happening the other in the squard start believing him.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10128 votesLoading...
#25 - Doughboy
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1963
Eddie Albert guest stars as an American WWI veteran living in France with his French wife he met while soldiering in the previous war. During the shelling from a Big German gun nearby he becomes confused and believes he is still fighting WWI.
Director: Tom Gries
Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld
The Worst Episodes of Combat!
Every episode of Combat! ranked from worst to best. Explore 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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Network:ABC
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Party" is the worst rated episode of "Combat!". It scored 6.9/10 based on 105 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/24/1963. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Town That Went Away".
