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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 American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Combat! Season 2 Episode 15 - The Party
    6.9/10(123 votes)

    #1 - The Party

    S2:E15

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Combat! Season 3 Episode 14 - The Town That Went Away
    7.0/10(106 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.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Combat! Season 2 Episode 27 - Weep No More
    7.4/10(117 votes)

    #3 - Weep No More

    S2:E27

    No description available

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Combat! Season 5 Episode 12 - Gulliver
    7.5/10(107 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

    Director:Vic Morrow
    Writer:Paul Playdon

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  5. Combat! Season 2 Episode 31 - Infant of Prague
    7.6/10(118 votes)

    #5 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Combat! Season 5 Episode 18 - Anniversary
    7.6/10(97 votes)

    #6 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Combat! Season 1 Episode 3 - Lost Sheep, Lost Shepherd
    7.7/10(179 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:Burt Kennedy
    Writer:Robert Hardy Andrews

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  8. Combat! Season 2 Episode 14 - Thunder from the Hill
    7.7/10(118 votes)

    #8 - Thunder from the Hill

    S2:E14

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Combat! Season 3 Episode 5 - Silver Service
    7.7/10(128 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.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Combat! Season 3 Episode 15 - Birthday Cake
    7.7/10(105 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ed Adamson

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  11. Combat! Season 1 Episode 20 - Off Limits
    7.8/10(137 votes)

    #11 - 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.

    Director:Robert Altman
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Combat! Season 1 Episode 26 - Battle of the Roses
    7.8/10(137 votes)

    #12 - 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.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Combat! Season 3 Episode 20 - Brother, Brother
    7.8/10(101 votes)

    #13 - 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.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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  14. Combat! Season 4 Episode 29 - A Sudden Terror
    7.8/10(98 votes)

    #14 - A Sudden Terror

    S4:E29

    Hanley tries to save a terrified soldier caught in quicksand.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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  15. Combat! Season 1 Episode 4 - Any Second Now
    7.9/10(177 votes)

    #15 - 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.

    Director:Robert Altman
    Writer:Gene Levitt

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  16. Combat! Season 3 Episode 2 - Vendetta
    7.9/10(118 votes)

    #16 - Vendetta

    S3:E2

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Combat! Season 4 Episode 4 - The Linesman
    7.9/10(121 votes)

    #17 - The Linesman

    S4:E4

    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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  18. Combat! Season 4 Episode 14 - Breakout
    7.9/10(95 votes)

    #18 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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  19. Combat! Season 5 Episode 16 - Entombed
    7.9/10(101 votes)

    #19 - 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.

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writers:Paul Playdon, William Bast

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  20. Combat! Season 5 Episode 20 - The Gantlet
    7.9/10(92 votes)

    #20 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Combat! Season 1 Episode 6 - Missing in Action
    8.0/10(143 votes)

    #21 - Missing in Action

    S1:E6

    Retrieving a downed pilot becomes even more nerve-wracking, because Lt. Hanley's battle-fatigued squad mistakenly shoots the messenger who delivered the U.S. war hero pilot's whereabouts to them. Lt. Hanley doesn't want this mission, but he's assured that a grizzled Maquisard truck driver will transport them safely to the farm where the French Resistance have hidden the wounded bomber pilot.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Combat! Season 1 Episode 8 - The Celebrity
    8.0/10(151 votes)

    #22 - 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.

    Director:Burt Kennedy
    Writer:Art Wallace

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  23. Combat! Season 1 Episode 17 - The Squad
    8.0/10(139 votes)

    #23 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Combat! Season 2 Episode 7 - Doughboy
    8.0/10(151 votes)

    #24 - Doughboy

    S2:E7

    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

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  25. Combat! Season 3 Episode 1 - Mountain Man
    8.0/10(119 votes)

    #25 - Mountain Man

    S3:E1

    An embittered deserter is bribed into Saundes' squad across the mountains. They are captured by Germans and left to freeze, but manage a daring escape.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Party" is the worst rated episode of "Combat!". It scored 6.9/10 based on 123 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/24/1963. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Town That Went Away".