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The Worst Episodes of Combat!

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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. 6.9/10(106 votes)

    #1 - The Party

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    S2:E15

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  2. 7.2/10(88 votes)

    #2 - The Town That Went Away

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    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:N/A
  3. 7.5/10(100 votes)

    #3 - Weep No More

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    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:N/A
  4. 7.5/10(96 votes)

    #4 - Gulliver

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    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. 7.5/10(88 votes)

    #5 - Anniversary

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    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:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  6. 7.7/10(103 votes)

    #6 - Thunder from the Hill

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  8. 7.7/10(102 votes)

    #7 - Infant of Prague

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    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:N/A
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  9. 7.7/10(107 votes)

    #8 - Silver Service

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    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:N/A
  10. 7.7/10(86 votes)

    #9 - Birthday Cake

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    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:N/A
    Writer:Ed Adamson
  11. 7.7/10(84 votes)

    #10 - A Sudden Terror

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    S4:E29

    Hanley tries to save a terrified soldier caught in quicksand.

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  12. 7.8/10(157 votes)

    #11 - Lost Sheep, Lost Shepherd

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    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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  13. 7.8/10(84 votes)

    #12 - Brother, Brother

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    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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  14. 7.8/10(80 votes)

    #13 - Breakout

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    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:N/A
  15. 7.8/10(92 votes)

    #14 - Entombed

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    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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  16. 7.8/10(78 votes)

    #15 - Jonah

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    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:N/A
  17. 7.9/10(155 votes)

    #16 - Any Second Now

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    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
  18. 7.9/10(133 votes)

    #17 - The Celebrity

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    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
  19. 7.9/10(118 votes)

    #18 - The Squad

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    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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  20. 7.9/10(116 votes)

    #19 - Off Limits

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    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:N/A
  21. 7.9/10(117 votes)

    #20 - Battle of the Roses

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    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:N/A
  22. 7.9/10(103 votes)

    #21 - Vendetta

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    S3:E2

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

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  23. 7.9/10(99 votes)

    #22 - Main Event

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    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:N/A
  24. 7.9/10(80 votes)

    #23 - The Flying Machine

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    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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  25. 7.9/10(95 votes)

    #24 - Ollie Joe

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    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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  26. 7.9/10(84 votes)

    #25 - The Gantlet

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    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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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Party" is the worst rated episode of "Combat!". It scored 6.9/10 based on 106 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/24/1963. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Town That Went Away".