The BEST episodes directed by Robert Altman
#3 - The Volunteer
Combat! - Season 1 - Episode 16
Thirteen-year-old French boy Gilbert Barole (Serge Prieur) wants to join the squad when he sees their glory after liberating his town. Told that he can't, he follows the squad anyway. When Lt. Hanley is wounded, Caje tells him to take Hanley back to town. They find the Germans have moved back in and are setting a trap. Gilbert must find Sgt. Saunders and tell him about the Germans. Gilbert discovers that soldiering is not all gallantry and glory.
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#5 - I Swear by Apollo
Combat! - Season 1 - Episode 10
A Frenchman with important information and Pvt. Temple (his last appearance in the series) are injured by a land mine. The squad takes refuge in a convent of cloistered nuns. Hanley was bringing a doctor, but he dies of a heart attack on the way. Saunders and Caje go into the village in search of another doctor, but have to take bold steps to get one.
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#6 - Cat and Mouse
Combat! - Season 1 - Episode 9
A worn out Sgt. Saunders must lead Sgt. Jenkins & his men into an area where he had already seen lots of casualties. Jenkins assumes Saunders is a bad soldier. All are killed except Saunders and Jenkins, who find themselves trapped in a new German command post. Jenkins wants to escape ASAP, then has a surprising change of plan.
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#7 - Escape to Nowhere
Combat! - Season 1 - Episode 7
Lieutenant Hanley is captured and interrogated. General von Strelitz (Albert Paulsen) takes him away for further questioning, but instead calmly kills his chauffeur and forces Hanley to replace him. The General refuses to explain what he's plotting, and Lt. Hanley doesn't appreciate the promotion to Kapitan in the Heer. Things get complicated when von Strelitz involves his daughter, Maria (Joyce Vanderveen).
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#8 - The Secret
Bonanza - Season 2 - Episode 31
Joe is the victim of an elaborate frame-up, accused of murdering a pregnant girl. When Ben is asked if Joe is telling the truth, he replies, "If I were to start doubting my son at this point, everything I've lived and worked for would be lost".
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#11 - The Prisoner
Combat! - Season 1 - Episode 12
This is Braddock's (Shecky Greene) comedy episode. He is "appropriated" by tough-talking, overbearing Colonel Clyde (Keenan Wynn) as jeep driver. The Colonel insists on driving himself, and his reckless driving results in an accident. Braddock is captured by the Germans, who think he is a Colonel because he is wearing the colonel's coat. At first he resists, but Pvt. Braddock begins to enjoy the role.
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#12 - Silent Thunder
Bonanza - Season 2 - Episode 13
Captivated by the pretty, deaf-mute daughter of a reclusive mountain man, Little Joe teaches the young woman sign language. Thrilled with her newfound ability to communicate, Annie mistakes her gratitude to Little Joe for love, much to the chagrin of Albie, who is determined to have her for his own.
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#13 - Rear Echelon Commandos
Combat! - Season 1 - Episode 2
On the frontline, the squad receives three new replacements straight from rear echelon duty in England. They are Gainsborough (a scared, overweight cook), Temple (an equally scared ex-ballet dancer), and Crown (a radio announcer whose cocky attitude masks his fear). Saunders reluctantly takes these newcomers on a dangerous recon mission and discovers that his survival depends on the ingenuity of these misfits.
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#16 - Forgotten Front
Combat! - Season 1 - Episode 1
When communications with the "Black Rook" patrol that was sent to get the location of a German big gun is suddenly cut off, Saunders and his men ("White Rook") go in to find out what happened. In a dye factory, they find the missing patrol all dead and a hidden German deserter. Saunders must decide if the prisoner lives or dies when the squad makes their escape.
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#17 - Bolt from the Blue
Maverick - Season 4 - Episode 11
Beau Maverick befriends a prospector named Ebenezer Bolt. Maverick is unaware that Bolt is the partner of notorious horse thief Benson January. An angry posse mistakes Beau for January and is determined to hang him. A young lawyer manages to halt the proceedings until Maverick can have a trial. Beau's conviction seems imminent when the lawyer locates a notorious "hanging judge" and a woman whose sister was engaged to January identifies Maverick as the horse thief.
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#18 - Any Second Now
Combat! - Season 1 - Episode 4
While in a French town, Hanley takes refuge in a church basement during a bombing raid. An unexploded bomb brings down heavy timbers that trap him beside the bomb, which is still timed to explode. Help arrives in the form of a British demolition expert who is suffering battle fatigue and is angry at Hanley for trying to pick up his girl at a local bar.
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#19 - Off Limits
Combat! - Season 1 - Episode 20
PFC March runs into his wife, Lt. Amelia March, 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. March must go out on a mission in place of Kirby.
#20 - Together
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 - Episode 15
When a businessman's mistress threatens to expose their secret relationship to his wife, he realizes he must do anything to stop her.
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#21 - The Young One
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 - Episode 9
A pretty underage girl, bored with adolescence and eager to experience all that adulthood allows, acts out in ways that could ultimately prove deadly.