The BEST episodes of Combat!
Every episode of Combat! ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Combat!!
This WWII show centered on the lives of the men from King Company. For 5 1/2 years the men of King Co. faced the enemy starting with the landing on Omaha Beach-D Day June 6, 1944. You see how they evolved from a squad of men to a family.
#1 - Hills Are for Heroes (2)
Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/8/1966
In part 2, things look bleak for the men of King Company, but Lt. Hanley's platoon gets the support of a tank to help take the hill. The tank is destroyed by a German bazooka. Now Hanley plans to use the tank as cover to attack the last German bunker.
#2 - Gitty
Season 4 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/15/1966
Establishing an observation post in a deserted church, Saunders meets the daughter of a German soldier.
#3 - Jonah
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/7/1967
A new replacement, Hank Dolan (Tom Simcox), believes he is bad luck. When things start happening to the others in the squad, they start believing him.
#4 - Hills Are For Heroes (1)
Season 4 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/1/1966
This two part Combat! episode is the story of the futility of war as viewed through the eyes of surviving infantrymen. An American division of troops is making an assault all along their lines. Lt. Hanley's platoon is ordered to take a strategic hill that overlooks a needed road, but it is protected by two concrete bunkers with machine guns. Saunders gets hit in the first assault while several other GIs are killed. Hanley finds it almost hopeless with Saunders wounded.
#5 - No Hallelujahs for Glory
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/19/1963
Saunders resents a cold-hearted, reckless photojournalist (Elizabeth Allen) who accidentally causes a town to believe they are liberated. When the Nazis move in and the resistance workers are exposed, she learns the seriousness of human suffering during war.
#6 - The Quiet Warrior
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/26/1963
Lt. Hanley is pulled off the line and sent to London, where he is assigned to a secret mission to aid a French physicist to escape occupied France before the Gestapo captures him. Hanley once spent the summer in France at the family's home and is the only man the scientist will trust - especially since it has been discovered that someone in the French resistance is a double agent.
#7 - No Trumpets, No Drums
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/14/1963
Caje must deal with killing a Frenchman. He does this by turning his attention to the dead man's daughter, shirking his duty and worrying the squad. Sgt. Saunders must find a way to bring Caje back to reality before losing him. Saunders finds what he needs when the town is attacked by the Germans.
#8 - Ambush
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/3/1963
When the Americans liberate a town, the French shoot a man for collaborating. His daughter, Marie Marchand (Marisa Pavan), is angry at everyone and leaves town. The Americans soon learn her father was actually an undercover allied agent, and Saunders' squad is sent to find her. Saunders needs her help more than he thought, and must overcome her bitterness.
#9 - Thunder from the Hill
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 12/17/1963
Lt. Hanley and the squad are en route to meet a commander of the Free French Army, but require a guide. Massine (Peter Whitney) is a strong-willed, determined man who has a small band of underground fighters. Before Massine will lead Lt. Hanley to Capt. Boulange, he has an agenda of his own to accomplish, and bends Hanley to his will.
#10 - The Party
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/24/1963
This episode is strictly for laughs. The squad is left in a French village to wait for a ride to meet up with Saunders and Kirby is placed in charge. Three good looking gals smile at our guys as they pass by. Kirby, Caje, and Billy immediately want to delay their ride so they can woo the gals. Three Explosive Ordinance Disposal sergeants already have dates with the gals, and our guys connive to beat the sergeants out of their dates.
#11 - The Gun
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1966
Saunders and his squad accompany a tank to destroy a German bunker. After their tank is destroyed, Saunders decides to use a German cannon for the mission. Moving the gun to the target is a physical and mental challenge.
#12 - Odyssey
Season 3 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/20/1965
After a devastating German advance, Saunders wakes up at a German aid station wearing a German uniform. So begins what is as much an odyssey of the heart as it is a literal odyssey.
#13 - Finest Hour
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/21/1965
Caje forces a Frenchman to aid a wounded Hanley and himself. The Frenchman takes them to a German occupied chateau. There the Countess de Roy (two-time Academy Award winner Luise Rainer) walks a dangerous tightrope as she entertains a château full of German soldiers, while tending Hanley's wounds and keeping their presence a secret.
#14 - Beneath the Ashes
Season 3 - Episode 32 - Aired 4/27/1965
Lt. Hanley gets word that the wife of one of his men, Steve Kovac (Chad Everett), is dying. Hanley decides not to bring him in from patrol until they get confirmation from Red Cross, but the patrol soon becomes trapped in the basement of a German command post.
#15 - Main Event
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1965
Saunders' latest green replacements are a boxer and his cocky fight manager, Murphy (Jack Carter), who wants to run both the war and Saunders.
#16 - The First Day
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1965
The squad, worn-out and exhausted, receives four green replacements. The story follows these four teenagers as they attempt to survive their first day on the front line.
#17 - S.I.W.
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1965
Kirby rejoins the squad in the field, bringing with him a new replacement, Kalb (John Cassavetes). Fleming believes Kalb is a coward who ran at Omaha Beach and has been running ever since. The controversy deepens when Kalb turns up with an apparent self-inflicted wound (SIW).
#18 - The Linesman
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1965
A hostile signal corps sergeant, Barney McKlosky, balks at having Saunders as escort on a mission to lay wire. McKlosky was a lineman in Wyoming who nearly died depending on his co-worker. Since then, McKlosky trusts no one and holds everyone in contempt.
#19 - The Farmer
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1965
Troubled when the squad forcibly evacuates a French farm family, Iowa-bred Pvt. Noah plants the family's crops. His love for the land and farming overshadow his obligations as a soldier.
#20 - Evasion
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1965
Lieutenant Hanley is a POW in an ancient castle. Because he has strategic information, his fellow prisoners provide him with a fake Albanian uniform and papers for his escape, which begins a long and harrowing trip to the Allied lines.
#21 - Hear No Evil
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1965
During a heavy firefight and facing overwhelming numbers the Allies are being beaten back and scattered. Sgt. Saunders, alone and deafened by a grenade, tries to make his way back to American lines.
#22 - Crossfire
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1965
Saunders returns from patrol with one of his squad, a decorated veteran of Omaha Beach, under arrest for disobeying an order and thereby getting two other GIs killed.
#23 - 9 Place Vendee
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1965
After losing a superior officer in the field, Hanley goes alone to locate a wounded intelligence officer in a German-held village. Hanley's search for and rescue of the OSS officer is hampered by a precocious French boy and his dog.
#24 - The Old Men
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1965
On patrol to snatch an enemy prisoner, the squad is saddled with three over-aged replacements: an injured vet of the Italian campaign who refuses to accept that he is incapable of fighting as he did as a youth, a homesick family man, and a politician with senatorial ambitions.
#25 - Soldier of Fortune
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1965
An explosion destroys the cellar of a German communication center where Saunders, Marsh, and Wallace were tapping lines. Trapped beneath a beam and fearing he will be left behind, Private Marsh claims he has valuable intelligence — that will go back with him or not at all.