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 (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.
#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 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - The Party
Season 2 - Episode 15 - 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.
#6 - Thunder from the Hill
Season 2 - Episode 14 - 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.
#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 12 - 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 - The Quiet Warrior
Season 1 - Episode 25 - 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.
#10 - Ask Me No Questions
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/8/1966
Saunders is imprisoned in a German POW compound where a German lieutenant poses as an American POW and learns the locations of key American units.
#11 - The Good Samaritan
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/11/1966
Marsini, the sole survivor of a squad, blames Saunders for the fate of his fellows after Saunders could not help because he had orders to keep his position. Marsini volunteers to lead the sergeant on reconnaisance of the same deadly area.
#12 - 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.
#13 - No Hallelujahs for Glory
Season 1 - Episode 24 - 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.
#14 - Conflict
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1966
Saunders' squad suffers from exhaustion and lack of sleep. After two days of continuous patrol in bad weather, their low morale and raw nerves jeopardize a vital mission. Surprisingly, the worst case of this ISN'T Kirby . . .
#15 - The Masquers
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/14/1967
No one can tell friend from foe as Germans infiltrate dressed as Allied solders. Kirby, separated from the squad, takes Carl Driskoll prisoner, not sure if he is an American or a German. They are both then captured by British Cpl. Tommy Behan, who is unsure who to trust. Along the way they pick up yet another dressed as an American.
#16 - Encounter
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/31/1967
Captain Cole (James Daly) is reunited with his son, Jack (James MacArthur), who he hasn't seen in years. Jack is now a reporter who is sent to cover the war at the front. When Jack and his father meet, it is evident that their relations are strained. When they are pinned down in a farmhouse and the situation is desperate, they finally speak from the heart.
#17 - The Chapel at Able-Five
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1966
Saunders is blinded and a companion killed by a land mine explosion as they attempt to get vital information back to their lines. Saunders is rescued by a German chaplain who pretends to be English to get Saunder's help in carrying a wounded German captain to safety.
#18 - The Outsider
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1966
The squad didn't take to Culley, a poor farmer from Virginia with a chip on his shoulder. Culley bitterly recalls the events that put him in the hospital.
#19 - The Partisan
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/14/1967
Hanley sends Saunders' patrol to scout for artillery shelling the factory they've been ordered to hold. Ambushed by a German squad, Saunders is knocked out and Caje is badly wounded and captured. Saunders finds refuge in the home of blind Babette (Claudine Longet) and her boyfriend Michel (Robert Duvall), who is not who he claims.
#20 - 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.
#21 - The Bankroll
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/1966
After an exhausting 24 hour pass that left him broke, hungover, and happy, Kirby gets a new guy to back him in a poker game.
#22 - Counterplay
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/25/1966
Saunders' squad, with radar expert Sgt. Rawlings, is sent behind enemy lines to find, study, and destroy a German radar installation. A French resistance fighter, Marchand, is along to guide them. But the Germans are controlling the operation every step of the way.
#23 - One at a Time
Season 4 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/22/1966
After losing his entire squad to Saunders' men, a wounded German sergeant escapes and vows to kill the Americans, saving Saunders for last.
#24 - The Letter
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1966
Saunders rankles his squad members by showing too much concern for a replacement. The young G.I. bears a disquieting resemblance to the Sergeant's kid brother, who just dropped out of high school and enlisted.
#25 - Cry for Help
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/20/1966
On a mission to destroy an observation post, Hanley's patrol encounter a German machine gun nest. They lose two men and pick up a German medic, who is forced to choose between duty to his country and his compassion for humanity.