The WORST episodes of Combat!
Every episode of Combat! ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - 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.
#2 - The Hell Machine
Season 3 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/30/1965
When their jeep hits a land mine, Saunders, a tank captain, and private Gavin attempt to maneuver an abandoned German tank through enemy territory.
#3 - Billy the Kid
Season 3 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/6/1965
Lieutenant William Benton, the son of celebrated General Bull Benton, leads a mission to locate a big artillery piece that is cutting up the American lines. It is his first field experience, and he has a lot to prove.
#4 - Heritage
Season 3 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/13/1965
Hanley and Kirby escort Corporal Velásquez (Charles Bronson), an artsy demolition expert, on a dangerous mission to destroy a heavily fortified and guarded observation post so that the Americans can advance through the valley below.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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).
#10 - 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.
#11 - Cry in the Ruins
Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/23/1965
In a village devastated by both sides' artillery, a desperate woman searches for her missing baby as American and German soldiers watch helplessly from opposite ends of the street.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - The Casket
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1965
Saunders is trying to get a wounded Kirby to medical help. He tries to commandeer the truck of an embittered French woman who resists his efforts, determined to give her son a proper burial.
#19 - Luck with Rainbows
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/7/1965
Hanley, Little John, and Kirby attempt to salvage film from a crashed reconnaissance plane. They are interrupted by a swaggering British Major who commandeers the film and abandons the squad as Germans approach.
#20 - Losers Cry Deal
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1965
Saunders assigns Caje as acting squad leader for 3rd squad until the replacement Sergeant arrives. Jackson (Mike Kellin) believes the job should have been his.
#21 - Fly Away Home
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/17/1964
Sgt. Keeley has lost faith in humanity and invests all his devotion to his carrier pigeons, which he has trained for military use.
#22 - The Impostor
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1964
Hanley must take the place of a G-2 officer on a mission to spy on a German HQ. He is to meet three men for the mission. He discovers that one of them has been killed and although the corpse is dressed in a German Uniform, he is recognized by Kirby as an American G.I. They now suspect that one of the three men is a German disguised as an American G.I.
#23 - A Gift of Hope
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1964
Saunders learns that his hero and role-model has feet of clay. Sergeant Avery, thought killed in action, shows up alive and well. and must clear himself of suspicion of desertion.
#24 - A Rare Vintage
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/1964
Saunders, Caje, Doc and a disgruntled straggler, Pvt. Garrett, are flushing a winery when a squad of Germans enter carrying a badly wounded Lt. Hanley. They need the help of the old winemaker to try and get away with Hanley. The winemaker might be able to teach Garrett something about courage.
#25 - The Long Walk
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1964
After a major German advance, Saunders, Little John and Doc find Sgt. Larkin, who they know, then encounter an unruly Pvt. Henry Murfree, who they don't. Murfree constantly accuses them of being German infiltrators, and there are other indications that German SS are infiltrating, under the command of SS Hauptmann Klepner.