The BEST episodes written by Gene Levitt
#1 - The Quiet Warrior
Combat! - Season 1 - Episode 25
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.
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#2 - Doughboy
Combat! - Season 2 - Episode 7
Phillip (Eddie Albert) is an American WWI veteran who survived severe shell-shock and lives on a farm with his French wife, Marie (Alida Valli). During shelling from a huge German gun nearby, he becomes confused and believes he is still fighting WWI. At first he takes Saunders prisoner, thinking he is a German spy, but he still has enough wits about him to help in the current war.
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#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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#4 - 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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#5 - The Little Carousel
Combat! - Season 3 - Episode 8
Despite having just having liberated a French town, Saunders is demoralized and angry. In this emotional episode, he lashes out at a 13-year-old girl whose one ambition is to serve the troops as a nurse. After he gets some sleep, she wins over his heart and gains his support, but she still manages to crosses his line.
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#7 - 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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#9 - 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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#10 - Trail West to Fury
Maverick - Season 1 - Episode 21
During a hellacious rainstorm the brothers Maverick relate to pal Dandy Jim Buckley about the time in Texas shortly after the Civil War when they searched far and wide for a tall man who could clear them of a murder charge.
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#11 - The Linesman
Combat! - Season 4 - Episode 4
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.
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