Combat! — Season 4

Aired 14 September 1965 • 60 min

Saunders' latest green replacements are a boxer and his cocky fight manager, Murphy, who wants to run both the war and Saunders.

Aired 21 September 1965 • 60 min

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.

Aired 28 September 1965 • 60 min

Kirby rejoins the squad in the field, bringing with him a new replacement, Kalb. Kalb is already known to Fleming. Fleming believes Kalb is a coward who ran at Omaha Beach and has been running ever since.

Aired 5 October 1965 • 60 min

A hostile signal corps sergeant, McClosky, balks at having Saunders as escort on a mission to lay wire.

Aired 12 October 1965 • 60 min

Waiting for the battle, Noah plants the crops of an evacuated French farmer. His love for the land and farming overshadow his obligations as a soldier.

Aired 19 October 1965 • 60 min

In an ancient castle that the Germans are using as a POW camp, Hanley's fellow prisoners provide him with a fake Albanian uniform for his escape attempt.

Aired 26 October 1965 • 60 min

Sgt. Saunders, alone and deafened by a grenade, tries to make his way back to American lines.

Aired 2 November 1965 • 60 min

Saunders returns from patrol with one of his squad, a decorated veteran of Omaha Beach, under arrest.

Aired 11 November 1965 • 60 min

After losing a superior officer in the field, Hanley goes alone to locate a wounded intelligence officer in German Held territory.

Aired 16 November 1965 • 60 min

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.

Aired 23 November 1965 • 60 min

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, Marsh uses information he has overheard as insurance for a safe return to American lines.

Aired 30 November 1965 • 60 min

Saunders, trying to get a wounded Kirby to a hospital crosses an elderly mother determined to give her son proper burial.

Aired 7 December 1965 • 60 min

Hanley, Little John, and Kirby attempt to salvage film from a crashed reconnaissance plane. They are interrupted by a British Major who commandeers the film and abandons the squad as Germans approach.

Aired 14 December 1965 • 60 min

Facing a German advance, Saunders and squad are ordered to destroy a valley of construction equipment, to keep it out of the hands of the Germans.

Aired 21 December 1965 • 60 min

Caje forces a Frenchman to aid him and a wounded Hanley. The Frenchman takes them to a German occupied chateau where the countess must tend to his wounds while keeping his presence a secret.

Aired 28 December 1965 • 60 min

Hanley is captured by the infamous SS Captain Reichhardt. Saunders captures Reichhardt's men but does not learn the location on Hanley.

Aired 4 January 1966 • 60 min

Three days before a German advance, a spy posing as a downed American flyer is sent to secure information on the French resistance.

Aired 11 January 1966 • 60 min

Marsini the sole survivor of an ill fated patrol blames Saunders for the fate of his fellows since Saunders has orders to keep his position and could not render aid

Aired 18 January 1966 • 60 min

After his sister's fiance is killed by an SS Colonel, Kirby goes after the colonel.

Aired 25 January 1966 • 60 min

An impostor masquerades as a French resistance fighter to lead Saunders squad on a mission.

Aired 1 February 1966 • 60 min

Vinnick, a tough G.I. with no regard for danger, clashes with Burke, a soldier who covers his own cowardice with big talk.

Aired 8 February 1966 • 60 min

A German Lieutenant posing as an American sergeant is placed among arriving American prisoners, including Saunders. Mastin learns locations of key American units.

Aired 15 February 1966 • 60 min

A suspicious straggler joins the squad and behaves erratically, endangering the lives of Saunders and company.

Aired 22 February 1966 • 60 min

Hanley flies in a rickety observation plane with a wisecracking pilot. Returning from their mission they see a German convoy and fly in for a closer look.

Aired 1 March 1966 • 60 min

In this 2 partter Hanley & his men have to try & take out 2 bunkers. Hanley finds this almost hopeless and with Saunders wounded, (he only able to give morale support to Haley).Everything looks beck for the men of King Company they get a tank. They lose the tank. But in the end Caje& Kirby with cover of the tank take out the last bunker.

Aired 8 March 1966 • 60 min

In this 2 partter Hanley & his men have to try & take out 2 bunkers. Hanley finds this almost hopeless and with Saunders wounded, (he only able to give morale support to Haley).Everything looks beck for the men of King Company they get a tank. They lose the tank. But in the end Caje& Kirby with cover of the tank take out the last bunker.

Aired 15 March 1966 • 60 min

The squad find a young girl at the convent they are using as OP. Saunders has to try & tell the girl her father is dead. When they are attacked by the Krauts.

Aired 22 March 1966 • 60 min

After his men are all killed by Saunders' squad, a wounded German escapes and vows to kill Saunders' men, one at a time.

Aired 29 March 1966 • 60 min

Hanley tries to save a terrified soldier caught in quicksand.

Aired 5 April 1966 • 60 min

In his first battle, Pvt. Corey freezes. Afterworld, the squad commends him for his actions, believing he destroyed a machine gun nest.

Aired 12 April 1966 • 60 min

Saunders has to return to HQ for a meeting - leaving Kirby in charge. At first being left in charge starts going to his head, But! after Caje is wounded and the phone lines are cut. Things change fast, At first Kirby starts thinking what would Sarge do. But! with a little encouragement from Doc, He stops thinking what would Sarge do but what would Kirby do to get out of this