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Combat! : Season 2
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Air date: 17 Sep '63 - 32 episodesCombat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders.
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List of Episodes (32)
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1. Bridge at Chalons
17 Sep '63Lee Marvin guest stars as a sergeant in command of a small demolition team that Saunders and his squad is ordered to take behind German lines to destroy a bridge. Lee Marvin does not believe the squad is large enough to handle the job of getting him to the bridge and back alive. He requests a platoon but is refused by Lieutenant Hanley. Marvin submits but has a huge chip on his shoulder due to a close friend being killed while on a similar mission. He has no confidence in Saunders or his men to
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2. Bridgehead
24 Sep '63Hanley orders Saunders and his squad to take a bridge which is guarded by a heavily fortified house. Nick Adams guest stars as a self-centered wise-cracking private who only cares about saving his own skin. He reveals during the episode that he is a jazz drummer and is soon to be leaving the front to play in an army band entertaining troops and wants to be sure he keeps himself in one piece. In the end he sacrifices his life to complete the mission he ridiculed.
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3. Masquerade
01 Oct '63James Coburn guest stars as a ruthless German spy masquerading as an American G.I. in order to get into an American Batallion HQ to create havoc. The jeep he is in hits a land mine and Coburn's German Officer is wounded. Saunders and his squad bring him and the two other German infiltrators back to their Company HQ for first aid. Saunders slowly begins to suspect there is something wrong as Coburn's character makes slight mistakes while speaking and interacting with the other men.
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4. The Long Way Home (1)
08 Oct '63Returning from patrol, Saunders and his men are captured by a platoon of German SS. They take the squad back to their base to be interrogated by their commander, an SS Captain played by Richard Basehart. Simon Oakland also guest stars as an American sergeant already held captive by the Germans.
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5. The Long Way Home (2)
15 Oct '63
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6. The Wounded Don't Cry
22 Oct '63
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7. Doughboy
29 Oct '63Eddie Albert guest stars as an American WWI veteran living in France with his French wife he met while soldiering in the previous war. During the shelling from a Big German gun nearby he becomes confused and believes he is still fighting WWI.
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8. Glow Against the Sky
05 Nov '63
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9. The Little Jewel
12 Nov '63All the squad except Kirby take to an orphan boy named Bizzue. When Caje is captured by the Kurts, the others begin to think just maybe Kirby is right.
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10. A Distant Drum
19 Nov '63
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11. Anatomy of a Patrol
26 Nov '63
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12. Ambush
03 Dec '63When the men arrive in a town the French shoot a man for collaborating and his daughter blames the Americans - who later learn he was actually an undercover allied agent. Regulars: Saunders, Hanley, Kirby, Caje, Billy Nelson, Littlejohn, Doc 2.
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13. Barrage
10 Dec '63
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14. Thunder from the Hill
17 Dec '63
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15. The Party
24 Dec '63
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16. Gideon's Army
31 Dec '63
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17. The Pillbox
07 Jan '64
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18. The General and the Sergeant
14 Jan '64
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19. Eyes of the Hunter
21 Jan '64
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20. The Hostages
28 Jan '64Suander And Caje are held hostage by two Germans while Doc try and get a vehical to get them out of town. When they get out of town Doc learns why the Germans wanted them for. He trys to stop them by recking the ambulance. We he does Caje get a broke leg and the German in the back get killed. When the 1 German have Doc & Saunders leave an injored Caje behind, Doc get a chance to jump him in the fight Doc kills the german with his bear hands.Saunders bring Doc to reality by letting Doc know he is
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21. Mail Call
04 Feb '64
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22. Counter-Punch
11 Feb '64
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23. A Silent Cry
18 Feb '64
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24. The Hunter
25 Feb '64
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25. What Are the Bugles Blowin' For? (1)
03 Mar '64In this 2 partter Saunders and his men have to get the retreat message to a British troupe behind enemy lines. The British Captain uses his authority to keep Saunders and his men to help him fight the Germans
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