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Episode

Combat!: Bridge at Chalons

Combat!Season 21963-09-17

Overview

Lee 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 get the job done and frequently ridicules them during the mission.

Details

Series
Combat!
Season
Season 2
Episode
Episode 1
Air date
1963-09-17
Runtime
60 min

Episode context

Bridge at Chalons is Episode 1 in Season 2 of Combat!. It aired on 1963-09-17. The runtime is 60 min.

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Episode 2: Bridgehead 1963-09-24 | 60 min Hanley 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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Episode 3: Masquerade 1963-10-01 | 60 min James 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. Episode 4: The Long Way Home (1) 1963-10-08 | 60 min Returning 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. Episode 5: The Long Way Home (2) 1963-10-15 | 60 min Still interred in a German POW camp, Sgt. Saunders and his squad must find a way to escape before they are all killed. Episode 6: The Wounded Don't Cry 1963-10-22 | 60 min Episode 7: Doughboy 1963-10-29 | 60 min Eddie 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. Episode 8: Glow Against the Sky 1963-11-05 | 60 min Episode 9: The Little Jewel 1963-11-12 | 60 min All 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. Episode 10: A Distant Drum 1963-11-19 | 60 min Episode 11: Anatomy of a Patrol 1963-11-26 | 60 min Episode 12: Ambush 1963-12-03 | 60 min When 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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