Episode
Combat!: Glow Against the Sky
Overview
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Details
- Series
- Combat!
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 1963-11-05
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Glow Against the Sky is Episode 8 in Season 2 of Combat!. It aired on 1963-11-05. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 7: Doughboy
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 9: The Little Jewel
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.
More episodes from this season
Episode 6: The Wounded Don't Cry
Episode 10: A Distant Drum
Episode 5: The Long Way Home (2)
Still interred in a German POW camp, Sgt. Saunders and his squad must find a way to escape before they are all killed.
Episode 11: Anatomy of a Patrol
Episode 4: The Long Way Home (1)
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 12: Ambush
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.
Episode 3: Masquerade
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 13: Barrage
Episode 2: Bridgehead
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.
Episode 14: Thunder from the Hill