Episode

Combat!: Main Event

Name: Combat!: Main Event
Released: 1965-09-14
Duration: 60 min
Cast: Rick Jason, Vic Morrow, Jack Hogan, Pierre Jalbert, Conlan Carter

Combat!Season 41965-09-14

Overview

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

Details

Series: Combat!
Season: Season 4
Episode: Episode 1
Air date: 1965-09-14
Runtime: 60 min

Episode context

Main Event is Episode 1 in Season 4 of Combat!. It aired on 1965-09-14. The runtime is 60 min.

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Episode 2: The First Day 1965-09-21 | 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.

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Episode 3: S.I.W. 1965-09-28 | 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.

Episode 4: The Linesman 1965-10-05 | 60 min A hostile signal corps sergeant, McClosky, balks at having Saunders as escort on a mission to lay wire.

Episode 5: The Farmer 1965-10-12 | 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.

Episode 6: Evasion 1965-10-19 | 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.

Episode 7: Hear No Evil 1965-10-26 | 60 min Sgt. Saunders, alone and deafened by a grenade, tries to make his way back to American lines.

Episode 8: Crossfire 1965-11-02 | 60 min Saunders returns from patrol with one of his squad, a decorated veteran of Omaha Beach, under arrest.

Episode 9: 9 Place Vendee 1965-11-11 | 60 min After losing a superior officer in the field, Hanley goes alone to locate a wounded intelligence officer in German Held territory.

Episode 10: The Old Men 1965-11-16 | 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.

Episode 11: Soldier of Fortune 1965-11-23 | 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.

Episode 12: The Casket 1965-11-30 | 60 min Saunders, trying to get a wounded Kirby to a hospital crosses an elderly mother determined to give her son proper burial.