Episode
Combat!: The Old Men
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Combat!
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 1965-11-16
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
The Old Men is Episode 10 in Season 4 of Combat!. It aired on 1965-11-16. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 9: 9 Place Vendee
After losing a superior officer in the field, Hanley goes alone to locate a wounded intelligence officer in German Held territory.
Episode 11: Soldier of Fortune
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.
More episodes from this season
Episode 8: Crossfire
Saunders returns from patrol with one of his squad, a decorated veteran of Omaha Beach, under arrest.
Episode 12: The Casket
Saunders, trying to get a wounded Kirby to a hospital crosses an elderly mother determined to give her son proper burial.
Episode 7: Hear No Evil
Sgt. Saunders, alone and deafened by a grenade, tries to make his way back to American lines.
Episode 13: Luck with Rainbows
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.
Episode 6: Evasion
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 14: Breakout
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.
Episode 5: The Farmer
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 15: Finest Hour
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.
Episode 4: The Linesman
A hostile signal corps sergeant, McClosky, balks at having Saunders as escort on a mission to lay wire.
Episode 16: The Raider
Hanley is captured by the infamous SS Captain Reichhardt. Saunders captures Reichhardt's men but does not learn the location on Hanley.