Episode
Combat!: The Casket
Overview
Saunders, trying to get a wounded Kirby to a hospital crosses an elderly mother determined to give her son proper burial.
Details
- Series
- Combat!
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1965-11-30
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
The Casket is Episode 12 in Season 4 of Combat!. It aired on 1965-11-30. The runtime is 60 min.
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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.
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.
More episodes from this season
Episode 10: The Old Men
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 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 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 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 8: Crossfire
Saunders returns from patrol with one of his squad, a decorated veteran of Omaha Beach, under arrest.
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.
Episode 7: Hear No Evil
Sgt. Saunders, alone and deafened by a grenade, tries to make his way back to American lines.
Episode 17: The Mockingbird
Three days before a German advance, a spy posing as a downed American flyer is sent to secure information on the French resistance.
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 18: The Good Samaritan
Marsini the sole survivor of an ill fated patrol blames Saunders for the fate of his fellows since Saunders has orders to keep his position and could not render aid