Episode
Combat!: The First Day
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Combat!
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1965-09-21
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
The First Day is Episode 2 in Season 4 of Combat!. It aired on 1965-09-21. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 1: Main Event
Saunders' latest green replacements are a boxer and his cocky fight manager, Murphy, who wants to run both the war and Saunders.
Episode 3: S.I.W.
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.
More episodes from this season
Episode 4: The Linesman
A hostile signal corps sergeant, McClosky, balks at having Saunders as escort on a mission to lay wire.
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 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 7: Hear No Evil
Sgt. Saunders, alone and deafened by a grenade, tries to make his way back to American lines.
Episode 8: Crossfire
Saunders returns from patrol with one of his squad, a decorated veteran of Omaha Beach, under arrest.
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 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 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 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 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.