Episode
Combat!: The Outsider
Overview
The squad don't take to the new man Cully a Hillbilly from Virginia. Littlejohn befriends Cully and tries to get the others to give Cully a chance. When the Germans are spotted heading for the town Littlejohn goes looking for Cully, who has gone back to look for his money. Cully gets back to the OP (unaware of the Germans) wanting to know if anyone seen his money. Leaving Littlejohn to face the enemy alone.
Details
- Series
- Combat!
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 1966-11-22
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
The Outsider is Episode 10 in Season 5 of Combat!. It aired on 1966-11-22. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 9: Decision
Pvt. Harris is sent to go out with the squad as a demolition man.The asignment is to blow up a radio station. On the way Doc finds out that Harris is a Doc. After the second asignment Harris must make a decision if he want to be a Doc. or run away from what he is.
Episode 11: Conflict
Exhaustion and lack of sleep cause a breakdown of morale in Saunder's squad. After two days of continuous patrol in bad weather, Caje and Littlejohn are at each others throats.
More episodes from this season
Episode 8: Headcount
Saunders is saddled with 18 German prisoners with only four men to guard them. Transporting them by foot, he encounters unexpected hazards and complications from a mysterious prisoner, Corporal Wiltz, who had allowed himself to be captured.
Episode 12: Gulliver
A group of children finds a wounded Littlejohn. They take him to where they live. Then they try to sell him to the Americans & the Germans
Episode 7: The Letter
A replacement arrives that reminds Saunders of his kid brother, who he just found out has dropped out of high school and enlisted.
Episode 13: The Bankroll
After an exhausting 24 hour pass that left him broke, hungover, and happy, Kirby gets a new guy to back him in a poker game.
Episode 6: A Child's Game
The squad must find a way to get a squad of teens to surrender. With time running out Saunders lets their leader go back in to talk them out.
Episode 14: Cry for Help
On a mission to destroy an observation post, Hanley's patrol encounter a German machine gun nest, losing two men and picking up a German medic.
Episode 5: The Chapel at Able-Five
Saunders is blinded and a companion killed by a land mine explosion as they attempt to get vital information back to their lines. The blinded Saunders is rescued by a German chaplain who pretends to be English to get Saunder's help in carrying a wounded German captain to safety.
Episode 15: The Furlough
When Private Vincent is killed shortly before he is to go on a week's furlough, Saunders travels to England to deliver his bequest to Ann Tinsley, the director of an orphanage. During his time in London, he gets to know the children, and sees how they have suffered during the war. In addition, he becomes friendly with Ann, and an attraction begins to develop between them.
Episode 4: The Brothers
Hanley & his men join up with 2 members of the underground. 2 brothers, the elder-the head of the underground in the area, the youngest-who follows his brother, but! really don't have what it takes to be part of the underground. The elder refuses to see his younger brother is not cut out for the kind of life they live. When he realize that his brother not cut out for this life it to late.
Episode 16: Entombed
After rescuing captive French resistance fighters, the squad regroups in an abandoned mine. When the Germans attack, Germans, French, and Americans are all trapped. They form a pact to work together to dig their way out of the cave, and soldiers learn something about the humanity of the enemy.