Episode
Combat!: The Letter
Overview
A replacement arrives that reminds Saunders of his kid brother, who he just found out has dropped out of high school and enlisted.
Details
- Series
- Combat!
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 7
- Air date
- 1966-10-25
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
The Letter is Episode 7 in Season 5 of Combat!. It aired on 1966-10-25. The runtime is 60 min.
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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 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.
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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 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 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 10: The Outsider
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.
Episode 3: Ollie Joe
Ollie Joe's Lt. dies before he can Worn Saunders about Ollie. Saunders realize that something not right with Ollie. When he pulls his gun on Sarge & calls him Lt. Saunders put 2&2 together & comes up what was wrong. With Ollie dying Saunders tell him that he was GI perfect
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.
Episode 2: The Losers
This is Combat's version of The Dirty Dozen. Saunders & Littlejohn arrives in a town to pick up 6 men. They find that everyone is leaving or has left. They find 4 prisoners locked in a cell. Saunders decides to use these men to finish the mission he & Littlejohn were sent to do.
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 1: The Gun
After their tank is distorted Saunders decide to use a German gun to blow up a German bunker. They have to push the gun to the target. When things start going wrong the men start believing the gun a jinx.
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.