Combat S01 – E12 – “The Prisoner”
“The Prisoner” A private captured by the Nazis hilariously tries to impersonate his colonel for better treatment of GI[…]
Read moreCombat!, a one-hour World War II drama series on television, followed a frontline American infantry squad as they battled their way across Europe. With mud-splattered realism, the show offered character studies of men striving to maintain their own humanity in the midst of a world torn by war.
“The Prisoner” A private captured by the Nazis hilariously tries to impersonate his colonel for better treatment of GI[…]
Read more“A Day in June” In a flashback story told as the men rest on a rainy night, Sgt. Saunders[…]
Read more“I Swear by Apollo” Behind enemy lines, Saunders and his men struggle to keep a critically wounded French partisan alive.[…]
Read more“Cat and Mouse” Saunders is ordered to join a reconnaissance patrol whose Sergeant doesn’t like him or want him along.[…]
Read moreNo Hallelujahs for Glory A coldhearted photo journalist accidentally causes a town to believe they are liberated and when the[…]
Read moreSurvival In enemy territory, his hands badly burned, Saunders weaves a treacherous path back to his own lines. Combat was[…]
Read moreNight Patrol While on a night patrol to bring in a prisoner, Sgt. Saunders and his squad discover an American[…]
Read moreNo Time for Pity Command gives Lt. Hanley 3 hours to rescue an old man, pretty librarian, and 5 children[…]
Read moreOff Limits A pretty female Lt. married to a corporal, has also fallen in love with her Capt., and the[…]
Read moreA French father and his lovely daughter make room for wounded GI’s in their mansion , but Nazis capture it[…]
Read moreProfessional Baseball Player A top professional baseball player joins the squad and becomes a liability when he freezes up during[…]
Read moreNazi General Lt. Hanley is captured and forced by a Nazi General to help him and his daughter escape, after[…]
Read moreFrench Resistance The French Resistance helps Lt. Hanley find a downed American Col. living with a beautiful woman, but leaks[…]
Read moreBrowning Automatic Rifle Sgt. Saunders takes a great risk by giving a new private a Browning Automatic Rifle, when he[…]
Read moreTime-Bomb A time-bomb dropped by the Germans crashes into a French church pinning Hanley down, and only an American-hating British[…]
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