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Combat! Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
32 Episodes 1963 - 1964
Episode 1
Bridge at Chalons
Tue, Sep 17, 1963 60 mins
Escorting two demolition experts behind enemy lines, Saunders' job is complicated by the specialists' obvious dislike for each other. Lee Marvin. McQuillan: Lee Krieger. Saunders: Vic Morrow. Caje: Pierre Jalbert. Kirby: Jack Hogan.
Episode 2
Bridgehead
Tue, Sep 24, 1963 60 mins
Nick Adams stars as Pvt. Mick Heller, a self-centered musician who balks at undertaking a hazardous assignment. Saunders: Vic Morrow. Hanley: Rick Jason. Kirby: Jack Hogan. Nelson: Tom Lowell. Littlejohn: Dick Peabody. Doc: Conlan Carter.
Episode 3
Masquerade
Tue, Oct 1, 1963 60 mins
Saunders is duped into revealing the location of battalion headquarters to two Germans disguised as American soldiers. Kanger: James Coburn. Comstock: Dan Stafford. Hanley: Rick Jason. Kirby: Jack Hogan. Littlejohn: Dick Peabody. Caje: Pierre Jalbert. Doc: Conlan Carter.
Episode 4
Long Way Home
Tue, Oct 8, 1963 60 mins
Part 1 of two. Captured by the SS, Saunders and his men try to escape before one of the squad members breaks during the brutal interrogation sessions. Steiner: Richard Basehart. Akers: Simon Oakland. Gates: Woodrow Parfrey. Saunders: Vic Morrow. Caje: Pierre Jalbert.
Episode 5
The Long Way Home: Part 2
Tue, Oct 15, 1963 60 mins
Part 2: enraged by Nelson's escape from the SS prison compound, the German's increase their pressure---and guard---on the GIs left behind. Akers: Simon Oakland. Steiner: Richard Basehart. Saunders: Vic Morrow. Gates: Woodrow Parfrey. Caje: Pierre Jalbert. Nelson: Tom Lowell.
Episode 6
The Wounded Don't Cry
Tue, Oct 22, 1963 60 mins
Wartime enemies---Saunders and a German sergeant---discover a common bond when they go in pursuit of plasma for their wounded comrades. Bauer: Karl Boehm. Saunders: Vic Morrow. Neumann: Leonard Nimoy. Schiller: Oscar Beregi.
Episode 7
Doughboy
Tue, Oct 29, 1963 60 mins
Saunders is cut off from his unit and captured---by an American in a World War I uniform. Phil: Eddie Albert. Marie: Alida Valli. Kirby: Jack Hogan.
Episode 8
Glow Against the Sky
Tue, Nov 5, 1963 60 mins
The squad must evacuate a badly wounded Nelson from a bomb-ridden house occupied by German troops. Saunders: Vic Morrow. Kirby: Jack Hogan. Littlejohn: Dick Peabody. Caje: Pierre Jalbert. Huffman: Bill Sargent.
Episode 9
The Little Jewel
Tue, Nov 12, 1963 60 mins
The GIs befriend Bijou, an orphan boy with an excellent knowledge of the terrain and a way of ingratiating himself with soldiers---American and German. Michel Petit. Saunders: Vic Morrow. Hanley: Rick Jason. Kirby: Jack Hogan. Caje: Pierre Jalbert.
Episode 10
A Distant Drum
Tue, Nov 19, 1963 60 mins
A wounded Hanley is left to fend for himself when the occupants of a remote farmhouse spurn his pleas for help. Annette: Denise Darcel. Louise: Holly McIntire. Kirby: Jack Hogan. Caje: Pierre Jalbert.
Episode 11
Anatomy of a Patrol
Tue, Nov 26, 1963 60 mins
Saunders's squad and a German patrol are sent on the same mission: bring back the pilot and film from a downed U.S. reconnaisance plane. James Caan. Saunders: Vic Morrow. Caje: Pierre Jalbert. Nelson: Tom Lowell. Littlejohn: Dick Peabody.
Episode 12
Ambush
Tue, Dec 3, 1963 60 mins
Saunders goes after Marie Marchand (Marisa Pavan), who fled when her father---an undercover agent for the Allies---was executed as a Nazi collaborator. Vic Morrow. Hanley: Rick Jason. Caje: Pierre Jalbert. Baumer: Charles Macaulay.
Episode 13
Barrage
Tue, Dec 10, 1963 60 mins
A wounded Saunders (Vic Morrow) crawls into a cave and loses consciousness---just as a German soldier arrives. Alf Kjellin. Hanley: Rick Jason. Gunnar: John Crawford. Kirby: Jack Hogan. Caje: Pierre Jalbert.
Episode 14
Thunder from the Hill
Tue, Dec 17, 1963 60 mins
In return for the services of a French guide, Hanley must help the guerrilla fighter raid a German supply depot. Massine: Peter Whitney. Kirby: Jack Hogan. Caje: Pierre Jalbert. Jean: John Neris.
Episode 15
The Party
Tue, Dec 24, 1963 60 mins
All's fair in love and war: the squad members compete for the affections of several lovely village maidens. Danielle DeMetz. Rafferty: Biff Elliot. Jeannine: Andrea Darvi. Kirby: Jack Hogan. Caje: Pierre Jalbert. Nelson: Tom Lowell.
Episode 16
Gideon's Army
Tue, Dec 31, 1963 60 mins
Saunders and his men weave their way through a tortuous escape route accompanied by a gaunt and ragged group of liberated Polish prisoners. Glinski: Milton Selzer. Karacz: Albert Szabo. Buxman: Richard Jaeckel. Kirby: Jack Hogan.
Episode 17
The Pillbox
Tue, Jan 7, 1964 60 mins
A deserted pillbox and a raging storm protect Hanley and a wounded GI from three Germans---who are preparing to close in when the rain stops. Stark: Warren Oates. Dorfmann: Albert Paulsen. Doc: Conlan Carter. Klimmer: Joseph Turkel.
Episode 18
The General and the Sergeant
Tue, Jan 14, 1964 60 mins
Dressed in a World War I uniform, Lt. Gen. Armand Bouchard welcomes Saunders's liberating squad---and assumes command of his troops. Saunders: Vic Morrow. Hanley: Rick Jason. Jacqueline: Denise Alexander. Kirby: Jack Hogan.
Episode 19
Eyes of the Hunter
Tue, Jan 21, 1964 60 mins
After his unit is almost wiped out in a search for an elusive German outpost, Pvt. Jesse Burgess agrees to lead Saunders's squad to the area. Saunders: Vic Morrow. Casper: Joe Sirola. Kirby: Jack Hogan. Littlejohn: Dick Peabody. Caje: Pierre Jalbert. Nelson: Tom Lowell.
Episode 20
The Hostages
Tue, Jan 28, 1964 60 mins
Saunders and Caje are taken hostage by two SS men trying to return to the German lines. Aptmeyer: Mark Richman. Ecktmann: Hans Gudegast. Saunders: Vic Morrow. Caje: Pierre Jalbert. Doc: Conlan Carter.
Episode 21
Mail Call
Tue, Feb 4, 1964 60 mins
Trouble hits Saunders from three sides: bad news from home, an accident-prone new man on the squad and orders for a particularly rugged patrol. Trenton: James Best. Hanley: Rick Jason. Kirby: Jack Hogan. Caje: Pierre Jalbert. Littlejohn: Dick Peabody. Doc: Conlan Carter.
Episode 22
Counter-Punch
Tue, Feb 11, 1964 60 mins
Deep in enemy territory, Saunders and Caje inch back toward their lines, accompanied by two noncombatants, two green replacements, and an ex-boxer sergeant. Saunders: Vic Morrow. Martinez: Steve Gravers. Moorwood: Malachi Throne. Caje: Pierre Jalbert. Cutner: Anthony Holland.
Episode 23
A Silent Cry
Tue, Feb 18, 1964 60 mins
An arrogant communications expert with no combat experience accompanies Sergeant Saunders on a mission to deliver field radios to the French partisans. Perkins: Richard Anderson.
Episode 24
The Hunter
Tue, Feb 25, 1964 60 mins
A German captain puts his hunting skills to work by capturing Kirby---and stalking Saunders like an animal. Heismann: Alfred Ryder. Saunders: Vic Morrow. Kirby: Jack Hogan. Brunner: Ed Tierney.
Episode 25
What Are the Bugles Blowin' For?: Part 1
Tue, Mar 3, 1964 60 mins
First of two parts. Saunders delivers withdrawal orders to a cut-off British infantry unit---whose captain refuses to retreat. Capt. Johns: Ronald Howard. Sgt. Rawlings: John Alderson. Robaire: Philippe Chapelle. Kirby: Jack Hogan. Cpl. Joyce: William Beckley. Doc: Conlan Carter. Caje: Pierre Jalbert. Littlejohn: Dick Peabody. Nelson: Tom Lowell.
Episode 26
What Are the Bugles Blowin' For?: Part 2
Tue, Mar 10, 1964 60 mins
Part 2. After the outnumbered Americans and British repulse a German attack, Captain Johns once again passes up a chance to retreat. Ronald Howard. Rawlings: John Alderson. Saunders: Vic Morrow. Robaire: Phillippe Chapelle.
Episode 27
Weep No More
Tue, Mar 17, 1964 60 mins
Hanley is attacked by a young woman who has been driven to the brink of insanity by the war's terrors. Annette: Anjanette Comer. German Sergeant: Ted Knight. Kirby: Jack Hogan. German Captain: Rick Traeger.
Episode 28
The Short Day of Private Putnam
Tue, Mar 24, 1964 60 mins
Replacement Orville Putnam (Beau Bridges) has two things to hide from his fellow soldiers: he's interested in botany---and he's 15 years old. Lilyan Chauvin. Harvey: Robert Sampson. Saunders: Vic Morrow.
Episode 29
Rescue
Tue, Mar 31, 1964 60 mins
Hanley teams with a young GI to spring an officer from his Nazi captors. Bacon: Guy Stockwell. Johnson: Edward Binns. German Lieutenant: Paul Busch.
Episode 30
Command
Tue, Apr 7, 1964 60 mins
Assigned to lead the platoon on a dangerous mission, an aloof, steel-nerved lieutenant stirs dissension by treating the men like raw recruits. Adams: William Arvin. Bronson: Dennis Robertson. Saunders: Vic Morrow. Kirby: Jack Hogan.
Episode 31
Infant of Prague
Tue, Apr 14, 1964 60 mins
Surrounded by Germans, Hanley's men, a nun and three convent girls try to formulate a plan before the enemy closes in. Hanley: Rick Jason. Sister Therese: Jeanette Nolan. Mlle. Solere: Jeanne Rainer. Mlle. Mornay: Pamela Branch. Mlle. Bochard: Leigh Chapman. Caje: Pierre Jalbert.
Episode 32
The Glory Among Men
Tue, Apr 21, 1964 60 mins
A cocky and unpopular newcomer is wounded and trapped by the Germans, who are betting that Saunders will risk the squad in a rescue attempt. Eddie Ryder. Laslo: Peter Helm. Saunders: Vic Morrow. Kirby: Jack Hogan. Hacker: Bernard Kates.
