Combat!

- Season 1

(1962)

Searching for a Nazi gun emplacement, the GIs try to pump information from a German deserter who is unsure of his loyalties.

Sgt. Saunders has to search a deserted town for Germans with 3 very inexperienced soldiers, in which one may be a coward.

A bitterly disturbed tank Sgt. escorts Lt. Hanley's men to a French town that seems to have been abruptly abandoned.

A time-bomb dropped by the Germans crashes into a French church pinning Hanley down, and only an American-hating British lieutenant can defuse it.

Sgt. Saunders takes a great risk by giving a new private a Browning Automatic Rifle, when he knows he has other men better qualified with it.

The French Resistance helps Lt. Hanley find a downed American Col. living with a beautiful woman, but leaks are getting their people killed.

Lt. Hanley is captured and forced by a Nazi general to help him and his daughter escape, after an attempt on Hitler's life.

A top professional baseball player joins the squad and becomes a liability when he freezes up during combat, and a member is shot.

Saunders is ordered to join a reconnaissance patrol whose Sergeant doesn't like him or want him along.

Behind enemy lines, Saunders and his men struggle to keep a critically wounded French partisan alive.

In a flashback story told as the men rest on a rainy night, Sgt. Saunders recalls the experiences of himself and several other men on the day of the D-Day invasion, including tales about Braddock, who won the platoon pool for when the invasion would take place; Doc Walton, who was reluctant to go into battle; Caje (called "Caddie" in this episode), who is accompanied by another Cajun; and Lt. Hanley, who at the time was still a sergeant, and had little battle experience compared to Saunders. Following the landing, the men move inland and come upon a farmstead held by ...

A private captured by the Nazis hilariously tries to impersonate his colonel for better treatment of GI POW's , but they want him to continue the playact for an officer trade.

Sgt. Saunders begins to suspect a Pvt.'s doctor father is really a collaborator, when the Germans let him live so well and he is out of Underground custody after being arrested.

A GI private is killed after taking over an enemy machine gun and killing dozens of Nazis, but his best friend falsely claims he did the shooting.

A goodhearted French woman reluctantly hides Saunders in her Paris home and tries to keep her German officer boyfriend from finding out.

An exasperated Hanley finds himself saddled with a 13-year-old French orphan who wants to join the squad.

A new replacement overanxious to capture or kill Germans during a recon mission, disobeys orders and makes surprising progress.

A battle-hardened corporal joins Sgt. Saunders squad, but remains distant and aloof from the other members, causing dissension in the ranks.

A French father and his lovely daughter make room for wounded GI's in their mansion , but Nazis capture it and they must try to notify Division.

A pretty female Lt. married to a corporal, has also fallen in love with her Capt., and the husband might be killed when he has to fill in for an AWOL private.

Command gives Lt. Hanley 3 hours to rescue an old man, pretty librarian, and 5 children from the Germans, or they will bomb the town they are in.

While on a night patrol to bring in a prisoner, Sgt. Saunders and his squad discover an American GI in the woods waging a one-man war on his own.

In enemy territory, his hands badly burned, Saunders weaves a treacherous path back to his own lines.

A coldhearted photo journalist accidentally causes a town to believe they are liberated and when the Nazis move in with their murderous torture methods, she learns the true meaning of human suffering during war.

While in the front, Lt. Hanley is surprisingly summoned to go to London. He goes to a hotel, where the journalist Ted Slocum unsuccessfully sounds him out in the bar. Then he receives a mysterious phone call and heads to the informed address. Hanley is interviewed by the British intelligence and asked to go to France to bring the French physicist Dr. Barole to Switzerland. Dr.Barole is an old acquaintance of Hanley, who studied with his son when he was teenager. Dr. Barole has unsuccessfully tried to flee from occupied France but lost his son. Now he does not trust ...

A young woman who cannot face the horrors of the war isolates herself in an idyllic garden which is unscathed by German bombs and refuses to leave. Saunders attempts to evacuate her before more Germans come.

Kirby is being tried in a military court for desertion under fire, and the penalty could be death. As the trial proceeds, Sgt. Saunders and Caje try to gather evidence to prove his innocence.

The squad enters a French village that was recently vacated by the Germans, and receives 48 hours of R&R. A German soldier has remained behind, and is killing the Americans one at a time.

The squad discovers an orphaned baby in a barn, and must bring the infant with them as they traverse through enemy territory en route to their own lines.

A slightly wounded Sgt. Saunders travels to the aid station in an ambulance with a beautiful nurse, a doctor who has lost his nerve and a driver who never had any nerve.

Hanley, Saunders and their men are worried that the reckless bravery of a reputed one-man death-squad will get them all killed.

Experiencing extreme guilt, Caje neglects his duties to spend time with a young French girl whose father he accidentally killed in an assault on their village.