Combat! · S4 · E29
A Sudden Terror
Hanley tries to save a terrified soldier caught in quicksand.
About this episode
Hanley tries to save a terrified soldier caught in quicksand.
Season 4

1Main Event
60 minSep 14, 1965
Saunders' latest green replacements are a boxer and his cocky fight manager, Murphy, who wants to run both the war and Saunders.

2The First Day
60 minSep 21, 1965
The squad, worn-out and exhausted, receives four green replacements. The story follows these four teenagers as they attempt to survive their first day on the front line.

3S.I.W.
60 minSep 28, 1965
Kirby rejoins the squad in the field, bringing with him a new replacement, Kalb. Kalb is already known to Fleming. Fleming believes Kalb is a coward who ran at Omaha Beach and has been running ever since.

4The Linesman
60 minOct 5, 1965
A hostile signal corps sergeant, McClosky, balks at having Saunders as escort on a mission to lay wire.

5The Farmer
60 minOct 12, 1965
Waiting for the battle, Noah plants the crops of an evacuated French farmer. His love for the land and farming overshadow his obligations as a soldier.

6Evasion
60 minOct 19, 1965
In an ancient castle that the Germans are using as a POW camp, Hanley's fellow prisoners provide him with a fake Albanian uniform for his escape attempt.

7Hear No Evil
60 minOct 26, 1965
Sgt. Saunders, alone and deafened by a grenade, tries to make his way back to American lines.

8Crossfire
60 minNov 2, 1965
Saunders returns from patrol with one of his squad, a decorated veteran of Omaha Beach, under arrest.

99 Place Vendee
60 minNov 11, 1965
After losing a superior officer in the field, Hanley goes alone to locate a wounded intelligence officer in German Held territory.

10The Old Men
60 minNov 16, 1965
The Squad is saddled with three over-aged replacements: an injured vet of the Italian campaign who refuses to accept that he is incapable of fighting as he did as a youth, a homesick family man, and a politician with senatorial ambitions.

11Soldier of Fortune
60 minNov 23, 1965
An explosion destroys the cellar of a German communication center where Saunders, Marsh, and Wallace were tapping lines. Trapped beneath a beam and fearing he will be left behind, Marsh uses information he has overheard as insurance for a safe return to American lines.

12The Casket
60 minNov 30, 1965
Saunders, trying to get a wounded Kirby to a hospital crosses an elderly mother determined to give her son proper burial.

13Luck with Rainbows
60 minDec 7, 1965
Hanley, Little John, and Kirby attempt to salvage film from a crashed reconnaissance plane. They are interrupted by a British Major who commandeers the film and abandons the squad as Germans approach.

14Breakout
60 minDec 14, 1965
Facing a German advance, Saunders and squad are ordered to destroy a valley of construction equipment, to keep it out of the hands of the Germans.

15Finest Hour
60 minDec 21, 1965
Caje forces a Frenchman to aid him and a wounded Hanley. The Frenchman takes them to a German occupied chateau where the countess must tend to his wounds while keeping his presence a secret.

16The Raider
60 minDec 28, 1965
Hanley is captured by the infamous SS Captain Reichhardt. Saunders captures Reichhardt's men but does not learn the location on Hanley.

17The Mockingbird
60 minJan 4, 1966
Three days before a German advance, a spy posing as a downed American flyer is sent to secure information on the French resistance.

18The Good Samaritan
60 minJan 11, 1966
Marsini the sole survivor of an ill fated patrol blames Saunders for the fate of his fellows since Saunders has orders to keep his position and could not render aid

19Retribution
60 minJan 18, 1966
After his sister's fiance is killed by an SS Colonel, Kirby goes after the colonel.

20Counterplay
60 minJan 25, 1966
An impostor masquerades as a French resistance fighter to lead Saunders squad on a mission.

21Nothing to Lose
60 minFeb 1, 1966
Vinnick, a tough G.I. with no regard for danger, clashes with Burke, a soldier who covers his own cowardice with big talk.

22Ask Me No Questions
60 minFeb 8, 1966
A German Lieutenant posing as an American sergeant is placed among arriving American prisoners, including Saunders. Mastin learns locations of key American units.

23The Ringer
60 minFeb 15, 1966
A suspicious straggler joins the squad and behaves erratically, endangering the lives of Saunders and company.

24The Flying Machine
60 minFeb 22, 1966
Hanley flies in a rickety observation plane with a wisecracking pilot. Returning from their mission they see a German convoy and fly in for a closer look.

25Hills Are For Heroes (1)
60 minMar 1, 1966
In this 2 partter Hanley & his men have to try & take out 2 bunkers. Hanley finds this almost hopeless and with Saunders wounded, (he only able to give morale support to Haley).Everything looks beck for the men of King Company they get a tank. They lose the tank. But in the end Caje& Kirby with cover of the tank take out the last bunker.

26Hills Are for Heroes (2)
60 minMar 8, 1966
In this 2 partter Hanley & his men have to try & take out 2 bunkers. Hanley finds this almost hopeless and with Saunders wounded, (he only able to give morale support to Haley).Everything looks beck for the men of King Company they get a tank. They lose the tank. But in the end Caje& Kirby with cover of the tank take out the last bunker.

27Gitty
60 minMar 15, 1966
The squad find a young girl at the convent they are using as OP. Saunders has to try & tell the girl her father is dead. When they are attacked by the Krauts.

28One at a Time
60 minMar 22, 1966
After his men are all killed by Saunders' squad, a wounded German escapes and vows to kill Saunders' men, one at a time.

29A Sudden Terror
60 minMar 29, 1966Now viewing
Hanley tries to save a terrified soldier caught in quicksand.

30Run, Sheep, Run
60 minApr 5, 1966
In his first battle, Pvt. Corey freezes. Afterworld, the squad commends him for his actions, believing he destroyed a machine gun nest.

31The Leader
60 minApr 12, 1966
Saunders has to return to HQ for a meeting - leaving Kirby in charge. At first being left in charge starts going to his head, But! after Caje is wounded and the phone lines are cut. Things change fast, At first Kirby starts thinking what would Sarge do. But! with a little encouragement from Doc, He stops thinking what would Sarge do but what would Kirby do to get out of this
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