Combat! (1965): S03E31 – Odyssey

Introduction Combat! is an American television drama series that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The exclamation point in Combat! was depicted on-screen as a stylised bayonet. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. Outline Sergeant Saunders is wounded…

Andrew Marshall

10/01/2022

1–2 minutes

Action, Drama, Infantry, Military TV Series, US Army, War, World War Two

Introduction

Combat! is an American television drama series that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The exclamation point in Combat! was depicted on-screen as a stylised bayonet. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II.

Outline

Sergeant Saunders is wounded and trapped behind enemy lines while trying to provide cover for Doc and Caje as they take a wounded Little John back to their lines. Saunders wakes in a German Field Hospital to find that a French worker has put him in German clothes to prevent him being shipped to a POW Camp. As a result he tries to escape by passing himself off as a shell shocked German soldier. Placed on a train going to the German rear with a German officer who considers many of the wounded as malingerers, Saunders and a captured American flyer manage to jump from the …

Combat! Series

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Production & Filming Details

Release Date: 20 April 1965.
Rating: Unknown.
Running Time: 60 minutes.
Country: US.
Language: English.