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"Combat!" (1962)Original Air Date:
25 December 1962 (Season 1, Episode 12)Plot:
Braddock, while on duty as Lt. Hanley's runner, is "appropriated" by a tough-talking, overbearing colonel as his jeep driver... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Sergeant
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Lieutenant
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Col. Braddock moreCast
(Episode Credited cast) | Rick Jason | ... | Lt. Hanley |
 | Vic Morrow | ... | Sgt. Saunders |
| Shecky Greene | ... | Braddock |
| Pierre Jalbert | ... | Caje |
| Sasha Harden | ... | Capt. Gemmerman |
| Adam Williams | ... | Lt. Col. Nash |
| Richard Bakalyan | ... | Sgt. Wolfson (as Richard Bakalynn) |
| John A. Alonzo | ... | Bialos (as John Alonzo) |
| Dick Peabody | ... | Littlejohn |
| Keenan Wynn | ... | Colonel Clyde |
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Pvt. Braddock: Cigar?Capt. Gemmerman: Thank you, but I do not smoke.
Pvt. Braddock: You sick?
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Pvt. Braddock, chiseler and scrounge, gets assigned to hazardous duty when the platoon is stymied. He brings this information to Company HQ, where Col. Clyde needs a driver. Braddock takes that job. The jeep goes into a river with the colonel at the wheel (he "used to race midgets"), Braddock is captured in the senior officer's coat (he has a cold) and helmet (picked up on the roadway after the accident knocked him unconscious), and is mistaken for him.
Braddock offers a German officer one of Col. Clyde's cigars, from his pocket. "Thank you," says the captain, "but I do not smoke." Braddock asks, "You sick?"
He is given food and cognac, as a field-grade officer. He demands the enlisted prisoners be fed as well. The German is cognizant of the Geneva Convention, accedes.
A colonel and an intelligence officer sort out the mess, Pvt. Braddock will be exchanged for a Col. Hoffmann in American hands.
Col. Clyde returns to his office, hears the report of his capture, figures it all out, trades the Germans some enlisted men in the uniforms of Hoffmann and his aide.
Altman films the crash in a second or two, cow on the road, swerve and splash. Braddock is marched off up and around the bend (driving the cow on ahead) in a rising tilt-and-pan left that tilts down again to the submerged jeep in the foreground. After the exchange, German shells explode nearer and nearer to the camera in retaliation.
Col. Clyde is a forceful man. "You gonna stand around suckin' on a prune pit all day? Let's go!"