Broadcast History
"Combat!" premiered on ABC October 2, 1962 and was broadcast for five seasons. TV's longest-running World War II drama (through May 2012), "Combat!" aired 152 hour-long episodes. The first four seasons, spanning 127 episodes, were produced in black and white, with the final season, 25 episodes long, filmed in color. The show was developed by Robert Pirosh, who wrote the pilot episode.
Although the series ran for five seasons, King Company (the Army unit around whose fictional experiences the program was centered) never fought its way out of France, despite the fact that the real U.S. Army fought there for less than a year.
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