Watching "Combat" in retrospect so many years later I began wondering why Rick Jason kept getting star billing, even though week after week Vic Morrow clearly carried the show. Obviously a contractual issue, nonetheless this episode gives Rick a chance, as he's given up for dead, on his own trying to crawl back to Allied lines and avoid being wiped out by German troops all around.
This solo performance gives him a chance to see some action and then reveals a romantic nature when he finds refuge in Denise Darcel's farmhouse. Holly McIntire, daughter of Jeanett3e Nolan and John McIntire, makes a good impression as Darcel's daughter, but had just a brief tv career. Germans are portrayed as especially creepy here (a soldier leering lecherously at Holly in a key subplot of attempted rape), not the typical "high road" approach of the "Combat" series in resorting to caricature.
IMDb's mini-bio, written by a phony "know-it-all", doesn't even mention Darcel's brief foray into episodic American tv, of which this "Combat" assignment was her last screen credit. She does a fine job and I, for one, respect her career achievements -not everyone gets a big break and achieves stardom -let's have some respect rather than condescension!