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Band of Brothers Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - Currahee

First aired: Sep/09/2001
Writer: Tom Hanks, Erik Jendresen
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Guest star: Simon Schatzberger (Joseph A. Lesniewski), Jordan Frieda (Replacement), David Schwimmer (Lt. Herbert M. Sobel), Michael Fassbender (Sgt. Burton "Pat" Christenson), Alex Sabga (Francis J. Mellet), Rocky Marshall (Earl J. McClung), Jamie Bamber (Jack E. Foley), Jason O'Mara (Lt. Thomas Meehan), David Crow (Corporal), Simon Pegg (William S. Evans), Joseph May (Edward J. Shames)

The members of the 101st Airborne are in training at Camp Toccoa, Georgia. After finishing their training, the men ship out to Uppottery, England. They practice their jumps, do field exercises, and find out that their first combat experience will be Normandy.



2 :01x02 - Day of Days

First aired: Sep/09/2001
Writer: John Orloff
Director: Richard Loncraine
Guest star: Jonie Broom (Hans Schmidt), Adam James (Cleveland O. Petty), Steve Chaplin (Pilot), Simon Fenton (Gerald J. Lorraine), Ezra Godden (Robert Van Klinken), Jonathan Edwards Young (Lt. John W. Kelley), Chris Robson (Surrendering German), Ben Peyton (Warrant Officer Hill), Marc Warren (Albert Blithe), Paul Williams (Pvt Jack Olsen)

The members of the 101st Airborne drop into Normandy on D-Day. The drops are a huge failure, and the members of Easy Company are separated. Winters finds some members of his company and leads them to an American camp. He is then put in charge of the company when it becomes obvious that their commander did not survive the jump. Easy Company is then sent to take out a German artillery position that is giving the troops on Utah Beach some problems.



3 :01x03 - Carentan

First aired: Sep/16/2001
Writer: E. Max Frye
Director: Mikael Salomon
Guest star: Scott Rognlein (Trooper - F Company), Doug Cockle (Fr. Maloney), Bart Ruspoli (Edward J. Tipper), Iain Robertson (George Smith), Nigel Hoyle (Leo D. Boyle), Diana Kent (Mrs. Lamb), Ezra Godden (Robert Van Klinken), Stephen Walters (John McGrath), Adam James (Cleveland O. Petty)

After finally regrouping in Angoville-au-Plain, Easy Company is sent to take the town of Carentan, which is essential so that the United States can bring its tanks off the beaches. After struggling to take the city, the men of Easy Company along with several others are forced to prepare for the imminent German counterattack.



4 :01x04 - Replacements

First aired: Sep/23/2001
Writer: Graham Yost, Bruce McKenna
Director: David Nutter
Guest star: Freerk Bos (Dutch Farmer), Josefine Hendriks (Young Dutch Girl), Jack Wouterse (Dutch Farmer in Farm), Hugo Metsers (John Van Kooijk), Peter Stark (German inside Barn), James McAvoy (James W. Miller), William Tapley (British Tank Commander), Alex Sabga (Francis J. Mellet), Eion Bailey (David Kenyon Webster)

A group of replacement paratroopers join Easy Company just before the company is set to jump into Holland for Operation Market Garden. When Easy gets to Eindhoven, they meet no resistance, instead meeting locals who are happy to see them. But when they are patrolling a nearby town, they are ambushed and "Bull" is left behind.



5 :01x05 - Crossroads

First aired: Sep/30/2001
Writer: Erik Jendresen
Director: Tom Hanks
Guest star: Jimmy Fallon (2nd Lt. George Rice), Luke Roberts (Suerth)

Winters led a daring mission at a Dutch dike and is promoted to Battalion. Winters does not like being stuck behind a desk and is concerned about the leadership of the three companies he is now in charge of. News reaches of a massive German attack in the Ardennes Forest and Easy Company is sent to defend the Allied lines, while short on supplies and ammunition, and without winter gear.



6 :01x06 - Bastogne

First aired: Oct/07/2001
Writer: Bruce McKenna
Director: David Leland
Guest star: William Armstrong (General McAuliffe (Bill Armstrong)), Laird MacIntosh (Jeep Driver), Lucie Jeanne (Renée Lemaire)

Easy Company is in the forest just outside of Bastogne, Belgium. The company fights off frostbite, hunger and the occasional German attack. Medic Eugene Roe meets a Belgian nurse who he becomes friends with while trying to keep the men of Easy Company alive.



7 :01x07 - The Breaking Point

First aired: Oct/14/2001
Writer: Graham Yost
Director: David Frankel
Guest star: Alex Sabga (Francis J. Mellet)

Lt. Dike has been put in charge of Easy Company, but he is a terrible leader. He is constantly leaving the frontline and going off to random places whenever he is needed. The soldiers begin to wonder if he will be able to lead them when they are told they will have to take the nearby town of Foy.



8 :01x08 - The Last Patrol

First aired: Oct/21/2001
Writer: Bruce McKenna, Erik Bork
Director: Tony To
Guest star: Jamie Bamber (Jack E. Foley), Brian Ethan Tyler (Curtis Jackson), Colin Ridgewell (German Soldier shot), Martin Arno (Junior German), Christoph Dostal (Senior German), Andrew Lee Potts (Eugene E. Jackson), Kieran O'Brien (Allen E. Vest), Eion Bailey (David Kenyon Webster)

Easy is in a town called Haguenau, near the German border. Winters is ordered to send a group of men across the river on a nighttime raid to take German prisoners.



9 :01x09 - Why We Fight

First aired: Oct/28/2001
Writer: John Orloff
Director: David Frankel
Guest star: Christian Malcolm (Military Policeman)

Easy finally gets into Germany and is met with little resistance. While on a patrol, the members of Easy discover and abandonned concentration camp. The German guards have left, but all the prisoners are still in the camp.



10 :01x10 - Points

First aired: Nov/04/2001
Writer: Erik Jendresen, Erik Bork
Director: Mikael Salomon
Guest star: Jonjo O'Neill (Replacement #1), Jason Done (Drunk GI), Dan van Husen (Alleged Commandant), Matt Hickey (Patrick S. O'Keefe), Tom Hardy (John A. Janovec), Paul Herzberg (German Doctor at Checkpoint), Wolf Kahler (German General), David Schwimmer (Capt. Herbert M. Sobel), Milo Twomey (Army Doctor)

Easy enters Berchtesgaden, to capture the "Eagle's Nest", a mountain mansion that was built by the Nazi party for Hitler. After going to the mansion and taking many of Hitler's belongings, the men are given some down time. With Hitler having commited suicide the war in Europe is over. The men of Easy celebrate, but soon they are told that all of the members without enough points to go home will be sent Japan.