The Rat Patrol

The Rat Patrol

ENDED2 Seasons58 Episodes7.2
NetworkABC
First AiredSep 12, 1966
Last AiredMar 18, 1968
Runtime30 min
Created ByTom Gries

The exploits of four Allied soldiers — three Americans and one Englishman — who are part of a long-range desert patrol group in the North African campaign during World War II. Their mission: "to attack, harass and wreak havoc on Field Marshal Rommel's vaunted Afrika Korps".

Cast

Christopher George
Christopher George
Sgt. Sam Troy
Gary Raymond
Gary Raymond
Sgt. Jack Moffitt
Eric Braeden
Eric Braeden
Capt. Hans Dietrich
Lawrence P. Casey
Lawrence P. Casey
Pvt. Mark Hitchcock
Justin Tarr
Justin Tarr
Pvt. Tully Pettigrew
Morgan Jones
Morgan Jones
Capt. Boggs

Seasons & Episodes2 seasons · 58 episodes

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E1
E1The Truce at Aburah Raid
Sep 11, 196730m
Captain Dietrich monitors a broadcast sent to the Patrol from HQ and then intercepts them on their way to meet and escort a supply convoy. With the odds decidedly against the Rats, Troy takes refuge in an oasis. A child, playing nearby, runs away terrified of the noise and falls down an old well. The Allies and the Nazis agree to put the war on hold and work together to get the child (who is still alive) out. A second German unit appears and shoots Tully. In the end, they are able to rescue the child and, in the confusion, the Patrol escapes.
E2
E2The David and Goliath Raid
Sep 18, 196730m
The Patrol ambushes a German courier and finds that his papers contain charts showing desert waterholes and some oases which are unknown to the Allies or the Germans. Suddenly a German patrol attacks, wounding Tully and destroying the Patrol's jeeps, water and weapons. Troy and crew strike out for a waterhole mentioned on the chart. Hours later, near their end, Troy and his men stagger toward an inviting waterhole to find it has been poisoned. On a distant dune they see Dietrich. Tully is near the end, because of his wound. It is up to Troy to negotiate with Dietrich.
E3
E3The Trial by Fire Raid
Sep 25, 196730m
The Patrol attempts to destroy a small village that currently has a train in it that the Germans are loading with ammunition. However, there is a small group of Arabs (including women and children) being used to load the ammunition. One of the women stumbles upon Troy and offers to help by warning her people. But as Troy attempts to plant the explosives, Dietrich catches on to the plan and gives alarm. Troy ends up shot and captured. It is now up to the rest of the Patrol to cause enough diversion to get him free. The woman continues to plead with Dietrich to give Troy medical attention. As Dietrich is questioning Troy, though, Troy breaks free, shoots the German and is able—with the Arab woman's father's help—to get the explosives planted. The train goes up; the man is killed.
E4
E4The Darers Go First Raid
Oct 2, 196730m
Troy determines that the Rat Patrol's only chance to destroy a supply depot inside an enemy-held fortress is by capturing a German tank and using it to get past the guards.
E5
E5The Love Thine Enemy Raid
Oct 9, 196730m
When the patrol ambush an Afrika Korps supply column, Troy accidentally wounds a German nurse. Feeling guilty, Troy decides to take her to a German field hospital. The only problem is that on the way she overhears a piece of vital information.
E6
E6The Darkest Raid
Oct 16, 196730m
Troy infiltrates a German H.Q. posing as a blinded Afrika Korps officer to steal vital information.
E7
E7The Death Do Us Part Raid
Oct 30, 196730m
En route to a meeting with an Arab agent, the patrol is ambushed by Dietrich. With the exception of Troy, they're all captured and taken to Dietrich's desert base. Troy eventually meets up with the agent, who turns out to be a teenage boy, and a female Irish teacher, but will she allow the boy to help Troy?
E8
E8The Do-Re-Mi Raid
Nov 6, 196730m
The Patrol is ordered to rescue pop star Mickey Roberts (singer Jack Jones), who is a P.O.W. in a small Afrika Korps compound, with the S.S. also turning up to make Roberts into a propaganda coup.
E9
E9The Kingdom Come Raid
Nov 13, 196730m
Hitchcock is supervising a transport convoy of new anti-aircraft shell fuses when the convoy is attacked by a German unit. Hitchcock is wounded by a deserter.
E10
E10The Hide-and-Go-Seek Raid
Nov 20, 196730m
The young mute son of British General Simms is kidnapped in a commando raid by Dietrich and taken to Rhodes. The patrol must rescue the boy from the island's garrison with only the help of one Greek resistance fighter.
E11
E11The Violent Truce Raid
Nov 27, 196730m
Lieutenant West is on his way to stop a medical supply convoy, when he's ambushed by an Afrika Korps patrol. Wounded and rescued by Moffatt and Pettigrew, before he dies he informs them that he's got to stop the medical supplies, as some are poisonous. When Moffatt destroys the deadly supplies he is put under arrest by a British Army Major.
E12
E12The Life-for-a-Life Raid
Dec 4, 196730m
Dietrich traps the Rat Patrol in a cellar. In the cellar are a pregnant woman who has a valuable map, and a resistance fighter who has a personal vendetta with the woman.
E13
E13The Fifth Wheel Raid
Dec 11, 196730m
A British colonel is captured by the Germans after attending a staff meeting which centered on an upcoming Allied offensive. The Rat Patrol is ordered to either rescue or kill him before he can be interrogated. His Sikh aide insists on participating in the mission.
E14
E14The Two If by Sea Raid
Dec 18, 196730m
Moffitt gets into a German-held lighthouse by posing as an electrician, to try to gain information about a German naval convoy headed for North Africa which is carrying Tiger tanks.
E15
E15The Street Urchin Raid
Dec 25, 196730m
Troy hides aerial photographs of secret German installations before being captured by the Gestapo. Then a street urchin finds and tries to sell the photos.
E16
E16The Pipeline to Disaster Raid
Jan 1, 196830m
A British general is rescued in the desert. He insists upon leading the Rat Patrol on a mission to disrupt a German oil pipeline, despite his deteriorated condition.
E17
E17The Boomerang Raid
Jan 8, 196830m
A lieutenant is infiltrated by submarine to set up naval gunfire coordinates, but Troy gets suspicious when the officer appears more interested in mapping the Allied positions than the German ones.
E18
E18The Fatal Reunion Raid
Jan 15, 196830m
The Rat Patrol uses Moffitt's old flame as a guide to rescue her husband, a French rocket scientist, from the Germans.
E19
E19The Decoy Raid
Jan 22, 196830m
A village's typhus serum is confiscated by the S.S. in order to exchange it for capturing the Rat Patrol. Dietrich questions their methods.
E20
E20The Touch-and-Go Raid
Feb 5, 196830m
Dietrich and his men capture the Rat Patrol and assume their identities, and thus are able to enter an Allied munitions dump.
E21
E21The Field of Death Raid
Feb 12, 196830m
Troy's brother is captured by a German colonel who was injured in an earlier raid by the Rat Patrol.
E22
E22The Double Jeopardy Raid
Feb 19, 196830m
The arrival of a team of teenage guerrilla fighters spells ""Double-trouble"" for the Patrol.The embittered young partisans, lead by a 17-year-old Jean-Claude, and his fiery girlfriend, Monique, are determined to do things their way in an unplanned raid in an impenetrable S.S. camp, even though this means putting the Patrol temporarily out of action.
E23
E23The Hickory, Dickory Dock Raid
Feb 26, 196830m
On the Eve of a dangerous mission, Moffitt receives word that his younger brother has been killed by a German bomb in London.
E24
E24The Tug-of-War Raid
Mar 4, 196830m
Troy goes undercover to get microfilm from a French Resistance fighter, but they are captured by Dietrich. After Troy refuses to give up the location of the microfilm, Dietrich sentences both to death. Troy must find a way to contact the Rat Patrol for rescue.
E25
E25The Never-Say-Die Raid
Mar 11, 196830m
Troy and Hitchcock are captured by a German colonel who has a scheme to use them to radio false information back to their headquarters. Meanwhile, Moffitt and Pettigrew's rescue attempts are complicated by an Italian officer who wants to surrender to them.
E26
E26The Kill at Koorlea Raid
Mar 18, 196830m
The Rat Patrol is ordered to go with a South African sniper on a mission to kill a German general, but Troy decides to try to capture the general alive.

About The Rat Patrol

The Rat Patrol is a action & adventure, war & politics series on ABC. The show first aired on Sep 12, 1966 and currently has 2 seasons and 58 episodes. The Rat Patrol has ended after 2 seasons. It has a rating of 7.2/10 based on 19 votes. The cast includes Christopher George, Gary Raymond, Eric Braeden, Lawrence P. Casey, Justin Tarr. Created by Tom Gries.

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