

The Rat Patrol is an American action and adventure television series that aired on ABC between 1966 and 1968. The show follows 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. Blazing across the North African deserts, this elite Allied commando team wages war against Nazis, traitors, and wild-eyed fanatics. Their mission is to attack, harass, and wreak havoc on Field Marshal Rommel's vaunted Afrika Korps, often against their enemy and nemesis, Hauptmann Hans Dietrich. The Rat Patrol characters are Sergeant Sam Troy, Sergeant Jack Moffitt, Private Mark T. Hitchcock, and Private Tully Pettigrew.
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30mCaptain Dietrich monitors a broadcast 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 young Arab girl playing nearby runs away, terrified of the noise, and falls down an old well. The Rat Patrol and Dietrich's unit agree to a truce and work together to save the child, who is still alive. But the arrival of a second German unit complicates the reluctant peace, shooting Tully. Ultimately, they rescue the child, and the Patrol escapes in the confusion.
30mThe Rat Patrol ambushes a German courier and finds charts in his papers of desert waterholes and oases unknown to the Allies or the Germans. Suddenly Captain Deitrich's patrol attacks, wounding Tully and destroying the Patrol's jeeps, water and weapons. Troy and the crew strike out for a waterhole mentioned on the chart. Hours later, near their end, Troy and his men stagger toward an inviting waterhole only to find it poisoned. On a distant dune, they see Dietrich. Tully is near the end because of his wound. Dietrich offers to accept Troy's surrender. The Rat Patrol's only chance for survival is infiltrating Dietrich's encampment and stealing a vehicle.
30mThe Patrol attempts to destroy supplies in a small village where the Germans are loading a train with ammunition. However, the Germans are using a small group of Arabs (including women and children) 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 an 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 can get the explosives planted with the Arab woman's father's help. The train goes up, but the father dies.
30mA heavily guarded German fortress appears impervious to the Rat Patrol's efforts to destroy its big supply depot. So, Troy determines their only chance to blow the depot is to capture a German tank and use it to get past the guards.
30mTroy accidentally wounds a German nurse when the Patrol ambushes an Afrika Korps supply column. She is the lone survivor and requires urgent medical attention. The team faces the choice of completing their mission or allowing the girl to die. A guilt-stricken Troy desperately decides to take her to a nearby German field hospital. The only problem is that on the way, she overhears a piece of vital information.
30mCapt. Richter must convey a large cache of "confiscated" diamonds to Berlin to finance the Nazi desert campaign. The Rat Patrol must steal the diamonds from a military HQ in the desert. But, brute force will not succeed, so they need to attempt a plan full of guile and cunning to pull the theft off. So, Troy infiltrates the German H.Q., posing as a blinded Afrika Korps officer.
30mEn route to a meeting with an unknown Arab agent, Dietrich ambushes the patrol wounding Troy. Except for 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?
30mThe Patrol's orders are to rescue famous American pop star Mickey Roberts captured by Dietrich. The singer is a P.O.W. in a small Afrika Korps compound, and the S.S. arrives to turn Roberts into a propaganda coup. Troy lets himself be captured to free Roberts.
30mHitchcock supervises a special mission to deliver secret new anti-aircraft shell fuses when a German unit attacks the transport convoy. An American deserter wounds Hitchcock during the attack.
30mDietrich leads a German commando raid to kidnap the 13-year-old mute son of British General Simms and take him to the Island of Rhodes. A German colonel holds the boy hostage to trade him for his father. The Rat Patrol must rescue the boy from the island's garrison with only the help of one Greek resistance fighter.
30mMoffitt takes over a mission to warn a British convoy of the contaminated plasma they are carrying.
30mDietrich corners the Rat Patrol in a cellar with a pregnant Arab woman who has a valuable map and a French resistance fighter who has a personal vendetta against her over his wife's death.
30mThe Germans capture a British colonel under suspicious circumstances as he returns from a staff meeting regarding an upcoming Allied offensive. The Rat Patrol receives orders to either rescue or kill him before the Germans interrogate him. His Sikh aide insists on participating in the mission.
30mMoffitt infiltrates a German-held lighthouse posing as an electrician to learn the details of a German naval convoy carrying Tiger tanks headed for North Africa.
30mAn Arab street kid is pursued by both the Rats and the Nazis when he gets hold of photos of secret German installations.
30mGeneral Owen Lansbury, the head of British Intelligence in the Near East, bails out of his damaged plane behind enemy lines. After his rescue in the desert, he insists upon leading the Rat Patrol on a mission to disrupt a German oil pipeline, despite his deteriorated condition. The Rats contemplate mutiny when the injured and delirious general tries to take control of the team.
30mA Nazi soldier posing as an Allied contact who carries a critical map attracts Troy's attention by his reluctance to ambush some German soldiers.
30mMoffitt runs into an old girlfriend, now a French Resistance fighter. She joins the Rat Patrol on a mission to rescue a French space scientist.
30mSadistic SS Captain Wansee arrests the Swiss Red Cross worker Miss Arno vaccinating a North African village threatened by typhus. This mentally unstable SS officer breaks a truce in an attempt to capture the Rat Patrol, but Dietrich intervenes
30mThe Rat Patrol falls prey to a clever Nazi scheme when they rush to aid a band of trapped Allied soldiers, who are really Dietrich's soldiers. Taking a page out of Troy's playbook, Dietrich and three of his men pose as the Rat Patrol to infiltrate an Allied supply depot.





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The Rat Patrol is an American action and adventure television series that aired on ABC between 1966 and 1968. The show follows 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. Blazing across the North African deserts, this elite Allied commando team wages war against Nazis, traitors, and wild-eyed fanatics. Their mission is to attack, harass, and wreak havoc on Field Marshal Rommel's vaunted Afrika Korps, often against their enemy and nemesis, Hauptmann Hans Dietrich. The Rat Patrol characters are Sergeant Sam Troy, Sergeant Jack Moffitt, Private Mark T. Hitchcock, and Private Tully Pettigrew.
Christopher George, Gary Raymond, Lawrence P. Casey, Justin Tarr, Eric Braeden.
The catalogue lists an episode length of 30 minutes; individual episodes may vary.
The listed premiere date is 12 September 1966.