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".
Air Date: 1966-09-12
The British 8th Army sends their desert expert -- Jack Moffitt -- to the Rat Patrol for one very special mission. But...
Air Date: 1966-09-19
During a desert battle, Hitchcock is badly wounded. Troy decides to risk taking him to a nearby German field hospital...
Air Date: 1966-09-26
As a prequel to capturing General Ernest von Helmreich, the Rat Patrol gets itself captured. They plan to use the gen...
Air Date: 1966-10-03
Dietrich is presented with an old scrap of parchment which shows an ancient water source deep in the desert. Allied i...
Air Date: 1966-10-10
The Patrol captures a German truck at the end of a partially destroyed convoy. In the process, though, Troy and Dietr...
Air Date: 1966-10-17
A large Panzer unit has a map showing a strategic oasis occupied by the Eighth Armored. U.S. Intelligence wants the m...
Air Date: 1966-10-24
During a skirmish with the Germans, Troy suffers a concussion from an explosion. He ends up alone and lost in the des...
Air Date: 1966-10-31
The Patrol manages to ambush a German unit that is carrying US POWs. Three of these POWs are apparently out to kill e...
Air Date: 1966-11-07
A very prized Germany radar station must be destroyed before a flight of bombers comes over. To do it, the Rat Patrol...
Air Date: 1966-11-14
Fanatical Arabs -- wanting to end the war on their land -- attack both the Rat Patrol and the German convoy that Diet...
Air Date: 1966-11-21
Moffitt and Tully allow themselves to be captured so that they can get information from Craig -- an American POW -- a...
Air Date: 1966-11-28
An Arab convoy, disguised as Americans, traps and captures the Rat Patrol. The convoy's leader is Ned Cunningham, an ...
Air Date: 1966-12-05
Tully and Moffitt transport a liberated French underground general to a rendezvous in a deserted lighthouse. Hitchcoc...
Air Date: 1966-12-12
German artillery traps 2000 Allied soldiers and their only chance of rescue is an Allied armored attack. The necessar...
Air Date: 1966-12-19
After each Allied bombing of their harbor, the Germans use Allied POWs to rebuild it. HQ sends the Rat Patrol to libe...
Air Date: 1966-12-26
Moffitt and Hitch (dressed as Germans) find Bertaine's daughter and tell her of her father's death. Then they take he...
Air Date: 1967-01-02
The plan is for the fishing fleet to bring out the prisoners, Dunkirk-fashion. However, a Nazi patrol boat has interc...
Air Date: 1967-01-09
Gustav Luden (Jack Colvin), a radio operator, wants to defect, so he sends secret information to the Americans on a f...
Air Date: 1967-01-16
Valuable German ammo has been dropped by parachute to an Arab farmhouse, and the Rat Patrol is sent to destroy it. On...
Air Date: 1967-01-23
The Patrol's radio is wrecked and Troy is unable to warn HQ of a large Nazi anti-tank outfit waiting in ambush. Troy ...
Air Date: 1967-01-30
Moffitt is seriously wounded in a raid on a German convoy. The Patrol is far from help and so Troy decides to obtain ...
Air Date: 1967-02-06
Troy and Hitchcock capture Col Beckmann, an infamous Nazi POW camp commander. Beckmann denies that he is the man. In ...
Air Date: 1967-02-13
Using a fake (German) Rat Patrol, Dietrich abducts an Arab holy man that he will then "rescue" so that the Arabs will...
Air Date: 1967-02-20
Using a telephoto lens, Moffitt and Troy photograph a map inside Captain Dietrich's office from the roof of the adjoi...
Air Date: 1967-02-27
The Brits and the Americans are planning a high-level meeting in a desert town. On the day prior to the event, the Pa...
Air Date: 1967-03-13
Troy raids German HQ and kidnaps Dr. Schneidermann. At the same time Moffitt, Tully and Hitch are captured by Captain...
Air Date: 1967-03-20
The Patrol stumbles on a German staff car but before they can attack it, the driver and a guard are killed by a third...
Air Date: 1967-03-27
Moffitt is about to be executed for "espionage against the Third Reich" when suddenly the Patrol comes to his rescue....
Air Date: 1967-04-03
After capturing Dr. Anderson, a skilled Allied physician, Dietrich ends up turning over his staff car in a ravine (du...
Air Date: 1967-04-10
Lieut. Klinger, a wounded Luftwaffe ace, is the only German who can ID the location of the Allied troops standing rea...
Air Date: 1967-04-24
Troy and his men plant explosives in a German ammo depot and while trying for a hasty getaway run into Dietrich, who ...
Air Date: 1967-05-01
A young French Resistance fighter--Michele--survives the Patrol's quick assault on a small German convoy. She explain...