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The Rat Patrol: Season 1

32 episodes Premiered Sep 12, 1966
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Season 1 Episodes

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (28): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S1·E1 Mytharc

The Chase of Fire Raid

Sep 12, 1966

The British 8th Army sends their desert expert -- Jack Moffitt -- to the Rat Patrol for one very special mission. But Sergeant Troy (the American head of the unit) is very uneasy a

S1·E2 Core

The Life Against Death Raid

Sep 19, 1966

During a desert battle, Hitchcock is badly wounded. Troy decides to risk taking him to a nearby German field hospital as their own hospital is too far away. Upon arriving at the ho

S1·E3 Core

The Wildest Raid of All

Sep 26, 1966

As a prequel to capturing General Ernest von Helmreich, the Rat Patrol gets itself captured. They plan to use the general to stop an upcoming attack. However the general manages to

S1·E4 Core

The Kill or Be Killed Raid

Oct 3, 1966

Dietrich is presented with an old scrap of parchment which shows an ancient water source deep in the desert. Allied intelligence sends Moffitt to find the map before it can be tran

S1·E5 Core

The Chain of Death Raid

Oct 10, 1966

The Patrol captures a German truck at the end of a partially destroyed convoy. In the process, though, Troy and Dietrich end up alone in the desert -- a stand-off until Arab slave

S1·E6 Core

The Do or Die Raid

Oct 17, 1966

A large Panzer unit has a map showing a strategic oasis occupied by the Eighth Armored. U.S. Intelligence wants the map exchanged for a phony one which would show the oasis as empt

S1·E7 Core

The Blind Man's Bluff Raid

Oct 24, 1966

During a skirmish with the Germans, Troy suffers a concussion from an explosion. He ends up alone and lost in the desert. By the time he is found he has a terrible case of sunblind

S1·E8 Core

The Fatal Chase Raid

Oct 31, 1966

The Patrol manages to ambush a German unit that is carrying US POWs. Three of these POWs are apparently out to kill each other. Sgt. Gribs -- whose cowardliness caused his men to b

S1·E9 Core

The Blow Sky High Raid

Nov 7, 1966

A very prized Germany radar station must be destroyed before a flight of bombers comes over. To do it, the Rat Patrol is given a new, special kind of explosives. Troy is apprehensi

S1·E10 Core

The Moment of Truce Raid

Nov 14, 1966

Fanatical Arabs -- wanting to end the war on their land -- attack both the Rat Patrol and the German convoy that Dietrich leads, trapping both in a small desert fortress. This forc

S1·E11 Core

The Deadly Double Raid

Nov 21, 1966

Moffitt and Tully allow themselves to be captured so that they can get information from Craig -- an American POW -- about Rommel's new battle plans. However, Marston, another POW,

S1·E12 Core

The Gun Runner Raid

Nov 28, 1966

An Arab convoy, disguised as Americans, traps and captures the Rat Patrol. The convoy's leader is Ned Cunningham, an ex-Yank hero turned gunrunner. He sells now to the highest bidd

S1·E13 Core

The Lighthouse Raid

Dec 5, 1966

Tully and Moffitt transport a liberated French underground general to a rendezvous in a deserted lighthouse. Hitchcock stands lookout, disguised as a German guard. Troy, though, is

S1·E14 Core

The Daredevil Rescue Raid

Dec 12, 1966

German artillery traps 2000 Allied soldiers and their only chance of rescue is an Allied armored attack. The necessary equipment, though, can only reach them in time via an ancient

S1·E15 Core

The Last Harbor Raid (1)

Dec 19, 1966

After each Allied bombing of their harbor, the Germans use Allied POWs to rebuild it. HQ sends the Rat Patrol to liberate the POWs and halt the harbor's usefulness. Troy must coord

S1·E16 Core

The Last Harbor Raid (2)

Dec 26, 1966

Moffitt and Hitch (dressed as Germans) find Bertaine's daughter and tell her of her father's death. Then they take her home - after they tell her who they really are. They also tel

S1·E17 Core

The Last Harbor Raid (3)

Jan 2, 1967

The plan is for the fishing fleet to bring out the prisoners, Dunkirk-fashion. However, a Nazi patrol boat has intercepted the boats. The fishermen believe that Marinanne is a coll

S1·E18 Core

The One That Got Away Raid

Jan 9, 1967

Gustav Luden (Jack Colvin), a radio operator, wants to defect, so he sends secret information to the Americans on a frequency that the Rat Patrol listens to. The Patrol goes in aft

S1·E19 Core

The Two for One Raid

Jan 16, 1967

Valuable German ammo has been dropped by parachute to an Arab farmhouse, and the Rat Patrol is sent to destroy it. On destroying the building, Troy discovers that there is no ammo-

S1·E20 Core

The Last Chance Raid

Jan 23, 1967

The Patrol's radio is wrecked and Troy is unable to warn HQ of a large Nazi anti-tank outfit waiting in ambush. Troy knows that El Jebel has a huge radio broadcast unit and heads t

S1·E21 Core

The B Negative Raid

Jan 30, 1967

Moffitt is seriously wounded in a raid on a German convoy. The Patrol is far from help and so Troy decides to obtain blood from a nearby German field camp. Dietrich is in charge of

S1·E22 Core

The Exhibit A Raid

Feb 6, 1967

Troy and Hitchcock capture Col Beckmann, an infamous Nazi POW camp commander. Beckmann denies that he is the man. In a fight Troy is knocked out and Hitch is wounded. Using Troy's

S1·E23 Core

The Holy War Raid

Feb 13, 1967

Using a fake (German) Rat Patrol, Dietrich abducts an Arab holy man that he will then "rescue" so that the Arabs will give their help to the Germans. The real Patrol is captured by

S1·E24 Core

The Two Against Time Raid

Feb 20, 1967

Using a telephoto lens, Moffitt and Troy photograph a map inside Captain Dietrich's office from the roof of the adjoining Nazi HQ. It shows the location of a top secret German ammo

S1·E25 Core

The Wild Goose Raid

Feb 27, 1967

The Brits and the Americans are planning a high-level meeting in a desert town. On the day prior to the event, the Patrol sights a German motorcyclist and chases him--but he gets a

S1·E26 Mytharc

The Bring 'Em Back Alive Raid

Mar 13, 1967

Troy raids German HQ and kidnaps Dr. Schneidermann. At the same time Moffitt, Tully and Hitch are captured by Captain Dietrich. Dietrich reveals that Troy is carrying a vial of dea

S1·E27 Core

The Take Me to Your Leader Raid

Mar 20, 1967

The Patrol stumbles on a German staff car but before they can attack it, the driver and a guard are killed by a third man\u2014who is apparently an American major. The major orders

S1·E28 Core

The Double or Nothing Raid

Mar 27, 1967

Moffitt is about to be executed for "espionage against the Third Reich" when suddenly the Patrol comes to his rescue. A commandeered German truck unsuccessfully attempts to scoop u

S1·E29 Core

The Hour Glass Raid

Apr 3, 1967

After capturing Dr. Anderson, a skilled Allied physician, Dietrich ends up turning over his staff car in a ravine (during a blinding sand storm). Troy wants to attempt to rescue th

S1·E30 Core

Mask-a-Raid

Apr 10, 1967

Lieut. Klinger, a wounded Luftwaffe ace, is the only German who can ID the location of the Allied troops standing ready to invade Sicily. The Rat Patrol captures him and then Moffi

S1·E31 Mytharc

The Fire and Brimstone Raid

Apr 24, 1967

Troy and his men plant explosives in a German ammo depot and while trying for a hasty getaway run into Dietrich, who orders them to surrender. Knowing they are safe surrounded by e

S1·E32 Mytharc

The Delilah Raid

May 1, 1967

A young French Resistance fighter--Michele--survives the Patrol's quick assault on a small German convoy. She explains that she was captured during her groups' attempt to stop the

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