The Classic TV Archive - US Military series
The Rat Patrol
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by:
Sal Crisanti
references:
Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (http://us.imdb.com)
Produced by Mirisch-Rich Productions
in association with
Tom Gries Productions and United Artists Television
for
ABC (Mondays 8.30pm EST)
Created by Tom Gries and John Peyser
Executive Producer Lee Rich
Produced by Jon Epstein
Associate Producer Mark Weinstein OR Mark Weingart ?
US World War II adventure series 1966-68 58 episodes x 30 min
12Sep66-18Mar68
starring
Christopher George as Sgt. Sam Troy
Gary Raymond as Sgt. Jack Moffitt
Larry Casey as Pvt. Mark Hitchcock
Justin Tarr as Pvt. Tully Pettigrew
Hans Gudegast (aka Eric Braeden) as Capt. Hans Dietrich
Premise:
An elite team of Allies driving two heavily armed jeeps take on
the Germany army in the North African campaigns (WWII)
Other Credits:
DIRECTORS INCLUDED:
TOM GRIES, LEE H. KATZIN, HERSCHEL DAUGHERTY, LEON BENSON, JOHN PEYSER,
PAUL STANLEY
#
ASSISTANT DIRECTORS INCLUDED:
GEORGE TEMPLETON, AND GRAYSON ROGERS
#
WRITERS INCLUDED:
SHELDON STARK, TOM GRIES, MARK WEINGART, DON BRINKLEY, ARTHUR DALES,
LORENZO SEMPLE,JR., HARRY KRONMAN, EDWARD J. LASKO
#
PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR: FRANK BAUER
ASSISTANT PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR: BERNARD OSERANSKY
#
SUPERVISING EDITOR: ANTHONY DIMARCO
CINEMATOGRAPHY: BRICK MARQUARD
#
MUSIC BY DOMINIC FRONTIERE
MUSIC SUPERVISOR: NORMAN S. WEISER
#
STUNT CO-ORDINATOR: VON DEMING
#
FILMING LOCATIONS INCLUDED:
YUMA, ARIZONA AND CUEVA DE ALTAMIRA, SANTANDER, CANTABRIA,SPAIN
############### The Rat Patrol ###############
############## season 1 1966-67 ##############
##############################################
ABC Mondays 8:30 pm Eastern
1.01 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE CHASE THROUGH FIRE RAID (1966)(PILOT)
12Sep66 ABC Mon
Written by Tom Gries and Lorenzo Semple, Jr.
Directed by Tom Gries
Guest Cast:
JANINE GRAY......VIXEN,
LARRY WARD......COLONEL QUINT,
HANS DIFFLIPP......SCHMITT,
ALBERTO MORIN......BEDOUIN,
GREGORY MULLAVY......LT.CONNOL,
WHITEY CHRISTY......COTTER,
GARY RAYMOND......SGT JACK MOFFITT (regular)
Synopsis 1:
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 about this new addition.
Moffitt tells Troy that the Germans have buried ammunition and petrol
at an abandoned oasis which only the Afrika Korps knows about.
It's up to the Rat Patrol to find this oasis and destroy the cache before
the Germans can reach it. Dietrich -- familiar with the Rat Patrol's
tricks -- devises a trap wherein he will follow the Patrol to the oasis.
The Rat Patrol gets delayed, though, by a broken axle and, in the end,
it is a race between them and Dietrich to see who will reach the supplies
first.
SYNOPSIS 2:
SERGEANT TROY AND THE RAT PATROL RACE AGAINTS GERMAN CAPTAIN DIETRICH
TO REACH AN ABANDONED OASIS CONTAINING A BURIED CATCHE OF AMMUNITION AND PETROL.
[NOTE: THIS EPISODE INTRODUCES THE SGT. JACK MOFFITT CHARACTOR,
(played by Gary Raymond) A DESERT EXPERT SENT BY THE BRITISH 8TH
ARMY AS ANEW ADDITION TO THE RAT PATROL]
1.02 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE LIFE AGAINST DEATH RAID
(Sept 19, 1966)
Writer: Anthony Lawrence
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Guest Cast:
Albert Paulsen ......... Colonel von Helbing (Col. von Brugge - imdb)
Edward Asner ........... Captain Friedrich
Synopsis:
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 hospital he and Moffitt nearly pull off
the masquerade, except for a paranoid patient -- Captain Fried-
rich -- who tells everyone they are American spies. No one believes
him but during the delay the doctor notices a tatoo on Hitch's arm
from Ft. Benning, Ga. Troy forces him, at gunpoint, to finish the
operation. They escape in a hail of gunfire after the surgery.
1.03 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE WILDEST RAID OF ALL
(Airdate: Sept 26, 1966)
Writers: Al Ramus and John Shaner
Director: John Peyser
Guest Cast:
Wolfgang Preiss ......... General von Helmreich
Synopsis:
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
attract the attention of a distant Nazi search party and the Rat
Patrol ends up traps in a ravine, cut off. To escape they con-
struct a "fake panzer unit" of their own -- tricking the Germans
into a retreat. They then make it to the largest of the Germans'
ammo dumps which they proceed to blow up.
1.04 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE KILL-OR-BE-KILLED RAID (1966)
03Oct66 ABC
Written by Harry Kronman
Directed by Lee H. Katzin
Guest Cast:
Milton Selzer (as Colonel Schweiger)
WEALTER WATERS, CARLOS FORETIC, JULIO VALLEJO, JOE BYRNE,
SUSAN DIEDERICH, FRANCESCA WILSON, MARTIN,ROLIN, MANFRED LATING,
BOB PETERS.
Synopsis 1:
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 first, he must get it from the Ger-
ams by masquerading as a German and Troy has orders to shoot
him should he find the information (and destroy it) but then not
be able to escape. Which is, of course, exactly what then hap-
pens. Troy must face the decision of killing his comrade -- and
friend -- or finding someway to disobey the orders AND rescue
the mission.
SYNOPSIS 2:
MOFFITT MASQUERADES AS A GERMAN SOLDIER ASSIGNED BY ALLIED INTELLIGENCE,
TO RETRIEVE AN OLD PARCHMENT IN THE HANDS OF DIETRICH, SHOWING AN
ANCIENT WATER SOURCE LOCATED DEEP IN THE DESERT. [SC]
1.05 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE CHAIN OF DEATH RAID (1966)
10Oct66 ABC
Written by Jay Simms
Directed by John Peyser
GUEST CAST:
FRANK SILVERA,
MANFRED LATING (as German Sergeant)
SOCRATES BALLIS, JO VAN GESTEL.
Janine Gray .... Vixen (imdb)
The Patrol captures a German truck at the end of a partially dest-
royed convoy. In the process, though, Troy and Dietrich end up
alone in the desert -- a stand-off. Until Arab slave traders arrive
and capture both, hauling them deeper into the southern desert,
on the first leg of the slave trail. Troy and Dietrich escape but are
chained together and must make their way back to "civilization"
through the heat, the sand and the enemy -- both enemies. They
agree, after both are nearly dead with exposure, to cooperate; a
truce. The truce ends when they arrive at Dietrich's column,
but before they get down to the convoy, Troy trips and Dietrich
ends up unconscious. Troy frees himself and Dietrich is picked
up by his people. Troy rejoins Hitch who has been driving
along at the end of the column. They reach an oasis and Troy
is able to place the explosives which were the purpose of this
farce in the first place. The oasis blows up and the Rat Patrol,
again, escapes.
SYNOPSIS 2:
AFTER A STAND-OFF IN THE DESERT,TROY AND DIETRICH ARE CAPTURED BYARAB
SLAVE TRADERS. THEY MANAGE TO ESCAPE, BUT MUST ENDURE THE HEAT,THE
SAND,AND THE ENEMY OF THE DESERT CHAINED TOGETHER. [SC]
1.06 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE DO-OR-DIE RAID (1966)
Written by Anthony Lawrence and Alan Caillou
Directed by John Peyser
Guest Cast:
Warren Stevens (as Sgt. Frank Griffin)
CARL RAPP, ROBERT PALMER, KATYA LOSSER, GORDON DE VERE.
Synopsis 1:
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 empty. Accompanied
by a veteran map expert, Sgt. Griffin, Troy and his men start into the
German HQ. At midnight, using bows and arrows for weapons, they
go into the area but Griffin has a heart attack and the team is trapped
in the commander's office. In the end, Troy bullies the "expert" into
keeping up the effort until they are finally able to finish the mission,
whereupon Troy ends up endangering his own life to get Griffin out
of the town.
SYNOPSIS 2:
SGT.TROY AND HIS MEN MUST INFILLTRATE A GERMAN COMMAND OFFICE TO
EXCHANGE A MAP SHOWING A STRATEGIC OASIS OCCUPIED BY THE U.S. EIGHT
ARMORED DIVISION. [SC]
1.07 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE BLIND MAN'S BLUFF RAID (1966)
24Oct66 ABC
Written by Larry Cohen
Directed by Lee H. Katzin
Guest Cast:
Salome Jens (as Patricia Bauer)
James Philbrook (as Doctor Keller)
ERIC BRAEDEN
Synopsis 1:
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 sunblindness. Unknown to Troy,
though, his "rescue" has been by a German unit that is pretending to
be Americans so they can get Troy to tell him where the rest of the Rat
Patrol is. Dietrich engineers this ploy. In the end, recovering from the
sunblindness in the nick of time, Troy escapes.
SYNOPSIS:
TROY SUFFERS AN CONCUSSION DURING A SKIRMISH WITH A GERMAN PATROL. HE
ENDS UP ALONE IN THE DESERT AND IS RECUED BY A GERMAN UNIT THAT IS
PRETENDING TO BE AMERICANS. [SC]
1.08 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE FATAL CHASE RAID (1966)
31Oct66 ABC
Written by Arthur Dales and Edmund Morris
Directed by John Peyser
Guest Cast:
Gavin MacLeod ......... Gribs
Richard Rust .......... Tex
John Clark ............ Eddie
Synopsis 1:
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 -- who cowadrness allowed his men to become captured
is fighting against Tex and Eddie -- who want revenge. Gribs
bargains with Troy (to protect him), telling Troy that he has infor-
mation vital to US Command. They start back to HQ, but one of the
unit's jeeps breaks down. Troy then continues to travel slowly
across the desert until they can capture a German vehicle. Gribs
continues to give small hints of his "vital" information to keep
himself safe.
SYNOPSIS 2:
SGT. TROY AND THE RAT PATROL MUST DEAL WITH A GROUP OF U.S.POW'S,
RECENTLY LIBERATED FROM A GERMAN UNIT. THREE OF THE POW'S ARE OUT TO
KILL EACH OTHER. ONE OF THEM ASKS TROY FOR PROTECTION. [SC]
1.09 [--] The Rat Patrol : THE BLOW SKY HIGH RAID
07-Nov-1966 ABC Mon
Writer: Richard Landau
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Guest Cast:
Hamilton Camp ........ Lt. Winters
Toyan Matchinga........as Selhim
Socrates Ballis........as the Arab Guide.
Recurring Cast:
Gary Raymond as Moffitt
Erich Braeden as Dietrich.
Synopsis:
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 very special -- new -- kind of shaped charges. Troy is apprehen-
sive above carrying this dangerous cargo which can explode with
the slightest of bumps. Dietrich learns of the mission and tries to
beat the Patrol to the area by utilizing an old Arabic legend of an
unknown "trigh" (road) through the jebels (mountains). The
Patrol is also in search of this self-same trigh. But Moffitt gets
them lost and Dietrich beats them there. Troy then manages to
get some explosives planted -- and bluffs Dietrich out of the
radar station by telling him that he'll die himself rather than let
the station do its work.
1.10 [--]The Rat Patrol: THE MOMENT-OF-TRUTH RAID
(Airdate: Nov 14, 1966)
Writer: Richard Landau
Director: John Peyser
Guest Cast:
Marc Lawrence ........ Hassan
Synopsis:
Fanatical Arabs -- wanting to end the war in "their" country -- attack
both the German convoy that Dietrich leads and the Rat Patrol,
trapping both in a small desert fortress. It forces the two teams
into a truce. One of the Germans -- a liasion to the Arabs -- tries to
talk Dietrich into betraying the Rat Patrol to the Arabs but he refuses.
In the end the liasion tries to go to the Arabs himself. He ends up
killed and Dietrich and Troy are able to construct a trap of their
own -- killing off most of the Arabs and escaping.
1.11 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE DEADLY DOUBLE RAID
(Airdate: Nov 21, 1966)
Writer: Ronald Rossi
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Guest Cast:
John Doucette ........ Marston
Robert Palmer ........ Phillips
Synopsis:
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,
tells them that Craig died. Dr. Phillips -- the camp medic --
supposedly has some information about the plan, though. When
the medic treats Moffitt's arm he puts the code name of the mis-
sion on the underside of the bandage : Operation Nachtigall.
However, it soon becomes obvious that either Phillips or Mars-
ton is a traitor and it is up to the Patrol to figure out which as they
are both now giving the Patrol conflicting information.
1.12 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE GUN RUNNER RAID
(Airdate: Nov 28, 1966)
Writer: Daniel L. Aubry
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Guest Cast:
Fay Spain ........... Fay
Steve Franken ....... Cunninghman
Synopsis
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 bidder, no
matter which side. He feels that the Rat Patrol is costing him
"too much" and so is going to eliminate them. But he then decides
he likes the Patrol and will take them "into the deal" if they will
cooperate. In the end, though, his duplicitious behavior ends up
causing his own death.
1.13 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE LIGHTHOUSE RAID
05-Dec-1966 ABC Mon
Writer: Daniel L. Aubry
Director: John Peyser
Guest Cast:
Emile Genest ......... as Mathias
Monique Lamaire........as Violette
Eric Chapman........as General Lacaze
Jerr Radowski........as Schaub.
Recurring Cast:
Justin Tarr as Tully,
Gary Raymond as Moffitt,
Larry Casey as Hitchock.
Synopsis:
Tully and Moffitt transport a liberated French underground general
to a rendevouz in a deserted lighthouse. Hitchcock stands lookout,
disguised as a German guard. Troy, though, is held captive inside the
lighthouse -- betrayed by Mathias. Moffitt tries to get to him but ends
up unconscious, in the ensuing fight, Mathias is killed and Troy man-
ages to signal the trawler into the area to take the general to safety.
1.14 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE DAREDEVIL RESCUE RAID
(Airdate: Dec 12, 1966)
Writer: Michael Hoey
Director: John Peyser
Guest Cast:
Normal Wooland ...... Moffitt's father
Synopsis:
German artillery traps 2000 Allied soldiers and their only chance
of rescue is an Allied armored attack. The necessary equip-
ment, though, can only reach them in time by an ancient road
which is now hidden by sand, a road only Moffitt's father can
find. On the way down, Moffitt's father's plane crashes. Mof-
fitt wants to go find him but Troy says that they have to try to
find the road themselves. Moffitt breaks away and goes to find
his father but he only finds the burned out plane. Troy thinks the
elder Moffitt must be dead. Moffitt says he was captured. Again
Moffitt escapes the team and goes after his father -- finally res-
cuing him.
1.15/16/17 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE LAST HARBOR RAID (Part 1, 2 and 3)
-- (Airdates: Dec 19, 26 of 1966 and Jan 2, 1967)
Writers: Richard Landau and John Peyser
Director: John Peyser
Guest Cast: (pt. 1)
Stanley Adams ........ El Gamil
Will Kuluva .......... Bertaine
Harry Landers
Guest Cast: (pts. 2&3)
Claudine Longet ...... Marianne
John Anderson ........ Major Indrus
Stanley Adams ........ El Gamil
Will Kuluva .......... Bertaine
Synopsis:
Part 1 -- After each Allied bomging of their harbor, the Germans
use Allied POWs to rebuilt it. HQ sends the Rat Patrol to liberate
the POSw, halting the harbor's usefullness. Troy must coordinate
his plans with Major Indrus, an American who is inside the POW
camp. They use a boat (explosive-laden) to get into the harbor but
the Germans stop it halfway in. The captain doesn't allow them to
board his boat. Troy and his men are able to fight off the boarding
party but the moment they get on shore they are "caught" in the
beam of a flashlight (held by a German guard).
Synopis:
Part 2 -- Bertaine -- the captain of the boat -- has been shot. Moffitt
and Hitch (dressed as Germans) go to find his daughter (Marianne).
They tell her of her father's death and then take her home -- after they
tell her who they really area. They also tell her that they need to use
the fishing fleet. Meanwhile, Troy secretly meets with American
POW liaison officer -- Major Indrus. Troy then meets with Moffitt
at the house of El Gamil, the pro-Ally black marketeer who, informed
of the plan, dispatches his men to the various harbor areas to alert the
fishermen. Troy sets the action to begin at dawn.
Synopsis:
Part 3 -- The plan is to get the fishing fleet to come in and
take out the prisoners -- aka Dunkirk-fashion. However, a
Nazi patrol boat has intercepted the boats. The fishermen
believe that Marinanne is a collaborator. Sgt. Troy, though,
disagrees. He's right. Marianne goes back and talks the
fishermen into cooperating and the prisoners do manage to
make good their escape.
1.18 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE ONE-THAT-GOT-AWAY RAID
(airdate: Jan 9, 1967)
Writer: Ellis Kadison
Director: Robert Sparr
Guest Cast:
Alan Bergmann ........ Kreig
Jack Colvin .......... Luden
Synopsis:
Gustav Luden, 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 after him. They get inside the German
base and, once there, find that Luden is being questioned by the
Gestapo.
1.19 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE TWO FOR ONE RAID
(Airdate: Jan 16, 1967)
Writer: Anthony Lawrence
Director: Jess Hibbs
Guest Cast:
Karl Swenson ....... Colonel Sneider
Mark DeVries ....... Peter Sneider
Synopsis:
Valuable German ammo has been dropped by parachute to an Arab
farmhouse, and the Rat Patrol is sent to destroy it. Destroying
the building, Troy finds that there is no ammo but there is a con-
fused teenage boy. The boy proves out to be a German commanderss
son. Troy is going to kill the man but when the boy pleads with him
not to, Troy remembers what it felt like to lose his own father -- his
died when Troy was this boy's age -- and so he arranges to capture
the German instead of killing him.
1.20 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE LAST CHANCE RAID
(Airdate: Jan 23, 1967)
Writer: Shelder Stark
Director: Lee Katzin
Guest Cast:
Ray Baxter ........... German Officer
Roy Dean ............. Captain Rogers
Michael Evans ........ Col. Windsor,
Synopsis:
The Patrol's radio is wrecked so 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, though, and goes there. He captures
the radio while the Germans are broadcasting their normal propa-
ganda message with the Brits always listen to. He thus gets the mes-
sage back to the HQ in time to prevent the Allies from losing a lot of
their tanks.
1.21 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE "B" NEGATIVE RAID
(Airdate: Jan 30, 1967)
Writer: Don C. Richman
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Guest Cast:
Fabian ......... Corporal Pennell
Manfred Lating .... German
Synopsis:
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 the base,
though, and Troy encounters him and orders him to help him
find a donor. Dietrich sends for Corporal Pennell, a captured
Yank deserter. Pennell refuses to come back but Troy takes
him at gunpoint. On the way back to Moffitt, Dietrich catchs
up to them and it is up to Pennell to do the "impossible" to
prevent them from all being recaptured. He rises to the occas-
ion and they make it back to Moffitt and Tully in time to save
Moffitt's life.
1.22 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE EXHIBIT "A" RAID
(Airdate: Feb 6, 1967)
Writer: Richard DeRoy
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
with:
Manfred Lating .... Aide
Synopsis:
Troy and Hitch- cock capture Col Beckmann, an infamous Nazi POW camp com-
mander. Beckmann keeps denying that he is the man. In a fight
Troy is knocked out and Hitch is wounded. Using Troy's gun, Beck-
mann kills the other German taken at the same time he was and then
he exchanges dog tags with him -- the places the gun in Troy's hand.
Troy is thus accused of the murder. Moffitt and Tully not arriving
until after the deed is done. To prove (to a court-martial board) that
Beckmann IS Beckmann, the other Patrolers must break into a
German HQ -- at considerable risk to their own lives.
1.23 [--]The Rat Patrol: THE HOLY WAR RAID
(Airdate: Feb 13, 1967)
Writer: Ronald Sossi
Director: Ronald Sossi and Philip Nemo
Guest Cast:
Abraham Sofaer ........ Arab holy man
Synopsis:
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 the Arabs, though, and when they con-
vince the Arab leader -- who is a friend of Moffitt's -- that they aren't
guilty, Troy and Moffitt go to find the holy man. To do so they must
find him first which takes a horse trip across the desert.
1.24 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE TWO-AGAINST-TIME RAID
(Airdate: Feb 20, 1967)
Writer: Peter Allan Fields
Director: Robert Sparr
Synopsis:
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 dump. The
Patrol must reach the site, enter it and destroy it before half of the
German army arrives. The Patrol arrive to find the storage area --
an old mine -- surprisingly deserted. They go about planting the
explosives but just before they blow it, Dietrich (who has laid this
all out as a trap) turns up. Shots are exchanged and Dietrich and
Troy are trapped inside. Meantime, outside the mine, assuming that
in the cave-in Troy was killed, Moffitt and the Patrol prepare to
finish blowing it up. Working together, Troy and Dietrich escape
through a back entrance moments before the dump is blown up.
1.25 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE WILD GOOSE RAID
(Airdate: Feb 27, 1967)
Writer: Harry Kronman
Director: Leon Benson
Guest Cast:
Martin Miller ........ Sgt. Roberts
William Bryant ....... Major Reese
Synopsis:
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 chaes it -- but it gets away. Assuming that the
Nazis must now know of the conference, Troy tries to talk the com-
manders out of the meeting. But, instead, they assign him to be
in charge of the security. Troy gets jumped, while in town, by a
knife-wielding Arab. Sgt Roberts, one of the other "security"
men, rescues Troy. Unknown to them, though, Roberts is a double
agent and is planning to blow up the meeting -- a fact that Troy
learns.
1.26 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE BRING-'EM-BACK-ALIVE RAID
(Airdate: Mar 13, 1967)
Writer: Dan Ullman
Director: Herschel Daughterty
Guest Cast:
William Schallert ....... Dr. Schneidermann
with:
Manfred Lating .... Guard
Synopsis:
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 deadly radium. He urges Mof-
fit to divulge Troy's destination, bargaining the Patrols' unconditional
freedom for the return of Schneidermann. Moffitt, disbelieving the
radium story, keeps quiet. However Troy is carrying the fatal vessel.
The three Patrollers escape and trail Troy back to the rendevouz, with
Dietrich trailing them.
1.27 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE TAKE-ME-TO-YOUR-LEADER RAID
(Airdate: Mar 20, 1967)
Writer: Edward J. Lasko
Director: Robert Sparr
Guest Cast:
Richard Mulligan ......... Major Lansing
Vincent Gardenia ......... Colonel Centis
Manfred Lating .... Peter
Synopsis:
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 -- who
is apparently an American major. The major orders the Patrol
to take him to where a high-level meeting is being held in secret.
They do so, unaware that he is a German officer and that Dietrich
is trailing them. However on the way they stumble on a unit of
Italians who were badly injured and their officer -- returning with
the Patrol to get his men help -- recognizes that the Major must be
a German. Whereupon the German attempts to kill the Italian --
arousing Troy's suspicion.
1.28 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE DOUBLE-OR-NOTHING RAID
(Airdate: Mar 27, 1967)
Writer: Mark Weingart
Director: Sutton Roley
Guest Cast:
Ben Wright .......... Colonel Voss
Barry Ford .......... Captain Rostov
Michael Vandever .... Lt. Dorf
Manfred Lating ...... Driver/Guard
Synopsis:
Moffit's about to be executed for "espionage against the Third Reich"
when suddenly the Patrol comes to his rescue. A German truck
attempts to scoops up Moffitt but can't and ends up taking
a Nazi captain in his place -- for exchange. Negotiations for a
prisoner exchange have been underway but Troy doubts that
the Germans will obey their own rules. Coleon Voss, the German
commander, wants to see the Patrol wiped out and uses the exchange
as a trap. The captain ends up trying to escape the Patrol and gets
himself killed. Now Troy has no one to exchange for a seriously
wounded Moffitt and must attempt to pass himself off as a German.
1.29 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE HOUR GLASS RAID
(Airdate: Apr 3, 1967)
Writer: Dean Hargrove
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Guest Cast:
Austin Willis ........ Doctor Anderson
Synopsis:
After capturing Dr. Anderson, a skilled Allied physician, Dietrich ends up
over-turning his staff car in a ravine (during a blinding sand storm). Troy
wants to attempt to rescue the doctor but can't because of the storm. He
hears Dietrich's distress call but suspects it is a trick. In the end they
do make the attempt as they hear that the Germans are going to do the same.
They get Dr. Anderson -- who is fine -- but Dietrich is trapped under
the car and badly injured. The doctor tells them that Dietrich is dead
but the German groans just before the Patrol leaves. When Troy ends
up saving Dietrich's life, the doctor was about to kill him with a mur-
derous dose of morphine, Dietrich tells Troy that Anderson is a double
agent. Anderson ends up getting killed just as the Germans arrive to
help their captain.
1.30 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE MASK-A-RAID
(Airdate: Apr 10, 1967)
Writer: Ellis Kadison
Director: Robert Sparr
Guest Cast:
Willaim Jordan ......... Major Bruder
Synopsis:
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 Moffitt takes his place so that
he can convince the Germans to watch in the wrong place for the
upcoming attack. Troy, meanwhile, infiltrates the military hospital.
Gestapo Major Bruder however suspects Moffitt and exposes him,
but by the time he does, Moffitt manages to get Bruder killed in his
place and escape.
1.31 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE FIRE-AND-BRIMSTONE RAID
(Airdate: Apr 26, 1967)
Writer: Stan Sherman
Director: Frank Barr
Guest Cast:
Michael Pate ........ Sheik
Synopsis:
The Patrol plants time explosives in a German ammo depot. They run
straight into Dietrich on their way out and get trapped INSIDE the
depot. Now Dietrich must try to flush them without blowing up
his own explosives. The Arab who owns the warehouse -- and the
town it is in -- is also Dietrich's captive and finds that he dislikes
the Germans and the English equally. Dietrich "borrows" the man's
ceremonial weapons (cross-bows) to send men in to shoot the
Patrol -- they can't use guns without blowing up their own supplies.
Hitchcock is hit in the shoulder but otherwise there is no damage.
In the end Moffitt tries to escape and is caught outside the ware-
house. And, in frustration over the continual abuse of his people
and lands, the Arab helps the Patrol escape and then blows up
the dump -- with himself inside.
1.32 [--] The Rat Patrol: THE DELILAH RAID
(Airdate: May 1, 1967)
Writer: Anthony Lawrence
Director: Jack N. Reddish
Guest Cast:
Lisabeth Hush ......... Michele
Wesley Addy ........... Coleonl Leske
Synopsis:
A young French Resistance figher -- Michele -- survive's the Patrol's quick
assault on a small German convoy. She explains that she was captured during
her groups' attempt to stop the convoy which carries radar equipment.
However Michele is a double agent and is going to deliver the Patrol
to her lover -- a German officer. She talks the Patrol into going to
the radar base (supposedly to destroy it). She turns them over to him
and, in the end, when the Patrol manages to escape -- and blow up the
radar base -- he is killed.
############### The Rat Patrol ###############
############## season 2 1967-68 ##############
##############################################
ABC Mondays 8:30pm Eastern
2.01 [33] The Rat Patrol: THE TRUCE AT ABURAH RAID
11-Sept-1967 ABC Mon
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
Director: Sutton Roley
Guest Cast:
Joseph Turkel ......... Captain Bruener
Synopsis:
Captain Dietrich monitors a broadcast sent to the Patrol from HQ and then
intercepts them on their way to a escort a supply convoy. With the
odds decidedly against them, Troy takes refuge in an oasis. A
child, playing near by, runs away terrified of the noise and falls
down an old old. The two teams make a truce in an attempt to get
the child (who is still alive) out. A second German unit appears
and shoots Tully. In the end they are able to get the child out and,
in the confusion, the Patrol escapes.
2.02 [34] The Rat Patrol: THE DAVID-AND-GOLIATH RAID
18-Sept-1967 ABC Mon
Writer: Sheldon Stark
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Guest Cast:
Manfred Lating .... Medic
Synopsis:
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 attackes,
wounding Tully and destroying the Patrols 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 negoiate with Dietrich
2.03 [35] The Rat Patrol: THE TRIAL-BY-FIRE RAID
25-Sept-1967 ABC Mon
Writer: Peter Allan Fields
Director: Sutton Roley
Guest Cast:
Milton Selzer .... Tobar
Gale Garnett .... Safti
Synopsis:
The Patrol attempts to destroy a small village that currently has a train
in it that the Germans are loading with ammunition. But there is a small
group of Arabs (including women and chlidren) 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 catchs 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.
2.04 [36] The Rat Patrol: THE DARERS-GO-FIRST RAID
02-Oct-1967 ABC Mon
Writer Mark Weingart
Director: Paul Stanley
Guest Cast:
Manfred Lating .... Soldier
Synopsis:
A heavily guarded German fort proves an impossible mission for
the Patrol until Troy decides to utilize a German tank against
it. They lay a trap in a near-by oasis and soon a tank does attempt
to attack them. They are able to capture the tank with a trick,
causing no damage to it. Moffitt, now driving the tank, simply
pulls it in back of the next convoy going into the fort and, once
inside, they blow up the ammunition stores.
2.05 [37] The Rat Patrol: THE LOVE-THINE-ENEMY RAID
09-Oct-1967 ABC Mon
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Guest Cast:
Susanne Cramer .......... Gerta
Synopsis:
Troy inadvertantly wounds a German nurse -- who ends up being the
lone survivor of the Patrol's attack on a German convoy. The
Patrol's assignment is to stop all supplies from reaching the Ger-
man division. The nurse tells them there is a field hospital 6
miles away. It isn't on Troy's map, though. Despite that and the
rest of the Patrol's arguments, he decided -- out of guilt -- to risk
taking her there. On the way they finded a wounded American
soldier who was carrying information to a trapped regiment of
soldiers that artillery is on its way to help them. Troy must decide
whether to save her life by taking her to the hospital or save the
regiment with the information. In the end he finds a way to do
both.
2.06 [38] The Rat Patrol: THE DARKEST RAID
16-Oct-1967 ABC Mon
Writer: Dean Hargrove
Director: Leon Benson
Guest Cast:
Alfred Ryder ........... Col. Gerschon
Manfred Lating ......... Orderly
Synopsis:
German captain Richter is ordered to bring a cache of "confiscated" diamonds
to Berlin to sell -- the money to be turned back into weapons for the
desert campaign. The Patrol's mission is to stop him, no matter
what. They capture him on the way to his HQ, and after disguising
himself as the "blind" Richter, with Hitchcock as his new "German"
chauffeur, Troy goes to pick up the diamonds. But the German
commandant who has them grows suspicious. In the end he nearly
manages to catch Troy out but not before Troy is able to put his
plan into action and steal the diamonds.
2.07 [39] The Rat Patrol: THE DEATH-DO-US-PART RAID
30-Oct-1967 ABC Mon
Writer: Anthony Lawrence
Director: Frank Baur
Guest Cast:
Pippa Scott ........... Drusilla
Barry Robins .......... Ben Nafti
Stanley Waxman ........ Colonel Luden
Synopsis:
The Patrol is ambushed in an arab village where they've gone to meet
with an unknown contact. Troy is wounded but manages to
escape into one of the huts. His men are captured. Troy is
nused back to health by the local missionary -- a hot-tongued
Irish lass Drucilla Blackner. Drucilla preaches peace to Troy
and talks about her pride with one of her pupils. The pupil
turns out to be Troy's contact. Drucilla forbids the boy to help
Troy but, in the end, the boy is taken away -- having been exposed
as a traitor -- and it is now up to Troy to go rescue him and his
men.
2.08 [40] The Rat Patrol: THE DO-RE-MI RAID
06-Nov-1967 ABC Mon
Writer: Don Brinkley
Director: Robert Sparr
Guest Cast:
Jack Jones ........... Mickey Roberts
Harvey Jason ......... Perkins
Synopsis:
Mickey Roberts, a popular American entertainer, is captured. HQ orders the
Patrol to help him escape. Troy manages to get himself captured so that he
can tell Roberts of the upcoming escape plans. Roberts, though, isn't
all that keen on trying and tells Troy to take another prison -- Perkins
instead -- seems Perkins has good information. Roberts isn't just a
coward, though, he is a collaborator and tells Dietrich where the Patrol
is hiding. Dietrich ambushes them and ends up with Hitch's glasses
to "prove" to Troy that his men are dead. Troy attempts the escape
with Perkins finally.
2.09 [41] The Rat Patrol: THE KINGDOM COME RAID
13-Nov-1967 ABC Mon
Writer: Robert Sherman
Director: Frank Baur
Guest Cast:
Matt Clark .......... Corporal Meekin
Synopsis:
Hitch and Corporal Meekin, on a special mission to deliver new secret anti-
aircraft shells, are the sole survivors of a German ambush. When they
disagree on whether to move on or stay, Meekin shoots Hitchcock and
drives off, leaving him for dead. Meekin wanders into the rest of the
Patrol and tells them he has no idea where Hitch is. Troy follows
fresh tire tracks back to the convoy. They find Hitch who tries to
tell them about Meekin but passes out. To Permanently silence Hitch,
Meekin sets the fuses of the unique shells to explode while Hitch is
being taken to a hospital. Troy, though, not knowing this, orders all
of them into the same truck. Meekin, in the end, breaks and runs and
the Germans "recapture" the truck from Troy in the confusion. So it
is a German who drives over the ridge -- and it explodes.
2.10 [42] The Rat Patrol: THE HIDE-AND-GO-SEEK RAID
20-Nov-1967 ABC Mon
Writer: Mark Weingart
Director: Sutton Roley
Guest Cast:
Mark Anthony - Miles
Charles Irving - Colonel von Graff
Synopsis:
The young son of Allied Commander Simms is kidnapped and
the Patrol is given the mission of rescuinghim. The kidnapped
youth provides bargaining power for Nazi General von Graff, who
wants to exchange the boy for desert commander General Schiller,
a POW in Allied hands. Complications arise, though, when Moffitt
learns that the boy is a traumatic mute. The boy rises above this,
though, and in the end not only helps with his own escape but helps
to save Troy's life.
2.11 [43] The Rat Patrol: THE VIOLENT TRUCE RAID
27-Nov-1967 ABC Mon
Writer: Don Brinkley
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest Cast:
Howard Caine .......... Major Bracken
Bruce Glover .......... Lt. West
Synopsis:
When Lt. West (US Medical corps) is injured, Moffitt takes over his
mission to warn a British convoy of contaminated plama supplies. While
Tully carries Lt. West to HQ for help, Moffitt is captured by the
Germans. Dietrich turns Moffitt over to the Brits in exchange for
some plasma for his troops. When both sides refuse to believe that
the supply is contaiminated, Moffitt attemps to destroy the plasma.
The Germans mistake this for an ambush and fire back. Meanwhile
Moffitt is ordered to stand a court martial. And Troy must go to
the Germans to get them to testify when the only man who could do
so -- Lt. West -- dies. Dietrich comes to the court and testifies that
the plasma was contaminated and his men did die.
2.12 [44] The Rat Patrol: THE LIFE-FOR-A-LIFE RAID
04-Dec-1967 ABC Mon
Writers: Quentin Sparr and Don Brinkley
Director: Sutton Roley
Guest Cast:
Kamala Devi .......... Sallah
Paul Stevens ........ Captain Longet
Synopsis:
In a melee of horses and men, the Patrol bombards a band of Arab guerillas
to rescue captive Frenchman Pierre Longet and his wife. When his
wife dies, Longet blames Sallah, a pregnant Arab woman Troy has
taken hostage. As they attempt to escape, they end up hiding out in
the basement of a battered mosque. Dietrich demands the return of
Sallah (who is working against the Germans) and Longet wants to
give her up. Troy won't do it, though, not even after she goes into
labor.
2.13 [45] The Rat Patrol: THE FIFTH WHEEL RAID
11-Dec-1967 ABC Mon
Writer: Richard DeRoy
Director: Robert Sparr
Guest Cast:
Michael Tolan ........... Sgt. Kabi
Ben Wright .............. Col. Jameson
Manfred Lating .......... Orderly
Synopsis:
After being briefed for a crucial operation, British Colonel Jameson is
abducted by the Germans. Allied Intelligence suspects that the abduction
is a cover for the colonel's defection. The Patrol is ordered to either
get the colonel back or make sure he is dead. However, the colonel's
aide believes he CAN'T be guilty and Sgt. Kabir insists, at gunpoint,
that he be taken on the mission.
2.14 [46] The Rat Patrol: THE TWO-IF-BY-SEA RAID
18-Dec-1967 ABC Mon
Writer: Mark Weingart
Director: Robert Sparr
Guest Cast:
Walter Brooke - Captain Vulcan
Michael Vandever .... Lt. Reiner"
Norbert Meisel
Synopsis:
A convoy of Tiger tanks is the prime target for the Patrol's electrifying
mission. Moffitt hijacks a truck in an attempt to sabotage a German
lighthouse. However he gets caught in the attempt. Moffitt manages to escape
but then the commander of the lighthouse "shoots" him. The Patrol engin-
eers a burial for Moffitt so that Rommel's convoy will come in -- the
information of Moffitt's death with the information he got before his
escape is carried back to the Germans by a collaborator. The convoy
is caught in shallow water and destroyed.
2.15 [47] The Rat Patrol: THE STREET URCHIN RAID
25-Dec-1967 ABC Mon
Writer: Don Brinkley
Director: Leon Benson
Guest Cast:
Gerald Michenau ....... Tico
John Myhers ........... Rettig
Rica Diallina ......... Sarina
Synopsis:
Troy acquires secret photographs of vital German installations, and when
German soldiers and Gestapo Chief Rettig corner him in a small Spanish town,
he hides the pictures. Tico, a shoe-shine urchin, observes the entire
scene from a distance and takes the pictures to his sister Sarina, a belly-
dancer. Anxious for him and Srina to return to their beloved Spanish
home, Tico decides to sell the pictures in any way he can. With
Troy an hour overdue, Moffitt, Hitchcock and Pettigrew set out to find
him. Eventually rescuing a sadistically beaten Troy, the Patrol goes in
search of Tico and the pictures. However the Gestapo has taken Sarina
and offers to trade her for the pictures. A trade Troy reverses by taking
a Gestapo agent and offering to trade HIM for Sarina.
2.16 [48] The Rat Patrol: THE PIPELINE-TO-DISASTER RAID
01-Jan-1968 ABC Mon
Writers: Al Ramrus and John Shaner
Director: Sutton Roley
Guest Cast:
John Anderson - General Owen Lansbury
Synopsis:
Gen. Owen Lansbury, head of British Intelligence in the Near East, bails
out of his damaged plane behind enemy lines. The Patrol
go to bring him in. Dietrich has the same ideas, but Troy and
his men reach the fatigued general first. Lansbury reveals to
them that he has discovered where the Nazis have just completed
burying an oil pipeline in the desert. It feeds a major German off-
ensive scheduled to kick-off in two days; it must be destroyed.
Despite his injuries, Lansbury insists on accompanying the Pat-
rol. The general's fast-deteriorating condition causes him to make
seveeral command decisions that bode poorly for the Patrol.
Determined to protect his men and the mission, Troy walks along
the razor's edge of mutiny.
2.17 [49] The Rat Patrol: THE BOOMERANG RAID
08-Jan-1968 ABC Mon
Writer: Edward Lasko
Director: Robert Sparr
Guest Cast:
Dick Sargent .... Kemper
Synopsis:
Efforts to convoy Allied reconnaissance data boomerang to make some double
trouble for the Ptrol. A Nazy soldier, posing as the Allied contact, Lt.
Kemper, attracts Troy's attention by his reluctance to ambush some
German soldiers. Troy's suspicions work overtime, but just fast
enough to play into the hands of Dietrich. Dietrich and his men find
the Patrol and the strategically marked map of Allied supply dumps.
2.18 [50] The Rat Patrol: THE FATAL REUNION RAID
15-Jan-1968 ABC Mon
Writer: Don Brinkley
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Guest Cast:
Louise Sorel ......... Gabrieele
Gilbert Green ........ Rettig
Synopsis:
Tense emotions explode when French Resistance fighter, Gabrielle Ouvret
(Moffitt's former girlfriend), joins the Patrol in the danger-filled rescue
of a space scientist -- Pierre Marchand. Gabrielle and Moffitt realize
their love for each other again, but Gabrielle confesses that she is married.
She is Mrs. Pierre Marchand. Moffitt's bitter sense of betrayal jeopardizes
the already exacting rescue attempt.
2.19 [51] The Rat Patrol: THE DECOY RAID
22-Jan-1968 ABC Mon
Writer: Robert Sherman
Director: Sutton Roley
Guest Cast:
Richard Davalos .......... Captain Wansee
Jay Novello .............. LaDuc
Doreen McLean ............ Miss Arno
Synopsis:
Sadistic SS Captain Wansee arrests the Swiss Red Cross worker -- Miss Arno,
who is administering vacines in a North Africa village threatened by typhus.
Wansee bargains with Dietrich to excahnge Arno and her vaccine with any
member of the Patrol. Vichy official, LaDuc, who is responsible for
containing the epidemic, has only 12 hours in which to use the vaccine
before it loses its effectiveness. Desperate to have Arno and her lifesaving
vaccine returned, he betrays Patroller Moffitt into Dietrich's hands.
2.20 [52] The Rat Patrol: THE TOUCH-AND-GO RAID
05-Feb-1968 ABC Mon
Writer: Peter Allen Fields
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Guest Cast:
Robert Knapp ......... Major
Synopsis:
The Patrol rush to help a band of "Allied" soldiers and fall into a trap
when they learn the men are Germans. Dietrich's scheme to cap-
ture them has worked. With Dietrich's men now posing as the famed
Rat Patrol, they take Troy's place guarding an Allied munitions
depot. Dietrich himself poses as Troy and receives an envelope
marked "Operation Diamond" and decides that he must destroy the
depot and escape with the "important" information. The Patrol escapes
in a German truck equipped with a field radio and hear the broadcast
announcing the arrival of "Operation Diamond" which are plans for an
Allied Inter-company baseball game. Troy radios the depot about the
fake Patrollers, but before the operator can relya his message, he i s
shot by one of Dietrich's men.
2.21 [53] The Rat Patrol: THE FIELD-OF-DEATH RAID
12-Feb-1968 ABC Mon
Writer: Richard K. Brookway
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Guest Cast:
Albert Paulsen .... Col. von Brugge
Jack Bannon .... Lt Koenig
Nick George (Chris' real-life brother) as Captain David Troy
Synopsis:
The capture of RAF Captain David Troy proves ample bait in Major von Brugge's
scheme to destroy the Patrol. Troy, Moffitt, Pettigrew and Hitchcock
arrive at the desert rendezvous to find Troy's wounded and unconscious
brother tied to a grenade in the center of a mine field. Fighting down
the urge to rush through the mine field, Troy painfully makes his way
to his brother as the Germans wait in ambush. He finally manages to
defuse everything, getting his brother free just as the rest of the Patrol
rushes in and kills Brugge and his men.
2.22 [54] The Rat Patrol: THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY RAID
19-Feb-1968 ABC Mon
Writer: Peter Allan Fields
Director: Frank Baur
Guest Cast:
C.Clerk -- Jean-Claude
Danieele Roter - Monique
Synopsis:
The arrival of a team of teenage guerilla fighers spells "Double-trouble"
for the Patrol. The embittered young Partisands, 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 impenetratrable SS camp, even
though this means putting the Patrol temporarily out of action.
2.23 [55] The Rat Patrol: THE HICKORY-DICKORY-DOCK RAID
26-Feb-1968 ABC Mon
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
Director: Frank Baur
Guest cast:
Gary Lasdun - Captain Hunte
Synopsis:
Moffitt is about to leave on a hazardous mission to deactivate the timing
mechanism of a whistle tower of Rommel's supply depot, when he receives a
sad message from London: a German bonb has killed his young brother. In a
blind rage against both the Nazi's and the war, Moffitt recklessly risks his
own life and the lives of the Patrol to avenge his brother's death. They
race against time to set the Whistle so that bombers may take out the depot
without endangering the prisoners held next to it.
2.24 [56] The Rat Patrol: THE TUG-0F-WAR RAID
04-Mar-1968 ABC Mon
Writer: Mark Weingart
Director: Jack N. Reddish
Guest Cast:
Bo Hopkins .... Bo Randall
Michael Shillo - Gaspard
Brioni Farrell .... Felicia
Synopsis:
The screech of Nazi vehicles outside a desolate cemetery triggers a
desperate attempt by Troy and secret again Felicia Gaspard to dispose of a
small gold locket containing coveted microfilmed data. Racing wildly among
the tombstones, Troy tosses the locket into the open grave of Felicia's
mother before being captured by the Nazis. When Troy and Felicia refuse to
answer questions, an irate Dietrich sentences them to hang at dawn. The
Patrol's only hope of saving them is that the Nazi's drunken hangman is
Felicia's father.
2.25 [57] The Rat Patrol: THE NEVER-SAY-DIE RAID
11-Mar-1968 ABC Mon
Writer: Dean Hargrove
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Guest Cast:
Fabrizio Mioni ......... Lt. Cristalde
Frank Marth ............ Col. von Bracht
Synopsis:
Troy is wounded in a freakish ambush, and he and Hitchcock become prisoners
of top Nazi strategist, Colonel Von Bracht. Refusing to obey von Bracht's
order to radio Pettigrew and Moffitt of the German enecampment, they are
given to the psychopathic Lt. Koss, who uses sledgehammers and fires to
torture his prisoners. In the meanting, Lt. Cristalde, an Italian cavalier,
demands that Pettigrew and Moffitt take him prisoner uner the terms of the
Geneva convention. In the ensuing argument, Cristalde's humor gives the
Patrol a key to how to rescue Troy and Hitchcock.
2.26 [58] The Rat Patrol: THE KILL-AT-KOORLEA RAID (final episode)
18-Mar-1968 ABC Mon
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
Director: Eddie David
Guest Cast:
William Watson ........ Corporal Freebairn
Manfred Lating ........ Lt. Strum
Synopsis:
The appalling brutality of Nazi General KKarl Koenig makes him the prime
target for the Allied offensive. General Boggs summons the Patrol for the
urgent mission. The fatal shot is to be fired from nearly a mile away by
British Corporal Freebairn, a crack shot with a lust for violence. Wind,
speed, distance, everything checks out for the clandestine mission at
Koorlea. Suddenly, Moffitt sees that Koenig's family is with him.
Torn between duty and decency, the Patrol decides to take "the Butcher"
alie and spare his family the horror of his death, but the cool Freebairn
is sadistically psyched for the "big kill" and refuses to give in.
############### The Rat Patrol ###############
################# the end ##################
##############################################
Have you any comments, corrections, episode titles, air dates,
production numbers, directors, writers, story/synopsis,
guest stars, cast lists, etc?
Have you any old videos, or tv guides? Dust them off and let
us know if you have any information on this series or any other
tv series from the 1950's, 60's, 70's, or 80's , which is missing
from any episode guides on the web.
Perhaps a certain episode of a particular series coincided with
a key moment in your life, or in world events - and has left a vivid
memory of when it was shown. Let us know.
Would you like to see any other tv series guides on this site?
If so please e-mail - see Feedback below.
This guide may be distributed and copied freely, in its entirety, for
personal use. All original author and copyright information must remain
intact. Any sales or other uses of this document are expressly forbidden,
without the specific consent of the author(s).
Copyright © The Classic TV Archive. All rights reserved.
Return to The Classic TV Archive Home Page
Feedback">