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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,

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Rat Patrol Season 2 Episode 6 - The Darkest Raid
    6.2/10(58 votes)

    S2:E6

    Troy infiltrates a German H.Q. posing as a blinded Afrika Korps officer to steal vital information.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Rat Patrol Season 1 Episode 19 - The Two for One Raid
    6.4/10(65 votes)

    S1:E19

    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--but there is a confused teenage boy. The boy proves out to be the son of a German commander. Troy is going to kill the commander, but when the boy pleads with him not to, Troy remembers what it felt like to lose his own father, who died when Troy was this boy's age. Troy arranges to capture the German instead of killing him.

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Anthony Lawrence

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  3. The Rat Patrol Season 2 Episode 23 - The Hickory, Dickory Dock Raid
    6.6/10(48 votes)

    S2:E23

    On the Eve of a dangerous mission, Moffitt receives word that his younger brother has been killed by a German bomb in London.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Rat Patrol Season 1 Episode 8 - The Fatal Chase Raid
    6.7/10(76 votes)

    S1:E8

    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 become captured -- is fighting against Tex and Eddie -- who want revenge. Gribs bargains with Troy for protection, telling Troy that he has information vital to US Command. They start back to HQ, but one of the unit's jeeps breaks down. They continue to travel slowly across the desert until they can capture a German vehicle. Gribs parcels out small hints of his ""vital"" information to keep himself safe. It all ends in heroism -- or something close.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Howard Head

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  5. The Rat Patrol Season 1 Episode 9 - The Blow Sky High Raid
    6.8/10(82 votes)

    S1:E9

    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 apprehensive about 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 trigh. But Moffitt gets them lost and Dietrich beats them there. Troy then manages to plant some explosives -- and bluffs Dietrich out of the radar station by telling him that he's willing to die himself rather than let the station do its work.

    Director:Lee H. Katzin
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Rat Patrol Season 1 Episode 1 - The Chase of Fire Raid
    6.9/10(143 votes)

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:Tom Gries
    Writers:Tom Gries, Lorenzo Semple Jr.

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  7. The Rat Patrol Season 1 Episode 14 - The Daredevil Rescue Raid
    6.9/10(60 votes)

    S1:E14

    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 road which is now hidden by sand, a road only Moffitt's father can find. On the way to the landing site, Moffitt's father's plane crashes. Moffitt wants to go find him but Troy insists their first priority is to find the road themselves. Moffitt breaks away and goes to find his father but finds only 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 rescuing him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Rat Patrol Season 1 Episode 15 - The Last Harbor Raid (1)
    6.9/10(59 votes)

    S1:E15

    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 coordinate his plans with Major Indrus (John Anderson), an American who is inside the camp. They use an explosive-laden boat to get into the harbor but the Germans stop it halfway in. The captain, Bertaine (Will Kuluva), doesn't allow the Germans to board his boat. Troy and his men are able to fight off the boarding party and escape into town, but at the cost of Bertaine's life. They are followed by El Gamil (Stanley Adams), a sympathetic Arab merchant and black marketeer, who provides a car and uniforms for Moffitt and Hitchcock to go to the German Officer's Club in search of Bertaine's daughter Marianne (Claudine Longet). She is regarded as a traitor by locals because she performs at the club, but Troy has no choice but to seek out her help. The episode ends with Moffitt and Hitchcock entering the club.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Rat Patrol Season 1 Episode 2 - The Life Against Death Raid
    7.0/10(112 votes)

    S1:E2

    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 Friedrich -- who tells everyone they are American spies. No one believes him but during the delay the doctor notices a tattoo 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.

    Director:Lee H. Katzin
    Writer:Anthony Lawrence

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  10. The Rat Patrol Season 1 Episode 13 - The Lighthouse Raid
    7.0/10(63 votes)

    S1:E13

    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 held captive inside the lighthouse -- betrayed by Mathias. Moffitt tries to reach him but ends up unconscious. In the ensuing fight, Mathias is killed and Troy manages to signal the trawler into the area to take the general to safety.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Rat Patrol Season 1 Episode 17 - The Last Harbor Raid (3)
    7.0/10(64 votes)

    S1:E17

    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 collaborator. Sgt. Troy, though, disagrees and he's right. Marianne talks the fishermen into cooperating, and the prisoners make good their escape.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Rat Patrol Season 1 Episode 18 - The One That Got Away Raid
    7.0/10(53 votes)

    S1:E18

    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 after him. They get inside the German base and, once there, find that Luden is being questioned by the Gestapo.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Rat Patrol Season 2 Episode 2 - The David and Goliath Raid
    7.0/10(61 votes)

    S2:E2

    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.

    Director:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Rat Patrol Season 2 Episode 12 - The Life-for-a-Life Raid
    7.0/10(54 votes)

    S2:E12

    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.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Rat Patrol Season 2 Episode 21 - The Field of Death Raid
    7.0/10(59 votes)

    S2:E21

    Troy's brother is captured by a German colonel who was injured in an earlier raid by the Rat Patrol.

    Director:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Rat Patrol Season 1 Episode 28 - The Double or Nothing Raid
    7.1/10(56 votes)

    S1:E28

    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 up Moffitt, but manages to take a Nazi captain in his place--for exchange. Negotiations for a prisoner exchange are fruitful, but Troy doubts that the Germans will obey their own rules. Indeed, the Nazi's Colonel Voss wants to see the Patrol wiped out and uses the exchange as a trap. The captured captain tries 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.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Rat Patrol Season 1 Episode 32 - The Delilah Raid
    7.1/10(53 votes)

    S1:E32

    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 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Rat Patrol Season 2 Episode 5 - The Love Thine Enemy Raid
    7.1/10(58 votes)

    S2:E5

    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.

    Director:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Rat Patrol Season 2 Episode 8 - The Do-Re-Mi Raid
    7.1/10(56 votes)

    S2:E8

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Rat Patrol Season 2 Episode 10 - The Hide-and-Go-Seek Raid
    7.1/10(56 votes)

    S2:E10

    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.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Rat Patrol Season 2 Episode 15 - The Street Urchin Raid
    7.1/10(51 votes)

    S2:E15

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Rat Patrol Season 2 Episode 16 - The Pipeline to Disaster Raid
    7.1/10(54 votes)

    S2:E16

    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.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Rat Patrol Season 2 Episode 22 - The Double Jeopardy Raid
    7.1/10(50 votes)

    S2:E22

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Peter Allan Fields

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  24. The Rat Patrol Season 1 Episode 16 - The Last Harbor Raid (2)
    7.2/10(63 votes)

    S1:E16

    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 tell her that they need to use the fishing fleet to accomplish their mission. Meanwhile, Troy secretly meets with American POW liaison officer Indrus. Troy then joins Moffitt at the house of El Gamil. Informed of the plan, El Gamil dispatches his men to the various harbor areas to alert the fishermen. Troy sets the action to begin at dawn.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Rat Patrol Season 1 Episode 21 - The B Negative Raid
    7.2/10(61 votes)

    S1:E21

    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; Troy encounters him and orders him to help him find a donor. Dietrich sends for Corporal Pennell (guest appearance by teen idol Fabian Forte), a captured Yank deserter. Pennell refuses to cooperate but Troy takes him at gunpoint. On the way back to Moffitt, Dietrich catches up to them and it is up to Pennell to do the "impossible" to prevent them from all being recaptured. He rises to the occasion and they make it back to Moffitt and Tully in time to save Moffitt's life.

    Director:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Darkest Raid" is the worst rated episode of "The Rat Patrol". It scored 6.2/10 based on 58 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/16/1967. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Two for One Raid".