Episode
The Rat Patrol: The Violent Truce Raid
Overview
Lieutenant West is on his way to stop a medical supply convoy, when he's ambushed by an Afrika Korps patrol. Wounded and rescued by Moffatt and Pettigrew, before he dies he informs them that he's got to stop the medical supplies, as some are poisonous. When Moffatt destroys the deadly supplies he is put under arrest by a British Army Major.
Details
- Series
- The Rat Patrol
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 1967-11-27
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
The Violent Truce Raid is Episode 11 in Season 2 of The Rat Patrol. It aired on 1967-11-27. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 10: The Hide-and-Go-Seek Raid
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.
Episode 12: The Life-for-a-Life Raid
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.
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Episode 9: The Kingdom Come Raid
Hitchcock is supervising a transport convoy of new anti-aircraft shell fuses when the convoy is attacked by a German unit. Hitchcock is wounded by a deserter.
Episode 13: The Fifth Wheel Raid
A British colonel is captured by the Germans after attending a staff meeting which centered on an upcoming Allied offensive. The Rat Patrol is ordered to either rescue or kill him before he can be interrogated. His Sikh aide insists on participating in the mission.
Episode 8: The Do-Re-Mi Raid
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.
Episode 14: The Two If by Sea Raid
Moffitt gets into a German-held lighthouse by posing as an electrician, to try to gain information about a German naval convoy headed for North Africa which is carrying Tiger tanks.
Episode 7: The Death Do Us Part Raid
En route to a meeting with an Arab agent, the patrol is ambushed by Dietrich. With the exception of 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?
Episode 15: The Street Urchin Raid
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.
Episode 6: The Darkest Raid
Troy infiltrates a German H.Q. posing as a blinded Afrika Korps officer to steal vital information.
Episode 16: The Pipeline to Disaster Raid
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.
Episode 5: The Love Thine Enemy Raid
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.
Episode 17: The Boomerang Raid
A lieutenant is infiltrated by submarine to set up naval gunfire coordinates, but Troy gets suspicious when the officer appears more interested in mapping the Allied positions than the German ones.