Episode
The Rat Patrol: The Pipeline to Disaster Raid
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- The Rat Patrol
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 1968-01-01
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
The Pipeline to Disaster Raid is Episode 16 in Season 2 of The Rat Patrol. It aired on 1968-01-01. The runtime is 30 min.
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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 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.
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Episode 14: The Two If by Sea Raid
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Episode 18: The Fatal Reunion Raid
The Rat Patrol uses Moffitt's old flame as a guide to rescue her husband, a French rocket scientist, from the Germans.
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 19: The Decoy Raid
A village's typhus serum is confiscated by the S.S. in order to exchange it for capturing the Rat Patrol. Dietrich questions their methods.
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.
Episode 20: The Touch-and-Go Raid
Dietrich and his men capture the Rat Patrol and assume their identities, and thus are able to enter an Allied munitions dump.
Episode 11: The Violent Truce Raid
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.
Episode 21: The Field of Death Raid
Troy's brother is captured by a German colonel who was injured in an earlier raid by the Rat Patrol.
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 22: The Double Jeopardy Raid
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.