Episode
The Rat Patrol: The Tug-of-War Raid
Overview
Troy goes undercover to get microfilm from a French Resistance fighter, but they are captured by Dietrich. After Troy refuses to give up the location of the microfilm, Dietrich sentences both to death. Troy must find a way to contact the Rat Patrol for rescue.
Details
- Series
- The Rat Patrol
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 24
- Air date
- 1968-03-04
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
The Tug-of-War Raid is Episode 24 in Season 2 of The Rat Patrol. It aired on 1968-03-04. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 23: The Hickory, Dickory Dock Raid
On the Eve of a dangerous mission, Moffitt receives word that his younger brother has been killed by a German bomb in London.
Episode 25: The Never-Say-Die Raid
Troy and Hitchcock are captured by a German colonel who has a scheme to use them to radio false information back to their headquarters. Meanwhile, Moffitt and Pettigrew's rescue attempts are complicated by an Italian officer who wants to surrender to them.
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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.
Episode 26: The Kill at Koorlea Raid
The Rat Patrol is ordered to go with a South African sniper on a mission to kill a German general, but Troy decides to try to capture the general alive.
Episode 21: The Field of Death Raid
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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 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 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 17: The Boomerang Raid
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Episode 16: The Pipeline to Disaster Raid
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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 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.