Highlights - remembering TV shows of our youth - The Rat Patrol – 1966

Set in North Africa during World War II, this series chronicles the adventures of a 4-man team of commandos within the Long Range Desert Group. In utter defiance of historical accuracy, the team consists of three Americans and one Brit.
Armed with jeeps equipped with .50-caliber machine guns--and endless chutzpah--they wage a highly irregular war against Rommel's Afrika Korps. Their most common nemesis is Hauptmann Dietrich, though Dietrich and the Rats join forces from time to time against a common enemy.
The Rat Patrol was filmed in colour. Being that it was filmed in 1966-1968, colour was one of the selling points of the series. All those wonderful shots of military half tracks and trucks blowing up in huge fireballs.

Series main cast:
Christopher George as Sgt. Sam Troy
Gary Raymond as Sgt. Jack Moffitt
Eric Braeden as Capt. Hauptman Hans Dietrich (as Hans Gudegast)
Lawrence P. Casey as Pvt. Mark Hitchcock (as Lawrence Casey)
Justin Tarr as Pvt. Tully Pettigrew