“Leapin’ Jeeps!” The Rat Patrol roared onto television screens in 1966 and is doing ti again! The Patrol travels the desert in two machine-gun-mounted Jeeps fighting General Rommel’s Afrika Korps in the Tunisian Desert during WWII. The series follows this elite commando force as they carry out a new raid against the Germans in each episode.

CAN YOU SPOT
Ed Asner, Gavin MacLeod, Richard Mulligan, Dick Sargent

DID YOU KNOW
The series was filmed mostly in Spain to keep costs down while gaining access to military hardware left over from big budget Hollywood productions

Upon cancellation of the show, actor Hans Gudegast (Capt. Dietrich) changed his name to Eric Braeden . For over 20 years, he’s been better known as “Victor Newman” on the daytime soap, The Young and the Restless.