Talk:The Rat Patrol

Spain?

The credits on the show say that the series was "filmed on location in Spain." Does that mean mainland Spain or the coastal territories of Melilla and Ceuta (bordering Morocco)? I am guessing the latter because the producers wanted to depict North African scrub terrain, but I could be wrong. Does anybody know? 21:47, 8 April 2007 (UTC)Raryel

I read somewhere--the IMDb?--that spaghetti westerns were shooting nearby and the sounds therefrom caused problems for Patrol production. If true, they were on the mainland. This would also explain their quickly abandoning that country for Hollywood studios and southern California deserts. -- Ted Watson (talk) 21:58, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Lawrence Casey in an interview it is said that surveys in Spain were in Almeria, and that he was not in North Africa. ~ ~ ~ ~ Lana Roxe — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lana Roxe (talk • contribs) 09:46, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Almeria is where Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns were shot. 99.237.143.219 (talk) 05:51, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

MGM Released The DVDS?

ABC owns The Rights to The Rat Patrol, which means it's under Disney, how could this be?

Citation needed?

After "Wears a red and black civil war cap," someone added "citation needed." The citation is the photograph to the left, in which the character can be seen wearing the cap. Duh!

I think this is because someone changed it to French Foreign Legion kepi which is incorrect. The French Foriegn legion kepi was red with blue trim. The kepi shown is either a Zouave kepi or an artillery kepi from the American Civil War. Sf46 (talk)

Christopher George's Heart

Is it actually confirmed that a) Christopher George suffered such a severe injury in the jeep accident, and b) that it contributed to his heart attack over a decade later? I've never seen validation for this beyond "everyone knows" and (IANAD) it seems medically questionable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Worldwalker (talk • contribs) 18:31, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Here that was told by Lawrence Casey in an interview about this episode:

"I was on the side of the camera watching the scene un-fold. We were filming on a dry lake bed called Lake Rosamond, very close to Edwards Air force base out in the Mojave Desert. The ground was perfectly flat and dry. Tarr was driving with Chris in the front passenger seat and Gary was riding in the back holding on to the 50 calibre machine gun. In the shot, Tarr was supposed to drive forward and then see an enemy convoy coming in the distance. He was then going to do a 180 degree turn and drive out of the shot. When he made the turn, the tires crimped under the Jeep, it looked as if it were happening in slow motion, and the jeep flipped over throwing Gary out quite a distance. Chris was still in the jeep and was saved by the machine-gun mount. The mount prevented the jeep from coming down on top of Chris and crushing him. Gary had a broken leg, Chris hurt his back and Tarr had arm problems. We were closed down for a week or two as I remember. Afterwards, their stunt doubles did the heavy work until they healed." Lana Roxe (talk) 09:50, 9 December 2012 (UTC) Lana Roxe

In charge?

Who was in command of the unit? The article says Troy was "The unit's leader", but wasn't Moffitt in command? Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 03:37, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Portraits

Hello, here are some screenshots of "The Rat Patrol" cast, they are better than existing screenshots, and can be uploaded under the same license. Can anyone (with uploading rights) add them to Wikipedia?

http://tanda-mif-chgk.livejournal.com/769170.html

I beg pardon for possible errors in my text. I do not own English, therefore must use a machine translator and prompts of acquaintances. I hope that severe errors in text are not present. 01:05, 12 December 2012 (UTC)Lana Roxe — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lana Roxe (talk • contribs)

The Chain of Death Raid

Two enemies chained together.
Has any debt to The Defiant Ones ever been mentioned in reference to that episode? 99.237.143.219 (talk) 05:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Eric Braeden

I believe it is necessary to list him here as Hans Gudegast as that was his legal name at that time and he did not change it to Eric Braeden until 1970. Norum 22:36, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Patton Tanks

The article claims that Patton tanks were used in the production. Based on Season 2, Episode 4, the tanks used were WWII surplus Shermans, not Pattons. Tomligon (talk) 03:54, 9 February 2016 (UTC) Sorry, those are not Sherman's, the tanks are Pershing or Patton models. The Sherman and its variants all have distinctive hull profiles.

SAS or LRDG?

The "Background" section states that: "the show was inspired by and loosely modeled on David Stirling's British Special Air Service (SAS)".

However based on the description of their missions and capabilities, wouldn't they actually be members of the Long Range Desert Group? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 135.23.189.82 (talk) 01:14, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Narration

The narrator is NOT Peter Graves. It sounds more like Skip Homeier. 2601:444:47E:3B40:F5A8:1FC4:7920:5259 (talk) 01:37, 23 May 2023 (UTC)