The Rat Patrol: The Complete First Season (1966)

The first season of the television show The Rat Patrol premiered in 1966 when I was seven years old.  I only recently discovered that it had finally been reissued on DVD and I just watched the first shows last night.

It was great and clued me in to why I shouldn’t be giving younger folks in their 20s and/or 30s a hard time about their Star Wars obsessions.  I had a huge smile on my face through that whole first episode and was quite willing to forgive the obvious holes in the logic of the narrative cause The Rat Patrol‘s got serious flow!

The Rat Patrol is one of the few tv shows from my youth that I’ve been waiting to see again.  It also sticks out in my memory because during second grade there was this tripped out kid who one day in the middle of class shouted something like, "Watch out, Tulley!" and slid out of his desk making machine gun noises.  I swear that was the last time we ever saw that kid in class.

Now I’m waiting for a nonbootlegged version of Judd for the Defense to come out and show up on Netflix and I’ll be done pining for old tv shows.