The Gauntlet
- Episode aired Feb 7, 1967
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7.9/10
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Saunders is wounded, hounded by dogs, and finally captured and drugged.Saunders is wounded, hounded by dogs, and finally captured and drugged.Saunders is wounded, hounded by dogs, and finally captured and drugged.
Rick Jason
- Lt. Hanley
- (credit only)
William Glover
- Sgt. Crandall
- (as Bill Glover)
Tom Pace
- Pvt. Jackson
- (as Tom P. Pace)
Terence Mitchell
- British Soldier
- (as Terrence Mitchell)
Kurt Landen
- German Doctor
- (as Kurt Landon)
Wally K. Berns
- British Soldier
- (uncredited)
Walt Davis
- German Truck Driver
- (uncredited)
- …
Angelo De Meo
- German Sergeant
- (uncredited)
- …
Don Knight
- Aussie officer
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaTom Skerritt's sixth and final appearance. He played different characters each time, sometimes uncredited.
- GoofsIn the opening credits, the episode name is actually "The Gantlet".
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Survival
Vic is wounded and ultimately suffering from the effects of drugs in this show, with Tom Skerritt as a defeatist out to merely survive rather than try to escape like all the other international prisoners trapped with them on a train being shipped to a POW camp.
Led by Vic they make a daring escape at a train station while the prisoners ar e being shifted to a different train on an adjacent track. It's a tense story, with the soldiers having to contend not just with the Germans in pursuit but their canin corps of German Shepherds. Then he's stuck with a recalcitrant Skerritt in an arduous trek toward freedom, both clad in disguise as German soldiers.
Recaptured with wounds, he's drugged by German doctors and goes on the equivalent of an acid trip filled with nightmarish images, as they mistake him due to the uniform for a German soldier. Now he's back in survival mode, in constant danger of being discovered to be an American, but fortunately saved by a British squad, and ironically reunited with Skerritt. Vic's resiliency carries the episode.
Led by Vic they make a daring escape at a train station while the prisoners ar e being shifted to a different train on an adjacent track. It's a tense story, with the soldiers having to contend not just with the Germans in pursuit but their canin corps of German Shepherds. Then he's stuck with a recalcitrant Skerritt in an arduous trek toward freedom, both clad in disguise as German soldiers.
Recaptured with wounds, he's drugged by German doctors and goes on the equivalent of an acid trip filled with nightmarish images, as they mistake him due to the uniform for a German soldier. Now he's back in survival mode, in constant danger of being discovered to be an American, but fortunately saved by a British squad, and ironically reunited with Skerritt. Vic's resiliency carries the episode.
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- 1.33 : 1
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