Sergeant Schultz is relieved of his post after being found drunk on duty. Klink bugs Hogan’s quarters, the team scripts their own radio dramas in order to convince Klink that Hogan is a Nazi sympathizer. Note: LeBeau ( Robert Clary) does not appear in this episode.Īfter Col. With guards combing the woods for two escapees, Hogan will have to make the Germans nervous enough to drop their guard if he wants to deliver battle plans to London.Ī barrel of heavy water is on its way to Berlin where it will be used in atomic research if Hogan can’t find a way to steal it. Having kidnapped a German general, Hogan must convince General Schmidt that he is in need of medical attention in order to learn the location of his attack center.Īfter an Allied bombing mission fails to take out the Adolf Hitler bridge, Hogan’s team robs the camp arsenal to get the job done via sabotage. Hogan’s plan to smuggle a baroness out of Germany is put in jeopardy when the Stalag receives a new senior POW who doesn’t believe the prisoners should be engaged in espionage.įirst appearance of Colonel Crittendon ( Bernard Fox). Running a model POW camp is the only thing Klink has ever done well and he’s about to be promoted if the prisoners can’t succeed in making him look bad.
Hogan arranges for Kommandant Klink to receive an award. To give a scientist access to a rocket being kept in Stalag 13, Col. When Colonel Klink boasts that the Nazis' new tiger tank will lead the Germans to victory, Colonel Hogan devises a plan to get his hands on one of the vehicles, have it dismantled, send its blueprints to the Allies, and reassemble it-right under Klink's nose. Timeline: the date given is February 1942. This is the only Black-and-white episode in the series. And when he learns of the gang's subversive operations, "Hogan's Heroes" must act fast to discredit him. However, a spy has been planted amongst the men by the Germans. Pilot episode: At Stalag 13, a German prisoner-of-war camp, Colonel Robert Hogan and his fellow cohorts are a subversive group with many hidden talents. According to Hovis, Feldman chose to do this because "sergeants are more sympathetic." Although Hovis's character had escaped at the end of the pilot, Feldman did not see this as a problem because he believed "no one will care". Hovis's character was changed from a lieutenant to a sergeant. However, producer Ed Feldman was impressed by his performance and, after Kinskey and Moss declined to take part in the series, was offered a regular role. Larry Hovis was intended to be a guest star in the pilot only.
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Stewart Moss, who played an American POW named Olson in the pilot, also declined an offer to become a series regular. However, Kinskey declined to continue with the series. The character of Vladimir Minsk, a Soviet POW played by Leonid Kinskey, was intended to be a series regular. After the series was sold to CBS, the network announced a major push in color programming for the 1965–66 season, and so the rest of the season (and the series) was filmed in color.
The major difference was that only the pilot was shot in black-and-white. He also does not carry the riding crop he often affected during prisoner roll calls in other episodes. Klink's walk had less of the distinctive stoop. The character of Colonel Klink was made more of a fool than a villain, while his sharp accent was toned down. Some of the prisoners' luxuries, such as an underground steam room, were eliminated to make the situation marginally more plausible. Īlthough the series remained true to the pilot in most respects, there were some changes.
As punishment for his outlandish claims, the spy is sent to the Russian front. Wagner attempts to expose Hogan's operation to General Burkhalter (here known as Colonel Burkhalter), but Hogan and his men are able to discredit the spy. The episode's plot centered on two new prisoners entering Stalag 13 (in this episode, referred to as Camp 13), Lieutenant Carter (played by Hovis), who escapes into the camp, and Wagner (played by Noam Pitlik), who is actually a German spy posing as an Allied prisoner. The pilot episode, "The Informer", filmed in early 1965, aired on September 17 that year. Like most sitcoms of its time, Hogan’s Heroes was not serialized, so the episodes generally have no relation to each other, except for two composed of two parts: "A Tiger Hunt in Paris" (1966) and "Lady Chitterly's Lover" (1970). Beyond recreating an extreme or adverse setting, this was to prevent problems with continuity and to allow the episodes to be shown in any order. From the beginning the show’s producers decided that Stalag 13 would always have a snowy winter.
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