Hogan’s Heroes: Season 1 Ep 24, “How To Cook A German Goose By Radar”

LOGLINE: A new prisoner irritates everyone until he reveals himself to be a general in need of assistance in directing a bombing mission.

The show opens with Schultz and Hogan marching across the compound to Klink’s office. Klink is furious because the prisoners blew raspberries at him during roll call. Hogan tells him that was a Bronx cheer and it was meant to show respect for him. Klink brightens considerably after that, then starts to tell Hogan something, but Hogan has managed to read it off the clipboard on Klink’s desk. Klink dismisses Hogan, who blows him a Bronx cheer on the way out.

Hogan returns to the barracks and tells his men that they’re getting a new prisoner, so don’t talk about any "activity" until they’ve had a chance to vet him. The word goes out that he’s coming in, and they all go out to watch. A truck pulls up to the kommandant’s office and Tillman gets out. He’s an older man and he’s wearing corporal’s stripes. Klink remarks at how the Americans must be "scraping the bottom of the barrel," then turns him over to Hogan.

Right away, Tillman rubs everyone the wrong way. He tells Hogan to stop calling him "Pop," and refuses to share his cigarettes with anyone else in the barracks. Hogan sends him off to take a shower, and immediately he and his men decide that Cpl. Walter Tillman has to go. Hogan’s plan is to have him branded as a firebug, someone who likes to light fires.

Later, the men are cleaning up outside, around the kommandant’s office. They’ve already piled a lot of scrap paper into the wire trash can on the porch, which LeBeau has soaked with some accelerant. Hogan comes up and asks LeBeau for a light. He lights his cigarette and tosses the match into the trash can, setting it ablaze. They put the fire out after Klink comes out and sees the conflagration.

Klink summons Hogan to his office, demanding to know who set the fire. Hogan tells him that it was the new guy, Tillman, and tells him the guy is nothing but trouble and convinces him to transfer Tillman to Stalag 18.

Hogan returns to the barracks and finds Tillman going through his office, ostensibly to find a match. Tillman then reveals that he’s in fact General Tillman Walters. Hogan doesn’t believe him until Walters rattles off several things about Hogan that only a general would know. Hogan is still skeptical, so the general tells him to listen to the BBC because in several minutes they’ll broadcast a coded message for him. The BBC broadcast ends with a message that Kinch decodes, saying that Tillman is the general and that they are to give him all the help he needs.

General Walters explains to Hogan that they have been bombing chemical plants and the latest is a new plant 30 miles east of the camp. In order to get the bombers to that plant, they need to install a radar unit which will guide the bombers to the plant. He produces a small radar unit from his cigarette pack and says that all they need to do is find where it should be installed. Hogan says they had better hurry, because "Tillman" is being transferred out of camp. LeBeau and Newkirk meet Hogan and Walters in the barracks and tell them that the truck that was to take "Tillman" to Stalag 18 has been disabled, and produce a gun sight with which they can take measurements.

Hogan, his men, and Walters are outside taking measurements to calculate where the radar unit goes, and Schultz comes up, saying he needs to take Tillman to Stalag 18, because Klink thinks he’s already there. When reminded that the truck is disabled, Schultz tells them that he plans on taking the prisoner by motorcycle. While he’s frisking Tillman, Klink comes marching over, and Walters hides behind the rest of the men. Klink orders Schultz to come with him.

Walters is plotting where the radar unit needs to go, and is upset because it needs to be placed on the guard tower. Hogan comes up with a plan: He tells Helga that she has the perfect bone structure for modeling and acting, and asks if she has any pictures. When she says no, Hogan says he’ll take the pictures. He asks if she has a swimsuit, because "sometimes they like to see more than bone structure."

A couple of minutes later, Hogan and Walters sneak out of the camp and stand by the guard tower as LeBeau starts taking pictures of Helga, first with her coat on, then with her coat open, showing off her figure in the swimsuit. Naturally, the guard ignores everything to gawk at the lovely Helga, whereupon Hogan scales the guard tower and places the unit where it needs to go, descending the ladder just as the guard turns to look behind him.

Walters, Hogan, and the heroes uncork a bottle of champagne to celebrate a job well done, when Hogan notices that the wire they used to measure off distances was cut and tied back together, making it six inches shorter than they thought. Walters calculates quickly and said that the radar unit needed to be moved six inches. They send Walters out through the tunnel and makes his way out of camp.

Hogan and Newkirk are standing close to the guard tower, and Hogan asks if Newkirk has his "pencil sharpener," i.e. his knife. Newkirk pulls out the knife and throws it, puncturing the tire of a car sitting outside. Hogan yells at Newkirk, and Klink demands that Newkirk fix the tire. Once outside with access to the guard tower, Hogan uses the car jack to tip the guard tower enough to tip it six inches just as the bombers fly overhead. The mission is a success, thanks to Hogan and his Heroes.

CAST:

  • Bob Crane as Hogan
  • Werner Klemperer as Klink
  • John Banner as Schultz
  • Robert Clary as LeBeau
  • Richard Dawson as Newkirk
  • Ivan Dixon as Kinchloe
  • Larry Hovis as Carter
  • Cynthia Lynn as Helga
  • J. Pat O’Malley as Cpl. Walter Tillman/Genl. Tillman Walters

This is one of my favorite episodes, mostly because it’s a good example of what you need math (especially geometry) for.

Hogan’s Heroes: Season 1 Ep 23, “The 43rd, A Moving Story”

LOGLINE: Hogan has a mission to move a mobile anti-aircraft artillery battery, but Klink’s new tough second-in-command is impeding the Heroes.

The episode starts with Lynch being dropped from a plane and picked up by Newkirk and Carter and brought back to camp. He’s brought both explosives and detonator caps that the Heroes are to use to blow up an anti-aircraft artillery battery (the 43rd) within 48 hours, when an air raid is scheduled to bomb the chemical plant the battery is protecting. Lynch gives them the explosives and reminds them that they never send the detonator caps with the explosives, whereupon Hogan takes his jacket, cuts open the lining, and retrieves the caps. In news from home, the St. Louis Browns are in first place in the American League (indicating this is 1944, though it might be early 1942) and the bank is about to foreclose on "Mary Noble, Backstage Wife," about which Carter says he doesn’t know how much more he can take.

Hogan is discussing the job of blowing up the battery with Newkirk and Carter, who are in German uniforms. LeBeau tells them that Schultz is coming: Carter gets in bed and covers himself up (they tell Schultz that Carter has the German measles) and Newkirk hides between a couple of clothing racks. Schultz tells them they’re a bunch of "jolly jokers," and leaves the barracks. Newkirk and Carter come out of hiding and Schultz returns (sending Carter and Newkirk back into hiding), having forgotten to tell Hogan that Klink wants to see him in the office and introduce his "new executive officer," Major Kuehn.

Kuehn is going over Klink’s records and pressing him on the fact that his report on attempted escapes is two off. Klink tells him the two don’t count because they were guards. Klink reminds him that his appointment is only temporary and that he’s second in command, to which Kuehn says "or to put it another way, I am temporarily second in command." Clearly, Kuehn holds Klink in contempt and expects to be made kommandant of Stalag 13.

Hogan arrives, ending the discussion. Kuehn informs him that he’s doubled the guard, even though there hasn’t been a successful escape. Hogan asks him why; Kuehn says to end the attempts. Klink objects, saying that he’s the kommandant, leading to Kuehn telling him about his "Uncle Karl," Field Marshall Karl von Streicher of the General Staff, who’s apparently an expert on military protocol. Klink folds, telling Hogan that he has decided to double the guard. Kuehn says that maybe the letter to his uncle can wait, and leaves. Hogan tells Klink he has three options: resign, request a transfer to the Eastern Front, or pray for an Allied invasion.

Later, Newkirk and Carter come back into the tunnel and tell Hogan that the "place is crawling with Krauts," and that the mission may need to be scrubbed. Hogan calls the submarine and asks if the mission to blow up the anti-aircraft battery can be put off, and he’s told no.

Hogan has an idea: he has Lynch fall out for roll call and hide in the backseat of Klink’s car. Schultz, who counts them on the way out, notices that they’re one over and counts them again outside. Hogan points Lynch out to Schultz, who finds him just as Klink and Kuehn come out of the office. Klink orders Schultz to take Lynch in so that he can interrogate him. Kuehn reminds Klink that the executive officer conducts interrogations, and Klink changes the order.

Newkirk observes that it’s a complicated war, but he doesn’t see how they can win when the enemy keeps capturing their men. Hogan tells him that the capture was the first step in his master plan. When Newkirk asks what the next step is, Hogan admits he doesn’t have one.

Hogan goes to Klink’s office and asks if they can leave the lights on later, and stops short of saying it’s for a celebration. When pressed, he says that it’s just such a nice night out, with a "bomber’s moon. Klink denies his request, and he leaves after saying that he’ll ask again tomorrow, that there might be more to celebrate then. On the way out, he tells Helga that if she’s going on a date that night, they should avoid Hammelburg.

Klink tells Kuehn that clearly Hogan was sending a message that there was a bombing raid set to hit Hammelburg that night, and that they should call General Burkhalter and have him move the 43rd anti-aircraft battery to Hammelburg. As he starts to dial, Kuehn announces triumphantly that Klink has fallen into Hogan’s trap, and Klink doesn’t make the call.

Kuehn is sneaking around the barracks to see what might be happening. Hogan tells the men to fall out and stand near the corner of the building (where Kuehn is hiding). Hogan says he has a couple of announcements: one, that whoever stole Newkirk’s watch can forget it, that Newkirk has stolen it back; and second, that the Red Cross packages scheduled to arrive tomorrow will be delayed or even destroyed, but that when they learn the reason, they won’t be disappointed.

Kuehn returns to Klink’s office and, after reassuring Klink that his loyalty lies with him, gets the route that the Red Cross packages take to get to the camp, confirming that they come via Hammelburg, and reminds Klink that he needs to check the security at the gate. Klink leaves and Kuehn calls General Burkhalter, convinced that a raid is scheduled for Hammelburg, and convinces the general to move the 43rd to Hammelburg.

The next day, Klink is furious that he wasn’t informed of Burkhalter’s visit. Kuehn tells him that the General was coming to see him, not Klink, and that he might be bringing a surprise, implying that the Field Marshall would come with him. Burkhalter arrives and tells Kuehn that there was a raid–on Kaiserhof, where the 43d had been stationed, protecting a chemical factory, until Kuehn convinced him to move them. Burkhalter asks Klink if he can get along without an executive officer, intimating that Kuehn is in for some serious discipline. Kuehn threatens to involve his uncle the Field Marshal, when Burhkhalter informs him that the Field Marshall was on an inspection tour of the chemical plant.

At the end, Hogan has been summoned to Klink’s office. He arrives early and removes Lynch’s record from Klink’s files. Klink arrives, angry that his no-escape record was ruined by Lynch’s escape. Hogan asks Klink to find the record. It’s missing, and Klink thinks it might be because Lynch is a spy.

CAST:

  • Bob Crane as Hogan
  • Werner Klemperer as Klink
  • John Banner as Schultz
  • Robert Clary as LeBeau
  • Richard Dawson as Newkirk
  • Ivan Dixon as Kinchloe
  • Larry Hovis as Carter
  • Cynthia Lynn as Helga
  • Sandy Kenyon as Kuehn
  • Leon Askin as Burkhalter
  • Hal Lynch as Lynch

Sorry for these summaries vanishing like that… I’ll get back on track this week.

Hogan’s Heroes: Season 1 Ep 22, “The Pizza Parlor”

LOGLINE: To get an Italian officer to defect, the Heroes use pizza to tempt him.

Colonel Klink has been assigned the task of training an Italian POW camp commander, Major Bonacelli, in the ins and outs of running a POW camp, because, after all, "there’s never been a successful escape from Stalag 13." Klink announces this to the me along wiuth an admonishment to keep everything clean and give a good impression.

Bonacelli is less than enthusiastic about his assignment, and on his way to Stalag 13 tries to get his driver to take him to Switzerland, finally drawing his gun on him. An Allied bombing raid interrupts the argument as the driver gets out of the car and runs into the woods. Just as Bonacelli is prepared to drive himself to the border, a second staff car arrives carrying Corporal Langenscheidt, who says that Colonel Klink sent him to accompany Bonacelli. The Italian protests, but eventually follows them to the camp.

Meanwhile, the Heroes are playing volleyball and get Schultz to join them. Newkirk is holding Schultz’s rifle and standing with Hogan when Klink and Bonacelli walk up. Klink introduces Hogan to Bonacelli, and Hogan remarks that’s always good to meet one of their allies. Klink reminds him that the Italians are the Germans’ allies, and Hogan says "Don’t tell me, tell them." Bonacelli notices Newkirk holding Schultz’s gun, and tells Klink that in Italian prison camps the POW’s are not allowed to carry guns. This riles Klink, who tells Schultz to take his gun away from Newkirk. Schultz assures the kommandant that the gun isn’t loaded, getting Klink even madder.

Langenscheidt approaches Klink and Bonacelli and asks what they’d like for dinner. Bonacelli starts ordering antipasto, minestrone soup, and pasta, but Klink stops him and orders potato soup, boiled potatoes, potato pancakes, sauerkraut and sauerbraten for both of them. As they walk off, Hogan, noting the distress on Bonacelli’s face, says "Bon Appetit!"

In the barracks, Hogan says that he thinks he knows a way to flip Bonacelli to their side by exploiting his weaknesses. Newkirk suggests that maybe music would be the key, and Kinch asks if anyone knows the words to "Santa Lucia." Hogan asks LeBeau if he could make a pizza; LeBeau is offended by the idea that he would have to cook "cardboard covered with tomato sauce," but Hogan prevails, saying that they all need to make sacrifices. LeBeau needs a recipe for pizza, and Garlotti (another POW) says that his father runs a pizzeria in Newark. Hogan sends the men out to ask the other prisoners if they have a pizza recipe.

Bonacelli and Schultz are walking through the camp when they hear "Santa Lucia" coming from Hogan’s barracks, and then they smell the pizza. Schultz naturally gets all excited ("FOOD!"), but Bonacelli says he wants to go in alone. Once in the barracks, they serve him his pizza and a cup of wine. He likes the pizza, and they tell him the recipe is from Garlotti’s. He says he’s going to go there, and lets it slip that he intends on defecting. Hogan talks him into working as an agent for the Allies from Capezio.

The next day (or later), Bonacelli is leaving for home, and a hospital truck pulls in with Bonacelli’s driver. He tells Klink that Bonacelli is a deserter and a traitor, and Klink has Bonacelli locked in the cooler. Carter suggests escaping and letting Bonacelli find him, but Hogan is thinking bigger.

Bonacelli is sitting in the cell in the cooler when a panel in the floor opens. It’s Hogan, who tells him to get into the tunnel, that he (Bonacelli) is going to recapture some escaped prisoners.

In his office, Klink is on the phone with Berlin, telling them what happened with Bonacelli. While he’s on the phone, Schultz rushes in and tries to tell the kommandant something, but gets shushed several times while Klink is schmoozing the general at the other end of the line. When he hangs up, Schultz tells him that there’s been an escape, ten prisoners, eleven if he counts Bonacelli.

Hogan and his crew are waiting for Bonacelli to join them and start to worry that he headed for Switzerland, but he joins them, tired from running around in the woods. In the camp, Langenscheidt returns with a dog and tells Klink that he was unable to find the escapees. Klink naturally tells the dog that he couldn’t find a can of dog food, at which point the dog starts barking and growling. While all this is going on, they hear whistling (the "Hogan’s Heroes" theme), and Bonacelli marches the prisoners in.

At the end, Klink calls Hogan to his office and reads him a letter from Bonacelli, including news that the Allied prisoners under Bonacelli’s command spend 16 hours a day five days a week, making pizza…

CAST

  • Bob Crane as Hogan
  • Werner Klemperer as Klink
  • John Banner as Schultz
  • Robert Clary as LeBeau
  • Richard Dawson as Newkirk
  • Ivan Dixon as Kinchloe
  • Larry Hovis as Carter
  • Jon Cedar as Langenscheidt
  • Hans Conreid as Bonacelli
  • Joey Tata as Garlotti
  • Ernest Sarracino as Mr. Garlotti
  • Harry Lauter as Submarine Commander
  • Jack Goode as Captain Henderson
  • Elisa Ingram as ATS Sergeant
  • Bart Stevens as German driver

Bonacelli returns in a later episode, played by Vito Scotti.

Hogan’s Heroes: Season 1 Ep 21, “The Great Impersonation”

Let’s see if I can get caught up here…

LOGLINE: Sergeant Schultz impersonates Klink in a scheme to get some of his men free from the Gestapo.

LeBeau, Newkirk, Carter, and Kinchloe are out on a sabotage mission. They’ve wired dynamite to railroad tracks and, as the train passes through, Newkirk sets off the explosives. They’re in a festive mood, but when they start back for the camp Carter realizes that he doesn’t have the compass. LeBeau and Newkirk give Carter grief while Kinch climbs a tree to see if he can see the camp. Meanwhile, a Gestapo patrol comes up behind them and captures them.

Kinch sees all this from his vantage point and returns to camp, where he tells Hogan what happened. Hogan decides that he has to find them and bring them back, but doesn’t know where they have taken them. Fortunately, says Kinch, they’re all wearing phony dog tags.

Meanwhile, a Gestapo captain is looking at the dog tags the three men were wearing, and sees that the names don’t go with the men or the uniforms. Carter was wearing dog tags that say his name is Antonio Calvelli; LeBeau is identified as Jock McPherson; and Newkirk is identified as Heinrich Hilgenbecker. The captain orders that the three be taken to Stalag 4 and placed in solitary confinement.

Hogan and Kinch need to find out where the other three are, so Hogan goes to Klink’s office and keeps him busy with some trivial matter, while Kinch uses a portable receiver (like the ones used by telephone repairmen, which he did as a civilian) and Klink’s phone line to call Gestapo headquarters as "General Kinchmeyer" to find out where they are. Klink tries to make a call and is connected with "Kinchmeyer," who reads him the riot act…

At roll call, Schultz realizes that there are three men missing. He starts to recount, but Hogan stops him, tells him there are three missing – who Schultz was supposed to be watching – and leans on him to lie to Klink. In the barrack afterward, Hogan tells him the story. Schultz tells them he’ll tell Klink. who will get them back, and Hogan and Kinch start the psychological battle: by now, the Gestapo has questioned them, and they’ve told them all about Schultz accepting bribes and trading secret information for candy bars. Schultz has visions of being shot, sent to the Russian front, or both. Hogan says that they need to send an officer from Stalag 13 to get the men, and that the officer is Schultz.

Schultz initially refuses, saying that he won’t pass as an officer, and leaves the barracks, but is back less than a minute later, willing to do it. Then, as Kinch is measuring him for his uniform, he changes his mind again, too afraid of getting caught, and walks out again. Hogan knows he needs to turn up the heat on him, so, with Klink watching, he gives Schultz a pack of cigarettes, and Kinch gives him a can of sardines, mentioning that he’ll have the chocolate bars later. Klink confiscates the bribes from him and tells him to put himself on report, tucks the contraband in his pockets, and goes back to his office. Hogan tells Schultz that when they add this report to the information the Gestapo gets out of the other three, he’s on his way to the Russian front.

Later, Schultz walks into the barracks and sees the men collecting money for a man’s widow and realizes the money is for his widow, gives the money back and says he’ll do it. They have him rehearse what he’ll say to Major Bernsdorf (kommandant of Stalag 4) and how he’ll act while impersonating Klink. It’s a comedy of errors, but eventually he does a passable impersonation of an arrogant camp kommandant and they set the rest of the mission in motion: Hogan will act as "Klink’s" adjutant, they have a truck to transport the prisoners, and they’ve fixed the window in Klink’s office so that "General Kinchmeyer" can get in and make a call to Bernsdorf at an appropriate time.

Schultz and Hogan arrive at Stalag 4 and go in to see Bernsdorf, who’s reluctant to let the prisoners go until "General Kinchmeyer" calls him and orders them to be released to Klink. Carter, LeBeau and Newkirk are brought out and loaded into the truck. As they’re leaving, they notice that Schultz has passed out.

The next day, the Gestapo captain who did the capture is walking through the lineup of prisoners looking for Calvelli, MacPherson, and Hilgenbecker (who are standing inside the barracks laughing). He accuses Klink of taking them, and Klink protests that he was in all might, sleeping. The captain’s description fits Schultz ("6 feet tall, 300 pounds"), of course, but Klink doesn’t realize that. The captain says he will investigate the matter and leaves. Hogan points out to Klink that Schultz fits the captain’s description, and Klink laughs as he walks away. At the end, Hogan suggests to Schultz that he should go on a diet…

CAST:

  • Bob Crane as Hogan
  • Werner Klemperer as Klink
  • John Banner as Schultz
  • Robert Clary as LeBeau
  • Richard Dawson as Newkirk
  • Ivan Dixon as Kinchloe
  • Larry Hovis as Carter
  • James Frawley as Gestapo captain (not otherwise named)
  • Bert Freed as Maj. Bernsdorf

IMDb lists Harvey Keitel as an uncredited German Soldier.

Hogan’s Heroes: Season 1 Ep 20, “It Takes A Thief… Sometimes”

LOGLINE: Hogan’s latest underground contacts are secretly German spies.

Schultz is playing poker with the Heroes and is, naturally, out of money. He offers some information in exchange for staying in the game: There was a nearby bridge that was blown up, and after that a barn burned down. He tells them that the Germans believe it’s an underground group. Naturally, he loses the hand, but Hogan tries to console him by saying that he’s a lousy poker player, but a great traitor.

Hogan and LeBeau, dressed in black, walk into a barn where a small group is gathered, three men and a French girl (whose name is Michelle, though her name isn’t used in the episode). Hogan criticizes their security precautions (no guard outside, a light clearly visible) and sends LeBeau out to act as sentry (which he complains about, because the girl is French, like he is). The leader of the group tells him about what they’ve done, and suggests to Hogan that the two groups can work together. Before they get much further, an Allied bombing raid begins. Hogan says they’re better outside, and takes the girl out with him. Once outside, they talk to each other, and talk soon becomes romantic entanglement. LeBeau appears and tells Hogan that the raid seems to have ended, but Hogan isn’t listening…

The next day. Klink is in his office with an SS Captain Heinrich, who happens to be the leader of the underground group. He’s pointing out all the sabotage that’s been going on and that Stalag 13 is at the center of it. He accuses Klink of not paying attention, and says that he knew there was a strong band of partisans causing the trouble, so he started his own band to draw them out. He says that there’s one strategic target left, a railroad tunnel, and that he’ll suggest a joint mission with the other group, which will lead them into a trap for Klink and his guards.

Hogan and his men have heard this entire conversation on the "coffeepot," and after Hogan chastises himself for not realizing they were impostors, decides that he’ll have their group blow up the railroad tunnel.

That night, Hogan and LeBeau meet the underground group (Heinrich’s group) and proposes blowing up Stalag 13. Heinrich suggests instead the railroad tunnel and Hogan says "small potatoes." He tells Heinrich that he’ll supply the men if Heinrich supplies the dynamite. He and LeBeau leave despite Heinrich’s protests. Michelle follows them out and, after LeBeau is sent to stand guard, tries to talk Hogan into leaving Germany with her. Hogan says that in war, you survive by not getting involved. She goes back in and LeBeau says "it’s hard when you love somebody and they’re on the other side." Hogan says that he’s going to ask Klink for a furlough…

Heinrich, in uniform, drives up to the building at Stalag 13 where they keep the dynamite. Evidently he and Klink have arranged to put fake dyamite into the storage building. Schultz is "guarding" the building (he’s asleep on his feet until Heinrich slams the door of the truck), and Heinrich tells him to fill a requisition for cases of dynamite. Schultz calls Hogan over and asks him to get a work detail of prisoners to fill the order. Hogan and Heinrich catch a glimpse of one another, but say nothing. When Hogan and Schultz go into the storeroom, they find Hogan’s men replacing the cases of fake dynamite with the real stuff. Schultz threatens to report them, and Hogan insinuates that they’re doing this based on knowledge he gave them. Schultz decides it’s better if he knows nothing.

Hogan and his men change the fake dynamite for real. Source:IMDb

Heinrich is in Klink’s office, and Klink is calling Berlin to get reinforcements. Heinrich hangs up the phone before the call is made and tells him that the guards should be able to handle this themselves. He tells Klink to stay by the shortwave radio in his office, and he’ll contact him when the plans are finalized.

Hogan goes to Klink and complains about the POW’s being forced to load munitions for the enemy. Klink tells him that everyone is confined to the barracks that evening, and any prisoner caught in the compound will be shot. Hogan notices the shortwave radio set up and guesses that Klink will be running a command post. Klink, proud of himself, starts boasting that tonight he’ll prove himself to be more than a desk officer, and tells Hogan he can peek at what’s going on. With Klink distracted talking about himself, Hogan cuts the radio wires.

Hogan, LeBeau, and Carter arrive at the barn, and Heinrich is incredulous: how do they manage to cause so much destruction with only three men? Hogan’s answer: they take vitamins. He then suggests blowing up the railroad tunnel instead. Heinrich is furious, but goes along with it, and tells them to wait near the truck while he takes care of something. He then calls Klink on a walkie-talkie, but ends up talking with Kinch (who does an incredible impression of Klink; Newkirk asks him if they’re related, and Kinch says he’ll have to ask), who tells him he’ll have fifty men near the tunnel, with him leading them.

Meantime, Schultz is trying to get the shortwave working and discovers that the wires have been cut. Klink says that means they’re already in the compound, and to gather the troops at the gate.

Carter and LeBeau are in the railroad tunnel witn Michelle and the other two fake underground agents. Hogan is outside the tunnel with Heinrich. Michelle dashes out of the tunnel to warn Hogan that Heinrich is Gestapo. Heinrich pulls a gun on Hogan and says that the dynamite is fake, and pushes down on the handle of the detonator to demonstrate. BOOM! LeBeau and Carter come out of the tunnel, saying that the other two wanted to stay and put down the dynamite. Heinrich tells them not to move, gets in the truck, and drives off to Stalag 13. Michelle wants to run off because her family is being held by the Gestapo in France, and Hogan tells her not to worry, that he is certain that Heinrich won’t say anything.

Schultz, Klink, and the rest of the men are lined up with rifles and machine guns inside Stalag 13. When they hear Heinrich’s truck driving toward them, Klink issues the order to commence firing. A volley of bullets ends with the sound of the truck crashing. Klink issues a cease-fire, and asks Schultz who was in the truck. Schultz says "It’s the Gestapo captain."

Back at the railroad tunnel, Hogan and Michelle are kissing as LeBeau and Carter look away. Hogan tells her they’ll get her out of Germany, and she asks him if he’ll come. He says "after the war." She says "I do not like war."

Hogan and Klink are in the latter’s office discussing what went on the night before. Klink tells Hogan about the railroad tunnel being destroyed, and that, were the prisoners not confined to the barracks, he would suspect Hogan, who resents the insinuation. Klink then talks about the Gestapo captain, and Hogan suggests the scenario that he was shot by the saboteurs. Klink decides to go with that story in his report to Berlin.

CAST:

  • Bob Crane as Hogan
  • Werner Klemperer as Klink
  • John Banner as Schultz
  • Robert Clary as LeBeau
  • Richard Dawson as Newkirk
  • Ivan Dixon as Kinchloe
  • Larry Hovis as Carter
  • Cynthia Lynn as Helga
  • Michael Constantine as Heinrich
  • Claudine Longet as Michelle