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| Bob Crane | Colonel Robert E. Hogan |
| Werner Klemperer | Colonel Wilhelm Klink |
| John Banner | Sergeant Hans Georg Shultz |
| Robert Clary | Corporal Louis LeBeau |
| Richard Dawson | Corporal Peter Newkirk |
| Larry Hovis | Sergeant Andrew Carter |
| Ivan Dixon | Sergeant James "Kinch" Kinchloe |
| Leon Askin | General der Infantrie Albert Burkhalter |
| Sigrid Valdis | Hilda |
| Cynthia Lynn | Helga |
| Howard Caine | Major Wolfgang Hochstetter |
| Kenneth Washington | Sergeant Richard Baker |
| Director | Irving J. Moore; Howard Morris; John Rich |
The fourth season finds the snappy one-liners, preposterous plots, oversexed atmosphere, and Nazi buffoonery all firmly entrenched. Brief bits of suspense help to balance the clownish antics. The missions change a little from episode to episode (instead of a bridge, they have to blow up an ammo dump; instead of a beautiful lady spy, they have to help...no, it's always a beautiful lady spy), but a reassuring sameness is what guarantees the success of any sitcom. It's interesting to speculate about why audiences embraced these goofball Nazis only a couple of decades after the revelation of the decidedly unfunny concentration camps. Perhaps, as the Cold War wore on and the threat of atomic annihilation felt increasingly likely, mocking the previous threat to the world made the Soviet Union less terrifying; or maybe Klink and Schultz are hapless 1950s parent figures, outwitted by their more worldly hipster children. Regardless, even contemporary viewers with a taste for daffy pranks may find Hogan's Heroes a bit of sweet comfort food. --Bret Fetzer
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Features
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Notes
DISC IClearance Sale At The Black Market (09/28/1968)
Will the bumbling Sergeant Shultz (John Banner) be shipped off to the Russian front? It appears likely after he is exposed as the courier of secret messages between Colonel Robert Hogan (Bob Crane) and a female spy.
Klink vs. The Gonculator (10/05/1968)
When Sergeant Carter (Larry Hovis) constructs an amazingly complicated rabbit trap, a suspicious Colonel Klink (Werner Klemperer) comes to believe that the contraption is a secret electronic spying device.
How To Catch A Papa Bear (10/12/1968)
Colonel Hogan innocently sends Corporal Newkirk (Richard Dawson) off on a mission to rendezvous with an ally – unaware that the meeting is a trap set by the Gestapo.
Hogan’s Trucking Service…We Deliver The Factory To You (10/19/1968)
The clumsy and annoying Colonel Crittendon (Bernard Fox) inadvertently messes up Hogan’s plan to destroy a German ball-bearing plant.
To The Gestapo With Love (10/26/1968)
Is love blind? Three beautiful German girls arrive at Stalag 13 and set the men’s hearts beating faster…but their mission is designed to pry secrets out of the love-struck POWs.
Man’s Best Friend Is Not His Dog (11/02/1968)
A canine caper is off and running when a dog buries a bone containing photographic images of a new German tank that Carter had taken with his camera.
Never Play Cards With Strangers (11/09/1968)
Hogan dispatches Sergeant Kinchloe (Ivan Dixon) on a mission to warn Newkirk and Carter that the duo’s mission to dynamite a newly established Nazi rocket fuel installation could blow up in their faces.
DISC II
Color The Luftwaffe Red (11/16/1968)
How will Hogan steal and important, strategic map from the Germans? By underbidding all competitors for the contract to paint the offices of the Luftwaffe headquarters!
Guess Who Came To Dinner (11/23/1968)
After making arrangements to send her to England, Hogan begins to worry that his beautiful underground contact, Heidi, might actually be a double agent.
No Names Please (11/30/1968)
Shortly after Hogan helps a journalist escape to freedom, the Germans are amazed to read an American newspaper story about a sabotage and subterfuge unit hard at work right under their noses at one of their POW camps!
Bad Day In Berlin (12/07/1968)
Hogan and his men join forces with an undercover agent and steal away to Berlin to nab a German defector who can compromise their entire operation at Stalag 13.
Will The Blue Baron Strike Again? (12/14/1968)
Can Hogan locate the secret German air base commanded by a World War I flying ace known as the Blue Baron? Yes – by convincing Colonel Klink to throw a party for the famed aviator!
Will The Real Colonel Klink Please Stand Up Against The Wall (12/21/1968)
The hapless Colonel Klink lands a date with a German firing squad after Sergeant Carter, disguised as Klink, is spotted at a sabotage site.
Man In A Box (12/28/1968)
Hogan is ordered to capture an “escaped” Corporal Louis LeBeau (Robert Clary) – but in a manner that will ensure LeBeau’s completion of an espionage caper.
DISC III
The Missing Klink (01/04/1969)
Hogan’s scheme to kidnap General Burkhalter (Leon Askin) and trade him for an underground agent goes awry when Colonel Klink – not the general – is the one who gets kidnapped!
Who Stole My Copy Of Mein Kampf? (01/11/1969)
Hogan and his men plan to eliminate an allied defector, but complications ensue when their target turns out to be a beautiful blonde.
Operation Hannibal (01/18/1969)
A German general is the mastermind behind a plan designed to prolong the war, so Hogan winds up working with the general’s attractive daughter in an effort to photograph the strategic documents.
My Favorite Prisoner (01/25/1969)
When Colonel Klink uses a beautiful baroness to try to wheedle secrets out of the prisoners, Hogan apparently falls under the femme fatale’s charms. Or does he?
Watch The Trains Go By (02/01/1969)
Hogan’s plans to sneak out of Stalag 13 and blow up a German train hinges on getting General Burkhalter’s lovelorn sister – the marriage-minded Gertrude – to distract Colonel Klink.
Klink’s Old Flame (02/08/1969)
The French underground is in desperate need of valuable radios, so Hogan decides to utilize Colonel Klink’s former girlfriend to ensure the delivery of the equipment.
DISC IV
Up In Klink’s Room (02/15/1969)
Hogan must somehow get himself hospitalized so that he can get top-secret information from a wounded British agent who has been posing as a Nazi officer.
The Purchasing Plan (02/22/1969)
The race is on when Hogan and his men are ordered to collect air-dropped ammunition and distribute it to underground units widely scattered around the region.
The Witness (03/01/1969)
Hogan is stunned to learn that the Germans are planning to send him home to America, with a startling message for the Allied forces: surrender or face the Nazi’s “ultimate weapon.”
The Big Dish (03/08/1969)
Hogan’s latest mission: destroy an elaborate antiaircraft defense system designed by a beautiful English woman who has defected to Germany.
The Return Of Major Bonacelli (03/15/1969)
An Italian officer (guest star Vito Scotti), who once studied under Colonel Klink, is the ideal candidate to assist Hogan and his men in a daring plan to photograph a new Nazi aircraft installation.
Happy Birthday Dear Hogan (03/22/1969)
To celebrate Colonel Hogan’s birthday with a big band, his men plan to surprise him by blowing up a Nazi ammunition dump. But will the merry celebrants fall into an elaborate trap set by the Germans?