Achtung! More Hogan's Heroes...
- I'm starting to see episodes I doubt I've ever seen. Hogan gets Klink to let them build a boat (he thinks it's a unique officer's club) in "Anchors Aweigh, Men of Stalag 13".
- Maj, Hochstetter (Howard Caine) has an early appearance (as Maj. Keitel) in "Happy Birthday, Adolf"
- In one of my favorite episodes, Nazi gold bricks are swapped for regular bricks, then hidden in plain sight in "The Gold Rush"
- Murray Slaughter--I mean Capt. Steubing--I mean Gavin MacLeod--is a scenery-chewing Gestapo in "Hello, Zolle"
- Claudine Longet guest-stars in "It Takes a Thief...Sometimes". She had great success as a singer and actress in the 1960's, but is best known for "accidentally" shooting and killing her skier boyfriend in 1976.
- John Banner (Schultz) poses as a German officer to get the boys out of another Stalag in "The Great Impersonator". They didn't spend a lot of money redressing the sets, did they?
- Celebrated character actor Hans Conried plays an Italian commandant (and hopeful deserter) in "The Pizza Parlor". His career went back to the 1930's, including many Disney roles. There's also a long sequence where a pizza recipe is relayed by radio from Newark to London to a submarine to Stalag 13.
Cast info:
Ivan Dixon (Sgt. Kinchloe) was born in Harlem, on the same block as Gregory Hines. After earning a drama degree in college, he went to Broadway, at one point co-starring in the original A Raisin in the Sun. Television roles followed including The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and Perry Mason. His work on Hogan's Heroes ended one year early in 1970, as he felt he was underused on the show, as well as his move into television directing. His prolific work in this area included The Waltons, The Rockford Files, The Bionic Woman, Magnum P.I., and The A-Team, with his last work in 1993. A member of the Directors Guild of America and the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, he passed away in 2008.
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