I know no-THING but Hogan's Heroes...
- J. Pat O'Malley, a British character with credits going back to 1940, including a number of Disney roles and lots of TV guest spots, plays a general posing as a corporal in "How to Cook a German Goose by Radar".
- We get our first "dual role" episode in "The Prince From the Phone Company". Ivan Dixon plays Kinchloe as well as an African prince negotiating for a Nazi submarine base in his country. The boys kidnap the real prince, and Kinchloe has to fill in. This concept was a mainstay for another show shot at the same studio--Mission: Impossible.
- Hogan gets Klink to help them break into a hotel safe in "The Safecracker Suite". An experienced safe cracker, played by Walter Burke, is flown in to assist. Burke had roles in early television, and had guest spots up to his death in 1984.
- As always happens in POW camps, three babes show up as new prisoners. The obvious answer to get them out of the camp? Hogan and the boys play dress up. We even get the classic sitcom spincut--you know, "I won't dress as a woman!"--SPINCUT--they're dressed as women.
- The boys try to bring in "The Assassin" from another camp, but end up with--Col. Crittendon! Now he wants to help them out...
Cast info:
Larry Hovis was born in 1936, appeared as a child singer on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts (think pre-historic American Idol), and put out a Capitol Records album in the 1950's. Success on Broadway was followed by a move to California in 1963. He was discovered by Andy Griffith, and appeared on both Andy's eponymous show and Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. He got a role in the Hogan pilot as a prisoner coming through their escape process, but got the role of Sgt. Carter on the series, acting as the ordinance expert. He did a lot of physical comedy as his experiments went wrong. During the show's run, he also wrote for Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, eventually getting an onscreen role. After Hogan ended, he produced and appeared in the game show Liar's Club, which led to a production company that created the original version of Lingo. You might have seen him on Match Game as well. He toured in the musical Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and later taught drama at a Texas university. He passed away in 2003.
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