I remembered ChatGPT:
So it might have been in use somewhere, but it seems unlikely that Klink would have one.
The Classic/Retro Pop Culture Thread
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Hogan's Heroes
"LeBeau and the Little Old Lady"
Originally aired February 24, 1968
LeBeau makes a show of objecting to a regular assignment of meeting with an underground contact in town to relay messages; but when he arrives at her apartment, we see that his description of her as a mean old lady is a ruse to keep the others from horning in on his time with the gorgeous Wilhelmina (Celeste Yarnall). When LeBeau returns to camp, he's told that an underground unit the contact had been working with has been captured, so the Gestapo will be closing in on her. LeBeau insists on going to save her, but Hogan forbids it, so he sneaks out of the barracks and through the trick gate in the fence. The next day, Hogan openly tells Schultz that LeBeau is missing, but Schultz denies it and refuses to conduct roll call, which gets him into trouble when Hogan tells Klink. The idea is to help Klink find LeBeau before the Gestapo does.
Wilhelmina initially insists on staying for the good of her other contacts, but agrees to leave when LeBeau lets on how he feels about her. Escorted by Schultz, Hogan, Newkirk, and Carter walk into the apartment to find LeBeau and "the little old lady" kissing. Out the window, they see Hochstetter arriving with dogs (and his suit), while Klink tries to stall him. The POWs walk out openly with Schultz, followed separately by Wilhelmina disguised in the way that LeBeau's been describing her, whom Hochstetter doesn't suspect and is given a ride into town in Klink's staff car. When Klink sees LeBeau kissing what he thinks is a little old German lady goodbye, he reduces LeBeau's cooler time from sixty days to the usual thirty.
In the coda, LeBeau gets word that Wilhelmina got to England safely, and the POWs are assigned a new underground contact. When LeBeau isn't allowed and nobody else volunteers, Hogan goes to make contact with Juliana (Sivi Aberg). When he indicates that she was also a knockout, he lets the others not believe him.
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Hogan's Heroes
"How to Escape from Prison Camp Without Really Trying"
Originally aired March 2, 1968
Posing as a German foreign correspondent, Hogan is dating the sister of an officer in an SS division (Lyn Peters) to trick information about her brother's unit out of her, but she reveals that she's Audrey St. Laurence of British intelligence, and knows who he is. When Hogan's late in returning, the others stall Schultz about going out for roll call until Hogan arrives...the tunnel entrance bunk being hidden behind hanging laundry for once. Outside, Klink introduces the POWs to his substitute while he's on leave, Colonel Krueger (Willard Sage), who's accompanied by Colonel Nikolas (Edward Knight) of the Gestapo. When Krueger and Nikolas are alone in Klink's office, the POWs listen in as they discuss their plan to have the Gestapo take over the camp, cut rations, and confiscate the prisoners' Red Cross packages for selling on the black market. Hogan goes to Klink, who's packing in his quarters, to inform him that Krueger's after his job, but Klink refuses to let Hogan make him cancel his vacation.
The POWs then get an assignment from London to delay a "secret" offensive by the SS division they've been providing intel about, so Hogan has POWs from three barracks hide in the tunnel, giving the appearance of a mass escape...though the senior sergeant of the group (Tom Hatten) objects to the crowded arrangements. Meanwhile, at a ski lodge...
...Klink's been avoiding calls from Burkhalter, so Burkhalter's sitting in the lobby to hear the colonel badmouthing him to the desk clerk (Chet Stratton). Burkhalter brings Klink back to the stalag to help free up the SS division that Nikolas has looking for the escapees. Hogan pops into Klink's office to announce that the escaped prisoners have turned themselves in to avoid being hunted down by the ruthless Klink.
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Post-55th Anniversary Viewing
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Hogan's Heroes
"LeBeau and the Little Old Lady"
Originally aired February 24, 1968
Frndly said:
LeBeau makes a show of objecting to a regular assignment of meeting with an underground contact in town to relay messages; but when he arrives at her apartment, we see that his description of her as a mean old lady is a ruse to keep the others from horning in on his time with the gorgeous Wilhelmina (Celeste Yarnall). When LeBeau returns to camp, he's told that an underground unit the contact had been working with has been captured, so the Gestapo will be closing in on her. LeBeau insists on going to save her, but Hogan forbids it, so he sneaks out of the barracks and through the trick gate in the fence. The next day, Hogan openly tells Schultz that LeBeau is missing, but Schultz denies it and refuses to conduct roll call, which gets him into trouble when Hogan tells Klink. The idea is to help Klink find LeBeau before the Gestapo does.
Wilhelmina initially insists on staying for the good of her other contacts, but agrees to leave when LeBeau lets on how he feels about her. Escorted by Schultz, Hogan, Newkirk, and Carter walk into the apartment to find LeBeau and "the little old lady" kissing. Out the window, they see Hochstetter arriving with dogs (and his suit), while Klink tries to stall him. The POWs walk out openly with Schultz, followed separately by Wilhelmina disguised in the way that LeBeau's been describing her, whom Hochstetter doesn't suspect and is given a ride into town in Klink's staff car. When Klink sees LeBeau kissing what he thinks is a little old German lady goodbye, he reduces LeBeau's cooler time from sixty days to the usual thirty.
In the coda, LeBeau gets word that Wilhelmina got to England safely, and the POWs are assigned a new underground contact. When LeBeau isn't allowed and nobody else volunteers, Hogan goes to make contact with Juliana (Sivi Aberg). When he indicates that she was also a knockout, he lets the others not believe him.
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Hogan's Heroes
"How to Escape from Prison Camp Without Really Trying"
Originally aired March 2, 1968
Frndly said:
Posing as a German foreign correspondent, Hogan is dating the sister of an officer in an SS division (Lyn Peters) to trick information about her brother's unit out of her, but she reveals that she's Audrey St. Laurence of British intelligence, and knows who he is. When Hogan's late in returning, the others stall Schultz about going out for roll call until Hogan arrives...the tunnel entrance bunk being hidden behind hanging laundry for once. Outside, Klink introduces the POWs to his substitute while he's on leave, Colonel Krueger (Willard Sage), who's accompanied by Colonel Nikolas (Edward Knight) of the Gestapo. When Krueger and Nikolas are alone in Klink's office, the POWs listen in as they discuss their plan to have the Gestapo take over the camp, cut rations, and confiscate the prisoners' Red Cross packages for selling on the black market. Hogan goes to Klink, who's packing in his quarters, to inform him that Krueger's after his job, but Klink refuses to let Hogan make him cancel his vacation.
The POWs then get an assignment from London to delay a "secret" offensive by the SS division they've been providing intel about, so Hogan has POWs from three barracks hide in the tunnel, giving the appearance of a mass escape...though the senior sergeant of the group (Tom Hatten) objects to the crowded arrangements. Meanwhile, at a ski lodge...
...Klink's been avoiding calls from Burkhalter, so Burkhalter's sitting in the lobby to hear the colonel badmouthing him to the desk clerk (Chet Stratton). Burkhalter brings Klink back to the stalag to help free up the SS division that Nikolas has looking for the escapees. Hogan pops into Klink's office to announce that the escaped prisoners have turned themselves in to avoid being hunted down by the ruthless Klink.
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You're right, he started appearing in Season 2.
Not that different from any of the other wild cons they've pulled.
I'll know to be suspicious if your puns start becoming good.
Maybe he got it from a friend on one of his trips...
Happy 6th of July from the 'Midnight Special'
Does that make him a double agent?
Were they going to do anything?
Even when you want him to see something....
And they immediately want to leave him to the Gestapo.
Wow.
Awww. But LeBeau would probably prefer the sixty to give Hogan time to cool off.
I think there was a book called How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying or something similar.
These guys saw a lot of action in the war.
So not really the sister of an SS agent?
Just tell him that Hogan escaped and he'll cancel roll call.
Here we go again.
Okay, that's a little new.
Poor baby.
Nice sweater, Wilhelm.
It's disappointing that Hogan didn't come up with some scheme to get the two Red Cross thieves sent to the Russian front or whatever. And the British agent at the beginning didn't connect to anything at all. Another sloppy one.
You're guaranteed to get only homegrown, non-GMO, free range puns from me.
It's going to be hard to resolve the continuity here.
Nice. Midnight Special was a good show, though I seldom got to see it.
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Hogan's Heroes
"The Collector General"
Originally aired March 9, 1968
Newkirk and LeBeau sneak in an attractive contact named Lisa (Heidy Hunt) with intel about how the Germans have started construction at an old mine shaft nearby. Then Klink gets a visit from General Metzger (Gavin MacLeod), who says that the mine is being converted to a secret arms depot and wants a guard posted on the truck that he came in on. Hogan smells that something bigger is up, so the POWs stage LeBeau falling from the roof of Klink's office while fixing a nonexistent hole as a diversion to sneak him into the back of the truck to see what the crated cargo is.
LeBeau reports that the truck is loaded with art stolen from France, producing a gold royal snuff box and a 200-year-old ivory fan as evidence; and Hogan surmises that Metzger is working for himself. When the truck departs for the mine, the POWs arrange for an air drop of dummies dressed as commandos while they go to the mine shaft in their own commando outfits. Lisa's husband, Karl (John Stephenson), poses as a German captain who commandeers Schultz and his guards to go into the woods to find the commandos...and they end up exchanging fire with another search party led by Klink, while Karl drives off with the truck.
In the aftermath, Hogan helps prop up Klink to stand up to Metzger, which includes calling the general's bluff by threatening to bring the Fuhrer into it. Outside, Metzger expresses his suspicion that Hogan was involved, but Metzger's bluff is called again, as Hogan knows that the general won't want to bring attention to his scheme.
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Hogan's Heroes
"The Ultimate Weapon"
Originally aired March 16, 1968
Klink delivers some propaganda to the POWs while presenting four new prisoners from a bomber crew. Hogan takes him down a peg by alluding to the Battle of Cologne having just happened, which would place this episode in March of 1945...but resolves with the other POWs to do something about the air defenses at Zuglitz, where the crew was shot down. The POWs arrange to "fix" Klink's radio (said to be Japanese) and reset everyone's watches so that they can record the Radio Berlin news broadcast on the sewing kit and play it back for Klink a half hour later. Hogan pushes Schultz into making predictions about the Russians' progress in Kiev, and the delayed news broadcast proves them true. (If this is the Second Battle of Kiev, that would be November 1943.) When Burkhalter visits, he wants Schultz to predict the next bomber target. When Schultz randomly picks Hamburg, Hogan urgently requests a strike there to make Schultz's prediction come true again.
As Colonel Karla Hoffman (Marian Moses) of the Gestapo visits to assess Schultz, he correctly predicts another bombing raid (or rather, chooses the target)...all so Hogan can have him divert fighters from Zuglitz to Berlin the following night. Meanwhile, a spark of attraction ignites into romance between Hoffman and Hogan, causing Hogan to think that she might be on their side. The next day, she announces that she's been summoned to Zuglitz, and Hogan doesn't stop her, but frets about her fate. Zuglitz is hit, getting Burkhalter into hot water, and Karla pops up at the barracks, revealing that she never went to Zuglitz, but was testing Hogan. Nevertheless, she's now in danger for having certified Schultz as a genius, so she asks Hogan to help her escape from Germany.
War planning in Klink's office has been brought to us by...
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Post-55th Anniversary Viewing
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Hogan's Heroes
"The Collector General"
Originally aired March 9, 1968
IMDb said:
Newkirk and LeBeau sneak in an attractive contact named Lisa (Heidy Hunt) with intel about how the Germans have started construction at an old mine shaft nearby. Then Klink gets a visit from General Metzger (Gavin MacLeod), who says that the mine is being converted to a secret arms depot and wants a guard posted on the truck that he came in on. Hogan smells that something bigger is up, so the POWs stage LeBeau falling from the roof of Klink's office while fixing a nonexistent hole as a diversion to sneak him into the back of the truck to see what the crated cargo is.
LeBeau reports that the truck is loaded with art stolen from France, producing a gold royal snuff box and a 200-year-old ivory fan as evidence; and Hogan surmises that Metzger is working for himself. When the truck departs for the mine, the POWs arrange for an air drop of dummies dressed as commandos while they go to the mine shaft in their own commando outfits. Lisa's husband, Karl (John Stephenson), poses as a German captain who commandeers Schultz and his guards to go into the woods to find the commandos...and they end up exchanging fire with another search party led by Klink, while Karl drives off with the truck.
In the aftermath, Hogan helps prop up Klink to stand up to Metzger, which includes calling the general's bluff by threatening to bring the Fuhrer into it. Outside, Metzger expresses his suspicion that Hogan was involved, but Metzger's bluff is called again, as Hogan knows that the general won't want to bring attention to his scheme.
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Hogan's Heroes
"The Ultimate Weapon"
Originally aired March 16, 1968
IMDb said:
Klink delivers some propaganda to the POWs while presenting four new prisoners from a bomber crew. Hogan takes him down a peg by alluding to the Battle of Cologne having just happened, which would place this episode in March of 1945...but resolves with the other POWs to do something about the air defenses at Zuglitz, where the crew was shot down. The POWs arrange to "fix" Klink's radio (said to be Japanese) and reset everyone's watches so that they can record the Radio Berlin news broadcast on the sewing kit and play it back for Klink a half hour later. Hogan pushes Schultz into making predictions about the Russians' progress in Kiev, and the delayed news broadcast proves them true. (If this is the Second Battle of Kiev, that would be November 1943.) When Burkhalter visits, he wants Schultz to predict the next bomber target. When Schultz randomly picks Hamburg, Hogan urgently requests a strike there to make Schultz's prediction come true again.
As Colonel Karla Hoffman (Marian Moses) of the Gestapo visits to assess Schultz, he correctly predicts another bombing raid (or rather, chooses the target)...all so Hogan can have him divert fighters from Zuglitz to Berlin the following night. Meanwhile, a spark of attraction ignites into romance between Hoffman and Hogan, causing Hogan to think that she might be on their side. The next day, she announces that she's been summoned to Zuglitz, and Hogan doesn't stop her, but frets about her fate. Zuglitz is hit, getting Burkhalter into hot water, and Karla pops up at the barracks, revealing that she never went to Zuglitz, but was testing Hogan. Nevertheless, she's now in danger for having certified Schultz as a genius, so she asks Hogan to help her escape from Germany.
War planning in Klink's office has been brought to us by...
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Nope, too dangerous.
Apparently not, though her intel seemed to be good.
You'd think.
Yeah...the two German conspirators practically disappeared from the story after a point, too.
And Happy 83rd, Sir Ringo! 
I hope he's out parading.
When and if I reach 83 years old, I hope I have enough energy as Ringo.
Merrill Stubing, Murray Slaughter, and that Chicken guy.
This is a job for Hogan's Monument Men!
That was a nice change-of-pace plot, and everything actually made sense.
Where's Commodore Decker when you need him?
They seem to be deliberately throwing in random elements to defy dating the show.
Testing him to see if he'd let her die?
That was kind of random, but at least the main plot made sense.
It seems to be a permanent prop now.
Happy Birthday, Sir Ringo.
I wish I had that much energy now.
Likewise.
I have a question about the horror movie used here in—of all places—a children’s documentary from 1973….50 years ago.
https://collections.libraries.indiana.edu/IULMIA/exhibits/show/nit_inside_out/item/2331
Any ideas?
I have a question about the horror movie used here in—of all places—a children’s documentary from 1973….50 years ago.
https://collections.libraries.indiana.edu/IULMIA/exhibits/show/nit_inside_out/item/2331
Any ideas?
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Seeing as we're past the halfway point or so in the year, I'd thought I'd go ahead and post some of my favorite performances from previous episodes of 'The Midnight Special' up to this point; starting with The Byrds in one of their last performances before Roger McGuinn disbanded them.
Here's one from Steely Dan
A pair from The Doobie Brothers
Finish off with a trio from Jim Croce.
Some upcoming clips once we get closer to their airdate are David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Linda Ronstandt, Focus, King Crimson, The Bee Gees and Steely Dan (again).
It's 'Die, Monster, Die!' starring Boris Karloff and Nick Adams. It's based on the H.P. Lovecraft novella, 'The Colour Out Of Space.' Released in 1966 and remade in 2019 starring Nicolas Cage.
Interestingly enough, none of the posters seen outside the theatre match the movie that's playing,
50 Years Ago This Week
July 9
July 10
July 11
July 12
July 13
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
Recent and new on the chart:
"Tequila Sunrise," Eagles
(June 23; #64 US; #26 AC)
"If You Want Me to Stay," Sly & The Family Stone
(June 30; #12 US; #3 R&B)
"That Lady (Part 1)," The Isley Brothers
(#6 US; #2 R&B; #14 UK; #348 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [2004])
"Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose," Dawn feat. Tony Orlando
(#3 US; #1 AC; #12 UK)
"Let's Get It On," Marvin Gaye
(#1 US the weeks of Sept. 8 and 22, 1973; #1 R&B; #31 UK; #167 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [2004])
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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki page for the month.
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July 9
- The United States and Czechoslovakia agreed to establish direct diplomatic relations for the first time since the Communist Party had taken control of the Eastern European nation. U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister Bohuslav Chnoupek signed the agreement to open consulates in each other's nations during the visit by Rogers to Prague.
July 10
- The Bahamas was granted independence by the United Kingdom, becoming a nation with Sir Lynden Pindling its first Prime Minister, and colonial governor Sir John W. Paul as its first Governor-General. The Caribbean archipelago nation remained within the Commonwealth of Nations.
- Treasure hunter Mel Fisher announced at a press conference that he and his team of explorers had located the remains of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha, which had sunk in a hurricane in the Marquesa Keys on September 5, 1622, about 40 miles (64 km) west of Key West, Florida. The worth of the treasure at the time was estimated to be more than $600,000,000.
- John Paul Getty III, the rebellious 16-year-old grandson of the wealthiest man in the world, was kidnapped from the Piazza Farnese in Rome, and held for $17 million ransom. His grandfather, J. Paul Getty, refused to pay the ransom, arguing that giving money to terrorists would put his 13 other grandchildren at risk. A ransom of $3.2 million would be paid in December, but only after the teenager's ear had been cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a Rome newspaper. Young Getty would be freed on December 15.
July 11
- The most eagerly-anticipated tennis match of the year was set up as 1973 Wimbledon women's champion Billie Jean King accepted a challenge from 1939 Wimbledon men's champion Bobby Riggs to an unprecedented "winner-take-all" $100,000 prize. The value of the winner's share was equivalent to more than $670,000 fifty years later. Riggs, a self-described "male chauvinist" had said earlier it was fair that men in professional tennis were paid more in Grand Slam events than women and that he could defeat even the best woman player in the world.
July 12
- A major fire broke out that destroyed the entire sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center in the St. Louis suburb of Overland, Missouri. The blaze destroyed almost all (80 percent) of Veterans Administration service records for U.S. Army personnel who served between 1912 and 1960 (including those in World War I, World War II or the Korean War), and 75% of the U.S. Air Force service records stored on the sixth floor. None of the destroyed records had been microfilmed or had duplicate copies, and no index had been made.
- U.S. President Nixon was admitted to the Bethesda Naval Hospital after being diagnosed with viral pneumonia. Nixon remained in the hospital for a full week before being released on July 20. He said upon his return that he would not resign or slow down for health reasons, commenting "The health of a man is not nearly as important as the health of a nation and the health of the world."
- Died: Lon Chaney Jr. (stage name for Creighton Chaney), 67, American film actor who was the son of Lon Chaney and followed a career of starring in horror films from 1941 to 1963, as well as other dramatic roles
July 13
- Alexander Butterfield, head of the Federal Aviation Administration, and the chief assistant to White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, revealed that almost all of President Nixon's conversations in the Oval Office of the White House had been tape recorded, the first indication to investigators of the Watergate scandal of a previously unknown source of evidence. While John Dean had voiced an opinion that he suspected that conversations were taped, no witness had confirmed the belief until Butterfield was interviewed before his public testimony by Donald Sanders, one of the committee's attorneys. When Sanders asked whether there was any validity to Dean's suspicions, Butterfield told him "I was wondering if someone would ask that. There is tape in the Oval Office." Butterfield's dramatic testimony came on the following Monday.
- The self-titled debut studio album by the British rock band Queen was released simultaneously by EMI Records in the UK and by Elektra Records in the U.S.
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
- "Hocus Pocus," Focus (19 weeks)
- "Wildflower," Skylark (21 weeks)
- "You Are the Sunshine of My Life," Stevie Wonder (17 weeks)
Recent and new on the chart:
"Tequila Sunrise," Eagles
(June 23; #64 US; #26 AC)
"If You Want Me to Stay," Sly & The Family Stone
(June 30; #12 US; #3 R&B)
"That Lady (Part 1)," The Isley Brothers
(#6 US; #2 R&B; #14 UK; #348 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [2004])
"Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose," Dawn feat. Tony Orlando
(#3 US; #1 AC; #12 UK)
"Let's Get It On," Marvin Gaye
(#1 US the weeks of Sept. 8 and 22, 1973; #1 R&B; #31 UK; #167 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [2004])
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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki page for the month.
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Geez, I almost forgot about Big Chicken!
I was thinking that they probably got it specifically for this episode, and the other one that used it was filmed adjacently and they decided to get a little more use out of it.
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Darren beat me to it, but that was a bit of a horror movie all on its own.
Nice. Not a bad one in the bunch. It's kind of sad to watch Jim Croce perform live.
Good catch. I'm not sure if I would have gotten it.
You could have done that for us, guys. It would have saved us both a lot of trouble. Just sayin.'
This was one of the weirdest things ever.
Holy Toledo, what a mess. I wonder if there were backups or ways to reconstruct the information. I don't think any of that would have affected any of my relatives. I had two uncles old enough to serve in the 50s, but they were both in the Navy.
Most famous for being Larry Talbot, of course. Again, it's surprising to see a star from that era die so late in the century and yet at so young an age.
Y'gotta ask the right questions.
Classic Eagles.
I don't remember this at all. Not too exciting.
Not bad. This used to get a ton of airplay, but I haven't heard it in a long time.
Good stuff. This was a really good group in its short existence.
Oldies Radio Classic.
He remembers you. Oh, yes, he does.
Could be. It's not something I remember at all in my dim memories of the show.
My initial thought was that it was something put together just for the educational film and not a real movie; then I saw Nick Adams and I figured it out.
He was 67 but he looked much older, thanks to the smoking and drinking he did. There's a story of how he performed the part of Frankenstein's monster for a TV show and was drunk throughout the entire performance because he thought it was the rehearsal and not the live broadcast.
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Hogan's Heroes
"Monkey Business"
Originally aired March 23, 1968
While Carter's out trying to get a transmitter part to the underground during a bombing raid on a ball bearing plant, Hogan and Colonel Wembley in London (Laurie Main) are relaying radio messages to one another through the captain of a fully submerged sub (Jack Good); to make matters even less realistic, the sub captain talks and listens via unseen, hi-fi intercom while casually sipping his tea, like it's the bridge of the Enterprise. After the raid, Schultz informs the POWs that the Hammelburg Zoo was hit because of its proximity to the plant. Carter returns without having delivered the part because of the extra activity of soldiers trying to round up the escaped animals...but he brings a friend, a chimp who's quickly named Freddy. Schultz sees Freddy at roll call and ultimately agrees to see the usual amount. When LeBeau talks about a cousin who was a big game hunter, it gives Hogan the idea to pass LeBeau off as one so he can travel freely outside the camp while pretending to help the Germans. But while LeBeau's demonstrating his prowess with a rifle, he almost hits Burkhalter when the general comes around a corner unexpectedly, causing the plan to be called off.
After Freddy is given a miniature replica of LeBeau's outfit and taught to do chores around the barracks, Hogan comes up with the idea of sacrificing their new mascot by letting Klink see him so that he has Schultz return the chimp to the zoo. Hogan arranges via sub relay for the underground contact to rendezvous with "Sgt. Freddy". In the coda, Hogan learns that Freddy delivered the transmitter part successfully; and Newkirk leaves for the zoo with a banana.
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Hogan's Heroes
"Drums Along the Dusseldorf"
Originally aired March 30, 1968
Season finale
In their commando outfits and concealed by day-for-night shooting, the POWs are after a German truck not just because it's carrying the fuel, but because the one scientist who knows the formula is conveniently riding along with it. Carter sets a timed and weight-sensitive bomb under the Hammelburg Bridge over the titular river to catch it on its next passing. Later Hogan learns that the Germans are planning to bring twelve new prisoners in along the same route around the same time in the same type of truck. Newkirk dresses as an old woman to flag down the truck carrying the prisoners, delaying it long enough for the next truck to drive over the bridge first and get blown up...but it turns out that the jet fuel truck was rerouted to pass by the stalag by night, and the one they blew up was carrying their own Red Cross packages.
Meanwhile, Carter, whom we've learned is part Sioux and addressed by family in North Dakota as Little Deer Who Goes Swift and Sure Through Forest, has been making a bow and arrow. Hogan gets the idea of having Carter shoot a flaming arrow at the truck, aided by Kinch calculating to account for air currents and the speed of the truck. When the truck is passing, Carter botches it, hitting the window frame, so Newkirk grabs the bow and still-flaming arrow and hits the truck's canvas, setting it on fire. The POWs then join a line-up so that Klink can deliver propaganda as the flaming truck passes behind him and goes up.
In the coda, Schultz is given a Native American headband with feather as a gift from Carter, which Klink confiscates, only for Hogan to catch the kommandant trying it on himself.
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And that brings us full circle with my having picked up Hogan's Heroes as 50th anniversary viewing in Season 4.
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"You didn't ask."
Post-55th Anniversary Viewing
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Hogan's Heroes
"Monkey Business"
Originally aired March 23, 1968
IMDb said:
While Carter's out trying to get a transmitter part to the underground during a bombing raid on a ball bearing plant, Hogan and Colonel Wembley in London (Laurie Main) are relaying radio messages to one another through the captain of a fully submerged sub (Jack Good); to make matters even less realistic, the sub captain talks and listens via unseen, hi-fi intercom while casually sipping his tea, like it's the bridge of the Enterprise. After the raid, Schultz informs the POWs that the Hammelburg Zoo was hit because of its proximity to the plant. Carter returns without having delivered the part because of the extra activity of soldiers trying to round up the escaped animals...but he brings a friend, a chimp who's quickly named Freddy. Schultz sees Freddy at roll call and ultimately agrees to see the usual amount. When LeBeau talks about a cousin who was a big game hunter, it gives Hogan the idea to pass LeBeau off as one so he can travel freely outside the camp while pretending to help the Germans. But while LeBeau's demonstrating his prowess with a rifle, he almost hits Burkhalter when the general comes around a corner unexpectedly, causing the plan to be called off.
After Freddy is given a miniature replica of LeBeau's outfit and taught to do chores around the barracks, Hogan comes up with the idea of sacrificing their new mascot by letting Klink see him so that he has Schultz return the chimp to the zoo. Hogan arranges via sub relay for the underground contact to rendezvous with "Sgt. Freddy". In the coda, Hogan learns that Freddy delivered the transmitter part successfully; and Newkirk leaves for the zoo with a banana.
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Hogan's Heroes
"Drums Along the Dusseldorf"
Originally aired March 30, 1968
Season finale
IMDb said:
In their commando outfits and concealed by day-for-night shooting, the POWs are after a German truck not just because it's carrying the fuel, but because the one scientist who knows the formula is conveniently riding along with it. Carter sets a timed and weight-sensitive bomb under the Hammelburg Bridge over the titular river to catch it on its next passing. Later Hogan learns that the Germans are planning to bring twelve new prisoners in along the same route around the same time in the same type of truck. Newkirk dresses as an old woman to flag down the truck carrying the prisoners, delaying it long enough for the next truck to drive over the bridge first and get blown up...but it turns out that the jet fuel truck was rerouted to pass by the stalag by night, and the one they blew up was carrying their own Red Cross packages.
Meanwhile, Carter, whom we've learned is part Sioux and addressed by family in North Dakota as Little Deer Who Goes Swift and Sure Through Forest, has been making a bow and arrow. Hogan gets the idea of having Carter shoot a flaming arrow at the truck, aided by Kinch calculating to account for air currents and the speed of the truck. When the truck is passing, Carter botches it, hitting the window frame, so Newkirk grabs the bow and still-flaming arrow and hits the truck's canvas, setting it on fire. The POWs then join a line-up so that Klink can deliver propaganda as the flaming truck passes behind him and goes up.
In the coda, Schultz is given a Native American headband with feather as a gift from Carter, which Klink confiscates, only for Hogan to catch the kommandant trying it on himself.
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And that brings us full circle with my having picked up Hogan's Heroes as 50th anniversary viewing in Season 4.
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"You didn't tell us there was a taping system."Y'gotta ask the right questions.
"You didn't ask."
Not one of my personal favorites, but well known enough to get covered despite that low chart peak.
Sounds like they're still in their There's a Riot Goin' On sound, but it's got some groove.
A memorable classic.
A cute ditty.
Definitive music for gettin' it on.
That's okay, I kept the cereal box...