The "Nazi" episode

[Mr Silver]

After watching a recent episode of Misfits, I realised that pretty much every TV show with some level of science fiction to it has done a "Nazi" episode. This usually involves them going back in time and ending up in Nazi Germany where they will inevitably stumble across Hitler.

Let's see how many "Nazi" episodes we can list in this thread, I'll start...

Star Trek: The Original Series

"Patterns of Force"

Star Trek: Voyager

"The Killing Game part 1"
"The Killing Game part 2"

Star Trek: Enterprise

"Storm Front part 1"
"Storm Front part 2"

Misfits

"Series 3 episode 3"

Family Guy

"Road to Germany"

 

[Starkers]

Doctor Who: Let's Kill Hitler!

Battlestar Galactica 1980 (Though I don't know the episode(s) title.)

 

[Maurice]

The Time Tunnel: INVASION

Tony & Doug appear in Cherbourg two days before D-Day. A Nazi doctor brainwashed Doug to kill Tony and commit sabotage.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

TOS: The City on the Edge of Forever hinges on Nazis, although they don't show up in person, only in newsreel and discussion.

The Twilight Zone: He's Alive and Deaths-Head Revisited. Maybe there are others too.

Hogan's Heroes has a lot.

 

[Stevil2001]

The Tomorrow People episode where it turns out that Hitler is a shape-shifting alien.

 

[{ Emilia }]

Raumpatrouille Orion didn't have one.



What!?

 

[DimesDan]

Raumpatrouille Orion didn't have one.



What!?

Nor did Babylon Five, Farscape or any of the Stargates.

That's five sci fi programmes that didn't have them.

 

[Starkers]

Red Dwarf's Meltdown had Hitler in it, and I'm sure they nabbed Hitler's diary at some point...

 

[Christopher]

Battlestar Galactica 1980 (Though I don't know the episode(s) title.)

It was actually a weird hourlong digression spanning parts 2-3 of the 3-part premiere "Galactica Discovers Earth." It was intended as a setup for an ongoing series of adventures of the heroes chasing the villain Xaviar through Earth's history, but then they abandoned that idea without explanation.

The Twilight Zone: He's Alive and Deaths-Head Revisited. Maybe there are others too.

There were also "Judgment Night" and "No Time Like the Past," along with various other episodes dealing more generally with WWII without specifically focusing on the Nazis.

Mission: Impossible did four episodes in its first two seasons about trying to prevent Neo-Nazis or surviving officers of the Third Reich from building new Nazi movements ("The Legacy," "The Legend," "The Bank," and "Echo of Yesterday"), and another in its fourth season (the superlative "Submarine"). "The Legacy" was also remade as an episode of the 1988 M:I revival series whose first season has just been released on DVD. (That series also has an episode called "Submarine," but it's not a remake, oddly enough.)

Justice League had an epic 3-parter, "The Savage Time," that sent the JL back in time to WWII, but due to censorship, they had to avoid referencing the Nazis overtly, so it was an alternate history where Vandal Savage took over from Hitler.

The first season of the '70s Wonder Woman series was set during WWII and had Wonder Woman fight Nazis regularly. The latter two seasons were set in the '70s, but I think they still did a few Nazi-themed episodes.

 

[sojourner]

Sliders did an episode first season.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

DS9 never did a Nazi episode. Cardassians don't count.

Futurama never did one, either - which in their case is a strange oversight.

 

[captcalhoun]

Red Dwarf also had Timeslides in which they visited Nazi Germany via mutated developing fluid which allowed them to step into photos.

Quantum Leap had an episode set in WW2, but i don't know if Nazis were involved.

Angel had one with flashbacks to WW2 and Spike and Angel on a U-boat, don't think BTVS did though.

Crime Traveller didn't. nor, i think, did Hyperdrive. Outcasts didn't.

Doctor Who's Victory of the Daleks and The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances two-parter are set in WW2, but only involve Nazi war-planes...

 

[BDJ]

There was that Nazi episode of Bonanza where the Nazi's came back in time and kidnapped Adam. Poor, poor Adam. He was never seen again on the Ponderosa. BUT he was retrained as a doctor and dropped off in the 1980's with the new name Trapper John!

Let's also not forget the time travelling Nazi's that kidnapped Chuck Cunningham from the 1950's! Poor, poor Chuck...he was never seen again at the Cunningham dinner table. Poor, poor Ritchie had to grow up without a big brother.

Don't forget the Nazi episode of Bewitched where the Nazi's used molecular re-arrangement technology to completely makeover Darren's physical appearance.

Of course most of these appearances were off screen....

 

[Christopher]

Futurama never did one, either - which in their case is a strange oversight.

Not a full episode, but...

http://theinfosphere.org/Adolf_Hitler

 

[davejames]

The X-Files had an episode with Mulder and Scully onboard a ghost ship that got taken over by Nazis.

 

[Harvey]

Not to mention the ongoing plot on The X-Files about former Nazi scientists who had been brought to the US to work on various secret projects.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

In Columbo: Now You See Him, the murderer was a Nazi prison guard on the lam. I think in this case one could argue that the use of Nazis is a MacGuffin, but it adds the flavor of indicating that the villain is "really sinister."

 

[Kelthaz]

Xena's "The Xena Scrolls" had Xena and Gabrielle fighting Nazis in a semi-Indiana Jones parody.

 

[the G-man]

The Seinfeld "limo" episode:

• George Costanza: Didja see the way she was looking at me?
  Jerry Seinfeld: She's a Nazi, George. A Nazi!
  George Costanza: I know, I know. Kind of a cute Nazi though.

 

[Starbreaker]

The Man in the Bottle was probaby the biggest TZ episode dealing with Nazism...