Barnes & Noble

There are a few minor changes in the 1967-68 season of this long-running sitcom, but none that significantly alters its appeal. Actor Stewart Moss appears with some frequency as Olsen, another Stalag 13 prisoner who works with Colonel Hogan (Bob Crane) when one of the other regulars is missing. (Obviously, the veteran cast members needed a week off here or there -- but it wasn't easy for writers to explain or compensate for the absence of characters supposedly confined in a prison camp!) The 30 episodes of Season 3 find Hogan's Heroes operating along the same lines established during the show's first year, with the scripters occasionally reaching into the history books for plot gambits. For example, "D-Day at Stalag 13," in which Hogan promotes a deception aimed at persuading the Nazis that the impending invasion of Normandy will take place elsewhere, has its origins in the real-life Allied policy of misleading soldiers into believing the D-Day invasion was planned for Calais, thereby giving a wrongful impression to Axis soldiers who might capture and question them. The real-life phenomenon of prison-camp turncoats gets a comedic airing in "Carter Turns Traitor," wherein Sgt. Carter (Larry Hovis) pretends to abandon his fellow captives in an attempt to learn the location of a Nazi chemical plant targeted for destruction by the Underground. Another snappy Season 3 episode is "War Takes a Holiday," in which Hogan briefly manages to convince Klink (Werner Klemperer) and visiting Gestapo officers that the war has ended -- a ruse designed to trick them into releasing newly captured prisoners with valuable information. Ed Hulse

All Movie Guide

American POW Col. Robert Hogan (Bob Crane) and his fellow prisoners continue to run a wide-ranging, superbly efficient espionage and sabotage operation right under the noses of their German captors as Hogan's Heroes enters its third season. Although the series "began" in the year 1944, it is apparently still 1944 even after two years on the air, as witness such episodes as "D-Day at Stalag 13," in which Hogan's men stage an elaborate hoax to distract Nazi attention from the Normandy Invasion, and "Two Nazis for the Price of One," wherein the Heroes dispose of a Gestapo agent who has tumbled to the secret of the Manhattan Project. In other developments, General Burkhalter (Leon Askin) steps up his efforts to marry off his Wagnerian sister Gertrude (Kathleen Freeman) to unwilling prison-camp commandant Col. Klink (Werner Klemperer); in "Axis Annie," Hogan and company engineer the downfall of a traitorous female radio personality (Louise Troy); and Ivan Dixon (Sgt. Kinchloe), the series' only African-American regular, is given another chance to display his considerable acting skills in "Is General Hammerschlag Burning?," in which he briefly enjoys a wartime romance with a disillusioned black nightclub singer played by Barbara McNair. While most of the third-season Hogan's Heroes episodes are lightweight comic entertainment, a disturbing note is inserted in the proceedings in "An Evening of Generals," in which Col. Hogan rather cold-bloodedly makes clear that he is willing to kill both Col. Klink and the lovable Sgt. Schultz (Leon Askin) for the greater good of the Allied cause.

Product Details

• UPC: 097368809628
• Source: PARAMOUNT
• Region Code: 1
• Aspect Ratio: Pre-1954 Standard (1.33.1)
• Sound: Dolby Digital Mono
• Language: English
• Time: 12:40:00
• Sales Rank: 7,133

This set contains DVDs which may be available separately:

• Hogan's Heroes: The Crittendon Plan
• Hogan's Heroes: Some of Their Planes Are Missing
• Hogan's Heroes: D-Day at Stalag 13
• Hogan's Heroes: Sergeant Schultz Meets Mata Hari
• Hogan's Heroes: Funny Thing Happened on the Way to London
• Hogan's Heroes: Casanova Klink
• Hogan's Heroes: How to Win Friends and Influence Nazis
• Hogan's Heroes: Nights in Shining Armor
• Hogan's Heroes: Hot Money
• Hogan's Heroes: One in Every Crowd
• Hogan's Heroes: Is General Hammerschlag Burning?
• Hogan's Heroes: A Russian Is Coming
• Hogan's Heroes: An Evening of Generals
• Hogan's Heroes: Everybody Loves a Snowman
• Hogan's Heroes: The Hostage
• Hogan's Heroes: Carter Turns Traitor
• Hogan's Heroes: Two Nazis for the Price of One
• Hogan's Heroes: Is There a Doctor in the House?
• Hogan's Heroes: Hogan, Go Home
• Hogan's Heroes: Sticky Wicket Newkirk
• Hogan's Heroes: War Takes a Holiday
• Hogan's Heroes: Duel of Honor
• Hogan's Heroes: Axis Annie
• Hogan's Heroes: What Time Does the Balloon Go Up?
• Hogan's Heroes: LeBeau and the Little Old Lady
• Hogan's Heroes: How to Escape From Prison Camp Without Really Trying
• Hogan's Heroes: The Collector General
• Hogan's Heroes: The Ultimate Weapon
• Hogan's Heroes: Monkey Business
• Hogan's Heroes: Drums Along the Dusseldorf

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