The WORST episodes of Hogan's Heroes
Every episode of Hogan's Heroes ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Hogan's Heroes!
The exploits of five World War II prisoners in a German POW camp, 'Stalag 13' who, while "under the cover" of being typical prisoners of war, are really secretly doing their utmost to sabotage the German war effort through whatever means necessary. Col. Klink is very proud that no prisoner has ever escaped under his watch, not that they would want to. Suave, cool and smart, Col. Hogan takes advantage of Col. Klink and Sgt. Schultz's bravado and general cluelessness to carry out his missions.
#1 - Cuisine à la Stalag 13
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1970
Colonel Hogan needs LeBeau to whip up something special for a German general, but the chef has made plans to escape to France.
#2 - The Prisoner's Prisoner
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1965
While on a sabotage caper, Hogan and Carter encounter a German general, overpower him, and smuggle him back to Stalag 13. Once there, they come up with a ploy to trick the disoriented general into revealing his troop's attack plans.
#3 - The Kommandant Dies at Dawn
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1969
Colonel Klink is set up for execution after the gestapo finds him with underground information --- planted on him by Hogan.
#4 - Will the Real Colonel Klink Please Stand Up Against the Wall?
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/21/1968
The hapless Colonel Klink lands a date with a German firing squad after Sergeant Carter, disguised as Klink, is spotted at a sabotage site.
#5 - I Look Better in Basic Black
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/1/1966
The men of Stalag 13 have no interest in tunneling into a neighboring barracks that houses new prisoners --- until they discover that the new detainees are women!
#6 - Monkey Business
Season 3 - Episode 29 - Aired 3/23/1968
Carter returns from an unsuccessful mission with a new pal in tow --- a runaway chimpanzee from the local bombed-out zoo. The men of Stalag 13 decide to make "Freddy" their barracks mascot --- but Hogan sees a more practical use for the happy-go-lucky chimp.
#7 - Sergeant Schultz Meets Mata Hari
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1967
Sergent Schultz falls head over heels for an attractive woman --- but Hogan suspects that she is a Gestapo agent and has Carter shadow the two loverbirds on one of their dates.
#8 - Movies Are Your Best Escape
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1965
What's inside a visiting German general's briefcase --- the one that's chained to his wrist? The mystery becomes too tempting for Hogan. who not only wants to photograph the case's contents, but then sneak the photos out of Stalag 13 as well!
#9 - Axis Annie
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/10/1968
Hogan must deliver important information to a contact in the nearby town, but the Gestapo has cracked down tight on the camp. Will Hogan be forced to make traitorous pro-Nazi statements to Axis Annie of the German Propaganda Ministry in order to get the information to its destination?
#10 - Lady Chitterly's Lover (2)
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1970
Part 2 of 2. Hogan fears the phony Sir Charles can't trick Hitler. Things get even more complicated when Chitterly escapes from the prisoner's tunnel.
#11 - Lady Chitterly's Lover (1)
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1970
Part 1 of 2. When Sir Charles Chitterly parachutes into Stalag 13, Hogan asks Colonel Crittendon to pretend he's Sir Charles --- but Lady Chitterly isn't fooled.
#12 - Hogan's Double Life
Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/7/1971
When Gestapo agents accuse Hogan of sabotage, he explains that his exact double, a German traitor, is the real culprit.
#13 - Eight O'Clock and All Is Well
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1970
Right after he tells a new prisoner about their secret operations, Hogan discovers he's a German spy.
#14 - Unfair Exchange
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1969
Hogan kidnaps General Burkhalter's sister, with the intention of exchanging her for a captured Allied agent.
#15 - The Kamikazes Are Coming
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/21/1971
When a rocket lands near camp, the heroes don't know how they'll smuggle it out --- until Russian spy Marya comes on the scene.
#16 - The Dropouts
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/27/1970
When three Gestapo officers detain Hogan and Carter, the two frantically plan their escape --- until they learn the officers want to defect.
#17 - The Big Broadcast
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1970
The heroes use Klink's car radio to pass information to an underground agent about a German rocket factory.
#18 - The Big Record
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1970
When Klink gives the heroes a tape recorder so they can send messages back home, Hogan has bigger plans for the device.
#19 - Fat Hermann, Go Home
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/16/1970
Things heat up as Hogan schemes to return a load of stolen paintings to London, just as Marya convinces Schultz to impersonate Reich Marshal Goering.
#20 - Kommandant Gertrude
Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/28/1971
General Burkhalter's sister Gertrude thinks her dim-witted fiance should be made Klink's assistant, which interferes with Hogan's plan to aid an American general.
#21 - Klink for the Defense
Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/7/1971
When Klink gets assigned to defend a German officer accused of treason, Hogan helps to prove his innocence.
#22 - A Russian Is Coming
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/25/1967
Hogan and his men face the difficult task of returning a Soviet pilot to his homeland --- especially when the fanatical, demanding Russian refuses to follow the usual escape route to England.
#23 - Hogan Goes Hollywood
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1969
To transmit information home, Colonel Hogan plans to cast an American actor to star in a German propaganda film.
#24 - Oil for the Lamps of Hogan
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/17/1965
The Germans' plan to build a synthetic fuel plant at Stalag 13 would spell disaster for Hogan's men and their important strategic subterfuge. So Hogan attempts to convince Klink that there's a massive oil supply under the camp --- and orders a phony Allied air raid on the camp as proof!
#25 - Praise the Führer and Pass the Ammunition
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/20/1967
Hogan and his men are determined to create chaos during some staged war games a ruthless Nazi colonel has scheduled near Stalag 13. So what do you suppose would happen if the fake explosives planned for the exercises were somehow replaced with live ammunition?