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Hogan's Heroes Season 4 Episode 10

No Names Please

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AIRED: 11/30/68

Right after Hogan helps a journalist escape from the Germans, an American paper tells of Hogan's operations at his camp.

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This episode appears to have been written by two different people. The first half has nothing to do with the second half. For a series with usually high writing, this is disjointed and poorly put together.moreless

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By KarenHlly, Jul 19, 2008

"No Names Please" begins with a marvelous premise: a war correspondent is rescued by Hogan's men after the plane he was riding in is shot down in Germany. The correspondent wants to show his gratitude by contacting the Heroes' family, but Hogan says that ANYTHING he tells civilians would jeopardize the true nature of their mission as a sabotage/rescue unit posing as prisoners of war. The correspondent ignores Hogan's orders and publishes an article anyway, telling how he was rescued by an unnamed group of people stationed in a POW camp. Major Hochstetter is sent a copy of the newspaper article from a spy in the U.S. and confronts Hogan with the article. So far, so good.

The problem is, the second half of the episode, which focuses on Hochstetter planting a Gestapo agent posing as a new guard in Stalag 13, has absolutely NOTHING to do with the first half. In fact, there is no reference at all to ANYTHING that happened in the first half of the show in the second half.

The last portion centers around an allegedly abandoned tunnel project in an unused barrack that Hogan shows Klink. Hogan agrees to allow Klink to "capture" the men "in the act of trying to escape" in order to make Klink look good in front of Hochstetter. The plan is set for a Wednesday; however, everyone -- for no explained reason whatsoever -- shows up on Tuesday.

Either half would have made for a good episode if carried to a conclusion based on the initial storyline. As it stands, the episode appears to be fragments of two separate plots joined together without any real connector. For that reason, it is one of the least enjoyable episodes in the six-year run of "Hogan's Heroes."moreless
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Werner Klemperer	Col. Wilhelm Klink
Bob Crane	Col. Robert Hogan
Richard Dawson	Cpl. Peter Newkirk
Ivan Dixon	Sgt. James (Ivan) "Kinch" Kinchloe
Larry Hovis	Sgt. Andrew Carter
John Banner	Sgt. Hans Schultz

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Richard Erdman	Walter Hobson	Guest Star
James B. Sikking	Private Berger	Guest Star
Stewart Moss	Olsen	Recurring Role
Howard Caine	Colonel Wolfgang Hochstetter	Recurring Role

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- (a newspaper article comes close to revealing Hogan's operations)
  Hochstetter: Hogan, any prisoner who carries on sabotage or espionage activities is no longer protected by the Geneva Convention!
  Hogan: No kidding.
  Hochstetter: And any prisoner caught in such activities can be shot or hanged!
  Klink: Or both.
  Hogan: Don't get greedy.
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- Klink: (to Berger) You will carry on as though you know nothing! Schultz can help you with that.
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- (A German soldier is searching Hogan's office when the latter arrives)
  Hogan: I, uh, would have called from the lobby, but the house phones were busy.
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- Hogan: Would I lie to ya?
  Klink: Yes!
  Hogan: True.
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- (Hochstetter leaves in a huff)
  Hochstetter: There is nothing more to be said to either of you!
  Hogan: What ever happened to Auf Wiedersehen?
  Hochstetter: Bah!!
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- Hobson: Who are you guys?
  Hogan: Auto club, emergency road service. Come on, let's go.
  Hobson: Where are you takin' me?
  Hogan: One more question from you, we're gonna ask for your membership card.
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- Hobson: There's a war goin' on, ya know.
  Hogan: Newkirk, did you hear that?
  Newkirk: Yeah, I knew there was somethin' bloody unusual goin' on.
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- Richard Erdman appeared as Hoffy in the film "Stalag 17."
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- This episode appears fourth on the VHS collection's "Roll Call" volume.
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- James Sikking would later find noteriety as Lt. Howard Hunter, the SWAT team leader on Hill Street Blues.
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