The Hostage

Prisoners

 * Colonel Hogan - Bob Crane
 * Corporal Louis LeBeau - Robert Clary
 * Corporal Peter Newkirk - Richard Dawson
 * Sergeant James Kinchloe - Ivan Dixon
 * Sergeant Andrew Carter - Larry Hovis

Camp Personnel

 * Kommandant Wilhelm Klink - Werner Klemperer
 * Sergeant Hans Schultz - John Banner

Semi-Regulars

 * Marya - Nita Talbot

Guest Stars

 * General von Heiner - Theo Marcuse

Synopsis
Hogan plays a waiting game with a German General. The scheming General has planted a rocket fuel depot right outside Stalag 13 in hopes of trapping the area's resident saboteur, whom he suspects is Hogan.

Story Notes

 * This is the eighty-first produced episode of the series, but is the seventy-seventh episode to be shown on television and is the fifteenth episode shown for the Third Season.
 * Nita Talbot was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in this episode.
 * General von Heiner (Theodore Marcuse) is the first German to discover one of our heroes' bugs in Klink's office.
 * The events of The Safecracker Suite are referenced ("Remember that time they were checking on your loyalty, sir?")
 * Carter and LeBeau wear the homemade candle headlamps first worn by Carter and Newkirk in The Flight of the Valkyrie.
 * Actor Marcuse was fatally injured in an auto accident on 29 Nov of 1967. This episode first aired on 16 Dec.

Timeline Notes and Speculations

 * This episode takes place shortly before July 14, 1944 - Bastille Day, as referenced by LeBeau. He asks if they can blow up the rocket fuel depot on Bastille Day.
 * This is the first time that our heroes have seen Marya since A Tiger Hunt in Paris, according to Hogan.