The Crittendon Plan

Series:	Hogan's Heroes
Episode:	The Crittendon Plan
Original Airdate:	September 9, 1967
Production Number:	5784-65
Written by:	Richard M. Powell
Directed by:	Gene Reynolds
Produced by:	Edward H. Feldman & William A. Calihan

Regular

Prisoners

• Colonel Hogan - Bob Crane
• Corporal Louis LeBeau - Robert Clary
• Sergeant James Kinchloe - Ivan Dixon
• Sergeant Andrew Carter - Larry Hovis

Camp Personnel

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

Semi-Regulars

• Colonel Rodney Crittendon - Bernard Fox

Guest Stars

• Nadya - Naomi Stevens
• Carla - Angela Dorian
• Major Shawcross - Laurie Main
• Marko - Cliff Osmond

Synopsis

Crittendon disrupts Hogan's plan to blow up a tunnel and stop a convoy of rocket fuel.

Story Notes

• This is the sixty-fifth produced episode of the series, but is the sixty-third episode to be shown on television and is the first episode shown for the Third Season.
• Richard Dawson does not appear in this episode.
• This is the only episode in the series in which actual gypsies (Romanys) are featured, although they are never named as such. In real life, the gypsies were second only to the Jews in suffering mass persecution and extermination as part of Nazi racial doctrines.
• Beginning with the third season, most of the German soldiers at Stalag 13 start wearing new cartridge cases on their uniform belts.
• This Episode confirms the existence of two Colonel Crittendons (one from Stalag 2, the other from Stalag 16).

Timeline Notes and Speculations

• A fall 1944 date is most likely, given the references to the ramp-up in German rocket attacks on England.
• This takes place after Hogan's Trucking Service … We Deliver the Factory to You. Crittendon is still a POW and has no knowledge about our heroes' operations.
• This takes place before Hogan, Go Home. By the time of the latter episode, Crittendon has been let in on our heroes' secret.

Bloopers

• When Hogan and Schultz are in the truck looking for Carter, the crown of a palm tree is visible behind them.

External links

• The Crittendon Plan atEin Käfig voller Helden
• The Crittendon Plan at the Internet Movie Database
• The Crittendon Plan episode capsule at Webstalag 13
• The Hofbrau

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