Hogan goes to the hospital to get information from a wounded contact.Hogan goes to the hospital to get information from a wounded contact.Hogan goes to the hospital to get information from a wounded contact.
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- TriviaHogan ask which room Major Zimmer is in. Zimmer is German for room.
- GoofsWhen Hogan is leafing through the book Diseases of the Arctic, he comes to the page with a description of the disease Polaris Extremis. As he hands the book to Newkirk, a yellow slip of paper with hand-written lines is visible, taped to that page.
- Quotes
Col. Klink: I thought you said you fixed the car?
LeBeau: I did. It's perfect.
Featured review
Hardly Worth the Visit
Facile contrivance attempting to prop up a weak, tired premise summarizes "Up in Klink's Room," Harvey Bullock and R. S. Allen's featherweight trifle that exemplifies the increasing desperation engulfing "Hogan's Heroes" as this unusual situation comedy about an Allied intelligence and sabotage outfit operating covertly from a Nazi German prisoner of war camp during World War Two limped to end of its fourth season having begun to exhaust the possibilities the Heroes might encounter.
"Major Zimmer" (Forrest Compton), a British agent masquerading as a German officer, has vital information he must pass on to the Heroes, led by Colonel Hogan. However, Zimmer has been wounded and is to be taken to the hospital in nearby Hammelburg, where the Heroes could possibly rendezvous with him--but how to get out of Stalag 13 and over to the hospital? Convince camp commandant Colonel Klink that he's injured and must go to the hospital, where Hogan could go to visit him.
Never mind that the Heroes have been sneaking out of camp and into Hammelburg disguised as civilians or soldiers throughout the series. The Germans have not imposed any undue security restrictions that would hinder this; it's just that Bullock and Allen, seemingly lacking inspiration, must fill the running time with something, so they fabricate a farcical situation that sees Klink carted off in an ambulance with a phony case of whiplash, giving Hogan the excuse to pay him a visit while accompanied by Sergeant Schultz, whom Hogan cajoles into visiting Klink so Schultz can build up brownie points.
Or something. The Bullock-Allen script leans heavily on the clueless-Germans trope for its rationale, which itself requires manufactured complications and conveniences to survive. For example, why is Doctor Klaus (Henry Corden), Klink's attending physician, distributing copies of his latest book "Diseases of the Arctic" to every patient? So Hogan can "contract" a case of "Polaris extremis," a disease whose only remedy is "extended bedrest in a hospital." Can you smell the desperation yet?
Even fans of "Hogan's Heroes" strictly as a farce will find "Up in Klink's Room" thin gruel as Bob Crane seems to be phoning it in, although stalwart Werner Klemperer maintains his professionalism in a vignette he has done too many times already.
An uncredited Victoria Carroll, in her second series appearance, appears as an early contrivance; given the comely redhead's looks, you can guess what her function is. Industry veteran Corden is reliable if predictable while Compton is simply catalyst, although the vital information his Zimmer needs to transmit to the Heroes, which involves the German battleship Tirpitz, at least shows Bullock's and Allen's basic credibility regarding the war. Otherwise, "Up in Klink's Room" is hardly worth the visit.
REVIEWER'S NOTE: What makes a review "helpful"? Every reader of course decides that for themselves. For me, a review is helpful if it explains why the reviewer liked or disliked the work or why they thought it was good or not good. Whether I agree with the reviewer's conclusion is irrelevant. "Helpful" reviews tell me how and why the reviewer came to their conclusion, not what that conclusion may be. Differences of opinion are inevitable. I don't need "confirmation bias" for my own conclusions. Do you?
"Major Zimmer" (Forrest Compton), a British agent masquerading as a German officer, has vital information he must pass on to the Heroes, led by Colonel Hogan. However, Zimmer has been wounded and is to be taken to the hospital in nearby Hammelburg, where the Heroes could possibly rendezvous with him--but how to get out of Stalag 13 and over to the hospital? Convince camp commandant Colonel Klink that he's injured and must go to the hospital, where Hogan could go to visit him.
Never mind that the Heroes have been sneaking out of camp and into Hammelburg disguised as civilians or soldiers throughout the series. The Germans have not imposed any undue security restrictions that would hinder this; it's just that Bullock and Allen, seemingly lacking inspiration, must fill the running time with something, so they fabricate a farcical situation that sees Klink carted off in an ambulance with a phony case of whiplash, giving Hogan the excuse to pay him a visit while accompanied by Sergeant Schultz, whom Hogan cajoles into visiting Klink so Schultz can build up brownie points.
Or something. The Bullock-Allen script leans heavily on the clueless-Germans trope for its rationale, which itself requires manufactured complications and conveniences to survive. For example, why is Doctor Klaus (Henry Corden), Klink's attending physician, distributing copies of his latest book "Diseases of the Arctic" to every patient? So Hogan can "contract" a case of "Polaris extremis," a disease whose only remedy is "extended bedrest in a hospital." Can you smell the desperation yet?
Even fans of "Hogan's Heroes" strictly as a farce will find "Up in Klink's Room" thin gruel as Bob Crane seems to be phoning it in, although stalwart Werner Klemperer maintains his professionalism in a vignette he has done too many times already.
An uncredited Victoria Carroll, in her second series appearance, appears as an early contrivance; given the comely redhead's looks, you can guess what her function is. Industry veteran Corden is reliable if predictable while Compton is simply catalyst, although the vital information his Zimmer needs to transmit to the Heroes, which involves the German battleship Tirpitz, at least shows Bullock's and Allen's basic credibility regarding the war. Otherwise, "Up in Klink's Room" is hardly worth the visit.
REVIEWER'S NOTE: What makes a review "helpful"? Every reader of course decides that for themselves. For me, a review is helpful if it explains why the reviewer liked or disliked the work or why they thought it was good or not good. Whether I agree with the reviewer's conclusion is irrelevant. "Helpful" reviews tell me how and why the reviewer came to their conclusion, not what that conclusion may be. Differences of opinion are inevitable. I don't need "confirmation bias" for my own conclusions. Do you?
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- darryl-tahirali
- Aug 22, 2023
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