A new prisoner in a corporal's uniform turns out to be a general with a mission for Hogan.A new prisoner in a corporal's uniform turns out to be a general with a mission for Hogan.A new prisoner in a corporal's uniform turns out to be a general with a mission for Hogan.
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- TriviaWhile the title is meant to be figurative and humorous it isn't far from the truth. After radar systems were first deployed, people noticed that birds that flew too close to the radars would be instantly killed and fall to the ground fully cooked. After the war engineers began to investigate using microwaves as a new way to cook food. In fact the first microwave ovens were called "radar ranges". The name 'Radarange' was originally trademarked by Raytheon, and passed on to Amana when Raytheon acquired it.
- GoofsWhen Hogan throws the match into the trashcan in front of Klink's office there is obviously a pyrotechnic device being used since the fire starts at the bottom left of the can not the top right where Hogan throws the match.
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Col. Hogan: [Col. Hogan and his crew enter their cabin with a new prisoner, Corporal Walter Tillman]
[pointing at an empty bunk]
Col. Hogan: That one's yours, pop.
Corporal Walter Tillman: Okay, Hogan.
LeBeau: It's Colonel Hogan.
Corporal Walter Tillman: Yeah? Well, I'll remember that.
Col. Hogan: What outfit were you with, pop?
Corporal Walter Tillman: 605th engineers. After that, I went airborne. Don't ask me any questions about baseball. Any German spy knows more about it than I do.
Col. Hogan: You know how it is, pop. Can't be too careful
Corporal Walter Tillman: Yeah, I know. Knock it off with that pop routine, will ya?
Col. Hogan: Unless that's the way you want it.
Corporal Walter Tillman: That's the way I want it.
Carter: Hey, look, American cigarettes!
Corporal Walter Tillman: Give me those!
[everyone looks at Tillman with suspicion]
Corporal Walter Tillman: Well, it's the only pack I got.
Kinchloe: Yeah, well, there's a war on.
Col. Hogan: Tillman, didn't your mother ever teach you anything about sharing?
Newkirk: Maybe his mother doesn't know he smokes.
LeBeau: Well, maybe we should take his cigarettes away so his mother won't be unhappy.
Carter: Yeah, that's what we ought to do.
Corporal Walter Tillman: Well, don't start anything. Someone might get hurt.
Newkirk: What gave you that idea, pop?
Col. Hogan: Knock it off! Go take a shower, Tillman.
Indeed, Tillman is a plant--just not the one they suspect. Tillman is actually Tillman Walters, a general in the Signal Corps on a mission to plant a miniature radar device somewhere in the prisoner-of-war camp to help guide American bombers to a German rocket factory thirty miles from Stalag 13. After verifying Tillman's actual identity, the Heroes assist him in surveying the camp for the optimal location to plant the device, but even before this misdirection-laden episode gets to its climactic challenge, you might be wondering why it was necessary to send such an old general on such an elaborate ruse in the first place.
In fact, you could fly a squadron of B-17 Flying Fortresses through the plot holes apparent in writer Phil Sharp's utterly--and poorly--contrived script, although the narrative's constant hand-waving provides enough distractions to keep you from thinking about them, at least initially.
Chief among those is comely Cynthia Lynn, whose Helga, Klink's blonde secretary, is flattered by Hogan to pose for some cheesecake photos in her bathing suit, ostensibly to help her break into the movies after the war, but actually to distract a guard in a critical location. With O'Malley phoning it in, this is one cooked goose you have to scrape off the bottom of the "Hogan's Heroes" barrel, but you might enjoy Lynn's cheesecake for dessert.
- darryl-tahirali
- Mar 8, 2022
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