8.6/10280 votesLoading...#1 - War Takes a Holiday
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 1/27/1968
After a first attempt to sneak four underground leaders out of the German camp fails, Hogan and his men come up with a new plan: Convince the camp commanders, via radio broadcasts and newspaper headlines, that the war is over!
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: N/A
8.5/10256 votesLoading...#2 - The Missing Klink
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/4/1969
Hogan's scheme to kidnap General Burkhalter and trade him for an underground agent goes awry when Colonel Klink --- not the general --- is the one who gets kidnapped.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: N/A
8.4/10228 votesLoading...#3 - Klink vs. the Gonculator
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1968
When Sergeant Carter constructs an amazingly complicated rabbit trap, a suspicious Colonel Klink comes to believe that the contraption is a secret electronic spying device.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: N/A
8.3/10241 votesLoading...#4 - Will the Real Adolf Please Stand Up?
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/2/1966
With camp security raised, Hogan and his men are desperate to smuggle some top-secret photos of German fortifications to the allies. The solution? Make liberal use of Carter's remarkable impersonation of Adolf Hitler.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Laurence Marks
8.3/10243 votesLoading...#5 - D-Day at Stalag 13
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1967
Hogan and his men play a part in the D-Day invasion of France when they are asked to create a diversion that will delay Colonel Klink and other German officials at Stalag 13 from retaliating once the invasion is underway.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Richard M. Powell
8.3/10192 votesLoading...#6 - One Army at a Time
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/13/1970
When he's captured in German uniform, Carter convinces the Germans that he is one of them.
Director: N/A
Writer: Laurence Marks
8.3/10187 votesLoading...#7 - Klink's Escape
Season 5 Episode 26 - Aired 3/27/1970
Hogan gets Klink to believe he is about to bust a POW escape ring.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Harvey Bullock
8.3/10211 votesLoading...#8 - Easy Come, Easy Go
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 1/10/1971
Klink takes Hogan to England to steal an Allied plane, but Hogan has other plans --- to expose some Nazi spies.
Director: N/A
Writer: Laurence Marks
8.2/10211 votesLoading...#9 - Art for Hogan's Sake
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 12/30/1966
An assertive General Burkhalter "requisitions" the famous Édouard Manet painting, "The Fife Player," from the Louvre museum in Paris to give to Hermann Goering as a birthday present. Undaunted by the seeming impossible logistics, Hogan and LeBeau decide to steal it back!
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Laurence Marks
8.1/10535 votesLoading...#10 - The Informer
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1965
At Stalag 13, a German prisoner-of-war camp, Colonel Robert Hogan and his fellow cohorts are a subversive group with many hidden talents. However, a spy has been planted amongst the men by the Germans. And when he learns of the gang's subversive operations, "Hogan's Heroes" must act fast to discredit him.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Richard M. Powell, Bernard Fein
8.1/10231 votesLoading...#11 - The Battle of Stalag 13
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1966
Two German officers have new and differing plans for Stalag 13 --- both of which threaten Hogan's operations. In order to protect the camp and the gang's secret subterfuge, Hogan plays the two men against each other.
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: Richard M. Powell
8.1/10236 votesLoading...#12 - A Tiger Hunt In Paris (1)
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1966
In the first of a two-part story, "Tiger," a female underground agent, is arrested while trying to document some secret German bases and is held in Paris for questioning. So Hogan and LeBeau become stowaways aboard Klink's staff car and head for Paris to free her.
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: Richard M. Powell
8.1/10232 votesLoading...#13 - A Tiger Hunt In Paris (2)
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/1966
Part 2 of 2. While trying to free the underground agent "Tiger" in Paris, Hogan must seek help from a Parisian fortune teller and also enlist the aid of a man who is a look-alike for Nazi Police Chief Heinrich Himmler.
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: Richard M. Powell
8.1/10219 votesLoading...#14 - The Swing Shift
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/3/1967
Masquerading as German workers, Hogan and the crew have made elaborate and foolproof plans to blow a German cannon factory sky-high --- but their plan backfires when Newkirk winds up being drafted into the German army!
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/10189 votesLoading...#15 - How to Escape From Prison Camp Without Really Trying
Season 3 Episode 26 - Aired 3/2/1968
Hogan is asked to immobilize the entire German 6th SS division --- 10,000 men --- for two days while the Allies organize a surprise attack. The task seems impossible, especially in the presence of the two stern Gestapo colonels who are filling in for a vacationing Colonel Klink.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/10203 votesLoading...#16 - Bad Day in Berlin
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/1968
Hogan and his men join forces with an undercover agent and steal away to Berlin to nab a German defector who can compromise their entire operation at Stalag 13.
Director: N/A
Writer: Laurence Marks
8.1/10196 votesLoading...#17 - The Meister Spy
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/1971
The heroes pose a Nazi officers to root out a German spy posing as an American pilot.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Harvey Bullock
8.1/10186 votesLoading...#18 - Klink for the Defense
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 2/7/1971
When Klink gets assigned to defend a German officer accused of treason, Hogan helps to prove his innocence.
Director: Jerry London
Writer: N/A
8.0/10259 votesLoading...#19 - The Great Impersonation
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/4/1966
When LeBeau, Newkirk and Carter are captured by the Gestapo during a sabotage mission, Hogan must convince the affable sergeant Schultz to impersonate the stern Colonel Klink and demand their release.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Laurence Marks
8.0/10266 votesLoading...#20 - The Pizza Parlor
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/11/1966
When an Italian POW camp commander arrives at Stalag 13 to train under Colonel Klink, Hogan and his gang try to convince the new arrival to go to work for the Allies by plying him with pizza.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: N/A
8.0/10216 votesLoading...#21 - The Rise and Fall of Sergeant Schultz
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1966
Hogan is stymied over how to rescue a captured member of the underground until a potential diversion --- in the form of an old World War I buddy of Sergeant Schultz --- arrives at Stalag 13.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Laurence Marks
8.0/10211 votesLoading...#22 - A Klink, a Bomb and a Short Fuse
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1966
All goes well when Hogan's gang steals Klink's code book from his safe, photographs the contents, and returns it to its proper place. But there's a small hitch --- Carter forgot to load the camera with film!
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10213 votesLoading...#23 - The Great Brinksmeyer Robbery
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/13/1967
When the gang's hidden cache of money --- needed to purchase a secret map --- goes up in smoke, the men of Stalag 13 must come up with a way to replace the cash --- and decide to pull off a bank heist in the nearby town.
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: N/A
8.0/10221 votesLoading...#24 - Heil Klink
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/10/1967
When an important Gestapo official wants to defect, Hogan brings him to Stalag 13 --- and convinces Colonel Klink that the fugitive is Adolf Hitler in disguise... who is trying to elude assassins by hiding at the camp!
Director: N/A
Writer: Richard M. Powell
8.0/10203 votesLoading...#25 - Funny Thing Happened on the Way to London
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1967
Newkirk, Kinchloe and LeBeau must help Hogan fool the Germans with a look-alike German official to thwart the Nazis' planned assassination plot against British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Laurence Marks
The Best Episodes of Hogan's Heroes
Every episode of Hogan's Heroes ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Hogan's Heroes!
Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The...
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Best Episodes Summary
"War Takes a Holiday" is the best rated episode of "Hogan's Heroes". It scored 8.6/10 based on 280 votes. Directed by Bruce Bilson and written by N/A, it aired on 1/27/1968. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Missing Klink".