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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...
Genres:War & PoliticsComedy
Network:CBS

Best Episodes Summary

"War Takes a Holiday" is the best rated episode of "Hogan's Heroes". It scored 8.6/10 based on 276 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".

  • War Takes a Holiday
    8.6/10276 votes
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    #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

  • The Missing Klink
    8.5/10253 votes
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    #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

  • Klink vs. the Gonculator
    8.4/10226 votes
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    #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

  • Will the Real Adolf Please Stand Up?
    8.3/10241 votes
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    #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

  • D-Day at Stalag 13
    8.3/10242 votes
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    #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

  • One Army at a Time
    8.3/10189 votes
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    #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

  • Klink's Escape
    8.3/10186 votes
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    #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

  • Easy Come, Easy Go
    8.3/10211 votes
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    #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

  • Art for Hogan's Sake
    8.2/10211 votes
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    #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

  • The Informer
    8.1/10533 votes
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    #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

  • The Battle of Stalag 13
    8.1/10231 votes
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    #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

  • A Tiger Hunt In Paris (1)
    8.1/10236 votes
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    #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

  • A Tiger Hunt In Paris (2)
    8.1/10232 votes
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    #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

  • The Swing Shift
    8.1/10218 votes
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    #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

  • How to Escape From Prison Camp Without Really Trying
    8.1/10187 votes
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    #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

  • Bad Day in Berlin
    8.1/10201 votes
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    #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

  • The Meister Spy
    8.1/10196 votes
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    #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

  • Klink for the Defense
    8.1/10186 votes
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    #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

  • The Great Impersonation
    8.0/10258 votes
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    #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

  • The Pizza Parlor
    8.0/10265 votes
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    #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

  • The Rise and Fall of Sergeant Schultz
    8.0/10216 votes
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    #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

  • A Klink, a Bomb and a Short Fuse
    8.0/10211 votes
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    #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

  • The Great Brinksmeyer Robbery
    8.0/10213 votes
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    #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

  • Heil Klink
    8.0/10219 votes
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    #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

  • Funny Thing Happened on the Way to London
    8.0/10203 votes
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    #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