7.9/10231 votes#1 - Hogan Gives a Birthday Party
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1966
A German oil refinery is so heavily protected that allied bombers have been unable to destroy it. So Colonel Hogan decides that the only way to fool the gunners is to use a German plane—and he makes plans to hijack one!
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Richard M. Powell
7.9/10223 votes#2 - The Schultz Brigade
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1966
When the hapless Colonel Klink reluctantly joins two other German prison camp commandants in a plot to discredit General Burkhalter, all three men are subsequently arrested. Hogan and the gang must act quickly to keep their clueless commandant in charge of Stalag 13.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Richard M. Powell
7.7/10216 votes#3 - Diamonds in the Rough
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1966
After being double-crossed by a female lure, Hogan and his men are confronted by a Gestapo agent who knows all about their secret operation and demands "hush" money --- in the form of a million dollars in diamonds!
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Laurence Marks
7.6/10211 votes#4 - Operation Briefcase
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1966
Hogan is unexpectedly drawn into an assassination plot against Adolf Hitler when he is ordered to deliver a briefcase rigged with explosives to a German general involved in the plot.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Laurence Marks
8.1/10231 votes#5 - 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
8.0/10216 votes#6 - 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
7.7/10206 votes#7 - Hogan Springs
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1966
Hogan manages to free four underground leaders from the Germans and smuggles the quartet into Stalag 13. But a plan to spirit the men off to freedom in England suddenly looks hopeless when a leaky pipe fills the gang's emergency tunnel with water!
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Laurence Marks
8.0/10211 votes#8 - 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
7.8/10210 votes#9 - Tanks for the Memory
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1966
When Newkirk discovers a new radio controlled tank that could win the war for Germany, the allies want Hogan and the men to photograph the tank and then destroy it --- but complication ensue during their mission.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Laurence Marks
8.1/10236 votes#10 - 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 votes#11 - 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
8.3/10241 votes#12 - 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
7.7/10201 votes#13 - Don't Forget to Write
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/9/1966
The aristocratic Colonel Klink fails a routine physical exam and lands a combat assignment at the Russian front! Fearing a hard-line replacement at Stalag 13, the men must do all they can to rescind Klink's marching papers.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Laurence Marks
7.3/10198 votes#14 - Klink's Rocket
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/16/1966
Hogan and his men make plans to lure Luftwaffe bombers within range of an allied anti-aircraft installation hidden in an abandoned warehouse, but Carter make a shamble of the plan when, while "leaking" the info to Klink, he forgets the name of the town where the strategic warehouse is located.
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: N/A
7.8/10202 votes#15 - Information Please
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/23/1966
Suspectin a security leak at Stalag 13, General Burkhalter goes fishing with some false information and Colonel Hogan falls for the bait. As a result, Burkhalter plants a spy among the prisoners to expose the guilty parties.
Director: N/A
Writer: Laurence Marks
8.2/10211 votes#16 - 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
7.9/10212 votes#17 - The General Swap
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/6/1967
Colonel Hogan is less the thrilled when he is assigned to help an obnoxious American general flee Stalag 13 --- and the secret escape plan, involving a prisoner swap, winds up as trying and difficult as the arrogant escapee himself.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Harvey Bullock
8.0/10213 votes#18 - 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
7.8/10210 votes#19 - Praise the Führer and Pass the Ammunition
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/20/1967
Hogan and his men are determined to create chaos during some staged war games a ruthless Nazi colonel has scheduled near Stalag 13. So what do you suppose would happen if the fake explosives planned for the exercises were somehow replaced with live ammunition?
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: N/A
7.6/10200 votes#20 - Hogan and the Lady Doctor
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 1/27/1967
Hogan nixes a mission to destroy a synthetic fuel plant because the caper is too risky....but he is overruled -- and forced to participate in the scheme by the ploy's mastermind, a strong-willed, determined female scientist.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Laurence Marks
8.1/10218 votes#21 - 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
8.0/10219 votes#22 - 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
7.6/10192 votes#23 - Everyone Has a Brother-in-Law
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/17/1967
Captain Kurtz, General Burkhalter's brother-in-law, becomes the camp's tough new adjutant. What's worse he's keeping a watchful eye on every corner of Stalag 13 and ends up getting in the way of Hogan's plans to blow up an enemy munitions train.
Director: N/A
Writer: Laurence Marks
7.6/10189 votes#24 - Killer Klink
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 2/24/1967
The bumbling Sergent Schultz has unwittingly been conned into making a trip to Heidelberg as courier for the underground, but after upsetting Colonel Klink, the sergeant is ordered to remain grounded at the camp. How will Hogan and the gang win him a new weekend pass?
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: Harvey Bullock
7.9/10197 votes#25 - Reverend Kommandant Klink
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/3/1967
When a French flier is captured, the Nazis verbally malign the man's fiancee in an attempt to get him to reveal important information. To keep him from cracking under the interrogation, Hogan smuggle the man's girlfriend into the stalag and arranges for the two to be married.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Richard M. Powell, Art Baker
The Best Episodes of Hogan's Heroes Season 2
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Hogan Gives a Birthday Party" is the best rated episode of "Hogan's Heroes" season 2. It scored 7.9/10 based on 231 votes. Directed by Gene Reynolds and written by Richard M. Powell, it aired on 9/16/1966. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Schultz Brigade".