9.0/101 votes#1 - Three Wishes for Opie
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 12/21/1964
Opie makes three wishes on a "magic lamp" Barney bought. When one of his wishes doesn't come true, Barney dismisses the whole thing. Opie learns there are many different ways for a wish to be granted.
Director: Howard Morris
Writer: Richard M. Powell
9.0/101 votes#2 - It Takes a Thief... Sometimes
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/28/1966
Hogan is enthusiastic about joining forces with an underground unit that is targeting a local railway tunnel --- unaware that the "saboteurs" are actually Gestapo agents masquerading as allies!
Director: Howard Morris
Writer: Richard M. Powell
9.0/102 votes#3 - The Prince from the Phone Company
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/18/1966
Kinchloe dresses up as an African prince, whom Hogan has kidnapped, in order to ask the Germans for money to open a submarine base. Complications arise when the prince's wife arrives.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Richard M. Powell
9.0/102 votes#4 - 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
9.0/101 votes#5 - 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
9.0/101 votes#6 - 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
9.0/103 votes#7 - The Crittendon Plan
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1967
Colonel Hogan is called on to destroy a German convoy inside a tunnel --- but he balks when he discovers that his accomplice will be his old adversary, Colonel Crittendon.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Richard M. Powell
9.0/101 votes#8 - The Hostage
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 12/16/1967
A rocket fuel depot that the Germans build near Stalag 13 is a tempting target for Hogan and his men. But is the new facility just part of a plan to lure Hogan into a trap?
Director: N/A
Writer: Richard M. Powell
9.0/101 votes#9 - Duel of Honor
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 2/3/1968
Hogan and the gang decide that the hapless Colonel Klink would be the ideal patsy to use to get an important list of agents safely to England --- with a little boost from Carter's masquerade as a ferocious German general with a fondness for duels.
Director: N/A
Writer: Richard M. Powell
8.3/103 votes#10 - 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
8.0/101 votes#11 - The Lucky Letter
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 1/25/1965
Barney feels he's become "hexed" after Andy persuades him to throw away a chain letter. Now with the annual law-enforcement officers' pistol-shooting qualifications coming up, Andy has to soothe Barney's nerves or he may lose his job.
Director: Theodore J. Flicker
Writer: Richard M. Powell
8.0/101 votes#12 - Barney Runs for Sheriff
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 2/8/1965
Andy is offered a job in Minnesota so Barney decides to run for sheriff in the upcoming election. But when Andy's job offer falls through, he returns to Mayberry to find Barney with a case of campaign fever, aiming to unseat Andy.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Richard M. Powell
8.0/101 votes#13 - The Assassin
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/8/1966
An important German nuclear scientist must be eliminated and Hogan's crew is asked to perform the task --- a plan that takes an unexpected twist when the scientist comes to Hogan and asks for help in fleeing the Nazi regime.
Director: N/A
Writer: Richard M. Powell
8.0/101 votes#14 - 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
8.0/101 votes#15 - 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
8.0/102 votes#16 - 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
8.0/101 votes#17 - Is General Hammerschlag Burning?
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/18/1967
Paris is targeted for destruction should the Allied armies invade, so Hogan and Kinchloe secretly travel to the French capital to learn more about the plot --- and end up seeking help in their caper form an exotic dancer/ medium named Kumasa.
Director: N/A
Writer: Richard M. Powell
8.0/101 votes#18 - Carter Turns Traitor
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 12/23/1967
To get the inside secrets of a Nazi chemical warfare facility, Hogan and his cohorts must convince the Germans that Carter has turned traitor and wishes to defect to the Third Reich.
Director: Howard Morris
Writer: Richard M. Powell
7.6/105 votes#19 - The Sniper
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1973
A lone sniper turns the hospital compound into a combat zone, traps Henry and Radar in the showers and forces surgery by candlelight after he knocks out the generator.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Richard M. Powell
7.6/105 votes#20 - 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
7.0/101 votes#21 - The Arrest of the Fun Girls
Season 5 Episode 28 - Aired 4/5/1965
After arresting a couple of "fun girls" from Mount Pilot, Andy and Barney need to postpone their big date with Helen and Thelma Lou. Not wanting their dates to worry, Andy describes their prisoners as hard-bitten criminals. The ploy works, until Helen and Thelma Lou decide to make a surprise visit to the courthouse.
Director: Theodore J. Flicker
Writer: Richard M. Powell
7.0/102 votes#22 - The Late Inspector General
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1965
To prevent Colonel Klink from being transferred to the Russian front, Hogan and his men attempt to convince a visiting Inspector General that the Colonel is a cold, heartless disciplinarian. But their plan backfires when, as a result, Klink is promoted to a post in Berlin!
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Richard M. Powell
7.0/102 votes#23 - The Flight of the Valkyrie
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1965
Hogan's scheme to help a German baroness escape to London is thwarted by the arrival of a new prisoner of war--- Colonel Crittendon--- whose repeated bungled attempts at escape are wreaking havoc on Hogan's mission to spirit away the baroness.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Richard M. Powell
7.0/101 votes#24 - 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
7.0/101 votes#25 - Who's Who in Neverland?
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/1976
Margo Bently is writing her first book, the contents of which could prove very damaging to a certain group of people. She is murdered and brought into the lab as a suspected alcoholic prostitute with cirrhosis but Quince thinks the body is telling him something different about her social standing. Quince is asked to present a seminar in Bufflo NY by Asten, while he's preparing his notes Asten takes over in the lab. In Quincys absence, Asten signs the body out to a phoney coroner and Quincy begins tracking her down. This leads him to a murdered literary agent in New York a race to autopsy him before he's cremated so he can prove a link.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern
Writer: Richard M. Powell
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"Three Wishes for Opie" is the best rated episode written by Richard M. Powell. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Howard Morris. It aired on 12/21/1964 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "It Takes a Thief... Sometimes".