Hogan's Heroes (TV Series) No Names Please (1968) User Reviews

Hogan is nearly sold-out by an American journalist

[kfo9494 · 8/10 · 28 August 2014]

Hogan and his men rescue an American journalist that was shot down over Germany. They take him to the prison camp where they will get him back to the states. When he gets home he prints an article that he was rescued by POW's in a German Stalag camp. Now the Gestapo is investigating all the prison camps.

Major Hochstetter sends one of his men as a prison guard and Hogan knows that the Major will not give up until something is found. So Hogan gets his men to dig a tunnel for Klink and Hochstetter to find hoping the heat will get off of their operation.

This was a nice plot that worked out well. The story was interesting and the humor laughable. It seems like if the writers can make the story and humor likable then the show is entertaining. Good watch.

Hogan has to make up for a journalist's gigantic blunder

[FlushingCaps · 8/10 · 17 July 2020]

The setup has Hogan and Co. rescuing a man who parachuted out of a plane where all others lost their lives. He is a journalist who is strictly told by Hogan not to write about what he learned at Stalag 13 because the POWs would all be killed. Instead, he writes what he thinks is a harmless article simply saying that somewhere in Germany POWs operate a rescue and sabotage operation.

A month after they get the journalist released is when the article gets back to Germany, specifically Major Hochstetter, who will investigate all camps, starting with Stalag 13. Hochstetter plants a man in as a new guard. Hogan discovers this, but it doesn't matter because this man plays no important role in the show.

Hogan decides to get the Gestapo off his back, so they can smuggle out yet another important radio part to the Underground (this is the umpteenth time Hogan and friends have needed to help the Underground with a radio). His plan is to let Klink and Hochstetter discover a tunnel (a fake tunnel in an unused barracks) and that will end their problems.

Hogan correctly guesses Klink will try to outfox him and be ready to arrest them escaping one day earlier than planned. What he doesn't figure is that Hochstetter will do the same. Just after Klink has "surprised" Hogan and men entering the tunnel in Barracks 4, he learns Hochstetter and his men have arrived and are about to enter his own barracks, # 2, where his men are busy trying to get that blasted radio part out. He rushes out the door and calls out to Hochstetter-just before he spots the men on their real mission-"Major Hochstetter...the escape is over here!" This was the most memorable funny line in the show.

So Hochstetter is happy, and will, presumably, take his spy out of camp and go elsewhere to investigate the American newspaper report.

It was a very funny episode-had to be, Hochstetter was in it. But there are some plot holes. I believe these war correspondents had to get all their articles cleared before they could be published. This was to prevent just the sort of thing that happened from causing death to Allied men.

Hochstetter was eager to find evidence of a sabotage and rescue operation at a camp. Escape attempts (at least on this series) happened all the time. Why would he have left his # 1 suspect, Hogan, alone after thwarting this little tunnel escape attempt?

Deserves an 8 overall.

Of Shoes And Chutes (Parachutes)

[chashans · 10/10 · 17 April 2024]

A terrific episode of Hogan's Heroes. It's an interesting and alarming idea to have the Heroes efforts thwarted, as it were, by someone who thinks he's doing the Heroes a "favor". The Heroes have saved this journalist's life, and in attempting to thank them via a later published newspaper article, he instead threatens not only their top secret operation, but also their lives.

Much fun is always had when Kommandant Klink goes up against Gestapo Agent Major Hochstetter. Hogan has a very funny line in which he laments breaking up their beautiful friendship.

An oddity in the script has Hogan hiding a radio meant for the Underground in the barracks. He's worried about the Heroes being caught with it. Why keep it in the barracks when there's an extensive secret tunnel system running underneath the barracks and in fact, the entire Stalag itself?

One of the "Goofs" for this episode mentions Hogan ordering one of the extras to bury a shoe. This concerns the opening scene in which the Heroes rescue the journalist who has suffered a sprained ankle after parachuting from a crashing plane. This goof is itself a goof. Hogan says nothing about a shoe. He orders the extra, who Hogan names as Olson, to bury "the chute". As in the journalist's parachute which is seen hanging from a tree. As the scene concludes and the regular Heroes and the journalist depart, Olson can be seen (though with some difficulty in the dark background) beginning to climb the tree so as to remove the "chute/parachute". Again, Hogan says nothing about any shoe. That would be silly.

Just one more thing. John Banner as Sergeant Shultz is his usual absolutely hysterical self!