Rusted-out plumbing collapses the emergency tunnel just as Hogan needs to get four Underground leaders out of Germany, so he creates a health spa.Rusted-out plumbing collapses the emergency tunnel just as Hogan needs to get four Underground leaders out of Germany, so he creates a health spa.Rusted-out plumbing collapses the emergency tunnel just as Hogan needs to get four Underground leaders out of Germany, so he creates a health spa.
Walter Janovitz
- Oscar Schnitzer
- (as Walter Janowitz)
David M. Frank
- Driver
- (uncredited)
Roy Goldman
- Prisoner of War
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaShortly after seizing power in 1933 the Nazi Party started a massive tourism/bread-and-circuses organization named 'Kraft durch Freude", "Strength through Joy". The intent was to garner popular support by bringing fun-time leisure activities to the working classes. The program was dropped as soon as the Nazis had a war to fight.
- GoofsIn the denouement, when Hogan brings the box of bottled water to Klink so he can write the note, Hogan carries the box as if it were empty (which it almost certainly was). Given the size of the box, there would have been at least four bottles in the box (assuming the same type bottles were used here as those used to send the samples off to be analyzed). Assuming the bottles were two-liter bottles, since one liter of water weighs approximately one Kilogram (2.2 lbs.), each bottle would weigh at least two Kilograms (4.4 lbs.), giving a total water weight of 8 Kilograms, or 17.6 lbs. Adding in the weight of the glass bottles (4), the weight of the whole package would be at least 20 lbs., which Hogan could not carry in the manner he does. The way he carries it, it would almost certainly have fallen out of his grip - or Hogan would have crushed the box in his effort to hold the box under his arm. If the box contained the water, Hogan would have been carrying it by supporting it from underneath.
- Quotes
Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe: Oh, Colonel, we got roll call in a few minutes.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: [staying with the radio] Right. If I'm not there, start without me.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Man Show: Oprahization (1999)
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Making Klink Look All Wet Once Again
Pressed on short notice to liberate four underground agents from German detention, Hogan's Heroes find themselves submerged in difficulties in "Hogan Springs," which sees the Allied intelligence and sabotage unit operating from Stalag 13 nearly flushed down the drain when a water pipe breaks and floods the emergency tunnel they expected to use to spirit the agents out of camp. And when Sergeant Kinchloe does fit a sleeve over the break in the pipe to stop the leak, another pipe bursts near the surface, alerting camp commandant Colonel Klink to the problem--and Heroes leader Colonel Hogan must plug that problem before the Germans start digging and discover their covert operation.
Always engineering a credible premise while keeping it within the context of, you know, Allied airmen interned by Nazi Germany during World War Two, writer Laurence Marks sets course for a humorous yet plausible solution when Hogan congratulates Klink on becoming the proud owner of a mineral spring spouting healthful water, with him and his men then setting about to convince Klink that it really is mineral water and that he should create a spa to take advantage of this (ahem) watershed opportunity--and then to even invite General Burkhalter down for a relaxing soak.
It's all an elaborate ruse to sneak the four underground agents out of camp as "Hogan Springs" plays it mostly for laughs, although a brief spotlight on Walter Janovitz, in the fifth of his dozen appearances as Oscar Schnitzer, the veterinarian who tends to Stalag 13's guard dogs, highlights the outside help the Heroes have to run their operation while Marks also tosses in a real-world throwaway gag: Over the doorway into the spa, Klink has placed a sign labeled "Strength Through Water," a play on the name of the German tourism organization Strength Through Joy, a hugely popular German Labour Front leisure resource that promoted Nazism along with its affordable cruises and its most famous product, a budget "people's car" that after the war became better known as the Volkswagen Beetle.
Smartly executed by director Gene Reynolds, "Hogan Springs" is really just a well-constructed vignette that makes for a satisfying comedic diversion, with the quartet of underground agents merely catalyst to make Klink look all wet once again.
Always engineering a credible premise while keeping it within the context of, you know, Allied airmen interned by Nazi Germany during World War Two, writer Laurence Marks sets course for a humorous yet plausible solution when Hogan congratulates Klink on becoming the proud owner of a mineral spring spouting healthful water, with him and his men then setting about to convince Klink that it really is mineral water and that he should create a spa to take advantage of this (ahem) watershed opportunity--and then to even invite General Burkhalter down for a relaxing soak.
It's all an elaborate ruse to sneak the four underground agents out of camp as "Hogan Springs" plays it mostly for laughs, although a brief spotlight on Walter Janovitz, in the fifth of his dozen appearances as Oscar Schnitzer, the veterinarian who tends to Stalag 13's guard dogs, highlights the outside help the Heroes have to run their operation while Marks also tosses in a real-world throwaway gag: Over the doorway into the spa, Klink has placed a sign labeled "Strength Through Water," a play on the name of the German tourism organization Strength Through Joy, a hugely popular German Labour Front leisure resource that promoted Nazism along with its affordable cruises and its most famous product, a budget "people's car" that after the war became better known as the Volkswagen Beetle.
Smartly executed by director Gene Reynolds, "Hogan Springs" is really just a well-constructed vignette that makes for a satisfying comedic diversion, with the quartet of underground agents merely catalyst to make Klink look all wet once again.
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