Episode
Hogan's Heroes: The General Swap
Overview
Colonel Hogan is less than 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.
Details
- Series
- Hogan's Heroes
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 1967-01-06
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
The General Swap is Episode 17 in Season 2 of Hogan's Heroes. It aired on 1967-01-06. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 16: Art for Hogan's Sake
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!
Episode 18: The Great Brinksmeyer Robbery
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.
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Episode 15: Information Please
Suspecting 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.
Episode 19: Praise the Führer and Pass the Ammunition
Hogan and his men are determined to create chaos during staged war games a ruthless Nazi colonel has scheduled near Stalag 13.
Episode 14: Klink's Rocket
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 makes 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.
Episode 20: Hogan and the Lady Doctor
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.
Episode 13: Don't Forget to Write
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 orders.
Episode 21: The Swing Shift
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!
Episode 12: Will the Real Adolf Please Stand Up?
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.
Episode 22: Heil Klink
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.
Episode 11: A Tiger Hunt In Paris (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.
Episode 23: Everyone Has a Brother-in-Law
Captain Kurtz, General Burkhalter's annoying, ambitious 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.