Episode
Hogan's Heroes: The Swing Shift
Overview
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!
Details
- Series
- Hogan's Heroes
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 1967-02-03
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
The Swing Shift is Episode 21 in Season 2 of Hogan's Heroes. It aired on 1967-02-03. The runtime is 25 min.
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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 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.
More episodes from this season
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 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.
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.
Episode 24: Killer Klink
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?
Episode 17: The General Swap
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.
Episode 25: Reverend Kommandant Klink
When a French flier is captured, the Nazis verbally malign the man's fiancée in an attempt to get him to reveal important information. Hogan must find a way to keep him from cracking under the manipulative interrogation.
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 26: The Most Escape-Proof Camp I've Ever Escaped From
Colonel Klink's "no escape" record is jeopardized when Malcolm Flood, a British escape artist, lands in Stalag 13 and intends to continue his impressive escape record.
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 27: The Tower
When the Nazis construct a new communication tower near Stalag 13, Hogan enlists the help of a beautiful underground agent to destroy the tower, with Kinchloe assigned to snap some incriminating photos of General Burkhalter.