Ivan DixonFilmography

Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star

Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, Joe Penny, William Katt, Ron Glass

Synopsis: Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) is once more dragged out of retirement to defend a murder suspect. This time the defendant is an obnoxious actor (Joe Penny) who was seen by an audience of millions in the act of shooting a vitriolic TV talk show host (Allan Thicke). The actor claims the shooting was a Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Kapu

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When the beautiful Makua (Marlene Sai) witnesses a murder, Magnum (Tom Selleck) does his best to protect her from the killers. But his best may be none too good when he is knocked unconscious and nearly drowned. Awakening in a semi-amnesiac estate, Magnum discovers that he is on the "forbidden" Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Old Acquaintance

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Magnum (Tom Selleck) and T.C. (Roger E. Mosley) are reunited with their high school classmate Goldie Morris (Lee Purcell), who is still the same zany, impulsive political activist she'd been back in the good old days when she was Magnum's tutor. Goldie wants the detective to help her locate a Read More

Magnum, P.I.: The Treasure of Kalaniopu'u

Crew: Director

Synopsis: To publicize his latest novel, Robin Masters stages a million-dollar treasure hunt, with the clues adroitly hidden with the pages of his book. Unfortunately, one of the contestants doesn't see the need to play fair, and before the day is over Magnum (Tom Selleck) and the other treasure-hunters Read More

Magnum, P.I.: The Case of the Red Faced Thespian

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When Higgins (John Hillerman) is stunned into semi-consciousness by an errant croquet ball, Magnum (Tom Selleck) must take over supervision of a "Great Gatsby" costume ball held at the Masters Estate. In the course of the evening, some valuable jewels are stolen, and the chief suspect is none Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Jororo Farewell

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this sequel to the second-season episode "Jororo Kill", Danny Lin (Wesley Ogata), the young crown prince of the Jororo Island, has come to Hawaii to play in the Little League International Goodwill Tournament. Going undercover to protect Danny from an assassination plot, Magnum (Tom Selleck) Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Under World

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ever on the lookout for a quick buck, T.C. (Roger E. Mosley) agrees to deliver a mysterious briefcase to Oahu. En route, T.C.'s chopper plunges into the ocean, and he ends up in the hospital in a comatose state. Flying in the face of convential wisdom, Magnum (Tom Selleck) is certain that the Read More

The A-Team: Harder Than it Looks

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The A-Team has a surprisingly easy time rescuing Jennifer Teasdale (Lori Lethin), the daughter of a millionaire businessman, from a terrorist group calling themselves the GLA. The hard part comes in when Jennifer pulls a gun on the Team, demanding that they go back to the GLA's hideout to rescue Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Murder 101

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While teaching a college investigation class, Magnum (Tom Selleck) tries to stem the alarming dropout rate by agreeing to take a case from one of his students on a pro-bono basis. At first, it appears that all Magnum has to do is locate the student's missing fiancee--but as the plot thickens, our Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Luther Gills - File #001

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Magnum (Tom Selleck) is simultaneously solicited by Higgins (John Hillerman) and Robin Masters (still unseen, but voiced by Orson Welles) to help them with a pair of delicate and potentially damaging cases. Higgins is being blackmailed for helping a woman with an illegitimate son, while one of Read More

Magnum, P.I.: A Sense of Debt

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Owing his life to washed-up pugilist Leon Platt (Denny Miller), T.C. (Roger E. Mosley) enters a bare-knuckle boxing match, intending to use the prize money to save Leon and his daughter Ima (a pre-Beverly Hills 90210 Shannen Doherty) from being tossed into the street. Figuring that T.C. hasn't got Read More

Magnum, P.I.: I Do?

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The wealthy MacKenzie family controls a vast business concern which is being systematically robbed by "person or persons unkown." In order to root out the culprit, the company's CEO hires Magnum (Tom Selleck) to work undercover. This strategy obliges the matrimony-phobic Magnum to go through with Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Basket Case

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Magnum (Tom Selleck) and T.C. (Roger E. Mosley) sign on to coach a junior basketball team, whose star player is a 13-year-old orphan girl named Willie (Dana Hill). A likeable kid with an ingratiating personality, Willie soon charms her way into the confidence of her two coaches, and ends up being Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Flashback

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Through some freakish glitch in the time-space continuum, Magnum (Tom Selleck) awakens in the year 1936. Despite this bizarre displacement, he's still a private eye, and he's still very much for hire. In fact, his latest client is Brenda McCutchen (Anne Lockhart), whose labor-leader father has Read More

The Rockford Files: The Battle-Ax and the Exploding Cigar

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Left without a car or a bankroll in Las Vegas, Jim accepts a ride back to LA with a casual acquaitance named Perankus (Sully Boyar). It turns out that Jim's "friend" is not only driving a stolen car, but he is transporting illegal weapons. Hauled into jail when the Feds show up, Jim is outraged Read More

The Rockford Files: Just a Coupla Guys

Crew: Director

Synopsis: No sooner has Jim (James Garner) arrived in Newark than he is robbed of his watch, wallet, luggage, and return plane ticket. The culprits are a couple of minor-league crooks who hope to break into the Big Time through the auspices of Jim's friend, reformed mobster Beppy Conigliaro (Simon Oakland). Read More

The Rockford Files: With the French Heel Back, Can the Nehru Jacket Be Far Behind?

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After calling her ex-boyfriend Jim (James Garner) for help, former model Carol is found dead. According the the police, Carol committed suicide, but another model, Alta Hatch (Erin Grey) suspects that the girl was murdered--and that the killer is the same person who bumped off yet another model. Read More

The Rockford Files: The Prisoner of Rosemont Hall

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jim heads to Rosemont College to investigate the disappearance of student Paul Douglas, the son of an old friend. At the same time, two middle-eastern types draw a bead on Jim and begin questioning him about the whereabouts of an Iranian prince. The key to the mystery lies somewhere within the Read More

Love is Not Enough

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Made for television, Love is Not Enough stars Bernie Casey as Mike Harris, the widowed father of five children, ages ranging from 5 to 18. Deducing that a large African-American family has a slim chance of financial survival in Detroit, where he has just been laid of his assembly-line job, Harris Read More

The Rockford Files: Three Day Affair With a Thirty Day Escrow

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After being kidnapped and harrassed by the members of an Arab family, Jim (James Garner) tries to find out why his captors were so interested in his current client Sean Innes (Richard Romanus), who'd hired him to locate a woman named Khedra Azziz (Maria Grimm). It soon becomes clear that both Sean Read More

The Rockford Files: Kill the Messenger

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While studying for his Lieutenant's exam, Dennis Becker (Joe Santos) is assigned to investigate the murder of the wife of Deputy Police Chief Towne (Byron Morrow). Knowing all too well that Dennis will never get his promotion--and more likely will face demotion--if anything goes wrong with his Read More

The Rockford Files: The Battle of Canoga Park

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Not long after Jim (James Garner) hides his .38 in a cookie jar, he is charged with murder when the weapon is used in a gas station holdup. Can the pilfering of the pistol have anything to do with Viola Wenke (Nora Marlowe), the new cleaning lady that Rocky (Noah Beery Jr.) talked Jim into hiring? Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Visitors in Paradise

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Previously seen in timeslots ranging from 90 minutes to two hours, Quincy M.E. settles into its standard one-hour format with this episode. While vacationing in the resort town of Paradise, Quincy (Jack Klugman) is approached by young Jessica Casey (Hilary Thompson), whose alcoholic father John is Read More

The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Witches' Hollow

Crew: Director

Actors: Shaun Cassidy, Parker Stevenson

Synopsis: Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson play Franklin W. Dixon's teenage sleuths Joe and Frank Hardy in this 48-minute spine tingler, originally titled "Mystery of the Witches' Hollow." Things start hopping when the uncle of Joe and Frank's classmate Calley (Lisa Eilbacher) disappears. The only clues Read More

The Rockford Files: The Mayor's Committee From Deer Lick Falls

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Four small-town businessmen hire Jim (James Garner) to help them purchase a fire engine--or at least that's their story. Sizing up the detective and jumping to the conclusion that he will do anything for $20,000, the men instruct Jim to murder a young actress (Priscilla Barnes) who threatens to Read More

Car Wash

Actors: Franklyn Ajaye, Sully Boyar, Richard Brestoff, George Carlin, Irwin Corey

Synopsis: Michael Schultz directed this kinetic, hyperventilating comedy (scripted by Joel Schumacher) concerning the crazed events that go on within a single 10-hour period at a Los Angeles car wash. The cast of colorful car-wash employees includes Lonnie (Ivan Dixon), an ex-con; Duane (Bill Duke), a Read More

The Waltons: The Caretakers

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Feeling unwanted by the rest of the family, Grandpa (Will Geer) and Grandma (Ellen Corby) move out of the Walton house and into the home of Grandpa's friend Henry Townsend (Dan Priest). When Henry is forced to take leave, the two elder Waltons are desperately lonely--but both are too stubborn and Read More

The Rockford Files: The Real Easy Red Dog

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A woman identifying herself as Jennifer Sandstrom claims that her sister's death was not a suicide as reported, and hires Jim (James Garner) to find out for sure. It doesn't take long for Jim to determine that his client has not been entirely honest and up-front--and indeed, she isn't even Read More

The Waltons: The Breakdown

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While strenuously studying to keep up his grades at the Klineberg Music Conservatory, Jason (Jon Walmsley) is also holding down two jobs with two different musical bands. And if that wasn't enough of a sensory overload, Jason has taken up with a new girlfriend. Not surprisingly, it's just a matter Read More

The Waltons: The Fighter

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Fresh from his triumphant movie appearance in Blazing Saddles, Cleavon Little guest stars as James Travis Clark, the Waltons' new hired man. Upon learning that James is a prizefighter, Olivia (Michael Learned) and Grandma (Ellen Corby) strongly express their disapproval--until they find out that Read More

The Sty of the Blind Pig

Crew: Director

Actors: Mary Alice, Scatman Crothers, Maide Norman, Richard Ward

Synopsis: An uprooted African-American family is forced to confront their traditional values and ponder the effect that the emerging civil rights movement will have on their lives after relocating from the deep-south to Chicago in the filmed version of Phillip Hayes Dean's insightful and acclaimed stage Read More

Fer-De-Lance

Synopsis: In this s-s-suspenseful drama, a submarine carrying a load of poisonous snakes accidentally wedges itself amidst the rocks near the bottom of the sea. Now the crew must somehow avoid the unwanted slitherers and manage to extricate themselves. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Waltons: The Romance

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Impressed by Olivia's painting skills, John (Ralph Waite) encourages her to sign up for a night-school art class. But he may have reason to regret this move when art teacher Joshua Williams (David Selby) falls in love with Olivia (Michael Learned)--and begins aggressively courting her. Meanwhile Read More

The Waltons: The Birthday

Crew: Director

Synopsis: On the eve of his 73rd birthday, Grandpa Walton (Will Geer) suffers a heart attack. Though the attack proves to be a mild one, it has a devastating effect on Grandpa, who has completely lost his will to live. As the rest of the family deploys some rather unorthodox methods to restore Grandpa to Read More

The Waltons: The Job

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Seeking out of a part-time job, John-Boy (Richard Thomas) is hired as a reader for Ruth Thomas (Elaine Heiveil), who was recently blinded in an accident. Bitter over her plight and angry at the world, Ruth rejects all of John-Boy's efforts to be friendly, convinced that he is only acting out of Read More

The Waltons: The Departure

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Feeling somewhat confined and limited on Walton's Mountain, John (Ralph Waite) briefly takes leave of his family and accepts a shipyard job in faraway Norfolk. He finds temporary lodging in a boarding house managed by an attractive widow, Mrs. Champion (Joanna Moore). He also finds unexpected Read More

The Spook Who Sat by the Door

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Tom Alderman, Kathy Berk, Colostine Boatwright, Sidney Eden, Frank E. Ford, Robert Franklia, Martin Golar, Don Greenlee, Jeff Hamilton, Jim Heard, Virgie Johnson, David Lemieux, Frank Lesley, Tyrone Livingston, Walter Lowe, Clinton Malcome, Rodney McGrader, Ponciano Olayta, Jr., Kenneth Lee Orme, Audrey Stevenson, Orlanders Thomas, Perry Thomas, Maurice Wicks, Bobbie Gene Williams

Synopsis: Sam Greenlee's cult favorite novel of political unrest was brought to the screen in this drama, which also earned a small but loyal following. A congressman hoping to attract African-American voters during an election year decides to make political hay by pointing out that the Central Intelligence Read More

Trouble Man

Crew: Director

Synopsis: An inner-city point man is on the run from both the cops and the crooks in this streetwise blaxpolitation drama. T (Robert Hooks) is a combination pool shark, private detective, and all-purpose ghetto fixer who operates out of a billiards parlor in South Central Los Angeles. T has done well for Read More

Clay Pigeon

Actors: Marilyn Akin

Synopsis: This crime drama from the 1970s examines the experiences of a Vietnam vet who gets involved with illegal drugs. In time he wants out of that scene, but a narcotics agent forces him to stay involved and help him find the local drug lord. Violence ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Standing Room Only

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Major Strauss (Noam Pitlik) comes a-snooping at Stalag 13, suspicious about Klink's "perfect" no-escape record. Discovering that Klink has been -- er -- "borrowing" from the camp's treasury, Strauss orders that the Kommandant be turned over to the Gestapo. Hogan must save Klink so that he can Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Merry Widow

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan arranges a date between Klink and the beautiful Countess Marlene (Marj Dusay), who is actually an Allied agent. Unfortunately, Klink ends up delivering the wrong plans to the Countess, thereby potentially lousing up Hogan's latest espionage mission. To correct Klink's unwitting error, Hogan Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Sergeant's Analyst

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Goofing off as usual, Sgt. Schultz is caught by General Burkhalter, who prepares to send the hapless sergeant to the Russian front. In order to keep from losing their favorite patsy -- who has been unwittingly smuggling Allied messages stuffed in loaves of pumpernickel -- Hogan and his crew Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Six Lessons From Madame LaGrange

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Marlyn Mason guest stars as Lily Frankel, a sexy German nightclub chanteuse who doubles as an Allied agent. Lily informs Hogan that one of the Underground members is actually a double agent who intends to turn over a list of Allied operatives to the Germans. To prevent this, Hogan cooks up a Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Fat Hermann, Go Home

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan again finds himself working with (and frequently against) redoubtable Russian spy Marya (Nita Talbot). This time, Hogan's mission is to ship stolen art back to London before the masterpieces can be added to Hermann Goering's private collection. The plan hinges on Marya's ability to convince Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Softer They Fall

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: In a comic re-enactment of the Joe Louis/Max Schmeling heavyweight bout, Kinchloe is pitted against Luftwaffe champ Bruno (Chuck Hicks) in a boxing match. Since Hogan needs to prolong the fight as a diversion for his latest espionage height, it is imperative that Kinch "goes the distance." Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Get Fit or Go Fight

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Intending to use the hubcaps in Klink's car to transmit information to the Underground, Hogan and his crew must figure out a way to convince Klink that he has to go to town immediately. The solution: Arrange things so that Klink must get back in top physical condition or be shipped off to the Read More

Hogan's Heroes: One Army at a Time

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Disguised as a German soldier for an underground mission, Sgt. Carter is caught by an enemy Panzer division. At the behest of Hogan, Carter continues his masquerade in order to recover a cache of confiscated dynamite before the real Germans can find the explosives. Dave Willock appears as Read More

Hogan's Heroes: How's the Weather?

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: In order to direct Allied bombers to a German hydroelectric dam, Hogan is in dire need of current weather reports. In order to hear those reports via radio, Hogan throws an anniversary party for Klink. Fortunately, the cloddish Kommandant never looks too closely at those "party" balloons which Read More

The F.B.I.: The Deadly Pact

Synopsis: Brooker Bradshaw returns as African American FBI agent Harry Dane. Going undercover, Dane hopes to bring a halt to the activities of Daniel Dodds (Hari Rhodes), a black loan shark hired by the mob to shake down his own people. Caught in the crossfire is Dodds' old friend Terry Maynard (Ivan Read More

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

Actors: Brian Keith, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Ivan Dixon, Suzanne Pleshette

Synopsis: War Games is the streamlined reissue title for the satirical Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? The story is set in a sleepy Southern town, the site of a tranquil army base. Commanding officer Col. Flanders (Don Ameche), anxious to win the hearts and minds of the locals, invites the populace Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Gowns By Yvette

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan plans to use the wedding of General Burkhalter's chubby niece Frieda (Muriel Landers) as a rendezvous point with an Underground agent -- and as step one in an elaborate escape plan. Thus it is that Hogan's Gallic "hero" LeBeau impersonates an effete Parisian designer. Others in the cast Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Crittendon's Commandos

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan is once again saddled with Colonel Crittendon (Bernard Fox), the Allies' biggest bungler. This time, Crittendon enlists Hogan's aid in a scheme to kidnap Field Marshal Rommel from a nearby German hospital. Crittendon's espionage skills and keen powers of observation result in Hogan and his Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Klink's Escape

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: In order to successfully pull off a sabotage operation, Hogan concocts an elaborate diversion. Thanks to carefully planted "slips," Klink is led to believe that he will be able to trail Hogan's crew to the Underground spy headquarters. In order to make himself the hero of the proceedings, Klink Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Witness

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: This episode of Hogan's Heroes features bravura performances by three of the series' most frequent guest stars: Nita Talbot in her customary role of Russian spy Marya, Gavin McLeod as General Von Rauscher, and Larry D. Mann as captured Russian rocket scientist Zagoskin. Von Rauscher hatches a plan Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Big Dish

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Beautiful British traitor Lady Valerie Stanford (Karen Steele) has designed an anti-aircraft weapon for the Nazis. Hogan is ordered to sabotage the weapon, and to do this he must trick Klink into revealing Lady Valerie's whereabouts. But is the lady really the turncoat that she seems to be? Also Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Return of Major Bonacelli

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Vito Scotti guest stars as peace-loving Italian officer Major Bonacelli, a role originated by Hans Conried in the first-season episode "The Pizza Parlor." Now working undercover for the Allies -- and for Hogan -- Bonacelli wants to chuck it all and escape to Switzerland. Hogan must persuade the Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Well

Actors: Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson, Ivan Dixon

Synopsis: Hogan manages to get hold of a book containing the Luftwaffe's secret code. Alas, Newkirk accidentally drops the book into the Stalag 13 well. Hogan's efforts to retrieve the book are stymied by the fact that the well is filling rapidly with freezing-cold water. Will Klink unwittingly provide Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Klink Commandos

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan must once again collaborate with his friendly rival, Russian spy Marya. This time around, the two agents have to prevent the Gestapo from locating Stalag 13's secret transmitter. Hogan's scheme is a beaut, requiring himself and his crew to volunteer for a suicide mission at the Russian front Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Happy Birthday, Dear Hogan

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: As a birthday present to Col. Hogan, his men take it upon themselves to blow up an ammunitions dump. Unfortunately, they target the wrong location, thanks to false information fed to them by the Gestapo. Hogan must set things right without tipping off the Gestapo -- and make it back to camp in Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Hogan Goes Hollywood

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan's Heroes launched its fifth season -- and also returned to the series' original Friday-evening berth -- with the episode titled "Hogan Goes Hollywood." Frequent series guest star Alan Oppenheimer plays his flashiest role (with the aid of an elaborate toupee) as Byron Buckles, a vainglorious Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Purchasing Plan

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan and his crew are ordered to pick up air-dropped messages to the Underground. This task completed, the men must figure out a way to deliver the information simultaneously to four different locations. Coincidentally, Klink is in the middle of an enforced "efficiency and economy" drive Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Operation Hannibal

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan infiltrates a party to steal secret information from German General Von Behler (John Hoyt). In this he is aided by an unexpected friend: Von Behler's daughter Hedy (Louise Troy), who happens to be an Allied agent. Realizing that her father's plans will prolong the war, Hedy agrees to Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Who Stole My Copy of 'Mein Kampf?'

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan is ordered to kill British defector Leslie Smythe-Beddoes during an award ceremony for Colonel Klink. The plan hits a snag when Hogan discovers that Leslie is a woman (Ruta Lee). Unwilling to liquidate her in the usual fashion, Hogan concocts a scheme whereby Leslie's credibility with the Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Missing Klink

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan plots to kidnap General Burkhalter as part of a hostage swap that will free Underground leader Hans Wagner (Chris Robinson). Unfortunately, things go awry, and it is Klink who ends up kidnapped. Worse still, negotiations for the release of Wagner fall through when Gestapo decides that Klink Read More

Hogan's Heroes: My Favorite Prisoner

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Well aware of Col. Hogan's fondness for pretty ladies, Klink dispatches sexy Baroness Von Krim (Marj Dusay to pry information out of Hogan. Quickly tumbling to Klink's strategy, Hogan quickly improvises a counterscheme, introducing the Baroness to a British agent named Captain Sears (John Orchard) Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Up in Klink's Room

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan must infiltrate a German hospital in order to contact one of the patients, a British agent (Forrest Compton) posing as a Nazi officer. To do this, Hogan convinces Klink that he has come down with a rare ailment known as "Polaris Extremis." Frequent Hogan's Heroes supporting player Henry Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Klink's Old Flame

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Klink trembles in anticipation of a visit from his old flame Marlene Schneider (Norma Eberhardt. Convinced that he is still "irresistible" to Marlene, Klink worries that he will incur the wrath of the lady's new husband, SS officer Count Von Heffernick (Ben Wright). Conversely, Hogan is delighted Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Watch the Trains Go By

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan is assigned to blow up a German train, but can't get past Stalag 13's beefed-up security. Hoping to keep Klink occupied while he attempts to slip away, Hogan arranges a cozy tête-à-tête between Klink and General Burkhalter's matrimony-minded sister -- but Klink, unwilling to be Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Is There a Traitor in the House?

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: In a variation on the third-season episode "Axis Annie," guest star Antoinette Bower is cast as Nazi radio propagandist Berlin Betty. At first, Hogan's men balk at Betty's invitation to appear on her radio program and deliver speeches imploring the Allies to surrender. But Hogan surprisingly Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Antique

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan talks Col. Klink into opening an antique cuckoo-clock shop. Convinced that he will make a fortune off the needs of European collectors, Klink is blissfully unaware that Hogan plans to use the shop to transmit information to the Underground. This week's "guest cutie" is Kristina, played by Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Empty Parachute

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: To foil a new German plan to distribute counterfeit money, Hogan must steal the counterfeit plates -- which rest in a briefcase handcuffed to the wrist of an enemy courier. The only solution is to create a diversion by convincing the Germans that an Allied agent has parachuted into Stalag 13. Read More

Hogan's Heroes: At Last--Schultz Knows Something

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Amazingly, Sgt. Schultz actually knows the location of an atomic bomb plant. Unable to wheedle the information out of Schultz using the standard methods (including bribing the corpulent sergeant with LeBeau's gourmet food), Hogan relies on a vial of truth serum, courtesy of the Underground. Dave Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Season 05

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Season five of Hogan's Heroes gets off to a lively start with the episode "Hogan Goes Hollywood," in which American POW Col. Hogan (Bob Crane) and his fellow underground agents sabotage a German propaganda film. It is the first of several secret missions undertaken by Hogan's Heroes, who continue Read More

The Incomparable Connie Walker

Synopsis: The Incomparable Connie Walker was first broadcast as the January 24, 1969 episode of the TV series Name of the Game. Conway "Connie" Walker (Ivan Dixon) is the first black mayor of a large unnamed city. In addition to suffering the slings and arrows of racism, Walker is the target of accusations Read More

Where's Jack?

Actors: Tommy Steele, Stanley Baker, Fiona Lewis, Alan Badel, Dudley Foster

Synopsis: Jack Sheppard (Tommy Steele) is the locksmith's apprentice who is forced into highway robbery when he is betrayed by Jonathan Wild (Stanley Baker). Jack runs for his life and takes to a life of crime. He is captured but breaks out of jail, quickly becoming the subject of lore, legend and song. The Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Kommandant Dies at Dawn

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hoping to smuggle a vital document out of Stalag 13, Hogan plants the papers on Colonel Klink. Unfortunately, the Gestapo finds the papers, arrests Klink for treason, and sentences him to a firing squad. Now Hogan must retrieve both the papers and Klink -- after all, the Kommandant might be Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Unfair Exchange

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Kathleen Freeman returns to the role of General Burkhalter's homely sister Gertrude Linkmeier, after briefly relinquishing the character to Alice Ghostley in the fourth-season episode "Watch the Trains Go By." Hoping to negotiate the release of captured Underground agent Maria Hoffman (Wendy Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Gasoline War

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: The Germans install a fueling station in Barracks 12, right next to Stalag 13. Hogan must hatch a scheme to blow up the station without blowing up himself or his men. Mariana Hill, best known for her performance as a blind-drunk Corleone bride in the Oscar-winning The Godfather II, is cast as Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Bombsight

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan is ordered to sabotage the test of a new German weapon capable of zeroing in on Allied radio signals, and to steal the weapon's blueprints. At first, the assignment goes off without a hitch. But as time rolls on, things are complicated by unforeseen entanglements and incredible bungling on Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Defector

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Harold J. Stone guest stars as defecting German Field Marshal Rudolf Richter. Hogan hopes to help Richter escape to England, but this proves difficult with Gestapo officer Hochstetter breathing down everyone's neck. Arlene Martel, seen in earlier episodes as underground agent Tiger, portrays a Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Big Gamble

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: An Allied plane containing top-secret equipment is shot down near Stalag 13. Hogan and his crew must retrieve the equipment without arousing the suspicion of Major Feldkamp (Ben Wright), a German engineering expert who is likewise nosing around the crash site. Somehow or other, the solution to Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Big Picture

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Certain mercenary members of the Gestapo use a compromising photograph to blackmail Col. Klink. It is up to Hogan to steal the picture -- not out of any regard for Klink's reputation, but because the Kommandant has been dipping into the Stalag 13 till, thereby depleting the funds needed for Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Monkey Business

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan's newest "hero" is Freddy, a chimpanzee who wanders into camp after the nearby Hammelburg Zoo is bombed. Previously unable to smuggle radio components to the Underground, Hogan decides to use Freddy as his courier. The trick is to avoid arousing the suspicions of those two-legged primates Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Ultimate Weapon

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: In the first-season episode "Psychic Kommandant," Hogan made it appear as if Klink was gifted with ESP. In this episode, it is Schultz who is persuaded that he has "second sight" and is thus able to predict Allied attacks. It's all part of Hogan's plan to trick Luftwaffe planes into going to the Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Collector General

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan wants to find out the contents of a truck brought into Stalag 13. Under cover of darkness, Hogan and his men learn that the truck is overloaded with confiscated French art masterpieces bound for the collection of General Metzger (Gavin McLeod, in one of his many Hogan's Heroes guest stints). Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Klink vs. the Gonculator

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: One of Hogan's Heroes' best episodes, "Klink vs. the Gonculator" goes beyond the series' standard spoof of wartime bureaucracy and offers a wide-ranging satire of corporate paranoia and behind-covering. When Klink becomes convinced that Carter's rabbit trap is a secret electronic device, Hogan Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Clearance Sale at the Black Market

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Season four of Hogan's Heroes got under way on September 28, 1968, with the episode titled "Clearance Sale at the Black Market." While relaxing at a local hofbrau, Sgt. Schultz accidentally catches Gestapo major Kriegel (Gavin McLeod) in an illegal cash transaction. To cover his own behind Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Drums Along the Dusseldorf

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan successfully completes his mission of mining an enemy bridge. He then discovers to his chagrin that a truckload of Allied prisoners will soon be crossing the same bridge. The solution to the crisis hinges on Carter's Sioux heritage and Newkirk's Robin Hood-like ancestor. (Trivia note: Larry Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Axis Annie

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Louise Troy appears as "Axis Annie" Gebhart, a German radio propagandist. Hoping to relay coded messages to the Allies, Hogan and his men agree to an on-air interview conducted by Annie. Unfortunately, their words come across as fervently pro-Nazi, thus Hogan must cook up a scheme to destroy the Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Duel of Honor

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: In order to transfer vital information to the Allies in London, Hogan must convince Klink to take a circuitous trip to "Argentina." This requires the service of underground agent Erika Weidler, who seductively plays up to Klink. At a crucial juncture, Erika's outraged husband (actually Sgt. Carter Read More

Hogan's Heroes: War Takes a Holiday

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan's task is to free four Allied captives of the Gestapo. As a means to this end, Hogan and his crew must convince both Klink and Hochstetter that the war is over! Future MASH regular William Christopher is here seen as POW Thomas, a temporary replacement for Sgt. Carter (reportedly Larry Hovis Read More

Hogan's Heroes: How to Escape From Prison Camp Without Really Trying

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan must create a diversionary tactic to allow the Allies to replenish their troops. He must also prevent the 6th S.S. division from taking over Stalag 13. As a means of accomplishing both tasks, Hogan arranges the mass escape of 30 Allied prisoners -- and deliberately tips off both the S.S. and Read More

Hogan's Heroes: LeBeau and the Little Old Lady

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Assigned to an underground courier mission, LeBeau returns to camp with stories of his cranky, "old lady" contact. It turns out that the contact is really a beautiful young Dutch woman named Willhelmina (Celeste Yarnell), but LeBeau doesn't want the other POWs to find out lest they insist upon Read More

Hogan's Heroes: What Time Does the Balloon Go Up?

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan concocts a fanciful scheme to smuggle British agent Downes to London via air balloon. This requires such diversions as a basket-weaving tournament and a kite-flying contest. The next step is to convince Klink to act as judge for the POW's competitive activities, the better to keep the Read More

Hogan's Heroes: How to Catch a Papa Bear

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: During a standard Underground mission, Newkirk is led into a German trap by double agent Myra (Fay Spain). The next step in the Germans' plan is to lure Hogan -- code name "Papa Bear" -- into coming out in the open. Frequent Hogan's Heroes guest star Alan Oppenheimer is cast as Wilhelm. Written by Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Will the Blue Baron Strike Again?

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson, Ivan Dixon

Synopsis: The Allies would like to locate the new Luftwaffe headquarters of famed WWI German flying ace General Von Richter (Henry Corden), aka "the Blue Baron." To realize this goal, Hogan persuades Klink to throw a gala party in Von Richter's honor. Cynthia Lynn, who played Klink's secretary Hilda during Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Bad Day in Berlin

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: An undercover U.S. intelligence agent arranges for Hogan and his crew to be smuggled into Berlin. Disguised as members of a hospital staff, the heroes are ordered to kidnap a British defector before he reveals top-secret information to the Nazis. The supporting cast includes such frequent Hogan's Read More

Hogan's Heroes: No Names Please

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan and his crew enable war correspondent Walter Hobson (Richard Erdman) to escape to England. Unfortunately, Hobson chooses to honor Hogan by publishing an account of his underground exploits in an American newspaper. Though the article mentions no names, Gestapo officer Hochstetter puts Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Season 04

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: It's business as usual at German prison camp Stalag 13 as Hogan's Heroes launches its fourth season. Col. Robert Hogan (Bob Crane) continues to run a super-efficient sabotage and counterespionage operation from the confines of his prison barracks, and with the help of his well-trained "Heroes" Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Man in a Box

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: LeBeau is given the opportunity to complete an important mission all by himself. When Klink realizes that LeBeau is absent, he orders Hogan to recapture the pint-sized POW. Then Schultz is ordered to follow Hogan -- and when he fails to return on time, Klink follows Schultz, and round and Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Will the Real Colonel Klink Please Stand Up Against the Wall?

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Carter disguises himself as Klink during a sabotage mission. Holding Klink responsible for the attack, the Gestapo have him arrested and sentenced to execution. Hogan must find a way to simultaneously rescue Klink and Carter, who is off on another mission in the same disguise. "Will the Real Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Man's Best Friend Is Not His Dog

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: The good news: Carter is able to snap a picture of a new German tank. The bad news: With the Germans hot on his heels, Hogan is forced to hide Carter's microfilm in a hollow bone. The worst news: The bone is buried by a friendly dog. The supporting cast includes such Hogan's Heroes perennials as Read More

Hogan's Heroes: To the Gestapo with Love

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Carter inadvertently leaves one of his coat buttons behind at a sabotage site. Using this evidence, General Hochstetter decides to interrogate Hogan and his crew. Usually, this would mean that Hochstetter would get no information whatsoever, but this time the General has a secret weapon: Three Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Hogan's Trucking Service...We Deliver the Factory to You

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Bernard Fox returns as bungling British POW officer Colonel Crittendon. This time around, Crittendon stages an escape from Stalag 13 -- thereby neatly lousing up Hogan's meticulously laid scheme to blow up a German ball-bearing plant. The script was written by Bill Davenport, later a member of the Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Guess Who Came to Dinner?

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan helps beautiful underground contact Heidi Eberhadt (Marj Dusay) escape to London. But after successfully completing this mission, Hogan receives word that Heidi might be a double agent. Character actor Ned Glass is seen as the owner of the delicatessen used by Hogan as a drop point, while Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Color the Luftwaffe Red

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Assigned to plant a bug in Luftwaffe headquarters, Hogan and his crew volunteer to paint the building, thereby completing their mission right under the enemy's nose. In the course of the paint job, Newkirk comes upon a map of German plan installations. Forced to stow the map in an overhead lamp Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Never Play Cards with Strangers

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan's latest mission is to destroy a German rocket fuel factory. Unfortunately, he receives word that the sabotage job is going to backfire disastrously. Even worse, Hogan is trapped in a card game with a German general and is unable to set things right. Dan Tobin appears as General Von Trager Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Is There a Doctor in the House?

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Once again, Hogan needs Klink as a dupe for a vital mission; this time, the task is to smuggle a French girl named Janine Robinet (Brenda Benet) to London. Unfortunately, Klink falls ill and is knocked out of commission. Hogan and his men set about to get Klink back on his feet, using such home Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Hogan, Go Home

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: On the eve of an important sabotage mission, Hogan is ordered to return to America and a hero's welcome. His replacement is the redoubtable Col. Crittendon (Bernard Fox), whose devotion to duty is matched only by his ineptitude. Unfortunately, Crittendon inherits Hogan's mission to blow up the Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Sticky Wicket Newkirk

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Newkirk smuggles his new girlfriend Gretel into Stalag 13. Unfortunately for all concerned, the girl turns out to be a German spy -- and now she knows all about Hogan's espionage activities. Hogan is faced with the double assignment of discrediting Gretel and expediting a mass escape, twin tasks Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Reverend Kommandant Klink

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan is faced with the possibility that captured French pilot Lt. Boucher (Felice Orlandi) may crack under Gestapo questioning and expose the POW's espionage operation. To keep Boucher's morale high, Hogan smuggles in the Frenchman's sweetheart Suzanne (Susan Albert). He then goes one step Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Most Escape-Proof Camp I've Ever Escaped From

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: British POW and self-proclaimed escape artist Sgt. Malcolm Flood (Mickey Manners) has already broken out of nine prison camps when he is transferred to Stalag 13. Against Hogan's orders, Flood intends to make a tenth bid for freedom. To protect his scheduled rendezvous with the OSS, Hogan must Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Everyone Has a Brother-in-Law

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Comic actor Cliff Norton plays it straight as Captain Kurtz, Klink's new, no-nonsense adjutant. Kurtz' arrival complicates Hogan's efforts to destroy a German munitions train. Adding to the dilemma is the fact that Kurtz gets wind of Hogan's espionage operation and poses as a potential defector. Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Killer Klink

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan plans to use Schultz as an unwitting go-between in a plan to smuggle radio components to the Underground. The plan's success relies upon the possibility of Schultz being granted a week's furlough in Heidelberg. But several problems arise: Not only does Klink refuse to give Schultz a Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Top Secret Top Coat

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan slips a top-secret military document into Klink's coat, the better to smuggle the information out of Stalag 13. Unfortunately, Klink attends a party thrown by a suspected German traitor. To save Klink himself from being arrested by the Gestapo, Hogan must find a way to steal the document Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Reluctant Target

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan hopes to spring French spy Pierre (Theo Marcuse) from Stalag 13. To do this, he must get Klink temporarily out of the way. The next step in the plan -- convincing Col. Klink to allow Hogan to pose as the POW camp's German commandant! Larry D. Mann rounds out the guest cast as General Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Tower

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: With the aid of German underground agent Lili (Elisa Ingram), Hogan blows up a German radio tower. Though he has no proof, General Burkhalter suspects that Hogan was responsible for the sabotage and holds Klink responsible. To prevent Klink from being transferred, Hogan must arrange to trap Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Colonel Klink's Secret Weapon

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: When he gets a poor discipline rating, Klink brings in tough sergeant Reinhold Franks (Milton Selzer). At first, Klink is pleased that Franks has gotten the POWS in line -- but his pleasure turns to pain when the ambitious sergeant schemes to have Klink transferred to the Russian front. It is up Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Heil Klink

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary

Synopsis: Hogan and his men are determined to provide safe passage for defecting German officer Wolfgang Brauner, who except for his beard, is a dead ringer for Sgt. Schultz (indeed, series regular John Banner plays both Brauner and Schultz). Unfortunately, Hogan's plans are nearly scuttled by an overly Read More

CBS Playhouse: The Final War of Olly Winter

Actors: Ivan Dixon

Synopsis: This episode of the dramatic anthology series CBS Playhouse gained legendary status for thematic and stylistic reasons: it took a gutsy plunge into the Vietnam issue and the civil rights issue - seamlessly combining both into a single narrative - and it also represented one of the first primetime Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The General Swap

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan and his men capture German Field Marshal Von Heinke (John Myhers), then arrange a prisoner swap to free American General Aloysius Barton (Frank Gerstle). Unfortunately, the mean-spirited Barton despises Hogan and very nearly sabotages his own bid for freedom. Now Hogan finds himself in the Read More

Ironside: Let My Brother Go

Synopsis: Ironside (Raymond Burr) is counting upon African American pro-football hero Charles "Bat" Masterson (Ivan Dixon) to help keep a group of inner-city kids on the straight and narrow. But Masterson is preoccupied with keeping his parolee brother Joe (Don Marshall) out of trouble--and is even willing Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Season 03

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: American POW Col. Robert Hogan (Bob Crane) and his fellow prisoners continue to run a wide-ranging, superbly efficient espionage and sabotage operation right under the noses of their German captors as Hogan's Heroes enters its third season. Although the series "began" in the year 1944, it is Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Hogan and the Lady Doctor

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan bristles at the notion of taking orders from female underground agent Dr. Suzanne Lechay (Ruta Lee). Even more vexing is the fact that Dr. Lechay is bound and determined to complete Hogan's assignment to destroy a Nazi synthetic-fuel lab -- a mission Hogan had previously rejected for being Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Swing Shift

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: In order to destroy a German ammunition factory, Hogan and his men go undercover as workers in the target factory. Their plans to blow up the place hit a snag when, through a fluke, Newkirk is drafted into the German army. Hal Smith, best known for his portrayal of town drunk Otis Campbell on The Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Great Brinksmeyer Robbery

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: In order to purchase some vital information on Nazi rocket installations, Hogan requisitions 100,000 Deutchesmarks from his Allied contacts. Alas, the money is burned in the Stalag 13 stove when the Germans make a surprise inspection. To replace the cash, Hogan and his men must stage a bank Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Praise the Führer and Pass the Ammunition

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: In honor of Klink's birthday, Hogan plans a sabotage operation against some German war games being held near Stalag 13. The plan is contingent upon surreptitiously replacing the fake ammunition used in the games with real bullets. Larry Hovis (Sgt. Carter) is conspicuous by his absence in this Read More

Hogan's Heroes: A Russian Is Coming

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan is assigned to provide safe conduct to downed Soviet pilot Igor Piotkin (Bob Hastings). Unfortunately, the fiercely patriotic and stubborn Piotkin refuses to flee to freedom by way of London. He insists upon heading directly to Russia -- and never mind that the homeward path is festooned Read More

Hogan's Heroes: An Evening of Generals

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan and his men draw up a plan to blow up a roomful of German generals during a secret banquet meeting. Posing as caterers, our heroes manage to plant several booby-trapped ashtrays in the banquet hall. The problem: London insists that the sabotage scheme be called off, because one of the Read More

Hogan's Heroes: One in Every Crowd

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Paul Picerni guest stars as Jack Williams, an opportunistic -- and treacherous -- American POW. In exchange for his own freedom, Williams intends to give the Gestapo information on Hogan's underground activities. Hogan hatches a scheme to turn the tables on the turncoat. The episode's highlight is Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Is General Hammerschlag Burning?

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: This episode is dominated by the superb performances of two African-American performers: Series regular Ivan Dixon as Kinchloe, and singer Barbara McNair as American-born chanteuse Kumasa. Sneaking into Paris, Hogan and Kinchloe hope to convince Kumasa, who has become disillusioned with America's Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Two Nazis for the Price of One

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: The Allies' Manhattan Project (which of course was aimed at developing an atomic weapon before the Germans could do the same) is endangered when a Gestapo agent finds out about the project. He also finds out about Hogan's underground activities, forcing Hogan to consider scuttling his operation. Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Carter Turns Traitor

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: It seems incredible, but the evidence is overwhelming: Sgt. Carter has turned against Hogan and gone over to the German side. But fear not, Hogan's Heroes fans: Carter's defection is but a ruse, which will (hopefully) enable him to ferret out the location of a top-secret German chemical factory. Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Everybody Loves a Snowman

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan faces the daunting task of arranging the mass escape of an entire American bomber crew. To this end, Hogan's men construct a huge snowman to camouflage the escape route -- and hope against hope that the weather doesn't change! Noam Pitlik, who played the double agent in the Hogan's Heroes Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Hostage

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Nita Talbot returns as Russian spy Marya, Hogan's friendly underground rival. This time around, Marya is assigned to blow up a German fuel depot next to Stalag 13. She is determined to set her time bombs and complete her mission, even though Hogan is being held hostage in the depot by General Von Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Hot Money

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: A German counterfeit-money plant, designed to devalue Allied currency, has been set up in Stalag 13. Hogan's mission: To destroy the plant before any real damage can be done. Hogan's strategy: To trick a master forger into doing the sabotage job for him. The supporting cast includes Sandy Kenyon Read More

Hogan's Heroes: D-Day at Stalag 13

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: As part of the Allies' plans to invade Normandy Beach on June 6, 1944, Hogan is ordered to place the German generals encamped at Stalag 13 out of commission. To accomplish this, Hogan miraculously pulls enough strings to get Col. Klink promoted to German chief of staff -- or at least, to convince Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Sergeant Schultz Meets Mata Hari

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Comic actress Joyce Jameson, previously seen as dizzy fraulein Mady Pfeiffer in the second-season episode "The Great Brinkmeyer's Robbery," is here cast as sultry Gestapo spy Eva Mueller. Assigned to learn the source for a recent rash of sabotages, Eva pumps dim-witted Sgt. Schultz for Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Crittendon Plan

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan's Heroes inaugurated its third season -- and moved from its Friday timeslot to a new Saturday-evening berth in the process -- with the episode titled "The Crittendon Plan." Much against his better judgment, Hogan is ordered to spring his longtime rival Colonel Crittendon (Bernard Fox) from a Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Some of Their Planes Are Missing

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: The Luftwaffe hatches a scheme to bomb London with captured RAF airplanes and phony British pilots. When the planes are brought into Stalag 13 for safekeeping, Hogan hatches a scheme to destroy them before they can take flight. Stewart Moss appears as POW Olsen, assuming the responsibilities Read More

Hogan's Heroes: How to Win Friends and Influence Nazis

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Karl Swenson is appropriately cast as Dr. Karl Svenson, a neutral Swedish scientist working for the Germans. To win Svenson over to the Allied cause, Hogan arranges a romance between the good doctor and an attractive chanteuse named Magda Tischler (Doris Singleton). But he'd better hurry: Svenson Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Nights in Shining Armor

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: This week, Hogan's double mission is to smuggle French courier Dubois (Felice Orlandi) and a German consignment of bulletproof vests out of Stalag 13 and into the hands of the Underground. Though Dubois poses no real problem, the vests are much too heavy to be carried out by any one man. The Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Casanova Klink

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Once again, General Burkhalter tries to marry off his Wagnerian sister Gertrude (Kathleen Freeman) to Colonel Klink. The General installs Gertrude as Klink's temporary secretary, which causes problems with Hogan's latest sabotage operation. But Hogan has something else to worry about -- a Gestapo Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Funny Thing Happened on the Way to London

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan and his men uncover a Nazi scheme to assassinate British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The Germans have captured RAF pilot and Churchill confidante Captain Roberts (Lloyd Bochner), who they replace with an exact lookalike, Lt. Baumann (also Lloyd Bochner). Racing against time, Hogan Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The 43rd, a Moving Story

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Sandy Kenyon is cast as Major Hans Kuehn, who has been assigned as Klink's new adjutant. The ruthlessly ambitious Kuehn may well mess up Hogan's plans to destroy a German mobile anti-aircraft battery. Hogan's dilemma this week is to simultaneously pull off the mission and discredit Kuehn. The Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Prince from the Phone Company

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Series regular Ivan Dixon appears in a dual role as POW Kinchloe and the visiting Prince Makabana from Africa. Kidnapping the prince, Hogan has Kinchloe pose as the potentate during a meeting with the German top brass, who hope to open a submarine base in Makabana's country. Hogan's plans threaten Read More

Hogan's Heroes: How to Cook a German Goose by Radar

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan and his men simply cannot warm up to the newest POW, a cranky, selfish, and arrogant American corporal named Walter Tillman (J. Pat O'Malley). Eventually, Hogan finds out that the crotchety old "corporal" is really a general in disguise, assigned to aid Hogan in an important sabotage Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Safecracker Suite

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Klink's old friend Major Kronman (Antony Eustrel) is captured by the Gestapo and charged with conspiring against Adolf Hitler. In true "guilt by association" fashion, Klink is likewise targeted for arrest and execution. Thus it is that Klink agrees to allow Hogan to steal the evidence against Read More

The Fugitive: Dossier on a Diplomat

Synopsis: In Washington DC for a secret meeting with a journalist who believes in his innocence, Kimble (David Janssen) saves the life of African ambassador Unawa (Ivan Dixon). Out of gratitude, Unawa allows Kimble to hide out in his country's embassy building, where the fugitive is protected by diplomatic Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Assassin

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: When Hogan is ordered to assassinate German atomic scientist Dr. Vanetti (Larry D. Mann), the obstreperous Colonel Crittendon demands that he pull off the unpleasant task. Bowing to pressure, Hogan agrees to smuggle Crittendon out of a neighboring POW camp so that he can complete the mission. But Read More

Hogan's Heroes: I Look Better in Basic Black

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan wants to find out why three female American USO entertainers are being held by the Gestapo. He learns that the girls accidentally stumbled upon a secret Nazi V-2 rocket site, thus need desperately to be smuggled into England. Complicating matters are a collapsed escape tunnel and the amorous Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Pizza Parlor

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hans Conried guest stars as Major Bonacelli, a pacifistic Italian POW commandant. Assigned to study under Stalag 17's Col. Klink, Bonacelli would much sooner defect to Switzerland. Ordered to extract information from Bonacelli, Hogan tries to convince the major to work on behalf of the Allies by Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Gold Rush

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan discovers that a huge shipment of confiscated French gold has been stored in a bank near Stalag 17. In order to appropriate the bullion for the Allies, Hogan convinces Klink that the gold would be "safer" within the walls of the camp. The rest of Hogan's scheme is contingent upon those Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Happy Birthday, Adolf

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: The Allies plan an exploratory raid on German-occupied soil as a "birthday present" for Adolf Hitler. Hogan's role in the proceedings is to knock out a huge heavy-artillery emplacement, and to do this he creates a diversion: An elaborate birthday party for Der Fuhrer, complete with wine, women Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Flame Grows Higher

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Somehow or other, the Germans have found the location of Stalag 13's escape tunnel. To locate the weak link in their underground security system, Hogan, LeBeau, and Newkirk must break out of camp -- and then back into camp -- without arousing Klink's suspicions. Susanne Cramer appears as Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Season 02

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Season two of Hogan's Heroes finds Sigrid Valdis -- who later became the wife of series star Robert Crane -- making her first appearances as Hilda, curvaceous blonde secretary of dimwitted German prison-camp commandant Col. Klink (Werner Klemperer). Speaking of Klink, his character is far less the Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Great Impersonation

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: LeBeau, Newkirk, and Carter are captured by the Gestapo and held for interrogation. To free his comrades, Hogan hatches a scheme whereby he must convince Sgt. Schultz to pose as Colonel Klink. The supporting cast includes Bert Freed as Major Bernsdorf and prolific TV writer/director James Frawley Read More

Hogan's Heroes: It Takes a Thief...Sometimes

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan is ordered to contact a new underground sabotage group that has entrenched itself near Stalag 13. Little does he suspect that the head of the group, Captain Heinrich (Michael Constantine), is actually a spy for the Gestapo. Singer Claudine Longet, then better known as the wife of Andy Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Hello, Zolle

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Planning a full assault on the forces of German General Stofle (Gilbert Green), the Allies order Hogan to detain Stofle for 24 hours. At first, the assignment seems to be a cinch, inasmuch as Stofle and Col. Klink are old buddies. The fly in the ointment is suspicious Gestapo officer Major Zolle Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Cupid Comes to Stalag 13

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Klink's inability to win a promotion has kept him awake until the wee small hours of the morning, confounding Hogan's plans to smuggle a prisoner out of Stalag 13. To get Klink's mind off his problems, Hogan offers to act as matchmaker between Klink and General Burkhalter's attractive niece. Read More

Hogan's Heroes: A Tiger Hunt in Paris, Part Two

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Hogan and his men have successfully managed to sneak into Paris, courtesy of the unwitting Col. Klink. Racing against time -- not to mention his Russian competitor, secret agent Marya (Nita Talbot) -- Hogan must free underground agent Tiger (Arlene Martel) Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Will the Real Adolf Please Stand Up?

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: The men of Stalag 13 have long been amused by Sgt. Carter's dead-on impersonation of Adolf Hitler. But it is hardly a laughing matter when Carter is ordered to pose as Der Fuhrer for real, as part of a scheme to smuggle photos of secret German fortifications to the Allies. Future MASH Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Tanks for the Memory

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: This week's mission begins when a test model for the Germans' new radio-controlled tank is brought into Stalag 13. Hogan is ordered to make a blueprint of the tank, then destroy the vehicle before it can be taken for a trial run. A simple task, yes? No -- not with the roadblocks thrown in the path Read More

Hogan's Heroes: A Tiger Hunt in Paris, Part One

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Hogan sneaks into Paris to carry out his latest assignment: To locate several secret German fighter bases. In the course of events, he also attempts to free underground agent Tiger (Arlene Martel) from her brutal Gestapo captors. Hogan's mission is Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Klink's Rocket

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan's latest scheme is to redirect a fleet of Luftwaffe bombers bound for London so that the planes will be shot down by the Allies. The plan hinges on some phony information that is to be leaked to Col. Klink. Unfortunately, Sgt. Carter forgets the false info, forcing Hogan to improvise a new Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Information Please

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: General Burkhalter sets up a trap whereby a security leak is traced to Stalag 13. This gives Burkhalter enough ammunition to replace Klink with a tougher and more efficient camp commandant. It is up to Hogan to discredit the replacement and ferret out the "mole" within his own ranks. Familiar Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Don't Forget to Write

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Failing a physical examination, Klink is ordered to combat duty on the dreaded Russian front. This naturally causes consternation amongst Hogan and his men, who don't want Klink to be replaced by a more efficient Kommandant. To save their favorite patsy -- and themselves -- Hogan's heroes cook up Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Art for Hogan's Sake

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: General Burkhalter "liberates" a priceless French painting from the Louvre, intending to add the masterpiece to Hermann Goering's private collection. Hogan and LeBeau take it upon themselves to keep the painting from falling into the wrong hands. To do this, our heroes pay a covert visit to Paris Read More

Hogan's Heroes: A Klink, a Bomb and a Short Fuse

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: This episode begins with a major setback when Sgt. Carter bungles a mission to photograph Klink's code book (he forgot to put any film in the camera). When it becomes necessary to create a diversion to complete the mission, Hogan arranges a scenario whereby it appears that a live bomb has landed Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Request Permission to Escape

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Receiving a "Dear John" letter from his hometown girlfriend Mary Jane, Sgt. Carter asks Col. Hogan's permission to escape from Stalag 17. Hogan allows him to do so -- on the proviso that Carter help out on one final sabotage mission. As it turns out, however, Carter is happier as a POW than as a Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Diamonds in the Rough

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Mercenary Gestapo agent Major Hegel (Paul Lambert demands that the Allies give him $1 million worth of industrial diamonds, lest he blow the whistle on Hogan's espionage operation. Left with no alternative, Hogan and his men agree to steal the precious gems. Ulla Stromstredt is cast as Hegel's Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Hogan Gives a Birthday Party

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan's Heroes began its second season on September 16, 1966, with the episode titled "Hogan Gives a Birthday Party." Assigned to bomb a heavily guarded German oil refinery, Hogan hopes to trick his captors into letting him fly a German plane in a test mission. Unfortunately, his plans are Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Schultz Brigade

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Two of his fellow POW commanders, Burmeister (Parely Baer) and Bussie (Lou Krugman), try to involve Klink in a plot to discredit General Burkhalter. Unfortunately, the general gets wind of the scheme and sentences Klink to a firing squad. In order to rescue Klink -- thereby avoiding a tougher and Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Operation Briefcase

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan agrees to aid German General Stauffen (Oscar Beregi) in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Crucial to the scheme is a briefcase containing a tiny but deadly time bomb. Unfortunately, stupid Sgt. Schultz accidentally activates the bomb's timing device ahead of schedule. Though the audience Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Hogan Springs

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan's plans to smuggle four underground leaders into England hits a snag when the emergency tunnel under Stalag 13 is flooded due to a broken water main. In order to divert Klink while repairs are made, Hogan convinces the cloddish Kommandant that the waters under the camp are therapeutic Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Rise and Fall of General Schultz

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Whit Bissell guest stars as Kammler, Sgt. Schultz's army friend from WWI. Now a general, Kammler demands that Klink give Schultz preferential treatment. Exploiting this situation, Hogan sets up a phony award ceremony for Schultz so that he can sneak a captured underground agent out of Gestapo Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Battle of Stalag 13

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Before joining the regular Hogan's Heroes cast as Major Hochstetter, Howard Caine appeared in a handful of similarly villainous roles. In this episode, Caine is cast as Col. Feldkamp, who wants to convert Stalag 13 into Gestapo headquarters. Meanwhile, pompous General Von Kattenhorn (Jacques Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Kommandant of the Year

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Confident that the Allies won't bomb a POW camp, the Germans stash an experimental V-2 rocket at Stalag 13. Hogan's London headquarters send allied scientist Dr. Schneider (Woodrow Parfrey) into the camp to photograph and destroy the rocket. To get the scientist past the security guards, Hogan Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Late Inspector General

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Not wanting to be assigned a tougher and smarter commandant than Col. Klink, Hogan convinces German Inspector General Von Platzen (John Dehner) that Klink is a stern disciplinarian. The plan works too well, and the General insists that Klink be promoted and transferred. All this may well Read More

To Trap a Spy

Actors: Robert Vaughn, Luciana Paluzzi, Pat Crowley, Fritz Weaver, William Marshall, Will Kuluva

Synopsis: This film is essentially the original pilot for the popular 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. It was expanded to 92 minutes and shot in color for theatrical release. Robert Vaughn plays the master spy and adept action hero Napoleon Solo. He works for a shadowy supra-governmental Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Flight of the Valkyrie

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Bernard Fox makes his first appearance as British martinet Col. Crittendon, the new senior POW at Stalag 13. Crittendon's never-ending efforts to escape may mess up Hogan's plans to help a German baroness named Lili (Louise Troy) defect to England. The trick is to cool off Crittendon while Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Hold That Tiger

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Impressed by Klink's boasts that the German's new Tiger Tank will hasten the end of the war, Hogan is determined to get hold of the tank's blueprints and pass them along to the Allies. This requires the inmates to steal one of the tanks, dissemble the vehicle, then reassemble and dispose of the Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Prisoner's Prisoner

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Caught in the act of completing a British commando's sabotage mission, Hogan and Carter are forced to capture the witness to their mission, German General Schmidt (Roger C. Carmel). The two heroes manage to smuggle Schmidt into the general POW population in camp, keeping him at bay by fabricating Read More

A Patch of Blue

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman, Wallace Ford, Ivan Dixon

Synopsis: Shelley Winters won an Academy Award for her searing performance as Rose-Ann d'Arcy in A Patch of Blue. The star, however, is not Winters but Elizabeth Hartman, cast as d'Arcy's blind, sensitive daughter, Selina. A venomous prostitute, Rose-Ann treats both Selina and grandfather Ole Pa (Wallace Ford Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Informer

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan's Heroes began its six-season run on September 17, 1965, with its black-and-white pilot episode, "The Informer." Colonel Hogan and the gang welcome a new prisoner named Wagner (Noam Pitlik) to Stalag 13 (here referred to as "Camp 13"). After giving the newcomer a guided tour of the barracks Read More

I Spy: So Long, Patrick Henry

Synopsis: Outspoken American Olympic star Elroy Browne (Ivan Dixon) has defected to China. Although the U.S. government would sooner wash their hands of the troublesome Browne, it is forced to go through the motions of persuading him to return to America. Agents Kelly and Scott are given the assignment to Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Oil for the Lamps of Hogan

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: To avoid bombardment from the Allies, the Germans intend to construct a synthetic fuel plant at Stalag 13. Realizing that this will uproot the prisoners -- and foul up his espionage operations -- Hogan schemes to sabotage the construction project by convincing Klink that there is oil on the camp's Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Hogan's Hofbrau

Actors: Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson, Ivan Dixon

Synopsis: Hogan's plans to get information on the plans of a nearby Panzer division require him to "visit" a local hofbrau. His mission coincides with a scheme concocted by two crooked Panzer officers to extort a large sum of money from the tremulous Colonel Klink. Thanks to the machinations of scriptwriter Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Scientist

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Maurice Marsac plays the title character, captured French scientist Henry Dubois, who is forced to work with the Germans out of fear for the life of his daughter Marie (Jayne Massey). Hogan and his men set out to rescue the scientist and his daughter and to feed the Germans false scientific Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Anchors Aweigh, Men of Stalag 13

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan is assigned to smuggle British POW Captain Michaels (Michael St. Clair) -- and the prototype for a new German gunsight -- out of Stalag 13. Unfortunately, this requires Michaels to sail across 80 miles of ocean, and the underground's submarine is out of commission. The solution: Hogan Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Reservations are Required

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Agreeing to help two POWs escape, Hogan is unexpectedly saddled with 20 potential escapees. Simultaneously, Klink tightens security around Stalag 13, cutting off all possible exit routes. Hogan's plans to create a diversion may be undermined when one of the escaping prisoners, Sgt. Braden (Robert Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Season 01

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Filmed in black-and-white, the opening episode of Hogan's Heroes swiftly establishes the series' premise, wherein American POW Col. Robert Hogan (Bob Crane) and his fellow prisoners are shown running a terrifyingly efficient Allied espionage operation right under the noses of their stupid German Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Top Hat, White Tie and Bomb Sight

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Klink bugs the POWs' quarters, making it impossible for Hogan to relay vital information to London. As a means of getting the info to the Allies, Hogan convinces Klink that he has been won over to the German side. In exchange for what he knows about the Underground, Hogan requests a Read More

Hogan's Heroes: German Bridge is Falling Down

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan's efforts to blow up a strategic German bridge are foiled at every turn. Finally, he decides to destroy the target single-handedly -- using the enemy's own ammunition supplies. This is the episode in which the POWs form a human arrow without arousing the suspicions of the dumb Klink and the Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Movies Are Your Best Escape

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan wants to get photos of the highly important documents in the briefcase carried by visiting German General Von Kaplow (Henry Corden). Unfortunately, the general is taking no chances: He has chained the briefcase to his wrist, and will not let it out of his sight. Finally, Hogan hits upon the Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Happiness Is a Warm Sergeant

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: When Newkirk gets Schultz drunk as part of an underground mission, the corpulent sergeant is discharged for incompetence. The new camp sergeant -- a sharp-witted, no-nonsense type named Krebs (Norman Alden) -- poses a serious threat to Hogan's espionage activities. The POWs plot to discredit Krebs Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Go Light on the Heavy Water

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Again counting on the fact that the Allies won't bomb a POW camp, the Germans bring a tightly guarded truck containing a barrel of heavy water into Stalag 13. Suspecting that the water might be used for a weapon of some sort, Hogan must find a way to get rid of it. The answer: Convince Klink that Read More

The Outer Limits: The Inheritors, Part 1

The Outer Limits: The Inheritors, Part 2

The Outer Limits: The Human Factor

Synopsis: In the eighth volume in a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, a bizarre experiment causes a psychiatrist and his unbalanced patient to swap identities. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Nothing But a Man

Actors: Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Gloria Foster, Martin Priest

Synopsis: A landmark independent film, Nothing but a Man is the first dramatic story featuring a largely black cast created for an integrated audience (the work of black filmmakers such as Oscar Micheaux was intended for audiences who patronized black-only theaters). White filmmakers Michael Roemer and Read More

The Twilight Zone: I Am the Night-Color Me Black

Actors: Michael Constantine, Paul Fix, Terry Becker, George Lindsey, Ivan Dixon

Synopsis: Hate hangs heavy in the air in the small midwestern town where accused murderer Jagger (Terry Becker) is sentenced to hang at sunrise. But there's a slight hitch in these plans -- though it is already mid-afternoon, the sun has failed to rise. Written by Rod Serling, this heavy-handed Twilight Read More

The Fugitive: Escape into Black

Synopsis: Seriously injured in an explosion, Richard Kimble (David Janssen) awakens to find that he has lost all memory of his identity as a fugitive from justice. Hoping to help Kimble put the pieces back together are Dr. Towne (Ivan Dixon), an aloof neuropsychologist, and Margaret Ruskin (Betty Garrett) Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Nebulous Nephew

Synopsis: In the seventh-season opener of Perry Mason, scheming seaman John Brooks (Ron Starr) has concocted what he thinks is a foolproof scheme to pass himself off as Caleb Stone, heir to the fortune possessed by elderly sisters Sophia (Beulah Bondi) and Minevah (Meg Wyllie). The scheme involves Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Promoter's Pillbox

Synopsis: Druggist Herbert Simms (Linden Chiles) hopes to change careers and become a TV writer. To this end, he submits his first script to unscrupulous producer Charlie Cory (John Lasell)--who proceeds to steal Simms' story idea and pass it off as his own. The outraged Simms consults his family's Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Long Way Home

Synopsis: Ivan Dixon delivers a towering performance as Isham Spruce, a former slave turned outlaw. With a $5000 dead-or-alive reward on his head, Isham must elude a bloodthirsty posse. Meanwhile, Paladin (Richard Boone) also searches for the fugitive outlaw--fully intending to bring him back alive. Read More

A Raisin in the Sun

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon

Synopsis: While this original movie version of Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning play may have dated somewhat, it was groundbreaking when first released in 1961, and a wealth of future plays, films, and TV productions have taken their lead from this socially conscious drama about a struggling Read More

Battle at Bloody Beach

Actors: Audie Murphy, Gary Crosby, Dolores Michaels, Alejandro Rey, Marjorie Stapp

Synopsis: Real-life WW II hero Audie Murphy stars in this war drama that follows the exploits of a civilian who works closely with Filipino resistance fighters against the Japanese invaders. The man has come to the islands to find his new wife after they are separated during their honeymoon in Manila. She Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Big Tall Wish

Actors: Ivan Dixon, Steven Perry, Kim Hamilton, Walter Burke, Henry Scott

Synopsis: A predominantly black cast appears in this episode of Twilight Zone, which was originally broadcast on April 8, 1960. Ivan Dixon stars as Bolie Jackson, an aging prizefighter. Hoping for a comeback. Bolie manages to win an important bout, only to discover that he scored his K.O. thanks to a "big Read More

Porgy and Bess

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters

Synopsis: A stellar line-up of African-American actors and musical stars helped to bring DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin's classic operetta to this screen in this lavishly-produced adaptation. Porgy (Sidney Poitier) is a crippled man living in the shantytown of Catfish Row who has fallen in love with Bess (Dorothy Dandridge Read More

Something of Value

Actors: Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Sidney Poitier, Wendy Hiller, Juano Hernandez

Synopsis: The literalism of writer-director Richard Brooks serves him well in this meticulously faithful adaptation of the Robert Ruark novel Something of Value. Filmed on location in Africa, this is the story of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, as seen through the eyes of a handful of protagonists. Virtually Read More