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Hogan's Heroes: Season 4

26 episodes Premiered Sep 28, 1968
Previously on Hogan's Heroes

Season 4 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Hogan's Heroes Season 3.
  • Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Season 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 4: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
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S4·E1 Mytharc

Clearance Sale at the Black Market

Sep 28, 1968

It appears Sergeant Schultz will be shipped off to the Russian front after he accidentally interrupts a black market meeting. If he goes, Colonel Hogan will lose his courier of sec

S4·E2 Core

Klink vs. the Gonculator

Oct 5, 1968

When Sergeant Carter constructs an amazingly complicated rabbit trap, a suspicious Colonel Klink comes to believe that the contraption is a secret electronic spying device.

S4·E3 Core

How to Catch a Papa Bear

Oct 12, 1968

Colonel Hogan innocently sends Corporal Newkirk off on a mission to rendezvous with an ally—unaware that the meeting is a trap set up by the Gestapo.

S4·E5 Core

To the Gestapo with Love

Oct 26, 1968

Is love blind? Three beautiful German girls arrive at Stalag 13 and set the men's hearts beating faster, but their mission is to pry secrets out of the love-struck POWs.

S4·E6 Core

Man's Best Friend is Not His Dog

Nov 2, 1968

A canine caper is off and running when a dog buries a bone containing photographic images of a new German tank that Carter had taken with his camera.

S4·E7 Core

Never Play Cards with Strangers

Nov 9, 1968

Hogan dispatches Sergeant Kinchloe on a mission to warn Newkirk and Carter that the duo's mission to dynamite a newly-established Nazi rocket fuel installation could blow up in the

S4·E8 Core

Color the Luftwaffe Red

Nov 16, 1968

How will Hogan steal an important, strategic map from the Germans? By underbidding all competitors for the contract to paint the offices of Luftwaffe headquarters.

S4·E9 Core

Guess Who Came to Dinner?

Nov 23, 1968

After making arrangements to send her to England, Hogan begins to worry that his beautiful underground contact, Heidi, might actually be a double agent.

S4·E10 Core

No Names Please

Nov 30, 1968

Shortly after Hogan helps a journalist escape to freedom, the Germans are amazed to read an American newspaper story about a sabotage-and-subterfuge unit hard at work right under t

S4·E11 Core

Bad Day in Berlin

Dec 7, 1968

Hogan and his men join forces with an undercover agent and steal away to Berlin to nab a German defector who can compromise their entire operation at Stalag 13.

S4·E12 Core

Will the Blue Baron Strike Again?

Dec 14, 1968

Can Hogan locate the secret German air base commanded by a World War I flying ace known as the Blue Baron? Yes --- by convincing Colonel Klink to throw a party for the famed aviato

S4·E14 Core

Man in a Box

Dec 28, 1968

Hogan is ordered to capture an "escaped" Corporal Louis LeBeau --- but in a manner that will ensure LeBeau's completion of an espionage caper.

S4·E15 Core

The Missing Klink

Jan 4, 1969

Hogan's scheme to kidnap General Burkhalter and trade him for an underground agent goes awry when Colonel Klink --- not the general --- is the one who gets kidnapped.

S4·E16 Core

Who Stole My Copy of Mein Kampf?

Jan 11, 1969

Hogan and his men plan to eliminate an allied defector, but complications ensue when their target turns out to be a beautiful woman.

S4·E17 Mytharc

Operation Hannibal

Jan 18, 1969

A German general is the mastermind behind a plan designed to prolong the war, so Hogan winds up working with the general's daughter in an effort to photograph the strategic documen

S4·E18 Core

My Favorite Prisoner

Jan 25, 1969

When Colonel Klink uses a beautiful baroness to try to wheedle secrets out of Colonel Hogan, he apparently falls under the femme fatale's charms. Or does he?

S4·E19 Core

Watch the Trains Go By

Feb 1, 1969

Hogan's plan to sneak out of Stalag 13 and blow up a German train hinges on getting General Burkhalter's lovelorn sister --- the marriage-minded Gertrude --- to distract Colonel Kl

S4·E20 Core

Klink's Old Flame

Feb 8, 1969

The French underground is in desperate need of valuable radios, so Hogan decides to utilize Colonel Klink's former girlfriend to ensure the delivery of the equipment.

S4·E21 Core

Up in Klink's Room

Feb 15, 1969

Hogan must somehow get himself hospitalized so that he can get top-secret information from a wounded British agent who has been posing as a Nazi officer.

S4·E22 Core

The Purchasing Plan

Feb 22, 1969

The race is on when Hogan and his men are ordered to collect air-dropped ammunition and distribute it to underground units widely scattered around the region.

S4·E23 Core

The Witness

Mar 1, 1969

Hogan is stunned to learn that the Germans are planning to send him to England, with a startling message for the Allied forces: surrender, or face the Nazis' "ultimate weapon."

S4·E24 Core

The Big Dish

Mar 8, 1969

Hogan's latest mission: destroy an elaborate anti-aircraft defense system designed by a beautiful English woman who has defected to Germany.

S4·E25 Mytharc

The Return of Major Bonacelli

Mar 15, 1969

An Italian officer, who once studied under Colonel Klink, is the ideal candidate to assist Hogan and his men in a daring plan to photograph a new Nazi gun installation.

S4·E26 Mytharc

Happy Birthday, Dear Hogan

Mar 22, 1969

To celebrate Colonel Hogan's birthday with a bang, his men plan to surprise him by blowing up a Nazi ammunition dump. But will the merry celebrants fall into an elaborate trap set