Art for Hogan's Sake


Series:	Hogan's Heroes
Episode:	Art for Hogan's Sake
Original Airdate:	December 30, 1966
Production Number:	5784-43
Written by:	Laurence Marks
Directed by:	Gene Reynolds
Produced by:	Edward H. Feldman & William A. Calihan

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Hogan tries to keep a French painting from ending up in Göring's art collection.

This is the forty-third episode produced in the series, but is the forty-eighth episode to be shown on television and is the sixteenth episode for the second season.
Corporal Langenscheidt develops a case of the Schultz "I see nothing" mentality in this episode: he looks the other way without explanation when he and Schultz sees the prisoners with the 'destroyed' painting.
Hogan had previously taught Schultz how to behave as a German officer in The Great Impersonation. This time around, he is good enough to fool even the Paris Gestapo.

This most likely takes place sometime near the end of December, 1943 and possibly goes as late as the first week of January, 1944. The comment is made near the beginning of the episode that "Göring's birthday is only a few weeks away." Hermann Göring's birthday was on January 12. Also, as alluded to in the episode, he was the biggest Nazi art thief of the war.
This happens after The Collector General. Newkirk's remarks in that episode appear to imply that it was the first time that our heroes had to deal with the Nazi looting of national art treasures from occupied countries.

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