Duel of Honor

Series:	Hogan's Heroes
Episode:	Duel of Honor
Original Airdate:	February 03, 1968
Production Number:	5784-89
Written by:	Richard M. Powell
Directed by:	Edward H. Feldman
Produced by:	Edward H. Feldman & William A. Calihan

Regular

Prisoners

• Colonel Hogan - Bob Crane
• Corporal Louis LeBeau - Robert Clary
• Corporal Peter Newkirk - Richard Dawson
• Sergeant James Kinchloe - Ivan Dixon
• Sergeant Andrew Carter - Larry Hovis

Camp Personnel

• Kommandant Wilhelm Klink - Werner Klemperer
• Sergeant Hans Schultz - John Banner

Semi-Regulars

• Major Wolfgang Hochstetter - Howard Caine

Guest Stars

• Erika Weidler - Antoinette Bower

Synopsis

Hogan prepares Klink to flee to Argentina with information for the Allies after Klink is challenged to a duel.

Story Notes

• This is the eighty-ninth produced episode of the series, but is the eighty-fourth to be shown on television and the twenty-second episode shown for the Third Season.
• Hogan's men disguise themselves as Abwehr officers (German Army Intelligence) in the course of events. The Abwehr was heavily involved in the plot to kill Hitler until the arrest of one of its leaders, Colonel Hans Oster. The Abwehr was abolished by Hitler on February 18, 1944.
• The dummy newspaper used by the Heroes is called the Berliner Tageblatt, which was closed by Joseph Goebbels' office in 1939.
• Hogan's plan to safely deliver the names of the conspirators includes a major plot hole. Erika Weilder could have avoided romancing Klink entirely if Hogan had carried the names out to the plane himself from the beginning, as he demonstrated he could by following Klink in the end.

Timeline Notes and Speculations

• This episode most likely takes place in early February 1944, shortly after the events depicted in "Everybody Loves A Snowman."
• The plot centers around a list of German officers who are involved in the plot to assassinate the Fuehrer. As we later learn, on this list is the name of Colonel Stauffen, who will be the one who actually attempts to kill Hitler ("Operation Briefcase").

Bloopers

In the dummy newspaper Kinch creates, Klink's first name is spelled "Willhelm." Also, the picture appears to be printed backwards as Klink's monocle is in his right eye while he normally wears it in his left.

Hogan says "fasten your seat belt" a phrase that didn't enter the common lexicon until the 1960s when seat belts started being installed in normal everyday cars.

External links

• Duel of Honor at the Internet Movie Database
• Duel of Honor episode capsule at Webstalag 13
• The Hofbrau

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