Bumbling British Colonel Crittendon again disrupts Hogan's plans to get out an Allied officer who is also named Crittendon.Bumbling British Colonel Crittendon again disrupts Hogan's plans to get out an Allied officer who is also named Crittendon.Bumbling British Colonel Crittendon again disrupts Hogan's plans to get out an Allied officer who is also named Crittendon.
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- (as Angela Dorian)
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- (uncredited)
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- TriviaAt the time of this episode's broadcast Victoria Vetri was also Playboy's Playmate for September 1967 (as Angela Dorian).
- GoofsThe Royal Air Force does not have the rank of Colonel - Crittendon should have been more correctly referred to as a Group Captain.
- Quotes
Col. Robert E. Hogan: [discussing the Crittendon Plan] All I can say, Crittendon, is it better be good.
Colonel Crittendon: Good? It's superb. Imagine the morale boost to those young flying chaps, setting down in dear old England between a carpet of crimson geraniums.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Geraniums?
Sgt. Andrew Carter: Geraniums?
Colonel Crittendon: Straight from the horror of war. Like coming home to mother's cottage. Tremendous psychological factor there, chaps.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: That's The Crittendon Plan?
- ConnectionsFeatured in Cursed Films: Rosemary's Baby (2022)
London orders Colonel Hogan, leader of the clandestine intelligence and sabotage unit operating from German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag 13, to blow up a critical tunnel with the help of a local underground cell suspicious of outside help, which, so London's Major Shawcross (Laurie Main) informs Hogan, will also include Crittendon, who has a plan to accomplish the sabotage that is so ingenious the Heroes are going to have to break him out of Stalag 16 to learn what it is.
Hogan orders Sergeant Carter to "escape" so Hogan can then rope-a-dope reliably witless Stalag 13 commandant Colonel Klink into ordering him to go after Carter accompanied by--who else?--reliably incompetent Sergeant Schultz, who reliably turns a blind, bulging eye to the reliable shenanigans of Hogan and Carter that include breaking Crittendon out of his POW camp and rendezvousing with the underground cell while being away from Stalag 13 for a few days. Oh, and do you need to be told that because of London's "sorry, chaps" mix-up, Hogan and Carter spring the wrong Crittendon--yes, the bumbling one--with an entirely different plan that will require a lot of fertilizer to make it bloom?
Powell's métier was farce, and, as was astutely pointed out by reviewer alanlipsky, Powell does work in a sendup of 1943's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" as the underground unit does resemble Loyalists fighting the fascist Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. But there is nothing remotely fresh about Powell's farce this time out. In fact, it's mostly fertilizer.
Need proof? Just watch Bob Crane. Almost from start to finish, he displays an irritation that borders on stridency. Perhaps that was Crane's take-charge persona because as an actor he was adequate but little more, but there seems to be a "what, again?" exasperation to his performance. Then we have future Playboy Playmate of the Year Victoria Vetri (billed as Angela Dorian) reliably present as one of the Loyalist partisans--sorry, underground unit--whose sole purpose is to--can you guess?--throw herself at Hogan.
At least her fellow partisans are played by Billy Wilder veterans Cliff Osmond and Naomi Stevens, with the latter one of the few bright spots in "The Crittendon Plan" as Fox delivers his reliable dolt, what, ho? Sprinkle this one on your geraniums. Not a reliable start to the third season of "Hogan's Heroes."
- darryl-tahirali
- Apr 6, 2022