Let's wrap up season three of Hogan's Heroes...
- LeBeau complains a bit too much about an elderly underground agent--who is actually a beautiful woman (Celeste Yarnall) in the appropriately titled "LeBeau and the Little Old Lady". Yarnall had a lot of TV roles from the 1960's to the 2000's, including a guest spot on the original Star Trek ("The Apple").
- Murray Slaughter / Captain Stuebing (Gavin MacLeod) is back as a general doing some work on the side--stealing French artwork--in "The Collector General". The boys decide to put him out of business.
- Hogan wants to misdirect the Nazis to the wrong target, so he convinces Schultz he has ESP (via a delayed news broadcast and some targeted raids) in "The Ultimate Weapon". We even get a catchphrase--"Flat as a pancake!". A female Gestapo officer comes in to test Schultz, played by Marian Moses. Her film debut in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966) was also the debut for Harrison Ford.
- In the tradition of all great sitcoms, a chimpanzee visits Stalag 13--it's "Monkey Business". A local zoo has been destroyed by Allied raids, so Hogan convinces Klink that LeBeau is a big game hunter (how many professions did LeBeau have?). At one point, we hear what is clearly a sound effects record of wild animals.
- We learn that Carter is descended from the Sioux tribe--so let the Native American stereotypes begin in "Drums Along the Dusseldorf"! They use a flaming arrow to take out a truck with jet fuel. We also get an over the top old lady bit from Richard Dawson.
Cast info:
Nita Talbot (Marya) was born in New York City, and had her first role as a model in the film It's a Great Feeling in 1949. She was best known for playing glamorous women, often with foreign accents. She moved primarily to television in the 1950's, and had roles on Studio One, Maverick, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and CHiPs, among others. She also did a lot of work on the soaps--Search for Tomorrow, The Secret Storm, and General Hospital. She won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress for her Hogan role in 1968. Her last role was voice work on the Spider-Man animated series in 1997, although she is still alive.
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