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Praise the Fuhrer and Pass the Ammunition - S2-E19

Trivia: As Newkirk does his impressions, he says "Sprechen Sie Deutsch?, Ja! Then droppen sie dead." This joke was used in "Stalag 17", the 1953 movie about POWs in a German prison camp. The exchange was between Harry Shapiro and their guard, Johann Sebastian Schultz.

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Hello, Zolle - S1-E19

Trivia: As Major Zolle digs, Kinchloe tells the other prisoner "You may fire when ready, Gridley!", which the man turns on the water. The line was originally an order given to Captain Charles Gridley by Commodore George Dewey during the Battle of Manila Bay, May 1, 1898, and has been used numerous times over the years.

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Get Fit or Go Fight - S5-E16

Trivia: In the gym, Carter isn't wearing his gloves. Therefore, the wedding ring that Larry Hovis wore in real life was visible. He wore the gloves because he steadfastly refused to remove it.

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Lady Chitterly's Lover: Part 1 - S6-E4

Trivia: The "mysterious blue box" that has been mentioned before (that is a box to hold a box of matches) shows up on the wall next to the window in Hogan's quarters.

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Trivia: When the outside night time activities were filmed (i.e., entering or exiting the Emergency entrance, et cetera), and it was at the back lot film location, it was during the day, and the cameras were fitted with "night lenses." This was a special filter that turned day time to an evening setting.

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One Army at a Time - S5-E20

Trivia: The bridge the boys wire up for explosion is the same one seen in S5: Ep1 "Hogan Goes Hollywood"

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Trivia: In the five seasons of his involvement, Ivan Dixon of Staff Sergeant James (Ivan) "Kinch" Kinchloe, his nickname, Ivan, was used only once. Otherwise, he was usually called Kinch.

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Trivia: Howard Caine, who was best known as Major Wolfgang Hochstetter, was born in Tennessee, was Jewish, and served in the United States Navy in WWII in the Pacific fighting the Japanese. He was fluent in 32 American and foreign dialects.

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Get Fit or Go Fight - S5-E16

Trivia: Werner Klemperer (Kommandant Wilhelm Klink) was born in 1920. So here when he says to Carter, "I am 49", he's declaring his real age.

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Trivia: In the first few seasons the "snow" was actually salt piled in strategic places, along with patches of white paint. Later on, it was all white paint on the roofs and ground.

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Trivia: Larry Hovis (Sgt. Carter) refused to remove his wedding band, and so, he usually (with several exceptions) wore gloves.

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The Klink Commandos - S5-E3

Trivia: The idea was for the series was to always be winter, so that the episodes could be shown in any order, hence the reason there is always snow on the roofs and ground, and frost on the windows. In fact, the filming was mainly done in summer, with temperatures in the 90s, and the actors had to wear their coats, and act as if it were cold.

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The Collector General - S3-E27

Trivia: In this episode, there is a German coat-of-arms on the wall with the bug in it. This is the only time it's seen.

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Operation Briefcase - S2-E4

Trivia: General Stauffen was played by Oscar Beregi, who also played Mr. Schmidt, a.k.a. SS Captain Gunther Lutze, of the Dachau Concentration Camp in the Twilight Zone episode "Death's Head Revisited."

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Request Permission to Escape - S1-E32

Trivia: When Carter first goes into the bar, the Artillery Private he speaks to is played by William Christopher, who, besides a couple of other spots in the series, is better known as Father Mulcahy at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, or M*A*S*H.

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The Safecracker Suite - S1-E27

Trivia: As Hogan dangles the key in front of Klink to remind him of the promise to look the other way, Klink borrows one of Schultz's gags in his last line of the scene, saying, "For the first time since I have taken command here, I want to know nothing! NO-THING!"

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To the Gestapo with Love - S4-E5

Trivia: When Klink and Hochstetter look at to see the direction of the bridge blowing up, the scene shown is the same one used by Hogan to get the guys out of camp with the phony forest fire.

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Funny Thing Happened on the Way to London - S3-E5

Trivia: Though they tried to blank out the name, the candy bar that Hogan bribes Schultz with is a Hershey's bar with almonds. You can tell by the shape, thickness, and can see the name in the sun.

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Reverend Kommandant Klink - S2-E25

Trivia: In this episode, Major Wolfgang Hochstetter makes his appearance. He is portrayed by Howard Caine, who played two other characters before this, one as a anti-aircraft battery commander, and another as a special investigator for the SS.

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Everybody Loves a Snowman - S3-E14

Trivia: For budgetary reasons, it was not unusual to see one actor play several different characters in a television series. Case in point, in this episode, Noam Pitlik plays the part of an escaped POW. In the pilot episode, he was a Gestapo agent, and various German officers in others.

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