User Reviews

This episode begins as Burkhalter is discussing a meeting of important Generals that will take place near the Stalag and Klink will be the host. Hogan has already got word from London that the Generals must be killed before they can act on their plan in occupied France.

Hogan, with help from the underground, will stage a plot where explosions will be scattered throughout the room. During the meeting the explosions will go off killing everyone.

But right before the plan is to be carried out, Hogan receives another message from London stating to cancel the plans since a certain General, Felix Mercer, will be attending and he has been working with the Allies. But the dye is already cast. Hogan is going to have to find a way to rescue the General, and the secret papers, from a room bound for destruction.

This was not the most unique script of the series but one that had enough material to make for a nice watch for the viewer. In fact nothing was really remarkable in the story but it did conclude with favorable results for the Heroes. Just an above average production.

PS- The trivia section said there was no laugh track. The film I watched had a laugh track.

"An evening of Generals" was a good Hogan's Heroes episode, I really liked it. The storyline has a good plot, it and was very interesting. But it was strange for me to not hear any canned laughter after each funny line or funny scene. Whenever anything funny happened, there wasn't any canned laughter to accentuate the comedy. It made the episode a little to dramatic. To me, every diss of Col. Klink by Gen. Buckhalter or Col. Hogan seemed less funny, almost sad or depressing. It makes me wonder why the producers would do something like this. It definitely worked in some of the more serious episodes of M*A*S*H* though.

This episode had no laugh track and was dearly missed. I found it sub-par compared to the other episodes because of this.

It's a comedy series, so this was too serious without it and losses its "Hogan's Heroes" appeal.

As television was developing in the mid-to-late 1960's, the three networks did a good bit of experimenting with show formats, story lines, novelties, special effects, and backgrounds. In the 1967-68 series, One of the things that CBS decided to try was elimination the laugh track on a comedy that was considered to be "intelligent." "Hogan's Heroes," which was a comedy with serious elements, fit the bill as well as any other on the air at the time, so the network decided to eliminate the laugh track during one episode to see if the comic element could stand on its own merits. Ratings showed that the laugh track was needed, and it was used thereafter, although CBS did lessen its use in certain situations, such as the operating-room scenes in M*A*S*H after the first two seasons.

The story itself is well-done here and is a cut above most in the series.