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Hogan has just freed four underground agents that had been captured by the Germans. He is bring them into the prison camp where they will be assigned a route to get to London. But when they get in camp there has been a water leak. The escape tunnel has caved-in and there is no other way to get them out of the Stalag.

To make matter worse, when the Heroes finally stop the water leak the water in return begins spraying up above ground. If the Germans dig down to the pipe they will discover the tunnel. Hogan has to think fast.

Hogan tell Klink that the water is from a mineral spring and has healing values. He even talks Klink into building a bath house and invite General Burkhalter down for a visit. Hogan just may have the distraction he needs to get the four agents out of camp.

A rather humorous episode that was entertaining to watch. Another nice script that features all the comedy to make for an enjoyable experience. And it seems that anytime General Burkhalter is in camp funny things happen.

Hogan receives a message from London to set free four prisoners taken for Germany at once, he replays "I'm John Wayne?" he settled a plain and got all them, nowhere to go Hogan hidden the four underground group on Stalag 13 for a while, however a pipe of water broke, they fix but the pressure make the pipe broke on surface of the ground, Col. Hogan realizes if the German dig the ground they'll find the tunnel or the water can be collapse it, certainly should be a disaster, the smart Colonel explains to Klink it's quite sure a mineral water coming from bellow spring, he got convinces the slowpoke Klink and the Gal. Burkhalter, they build a small bath house and the two German officers opening the bath session with some free vapor steam like a sauna, misleading them, in the meantime the Officers's clothes are used by the prisoners to escape through the main gate, one the funniest episode!!!

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First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7

Pressed on short notice to liberate four underground agents from German detention, Hogan's Heroes find themselves submerged in difficulties in "Hogan Springs," which sees the Allied intelligence and sabotage unit operating from Stalag 13 nearly flushed down the drain when a water pipe breaks and floods the emergency tunnel they expected to use to spirit the agents out of camp. And when Sergeant Kinchloe does fit a sleeve over the break in the pipe to stop the leak, another pipe bursts near the surface, alerting camp commandant Colonel Klink to the problem--and Heroes leader Colonel Hogan must plug that problem before the Germans start digging and discover their covert operation.

Always engineering a credible premise while keeping it within the context of, you know, Allied airmen interned by Nazi Germany during World War Two, writer Laurence Marks sets course for a humorous yet plausible solution when Hogan congratulates Klink on becoming the proud owner of a mineral spring spouting healthful water, with him and his men then setting about to convince Klink that it really is mineral water and that he should create a spa to take advantage of this (ahem) watershed opportunity--and then to even invite General Burkhalter down for a relaxing soak.

It's all an elaborate ruse to sneak the four underground agents out of camp as "Hogan Springs" plays it mostly for laughs, although a brief spotlight on Walter Janovitz, in the fifth of his dozen appearances as Oscar Schnitzer, the veterinarian who tends to Stalag 13's guard dogs, highlights the outside help the Heroes have to run their operation while Marks also tosses in a real-world throwaway gag: Over the doorway into the spa, Klink has placed a sign labeled "Strength Through Water," a play on the name of the German tourism organization Strength Through Joy, a hugely popular German Labour Front leisure resource that promoted Nazism along with its affordable cruises and its most famous product, a budget "people's car" that after the war became better known as the Volkswagen Beetle.

Smartly executed by director Gene Reynolds, "Hogan Springs" is really just a well-constructed vignette that makes for a satisfying comedic diversion, with the quartet of underground agents merely catalyst to make Klink look all wet once again.