Colonel Crittendon (Bernard Fox) makes his fifth appearance in this series. To begin with, he wears the uniform of a Royal Air Force Group Captain, equivalent in rank to full Colonel, however an actual GC would step on anybody foolish enough to call him Colonel. So, it began in the fifth episode of this series (the Flight of the Valkyrie), a senior ranking idiot on the Allies' team. Stalag 13 Commandant, Colonel Klink (Werner Klemperer), is completely inept and easily manipulated by Colonel Hogan, and most every other person who has the need. His huge shoes of incompetence should be hard to fill, but Crittendon has demonstrated, once again, that he is easily up to this task. We have always had Carter's fumbling to offset Shultz's bumbling, so it is a comfort to the war effort to have some equalization at the higher ranks.
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The episode felt like a rerun the first time around.
kfo949426 August 2014
Warning: Spoilers
In this episode we have Hogan's gang with orders to blow up a ball-bearing plant near the Stalag. They have rigged a loaded truck filled with TNT to explode at a certain time and the mission looks to be on schedule.
But when the half-wit Colonel Crittendon (Bernard Fox) makes an appearance, everybody knows that something will go wrong. And sure enough, he drives the truck loaded with the TNT back to the prison camp.
There is little to this story. Most of the action/gags have been done many time on the series and just not amusing. Even the jokes, which were few and far between, was old material. Just did not have the flare of other episodes.
But when the half-wit Colonel Crittendon (Bernard Fox) makes an appearance, everybody knows that something will go wrong. And sure enough, he drives the truck loaded with the TNT back to the prison camp.
There is little to this story. Most of the action/gags have been done many time on the series and just not amusing. Even the jokes, which were few and far between, was old material. Just did not have the flare of other episodes.
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