Sir Charles Chitterly is based on the real life British Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley. Mosley was interned during the early war years and suffered no legal difficulties after the war, largely because of his family connections. This stands in direct contrast to William Joyce, the Irish-American Fascist who broadcast propaganda for the Nazis as Lord Haw-Haw and who has the dubious distinction of being one of the three final persons to be executed for treason in the United Kingdom.
One of only two 2-part episodes in the six season history of Hogan's Heroes (1965). The other one was A Tiger Hunt in Paris: Part 1 (1966) & A Tiger Hunt in Paris: Part 2 (1966) in the second season.
Colonel Crittendon (aka, Bernard Fox) had a running joke. Either testing his memory or acting ability, Col. Crittendon
recited with great difficulty a passage from "The Merchant of Venice" by Shakespeare. He never recited beyond, "The Quality of Mercy is Not Strained" when his memory failed him.
As the Heroes listen in on Lord Chitterly talking to Klink and Schultz, Hogan remarks to Newkirk about Chitterly being part of the "Cliveden Set." The Cliveden Set was the name given to a group of upper-class Britons associated with Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, Britain's first female Minister of Parliament; Cliveden was the name of her mansion.
The Set was reputed to comprise pro-German appeasers, although this was largely a myth propagated by communist journalist Claud Cockburn. However, one Set member was Edward Wood, Lord Halifax, who was Nevile Chamberlain's foreign minister during the notorious 1938 Munich Agreement with Hitler over then-Czechoslovakia, which saw Nazi Germany partially occupy an area called the Sudetenland and Chamberlain securing Hitler's promise not to occupy any more of the country with the claim of "peace in our time." The Nazis then invaded and occupied all of Czechoslovakia in 1939.
The Set was reputed to comprise pro-German appeasers, although this was largely a myth propagated by communist journalist Claud Cockburn. However, one Set member was Edward Wood, Lord Halifax, who was Nevile Chamberlain's foreign minister during the notorious 1938 Munich Agreement with Hitler over then-Czechoslovakia, which saw Nazi Germany partially occupy an area called the Sudetenland and Chamberlain securing Hitler's promise not to occupy any more of the country with the claim of "peace in our time." The Nazis then invaded and occupied all of Czechoslovakia in 1939.
The title is from the novel 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' by D. H. Lawrence written in 1928.