"Hogan's Heroes" Rockets or Romance (TV Episode 1971) Poster

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(1971)

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8/10
And following the credits, the show is no more.
kfo949413 September 2014
With this episode (which actually was not the last episode filmed since all shows were aired out of order) the series comes to a unceremonious end. And in this final show, the heroes are still doing their best to sabotage the Germans and hopefully shorten the war.

In this episode the Germans have three rocket launchers in the area of the Stalag. Two are being followed by the underground and one is still missing. But without delay the third launcher happens to arrive inside the gates of the prison camp making the location simple. The only problem is that Hogan cannot direct the Allied bombers inside the camp without killing most of the men, so Hogan is going to have to come up with a plan to destroy the one launcher that is located in the Stalag.

Hogan gets help from a beautiful underground woman named Lily Frankel. (Lily had also played in season 5 episode 'Six Lessons From Madame LeGrange' but no mention of her previous appearance seemed to be mentioned) Lily will help Hogan, from an unoccupied cabin, to help locate the two other launchers and direct the Allied bombing. But it will be difficult when the Germans have picked up Hogan's transmissions and are closing in on the location.

This episode ends exactly the same as all the other shows in the collection. Not even a hint that this could be the very last airing of the wonder series as it fades to black in the usual fashion. But after six years, which is a long tenure for a comedy sitcom, the series comes to an end. But we, as viewers, still have the 168 episodes to cherish the time in history.
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7/10
End of the line - everyone off!
Guad426 March 2022
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This is a routine but solid episode for a series that didn't know it was over. The boys have to destroy three mobile rockets about to launch for England. Of course, they pull it off with the added bonus that one hits General Burkhalter's house.

Marilyn Mason as Lily Franken is nice to look at and does her guest shot well. It is odd that she is playing a character with the same name as the character she played in Season 5 when it is clear from the interaction of the characters in this episode that this Lily is meeting everyone for the first time. Did the writers run out of names?

Too bad the show ended so abruptly and didn't get a concluding episode. The show was starting to repeat itself. Not sure how a seventh season would have gone. It had a nice run and solid viewership fifty years later. That's a win in anyone's book.
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10/10
With The End Of Hogan's Heroes, You Have To Start Over Again...
MichaelAEberly_4426 September 2020
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Even after "Rockets Or Romance", You totally have to start from the very beginning all over again. It keeps getting better every time, Trust me, It never gets old. Too bad it ended like it did, But, I wish it sort of ended like that one episode when they said the War was over and it started back up again. But when the war did end, Everyone would say their goodbyes and go home like they did for M*A*S*H in the episode "Goodbye, Farewell & Amen".
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6/10
It was a lousy neighborhood anyway.
WilliamJE22 February 2022
All right series finale. There is nothing really original about Rockets or Romance but the ending was more amusing than most. General Burkhalter needed a real estate agent.
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