Hogan's Heroes (TV Series) Gowns by Yvette (1970) User Reviews

This episode is funny from beginning to end.

[kfo9494 · 9/10 · 7 September 2014]

Hogan has got to meet with an agent at the local Hauerhof to get some information. It just so happens that Burkhalter's niece is getting married and the wedding will be at the Hauserof. Hogan has to think of a way to get invited to the wedding.

Hogan tells Burkhalter that LeBeau is one of the finest dress designers in Europe and will be glad to make a dress for his niece. Burkhalter agrees and now there is a way to get to the Hauserof.

However, the agent has been detained, in his room, by the Gestapo. And since the agent knows the operation of the prison camp, Hogan is going to have to come up with a way to free the agent. But it will be difficult as SS agents are all over the hotel in preparation for the General's niece wedding.

This was actually an enjoyable watch. The wedding was a great distraction plus it also produced some laughs. And Burkhalter and Klink are always hilarious when confronting each other. This episode brings back all the comedy of the series. Good watch!

Schultz in a wedding gown helps this one generate big laughs

[FlushingCaps · 10/10 · 31 August 2020]

Hogan needs to meet with an Underground agent at the Hauserhoff and before he can figure out a way to do so, opportunity knocks. Late one evening, Colonel Klink tells him that General Burkhalter has ordered him to prepare everything for "the wedding" in a few days at the Hauserhoff. Klink is certain the general is compelling him to wed his sister under threat of the Russian front if he refuses. Hogan begins contemplating a way to crash the wedding so he can slip away and meet the agent.

The next morning, Burkhalter arrives and informs Klink that he has no intention of letting his sister marry him; that the wedding is for his niece and he simply wants Klink to handle all the arrangements. Hogan now has an idea, he tells Burkhalter and Klink that LeBeau is a famous French designer known as "Yvette" and he can have him make a custom wedding gown for the occasion. In this episode, LeBeau knows nothing about sewing, contrary with earlier episodes, and it's Newkirk who is the "seamstress."

They get to the hotel for the fitting for the niece, Frieda and Hogan slips away to the agent's room. On entering, he is arrested by Gestapo, who were waiting for whoever the man was to contact. Luckily, Hogan gave nothing away because of the clumsy way the Gestapo men handled things. He tells them he is there with the Burkhalter wedding party and is able to quickly get Schultz to back him up, so he is released.

Now they have to try to free the agent before he talks. He is still being detained right there, by Gestapo hoping to catch his contact. We viewers aren't told the new plan, only that Hogan gets Newkirk to make a duplicate dress by the next day-the day of the wedding.

We never see the actual wedding, only a bit of the reception. A fake air raid causes enough confusion for Hogan's men to KO the Gestapo taking the agent down the darkened hallway, where they whisk the agent into a room and slip him into the second gown. They delay the real bride just long enough to let the agent hustle away to a waiting car for the start of the honeymoon with the groom-Dick Wilson, aka Mr. Whippel-and as Burkhalter and Klink are smiling at the happy conclusion of a wedding, Frieda comes up from behind, and hustles out to the car. We end with the two Germans looking confused, thinking, "Didn't she just go out with the groom?"

The action was not the focal point here, as all they had to do was get a chance to be with the agent long enough for him to turn over valuable information-is there any other kind. Comedy reigned supreme here. The funniest scene was where they had Schultz serve as a model for LeBeau as he finished the gown in the barracks because he was about the same size as Frieda-LeBeau told him it will be a little loose on him, actually. Schultz admires the work and asks if he can make a dress for his wife. LeBeau says sure, just get me her measurements. Schultz says, "She's the same as me."

I best liked the next bit where Klink enters and wonders why Schultz is in a wedding gown. After being told why, Schultz tosses a bouquet to Klink who catches it and glares at him.

I laughed at this about as much as any episode, so I happily give it a 10.