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Howard Caine, Larry Hovis, and Lyn Peters in Hogan's Heroes (1965)

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It's Dynamite

Hogan's Heroes

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Continuity

When Schultz is paying off his debts of money and chocolate to the prisoners, Hogan has his hands behind is back. He then he folds his arms across his chest and next shot his hands are behind his back again.

Factual errors

When Hogan hands the radio to Schultz after repairing and testing it, Hogan is very careful to hold it by the chassis. However, when Schultz takes the radio from Hogan, his hands are all over the tubes. Since the radio had just been playing music, the tubes would have been hot, and Schultz should not have been able to handle the radio.
The first truck, the one that Schultz drives out of camp, is a small truck with the steering wheel on the right. German trucks have their steering wheel on the left. The second truck is larger, and has the steering wheel on the left.
Fire does not detonate dynamite which is Nitroglycerin soaked sawdust or some other absorbent material. Nitro glycerin is a shock explosive meaning it needs a small explosive to set it off such as a blasting cap which is ignited by electricity. The entire shipment of dynamite can burn without setting it off, so fire is not dangerous.
Donaveter, donavetter, or donaveta, however it is spelled is not German for dynamite, the word is dynamit.
The map Hogan and the gang uses to lay out their plans has the first road spelled 'Flenzhiem', which would be pronounced 'Flenzh(ee)m'. For it to be pronounced 'Flenzh(eye)m', it should be spelled 'Flenzheim'. In German, the 'ie' combination is pronounced like 'ee' (long 'e'), while the 'ei' combination is pronounced like 'eye' (long 'i').

Update: The road in Germany is Flenzheim Rd. It's being pronounced correctly in the show, and it's spelled correctly in the captioning. It's just spelled wrong on the hand-drawn map that Hogan uses.

Revealing mistakes

When Carter (in disguise as the Fire Chief of Hammelberg) arrives at the cooler for an inspection and lights a cigar, despite there being a number of boxes of dynamite in open view, Major Hochstetter doesn't even notice.

Update: Major Hochstetter begins to notice, but immediately sees 'Fraülein Schmidt' doing her job (to distract Hochstetter), and loses his train of thought.
The exact same hand-made map is used to map out the plan for intercepting the first dynamite delivery in Hogan's bedroom/office and again in the tunnel after they come back.
When Hogan solders a connection on the radio he is repairing, no smoke is generated, proving that the soldering iron is not hot. Solder used in electronics has a compound called flux embedded in it, which generates smoke when heated with a soldering iron.
When Hogan turns the radio on to test it after repairing it, the tubes in the radio do not glow, indicating the radio is either just a prop, or no power was actually applied to the radio (even though it was plugged in).
When Colonel Klink is giving his speech to the prisoners you can hear crickets chirping in the background. Crickets would not be able to survive with the weather being cold and snow visible on the ground.

Anachronisms

The sound speaker that Hogan repairs for Schultz is of a 1960's, not 1940's, design.

Character error

When Hogan is working on the radio for Schultz, he uses a pair of pliers and a soldering iron. However, the radio is plugged in to line power (220 Volts). Even if he had been a relative electronics novice, the first rule of working on any electronic device is to unplug it, lest you die due to an electric shock. Hogan would never have done such a thing.

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