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.
Hogan's Heroes: Hogan's Trucking Service... We Deliver the Factory to You
(1968)
One For Their Side
Season 4, Episode 4
19 July 2022