Hogan's Heroes (TV Series) The Kamikazes Are Coming (1971) User Reviews

An average show at best.

[kfo9494 · 6/10 · 12 September 2014]

Most every time that Nina Talbot is in the cast we know that we are going to get another fine performance that involves the 'White Russian' Marya. But the script in this show was lacking. The concept around the missing rocket was unbelievable and the way the characters handled the situation seemed strange, even for this comedy sitcom.

But anyway the story centered around the German's new V-3 rocket. It had just been tested and then was lost somewhere around Stalag 13. Hogan and his men find the rockets but there is no way to get the rocket back to England. In comes Marya on the arm of the scientist that had made the rocket. And as always Marya is going to put the charms on both sides of the conflict leaving the viewer hoping that it falls on the side of the Allies.

Mainly a lackluster episode that felt long even for a thirty minute show. But we have had some good shows in this final season and we were bound to have an average show somewhere along the path. Not a bad offering but just one that was considered average.

Another ridiculous plot with Marya

[FlushingCaps · 4/10 · 19 September 2020]

One more retread plot with actress Nita Talbot as Marya. As I have complained on most of her episodes, it is virtually the same stupid plot as the other ones. We even have a repeat in the object of concern being a rocket, this time a German one that was being tested that crashed near the camp and was found by the Heroes.

Just as in almost every episode where "the Russian woman" Marya appears, she again has hinted to her new boyfriend that Colonel Hogan is much more than a POW. She is always telling Germans something about Hogan's exploits, but luckily for our side nobody ever attempts to investigate based on what they hear from her.

Once again, Marya gets time alone to smooch with Hogan and let him know that he needs to come up with a way to help her accomplish her goals of stopping the Germans. That sentence I wrote word for word in a previous review. It is repeated here because it is the same thing in this episode as in the other one.

Where the scripts differ is the following: Marya blackmails Hogan in to telling the Germans where the rocket is-she somehow knows that Hogan knows. She threatens Hogan that she will reveal their whole operation if he doesn't do as she says. This is a big part of what annoyed me so much about her. She professes to be on Hogan's side, but is constantly putting him and his men in great danger.

Once the Germans bring the rocket into camp, she tells Hogan that he now can steal it and launch it away...to Moscow. Hogan wants to send it to London. What follows is about the closest this show ever came to a Roadrunner cartoon. On some sort of cart, the men are able to push it around camp while the Germans aren't looking. They move this, approximately 10-foot-long rocket into the barracks, then into the recreation hall, all while Marya is directing the Krauts to search here and there for the missing rocket.

In the rec hall, they set it up to be launched through the ceiling, which Newkirk has quickly hooked up with hinges in part of the roof so the ship can exit through the roof. I believe it is shown to be protruding through the roof while in launch position, yet somehow they were able to wheel it horizontally into the barracks. I note this impossibility because while we were shown them taking it toward the barracks door, we never actually saw it horizontally inside the men's quarters because it physically would not have fit.

A coin flip determines the rocket will be directed to London, as somehow all of the ground controls, kind of a mini-Houston, are somehow available to the Heroes. While Klink and Hochstetter are running all around the camp trying to find the rocket, Hogan's boys are able to launch it through the roof and away to London. Amazingly, the fiery explosion that launches the rocket does no damage at all to the recreation hall!

I don't mind the episodes where some of the plot is unbelievable. But nothing here makes sense. I thought the character of Marya by far the most annoying of anyone in this series, and really disliked that whenever she was involved the plot seemed to be largely a rerun. The laughs were sparse and the dramatic part was ridiculously unbelievable. I generously give this episode a 4.

Not Nina Talbot's Marya AGAIN???

[pmike-11312 · 1/10 · 22 June 2021]

Everytime Nina Talbot is in the cast "we" know we are going to get another ridiculous episode and have to endure another half-hour with that awful characterization and that gawd-awful accent.

Skip this one (or any other with Marya).

Not again

[bhogston · 2/10 · 10 June 2022]

I was in jr high when Hogans Heroes was new. I had a crush on Marya. But now? Meh. All her episodes are exactly the same. I used to think Crittendon was the worst guest star. But it's close.