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• Acting for Two:
  • In Kinchloe's A Day in the Limelight episode "The Prince from the Phone Company", Ivan Dixon also plays the title character.
  • "Heil Klink" features a financial expert called Wolfgang Brauner who's wanted by the Gestapo; John Banner plays Schultz and Brauner.
• Cast the Expert: In the first episode, it's mentioned that Newkirk has some training as a magician - hence his skill with pickpocketing and sleight of hand. Richard Dawson performed at the Palladium.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Racial variation -- while Carter does the best in-person Hitler, Kinchloe does him for phone calls and radio messages.
• The Danza:
  • Bob Crane as Col. Robert Hogan, though this is actually coincidental; the character was named after actor Robert Hogan, who was a friend of co-creator Bernard Fein, and director Gene Reynolds (and indeed appeared on the series himself).
  • On occasion, Ivan Dixon as Ivan Kinchloe (even though Kinch's original first name was James).
• Fake Nationality: Almost completely averted. John Banner was Austrian, the rest of the cast matched the nationality of their characters. Major Hochstetter -- a character not in the main cast -- was played by an American actor.
• Fake Russian: Marya, played by American Nita Talbot.
• Hey, It's That Guy!: William Chistopher (a.k.a MASH's Father Mulcahy) as (in separate episodes) both an American and a German soldier.
• Money, Dear Boy: Co-creator Albert S. Ruddy wanted nothing to do with the series. When he was offered a position on the show's writing staff, he turned it down to concentrate on writing screenplays for movies; the main reason he co-wrote the pilot episode was at the suggestion of a colleague who said he would be paid rather nicely as the creator of a weekly series, as common practice back in those days was whoever wrote the pilot episode of a series was credited as the creator(s).
• Reality Subtext:
  • Hogan's womanizing took on a new light when the seedy details of Bob Crane's private life came out. Crane also married Sigrid Valdis who played Hilda, the secretary with whom Hogan had an implied relationship.
  • Carter almost never takes off his gloves. If you look at one of the very rare scenes where he's bare-handed you can see that he's wearing a wedding ring. Larry Hovis, his actor, refused to remove it even while he was acting.
• Real Life Relative: Axis Annie was played by Werner Klemperer's then-wife, Louise Troy.
• Recycled Set: It's subtle, but if astute viewers pay really close attention, anytime the heroes are doing business in a different barrack, it's clearly the exact same set as Hogan's barrack, with the bunks and lockers and such rearranged. Even the interior of the new Rec Hall in Season Six, the front wall is the same, a bookcase is inserted in the doorway.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The producers of the DVDs seem to think so, the show is described as being "timeless" on DVD packages, however, with this show obviously taking place in a German prisoner of war camp in WW 2, it's a period piece no matter how you look at it.