Hogan's Heroes

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

Episode list - season 1

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1The Informer5
2Hold That Tiger4
3Kommandant of the Year3
4The Late Inspector General2
5The Flight of the Valkyrie1
6The Prisoner's Prisoner0
7German Bridge Is Falling Down5
8Movies Are Your Best Escape4
9Go Light on the Heavy Water4
10Top Hat, White Tie and Bomb Sights6
11Happiness Is a Warm Sergeant1
12The Scientist3
13Hogan's Hofbrau4
14Oil for the Lamps of Hogan3
15Reservations Are Required2
16Anchors Aweigh, Men of Stalag 138
17Happy Birthday, Adolf2
18The Gold Rush11
19Hello, Zolle3
20It Takes a Thief... Sometimes0
21The Great Impersonation2
22The Pizza Parlor4
23The 43rd, a Moving Story3
24How to Cook a German Goose by Radar4
25Psychic Kommandant4
26The Prince from the Phone Company0
27The Safecracker Suite4
28I Look Better in Basic Black5
29The Assassin1
30Cupid Comes to Stalag 130
31The Flame Grows Higher3
32Request Permission to Escape4
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Answer: Nimrod's actual identity was never revealed in the series. It was only known that he was a British intelligence agent. Nimrod was not Colonel Klink. Hogan had only implied it was him as a ruse to get Klink returned as camp commandant, not wanting him replaced by someone more competent who would impede the Heroes war activities. The term "nimrod" is also slang for a nerdy, doofus type of person, though it's unclear why that was his code name.

raywest

"Nimrod" is originally a king and hero mentioned in the Tanach and taken into the Bible and the Koran. His name is often used in the sense of "stalker," "hunter," and sometimes figuratively as "womanizer" as in "hunter of women." I've never seen it used to denote a nerdy person, and although I cannot disprove that connotation, I think given his role, the traditional meaning is more likely the intended one.

Doc

It's widespread enough that Wikipedia has an entire section on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod#In_popular_culture

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