spy-spoof Out of Sight. He also co-wrote Mitzi Gaynor's 1968 and 1969 television specials, and appeared in and wrote comedy bits for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. After Hogan's Heroes Even before Hogan's Heroes was canceled in 1971, Hovis had already made appearances on other TV shows. In the mid-1970s, Hovis made appearances on the game show Match Game and the comedy series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In alongside his Hogan's Heroes castmate Richard Dawson, and was a co-creator for Laugh-In as well. Later in the decade, he produced and was a regular panelist on the game show Liar's Club. From 1979 to 1981, Hovis toured in the musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas as Melvin P. Thorpe. In 1982, Hovis was a writer/producer on the show So You Think You Got Troubles, which was hosted by actor and ventriloquist Jay Johnson. Later in the decade, Hovis teamed up with Gary Bernstein to form Bernstein-Hovis Productions, which produced the game shows Anything for Money, the original version of Lingo and the short-lived Yahtzee, a TV version of the classic dice game, for which Hovis also announced and served as a regular panelist. Hovis was hired as a co-producer for the hidden-camera television show Totally Hidden Video, but was fired by Fox executives who conducted an investigation of the pilot episode’s segments and found that 3 of 4 taped segments included paid actors and scripted content. The investigation was initially prompted by a lawsuit filed by Candid Camera creator Allen Funt, alleging that the new series was copying old Candid Camera situational contrivances. Beginning in the 1990s, Hovis taught drama at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas – now called Texas State University-San Marcos. Death Hovis died of esophageal cancer in Austin, Texas, on September 9, 2003. He was 67 years old. Partial filmography Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1964–1965, TV series) – Larry The Andy Griffith Show (1965, TV series, episodes "The Case of the Punch in the Nose" and "Goober Takes a Car Apart") – Gilly Walker Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971, TV series) – Sgt. Andrew Carter Liar's Club (1976–1979, TV game show) – producer, regular panelist Alice (1977, TV series, episode "The Indian Taker") – Detective Fred Scott Wild in the Sky (1972) – Capt. Breen Hello Larry (1981, TV series) Shadow Force (1992) – Frank Bergmann Yorick (2002) – Archbishop Lone Star State of Mind (2002) – Doctor (final