He did take it a bit too far. (it is how he died allegedly)
Bob Crane, star of Hogan's Heroes, was murdered on June 29, 1978, at age 49 in a Scottsdale, Arizona, apartment while starring in a dinner theater play. He was found bludgeoned to death, likely with a camera tripod, with an electrical cord used during the attack. The case remains a famous unsolved homicide.