Hogan's Heroes( 1965)

TV-MAWar & PoliticsComedy

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Overview

Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the commandant of the camp, and John Banner was the inept sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz. The series was popular during its six-season run. In 2013, creators Bernard Fein through his estate and Albert S. Ruddy acquired the sequel and other separate rights to Hogan's Heroes from Mark Cuban through arbitration and a movie based on the show has been planned.

Albert S. Ruddy
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Bernard Fein
Creator

Series Cast

Bob Crane
Robert Hogan
Richard Dawson
Peter Newkirk
Robert Clary
Louis LeBeau
Larry Hovis
Andrew Carter
Werner Klemperer
Wilhelm Klink
John Banner
Hans Schultz

Current Season

Season 6

1970 | 24 Episodes

Season 6 of Hogan's Heroes premiered on Sep 20 1970

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A review by drystyx

Written by drystyx on Tue Apr 04 2023

This is a comedy about a POW camp in WW2 Germany. Hogan is played by ill fated Bob Crane, who wise cracks his way through the series, making fools of the Germans. To be honest, this series is very racist against German (pale, fair haired, European) males, while being accepting of German females. That was the standard racism and neo Nazi Hollywood ideology of the seventies. The show actually paid homage to Adolf and Eva by declaring women to be fair and blond, while sending German males to die in war. That was the American ideology of the late sixties up through the eighties, and it's not po...