9.025 minSeason 6 • Episode 24
LatestHogan and a beautiful underground agent team up to immobilize three mobile rocket launchers.
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.
Acting
Klemperer's Klink: pompous, pathetic, perfection
Writing
Tight farce mechanics under laugh-track pressure
Production
Stalag 13: the coziest POW camp ever committed to film
Creators
Albert S. Ruddy, Bernard Fein
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Three main actors were Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe; Banner's family died in Auschwitz. The comedy was personal reclamation.
Bob Crane's murder in 1978 remains unsolved; his double life was darker than anything on Stalag 13.
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