Plot
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.
Cast
as Robert Hogan
as Peter Newkirk
as Louis LeBeau
as Andrew Carter
as Wilhelm Klink
as Hans Schultz
Creator
Network
Status
Ended
First Aired Date
September 17, 1965
Last Aired Date
March 28, 1971
Production Companies
Alfran Productions
Bing Crosby Productions
CBS
Type
Scripted
Number of Season
6
Number of Episodes
168
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Reviews
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 pa…