Hogan was such a timeless classic because it was just a really funny show. There's nothing overly sexual, violent, political, vulgar or dated of its time. You don't have to think while watching Hogan's Heroes. It was just laughing at the absurdity of it all with very lovable characters and top shelf casting.
My dad loved this show, he was in the US Army in WWII as a Ranger/Scout often behind enemy lines in France and Germany. He also helped liberate German extermination camps and I realize Hogan’s Hero’s was a POW camp not an extermination camp. He never spoke disparagingly of the German soldiers or civilians, just the German leaders at the time.
I think a proper ending to the show would have been the Germans surrendering at the end of the war, and Hogan and the prisoners showing Colonel Klink, Sargent Schulz, General Burkhaulter, and Major Hoffstetter the underground tunnels and what went on behind their backs.
Schultz will always be my fav I love all of the cast but the scenes with Sgt Schultz especially in this vid where Crane’s feeding Banner cake and them cracking up will always make me laugh XD
@John Wymer hey man, believe what you like but there is undeniable evidence sitting on my bookshelf, even wrote a paper about it back in High School, you can email him yourself if you like
@@shaneturner500 That's correct. A friend of mine in Germany watched it with his WWII dad. His dad didn''t care for it, but allowed his son to watch it. Over there it's known as Our Caged Heroes. My friends dad was a Panzer officer who served his full combat "career" on the Eastern Front.
@@carlevans5760 My grandfather was a holocaust survivor, and when I told my mother that I found this show Hogans Heroes, her eyes lit up and she said "Oh, my dad used to LOVE that show! He said the Nazis were NEVER that stupid!" and from that moment on, it was a family favorite.
@@shaneturner500 I'm glad your father survived. I have a good friend by the name of Anna who also survived thank God. She too enjoyed watching Hogan's Heroes.
Trivia: Remember the repeated gag where Colonel Klink scraped horribly on his violin? Actually, Werner Klemperer was a world famous violinist, and would go on to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, after his dad, Otto Klemperer, retired.
Read somewhere that even the violin playing was meant to make Klink look stupid and clueless. A deliberate intention by Werner Klemperer I might add because being Jewish in Hilter's Germany was a nightmare for many. He wanted to be sure to make the Nazi's look foolish and stupid as the ultimate "F**K YOU' to the memory of the dreaded regime. Anyone realise a great deal of the tunes he played were actually "Jewish".?
Don’t mean to sound like a liar but my grandpa knew & Boxed(lost to) Burt Reynolds’s a long time ago! I forget how they met but my Meema has a picture of them And you couldn’t tell the difference who’s who. It’s on his obit from when he passed away 2-3 years ago his name was Robert Noel McGrath
I agree. I was lucky enough to chat with Larry Hovis (Carter) and Leon Askin (Burkhalter) online and even got autographed photos of them. But now sadly both of them are deceased. And just recently I sent a note to actress Marlyn Mason, who was a guest star in a couple of HH episodes. She sent back a nice note telling me how fun it was working on the set and how Robert Clary (LeBeau) had choreographed a song and dance number for her on the show.
@@jenpeterson3712 I saw on METV when Robert Clary had passed away. I think he was the last of the original cast to pass away. The guy who took Ivan Dixon's place may still be alive, but he was only on the show in the last season.
A bit of trivia: on an episode of Green Acres (Flashback episode) Mr. Douglas recalls a time when he was in the war and was doing some espionage work and on one mission he was to make contact with a Colonel Hogan for further instructions. Cool huh?
+Jim Saldana Writers often would throw in a name or phrase to see for the fun of it. Since both shows were on CBS, it wasn't uncommon for one show to plug another.
I loved those in-jokes the networks used to do back then. Both Green Acres and Hogan's Heroes debuted in 1965 and maybe it was intended as a little publicity for a fellow network show.
actually he was told to ask the Germans if he's captured to send him to Stalag 13, and once there ask Col. Hogan for further instructions. (both HOGANS HEROES and GREEN ACRES were airing on CBS at the time)
Shows like this aren't on anymore. Have the whole DVD collection though and like watching it on cold winter nights with a pizza. Can watch it for hours.
I agree with you 💯%! I do the same thing! 👍 My favorite characters are Col Hogan, Sgt Kintchloe and Sgt Carter! I feel bad for Carter cause he does mess up or forget things, but he is cool especially when he is dressed up like Hitler 👍 and when he makes his bombs 💣
Raymond Driggers, he’s the only one of the original cast members still alive. Kenneth Washington, who took Ivan Dixon’s place, is still with us, but, of course, he was not of the original cast.
I like some of the Bloopers better then most shows. Hogan's heroes was a favorite as well as other comedies and some dramas from the sixties and seventies. A lot of the funny stuff stayed on the cutting room floor, but glad that someone had the good sense to pick it up.
How the F. was Hogan's Heroes voted the 5th worst sitcom ever is beyond crazy. The shitheads that do the voting had an issue with the story line but it's a sitcom and i think it's one of the funniest ever. METV plays two episodes 5 nights a week from Monday-Friday
cindybin2001 excuse my unedUMAcated ars, funny thing is the TURRIBLE language is with love if you will. I still watch this show nightly, the crazy thing is that i can't recall when i would put everything to the side to make sure i was home before 10 PM just to watch an hr of TV, i mean MeTV. Do you get MeTV by any chance? Oh and the thing is that with all the cable channels we have here i caught this MeTV channel by accident on rabbit ear antenna. Pure accident and i love it, I'm watching some of the great shows that cable forgot about and time forgot about if you will and loving every minute of it, ARRRRRGGGGHHHHH this was fun. Cindybin2001 you are TURRIBLE just TURRIBLE and if you don't believe me just ask Charles Barkley. DISSSSSSSSSSSSSMISSSSSSSSSED
cindybin2001 i see NOTHHHHHHHING, NOTHHHHHHHHHING Col. Hogan, i wonder what tonight's two episodes are gonna be? what time does it come on for you? I live in LA so it's 10pm and 10:30pm for second episode
Hogan's Heroes, the greatest military comedy series ever. It's still on ever night on TV! And I still watch it sometimes! I recently watched one from the last season where Hogan takes a fighter plane to London with the German's blessings and then he flies back with Klink and they bail out! It was so outrageous it was hilarious! I highly recommend the (fiction) film about Bob Crane called Auto Focus just to watch the scene on the set with Klink, Hogan, Schultz, and Fraulein Helga!
I will NEVER forget me giggling while describing the show to my young teens several years ago....they looked at me like I was bat shit crazy 😂😂😂 THEn I said it was a comedy! 😂😂 their faces 😱😱😱
Loved this show. i wished there would have been a final show or some kind of reunion show a few years after. It's ashamed most of them are dead and gone.
Too bad the last episode would have been when the war was over. Just like MASH. Maybe an hour special. Everyone going home and what they would be doing.
I was born in 87 and I'm german and, as many other germans, I love the show. Although the german version is in some places cut and the conversations not literally translated, for example if there is an air raid somewhere and klink gets a phone call about it, in the german version they invented his nude-cleaning household maid who calls him and complains that she doesn't have enough stockings. It's a bit more comical.
+Bill Michael Magic at Desilu Studios. Television shows produced or filmed by Desilu The Jack Benny Program (CBS; 1950-1964/NBC; 1964-1965) I Love Lucy (CBS; 1951-1957) Our Miss Brooks (CBS; 1952-1956) The Danny Thomas Show AKA Make Room for Daddy (ABC; 1953-1957/CBS; 1957-1964) Private Secretary (CBS; 1953-1957) December Bride (CBS; 1954-1959) The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (ABC; 1955-1961) Meet McGraw (NBC; 1957-1958) The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (CBS; 1957-1960) Whirlybirds (Syndicated; 1957-1960) The Real McCoys (ABC; 1957-1962/CBS; 1962-1963 )The Ann Sothern Show (CBS; 1958-1961) The Untouchables (ABC; 1959-1963) Andy Griffith Show (CBS; 1960-1968) The Lineup AKA San Francisco Beat (CBS; 1954-1960) Sheriff of Cochise AKA United States Marshal AKA U.S. Marshal (Syndicated, 1956-1960) Harrigan and Son (ABC; 1960-1961) My Three Sons (ABC; 1960-1965/CBS; 1965-1972) The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS; 1961-1966) The Lucy Show (CBS; 1962-1968) You Don't Say! (NBC; 1963-1969) My Favorite Martian (CBS; 1963-1965) Gomer Pyle, USMC (CBS; 1964-1969) I Spy (NBC; 1965-1968) Hogan's Heroes (CBS; 1965-1971) Star Trek (NBC; 1966-1969) Family Affair (CBS; 1966-1971) That Girl (ABC; 1966-1971) Mission: Impossible (CBS; 1966-1973) Mannix (CBS; 1967-1975) The Mothers-in-Law (NBC; 1967-1969)
I know! They had the funniest laughs and they looked like they were so cool. It's a shame Dawson and Crane had such a bad relationship, they're the best ones on the whole show
Interesting story....Werner Klemperer and Bob Crane became very good friends during the show. One of the gifts Crane gave Klemperer was a new car. When Crane was murdered in 1978, Klemperer never drove that car again. Also, all the "Germans" on the show were Jewish. They made the Nazis look foolish as payback. Even "Major Hochstetter" was an American Jewish bluegrass player, who was in the US Navy during WW II in the Pacific.
John Banner "Sgt. Schultz" was an airborne infantryman in the 101st Airborne he left a Staff Sergeant. He fled Germany in 1933. Werner Klemper was an actor with the USO during the war and entertained the troops in Europe. Robert Clary was imprisoned in Auschwitz after being taken from his home and family in Paris back in 1941. Also Klemper and Banner are Germans as well as Jewish. No need to seperate the ethnicity as integration is the course of humanity. Dont divide only include.
@@Gravelgratious Leon Askin (General Burkhalter) was also a German Jew who escaped Germany & fought for the United States against Nazi Germany in WW2 in the US Army Air-Corps
In 1942, Banner enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps, underwent basic training in Atlantic City and became a supply sergeant.[3][4] He even posed for a recruiting poster.[4] He served until 1945.[1]
I've seen that "worst series ever" designation, and am flabbergasted. Can anyone say "Hello Larry" (I don't even know if it was bad, but Johnny Carson always lampooned it)? Not to mention any of the modern "reality T.V." crap. Hogan (the show) was brilliant, with so many funny lines, and characters so memorable for their quirks, idiosyncrasies, facial expressions, etc....and they did over 30 episodes per season! Try maintaing that caliber of comedy/material today!
Believe it or not, there was a British sitcom called "Heil Honey, I'm Home." You can watch 2 or 3 episodes of this horror on RU-vid. It's an archetypal family situation comedy depicting Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun and their wacky neighbors. It makes " My Mother, the Car" look brilliant. (It wasn't.)
My father-in-law fought the Japanese un WWII and HATED this show. He was sent to the Occupation Army in Germany right after VJ Day and saw first hand the things Hitler had ordered against prisoners. He never forgave CBS for putting on such a "disrespectful" show. I loved the show, but when I was older, I never understood how Robert Clary of all people, could be on Hogan's Heroes. He had been in a concentration camp as a young man- how could you go back and relive that time, week after week? On the whole, tho, I think it was a brilliant show and good entertainment.
@@tamerawaltman4115 I can understand that - your father seeing first hand horrors of the war, now juxtaposed with a comedy. It also was only 20 years after WWII, so still fresh in many minds. In terms of Robert Clary, I imagine he adopted the same position as all the major German Officer characters - who were all Jewish. Werner Klemperer would only play the part if the Germans were made to be idiots. From Robert Clary's viewpoint, I imagine he thought he could remain bitter/angry, or enjoy spoofing the whole thing.
The cigar looks like a double figurado which means it's tapered at both ends-- wrapped at the foot instead of having exposed filler leaf. It's not easy to light even for those familiar with cigars. And table lighters never work! I don't remember this episode, but I know that later in the series normally wrapped cigars were used. Someone evidently saw and corrected the problem.
Just double-checked my Season Six DVD set. 'Hogan's Double Life' is the 3rd to last episode airing on March 7th, 1971. Rockets or Romance is the final episode airing on March 28th, 1971.
I loved the German Shepherds with the march music at the start. It shows it was a serious situation, but yet we and the Allies were cool and clever. Schäferhund = Shepherd Dog.
I'm sixty-nine years old, sitting here while trying NOT to wet my Depends as I laugh hysterically like a hyena at a dinner party! Hogan's Heroes ARE The Best! (Actually, I wear Fruit of the Loom. So Yes, I lied)! Doggone, but I DO Love these crazy guys!
I spent the big money and bought them on VHS from Columbia House. The club was offering different shows in the 90's but not HH, so I sent the form back and wrote on it: "168 episodes, 4 episodes per tape= 42 x $20=$840 CBS already owns this show." a month later I get an offer to buy Hogan's Heroes monthly on VHS. lol!
@@RadioAirchecks Did you get the one that had the wrong episode on it? I contacted them and told them about it and eventually they sent me a correted tape and told me not to send the other one back.
Great memories as a kid vvatching them as re runs in the 1970's & TY to Bob Krane's estate for making these bloopers available & APurposeDrivenLife for posting them on YT .
This show was excellent and so enjoyable. The cast had excellent chemistry with each other. It's saddening that many in today's society have become so narrow minded and thinned skinned that they can't enjoy a simple comedy without worrying about pc. CBS cancelled the show while its ratings were still good. Dunces.
If you have cable TV it has a station called "Me TV" and they play Hogan's Heroes My family had to stop our cable TV subscription because it was to expensive for us so now i watch it on an application called Kodi But i love this show it is one of my favorites
Omfg! I love this show! Col Schultz with his eternal, "I hearrrr nothing, I seeee nothing". Not to mention the monocled Herr who always got played by Hogan lol lol 😹👍👏
When I was in grade school this was a weekly favorite! I miss those days. I always wanted to meet the guy who originally pitched the idea of a sitcom set in a German POW camp to Jewish dominated industry. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall at that meeting.
On December 6, 2000, actor Werner Klemperer died at the age of 80 in New York. The son of the distinguished Jewish-born, German orchestra conductor Otto Klemperer and singer Johanna Geisler, Werner Klemperer became almost a household name in the United States in the 1960s for his role as Col. Wilhelm Klink, commander of a German prisoner of war camp during World War II in the TV comedy series “Hogan’s Heroes.”
+norelco pc He was also the antagonistic game show host in The Running Man that stared Arnold Schwarzenegger. He even had the best comeback to Arnold's famous "I'll be back!" line
That's true ! And before moving to LA he had been a top rated morning DJ back in Connecticut. Though "Hogan" was not his first TV acting gig. Earlier, while still doing his morning LA radio show, he has a recurring role on the ABC sitcom "The Donna Reed Show".
I still watch it every chance I get. Sometimes it's farfetched (like Hofstadter freeing the 4 most wanted underground & they left in his car), but what a gem of a series.
Bob crane was a talented amazing actor , sad that his killer never went to jail and lived out his life with freedom . Thank god those days of hard to prove situations are gone sad for bobs family and grown children who lost a incredible dad,, RIP .
Thanks for sharing that! Ever since watching the show growing up I always wanted a bomber jacket and "Crusher" cap! My thanks to the Bob Crane estate for putting this video together!
I never got a bomber jacket, but after basic training I immediately removed the stays from my hard cover to give it that "Fifty Mission Crush", and eventually got a flight jacket when I got my wings.
Why have these episodes been blocked or deleted shame because they’ve given so much joy And entertainment in this depressing world today where violence seems to be the Norm - such a pity I have watched some of them more than half dozen times and still Get a laugh out of them when I’m feeling down - give joy and hope in this very sad world and Release more for everyone to enjoy
the show was outstanding and very funny. to bad we do not have shows like this today. everything is killing guns and violence. dark stuff today. people need something to watch to make them laugh. i own the whole collection and love it.
He was OK with it from what I understand and embraced the typecast. His main focus was doing theatre for the rest of his career. There is a good interview with him in the 90s.
I saw it. It didn't affect my being able to watch HH at all. Crane was awesome on the show and Col. Hogan is still one of the best characters in sitcom history.
