@4:06 "just think back to baseball, clean sheets, and apple pie." - LeBeau I can understand a Frenchman wanting clean sheets, but baseball and apple pie are something only an American would hope for. This is the kind of humor that made Hogan's Heroes one of the best all time comedy shows.
We're older. Back then we probably watched it more as a war story with guns and explosions. I knew a fellow in college circa 1990 who liked it for the tunnels, as he was a cave enthusiast.
@@mrfivegold Hogan's Heroes had its detractors even when it aired. In one interview Rod Serling, the creator and host of The Twilight Zone complained, "What's next? The Merry Men of Auschwitz?" (Which was actually a pretty witty response, though). But yeah, in today's social climate a show like this would never get a green light at all. It would offend too many people all over the political spectrum for a wide range of differing reasons.
@@mrfivegold In the Twilight Zone, the rubber ducky can be my spirit animal and spirit guide. And it is. ♪ Rubber ducky, you're the one! You make bath time lots of fun! Rubber ducky, I'm awfully fond of you! ♪ The Twilight Zone... Home, sweet home. Home is where the heart is.
Me to loved the show me and my sisters would watch it together mum would bring in a plate of cake and cookies with milk and we’d have a after school snack
Always wanted to see an episode where Shultz and Klink came to visit the boys in America. Would have been great seeing them sitting with their families and the Germans admitting they were against the war and wanted the Allies to win
In one episode (I believe in the first season), Schultz addresses Colonel Hogan gruffly, "Colonel Hogan if you ever do try to escape...." Hogan calmly interrupts, "Yes?" Schultz then finishes his thought in a much friendlier tone: "Be a good fellow and take me with you." Makes me laugh AND gets me choked up at the same time. John Banner was just such a loveable teddy bear of a guy.
Would have been more in line with the show's comic humiliation of the Nazis if Hogan and his men visited Germany on vacation after the war and ran into Shultz and Klink being angry street cleaners in Berlin. Ah the comic banter I can so imagine, I'd love to see that!
Unfortunately, John Banner passed away two years after the show’s 1971 cancellation and Bob Crane was murdered 1978. I think that made any reunion show out of the question.
Do a YTube search for a movie called 'The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz'. It stars Hogan, Klink, Shultz and Burkhalter in a post-war movie set in Germany.
You should watch the German synchronisation of this TV show. It´s simply the best! Klink has a Saxon accent, LeBeau a French accent, Schulz a Bavarian Accent and Burkhalter an Austrian Accent. Newkirk stammers and Hilda lisps. So funny!!!
@@yankees88888g Klink gave him the nickname "Wiener Sachertorte" (Vienna Sacher cake).And indeed it´s mentioned several times he is an Austrian. It makes sense: In real life actor Leon Askin was an Austrian, too.
I’m only 26 and yet I remember seeing it on tv when I was younger and it’s still a classic 👌🏼😊 still love this show so much better than the crap on tv today in Australia like married at first sight 🤮
This was always one of my favorite scenes. The way they all flipped the page before LeBeau said ...pie. The way Carter put emphasis on all the wrong words. These guys were just too funny!
Werner Klemperer has such a cute, mischievous smile! I liked this episode because he smiled a lot and even laughed. grin I'm just glad nobody actually DID escape-escape to London; that would have been bad. Especially if the roll count was short because Hogan had no one to replace the escapee. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you...the epilogue of that scene! General Burkhalter: "My congratulations, Klink. It took you a long time, but you have finally had a prisoner escape. Your perfect record is officially in shambles." GB: (Leans back in his chair, looking amused.) "Quite frankly, I'm amazed it took them so long. I didn't think you could do anything right for more than five minutes." Colonel Klink: (Stands up from his chair and slams his hands on his desk.) "Herr General, that's impossible. There has never been a successful escape from Stalag 13!" Colonel Hogan: "Until now, that is." (Klink shoots him a death glare, to which Hogan responds by putting on his most innocent face.) "Look, there's a first time for everything, sir. There's a war on; these things happen to everyone. You aren't the first man to make new friends and you won't be the last." CK: "Hogaaan! This isn't the time for your sense of humor...or your American jokes!" CH: "Jokes? Kommandant, I'm offended. We just took you up on your offer, that's all." Major Hochstetter: "Offer?" (Major Hochstetter enters the office, pulling off his gloves.) "Vhat offer?" CH: "Oh hi Major, I didn't hear you come in. How's life in the Gestapo treating you? Himmler approve your request for a promotion yet?" CK: "Hogan, I'm warning you -" MH: (Pointedly ignores Hogan.) "The most dangerous man in Germany lives in zis camp and you made him an offer, Klink?!?” CK: (Frowns at Hochstetter.) "Major, I assure you, I have not - nor will I ever - make any kind of deal with a prisoner! This is just a simple misunderstanding!" GB: (Raises an eyebrow.) "If you call a prisoner escaping a 'simple misunderstanding', I would hate to see your definition of an actual mistake." CK: (Shakes his head.) "Sir, the prisoner did not escape! Hogan is...is hiding him somewhere! This is just one of his many tricks." GB: "I didn't know he was a magician." (His voice drips with sarcasm.) "Where is Hogan supposedly hiding the prisoner at, Klink? In the tunnels you keep claiming could never exist under your so-called iron fist?" GB: (Scratches his head and addresses Hogan.) "Perhaps you actually ARE a magician. You've talked me out of sending this dummkopf to Russia before..and why I took your advice, I still don't know. " CK: (Begins to look nervous and waves a hand.) "Herr General, I -" GB: (Interrupts Klink.) "Klink, shut up." CK: (Nods his head and smiles a goofy smile.) "Yes sir, shutting up." GB: (Looks at Hogan.) "Hogan, you will tell the major and I about this offer Klink has made you. Now!" CH: "There's really not much to tell, General. Colonel Klink all but insisted we escape. He had us cut a giant hole in the wire and leave it like that, declined Newkirk's offer to fix the broken spotlight, and even took off his gun to show us how it ruined the line of his uniform. Then he set it down and turned his back on it." GB & MH: (Both of them look at Hogan, shocked. Then they both turn and glare at Klink. Burkhalter looks like he could spit nails and Hochstetter looks ready to kill. They shout at the same time.) "KLINK!" CK: (Winces and tries to hunch in on himself.) CH: "Like I said, there wasn't much to tell. But in Colonel Klink's defense, he was right about the look of the uniform." GB: "Klink, you IDIOT! Have you gone mad?!? Stalag 13 should be lucky she has any prisoners left with you in command here! What were you THINKING?!" CK: (Shakes his head frantically.) "Herr General, I -" MH: (Interrupts Klink again.) "Thinking? BAH! That alone would be a miracle! Zis man is a traitor, Herr General. You should have him shot!" CK: (Looks extremely pale, because this discussion isn't going in his favor at all.) "Major, I'm telling you -" GB: "Perhaps you are right, Hochstetter." (He looks at at Klink.) "Since you are so eager to help others, let me help YOU in return. I'm transferring you to the Front, where you can be of some use.” GB: (Sneers at Klink.) "Perhaps your new friends might help you survive there. I will sign the papers as soon as I return to Berlin." GB: (He looks at Hogan.) "If the Allies want Klink so badly, they can have him! One less headache for me." MH: (Looks positively thrilled about this idea.) "Not to mention less paperwork, Herr General." CH: (Shakes his head.) "Thanks, but I'll pass on that offer, sir. We've got Colonel Crittendon of the RAF on our side, and he's more than enough idiot for one war. Adding the kommandant this into the mix just wouldn't be fair." CK: (Raises a hand in protest and says in a weak voice.) "Herr General, please. The Allies are not my friends." CH: (Looks offended.) "Well! If you feel that way, you can forget getting any of OUR help!" ...And then everyone gets all upset, but Hogan manages to fix everything somehow, the way he always does! (Edited for punctuation and a few spelling errors.)
Two things. 1) they use this same formula a few times, where the compound word is written on two separate pages, thus causing the speaker to awkwardly pause as he completes the word. 2) you can see Newkirk almost laughing (4:43) just after Hogan realizes he tore the paper, watch his slight smirk and bury his head in his chest.
For those of you who are interested in the Bob Crane murder, there is a good book written by Robert (Zodiac) Graysmith called "The Murder of Bob Crane". It was written before John Carpenter's trial so it most likely is out of print now but if anyone can find it, I recommend it. As I'm sure most of you already know, Crane's murderer has never been caught (at least not officially) and most likely never will be.
@@tigerwarsaw99 Not for sure. The murder weapon was never found so we don't know if it was the tripod or not. You say the police botched the investigation (which they did) and yet you believe every theory they created surrounding this case.
@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 tripod was missing from the living area and a blood stain found was a match. And yes they botched the collection of direct evidence, such as possible brain matter in Carptenters rental car, which is why he was ultimately not convicted by a jury.
@@tigerwarsaw99 Not true. Yes the tripod was missing but that hardly proves that it was the murder weapon. Also, the blood sample was not a match. A Phoenix journalist had those samples tested for DNA in 2016 and the results proved that it was not Crane's blood. Also, on the morning of the murder, a moving man, Lee Fetty, told detectives that he saw a man in a white car park outside of Crane's apartment, go inside for a few minutes and then left never to be seen again. When the police showed Fetty photos of Carpenter, Fetty said that the man he saw looked nothing like Carpenter. Who was this man? Why didn't the police investigate? Does all this mean that Carpenter was innocent? Not necessarily. Carpenter displayed very strange behavior just before and after the murder so I suspect he knew that it was going to happen but it doesn't mean he was the murderer.
I like to think Hogan’s Heroes are trapped in a time warp, where they are perpetually trapped during WWII. That explains why Adam West’s Batman saw Klink during the 60s.
They should do a final show to end the series after it was dropped all those years ago. Such a great Tv series and should be closed with one final episode ! of course without these actors as they have all passed on but like actors
@@theboyscout0156 The show was dropped due to poor ratings. Bob crane , hogan , was murdered in his home a few years after the last show was aired. That last show of Hogans heros was in April 1971. Bob cranes death was in 1978. Hogans heros did not end becuase of Bob Cranes murder. It was dropped by CBS due to poor ratings and continually using the same "plot" in every show. Google is your friend for the facts
@@CurtisLSA All of them used the same plot in every show. Gilligan's Island was the worst. At least Hogan's Heroes was funny. 6 years is a great run, better than most, and yes, it's always the ratings that end every show.
@@CurtisLSA Actually, no. It still had good ratings even during season 6. The show was caught up in what was known as the 'Rural Purge'. All the shows that were thought to appeal to older audiences, like Hee-Haw, Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, etc were dropped. The network wanted to cater to the hip, 'young' crowd. Like you said, Google is your friend. Look up 'the rural purge' if you don't believe me.
It may have had SOME inspiration from the Colditz camp, where the prisoners actually built a glider in an attic but never got a chance to use it before the war ended. They had copies of most keys, tapped some phone lines, etc. Hogan's Heroes hugely exaggerated everything.
I liked episodes of Hogans Heroes, although they made the Germans look like fools. But, I always wanted to see a last episode where they had a re-union after the war, and Hogan told Klink about all of the stuff they did, and Klink would say that he knew about it all along. But Robert "Bob" crane was murdered.
Odin Vik In a word, no. The actor playing Schultz was an Austrian Jew who hated the Nazis. Would play them, wear the uniform but wouldn’t carry their rifle.
After the live action series, a cartoon series continues the wacky adventures of Hogan's Heroes until the Allies come, storm the camp and freed the prisoners with Hogan and his Heroes leading the march out of Stalag-13.
Id like to see the clip of Hogan convincing Schultz that the Germans had stolen French gold reserves and Klink trying to correct them by insisting that they weren't stolen , but " confiscated ".
This is very timely in light of the guards actions in the Jeffrey Epstein case : “Oh look ,how was I to know about bed sheets used for other purposes then sleeping.”
Schultz would have been spared; he was not a Nazi & he often turned a blind eye to the prisoners schemes. Gen Burkhalter would have been dead meat. a Luftwaffe general would not have survived.
Gil Marriner Except there is no reason to remake, the recent wars had no long term American POWs.... and nobody thinks a comedy about Beau Berghdahl being butt raped daily by twenty Al Queda is funny enough to watch..... no matter how much he deserved it.
As funny as the show is, it has some serious dark undertone in terms of the cast. Werner Klemperer as Klink (born in Germany), John Banner (born Johann Banner in Austria/Hungary) as Schultz, Robert Clary (born Robert Max Widerman in France) as LeBlue were/are all European Jews who had to flee the continent from the Nazis or had to witness the Holocaust first hand (Robert Clary was even interned in the infamous Buchenwald concentration camp until the end of war, 11 of his family members (he had 13 siblings) were killed by the Nazis, only 3 of the siblings survived. John Banner also lost many family members to the Holocaust. ☹
His , John Banners, getting even. But imaginen hard for some post prisoners to wacth. There was one War story where for a year or more they brought out one bag off dirt for refuge , every week, from a tunnel dig.🤔⏳🙏🇩🇰🇺🇸🌅
@@theconductoresplin8092 Not a problem! Check out 'The Kommandant Dies At Dawn', also on season 5 I believe...it was both funny AND sad since Burkhalter had finally had enough of Klink! He was literally going to have him killed. Thank God for Schultz lol.
@@FrauWilhelmKlink I recall all of Col. Klink's men who were present volunteered to be on the firing squad, including two deserters who came back when they heard the news! That's cold...
I always believed 💯% was nothing but a dummkoff. However, after seeing his personal interview as a holocaust survivor; he is extremely intelligent as his own person.
It was never explained how they managed to have all of those tunnels and such without the Germans getting wise. There is no way that you can move that much dirt and nobody knowing it.
The camp was run by idiot's, I'm sure that Hogan and the gang thought of something to keep Klink from getting suspicious. It's not hard to mess around with Klink.
They did have outside help for their operations and works. Plus the P.W. Camp was run extremely lax thanks to Klink living in his own world and Schultz actually ignoring alot of crazy stuff going on because he didn't want to get into trouble if he rports it (his Motto "I see nothing!" exist for a reason) Other than that, this was a comedy show. A bit of exxageration and suspension of disbelieve for the sake of entertainment should be expected. I mean, they stole a tank and brought it into the camp in the second episode of the show.
In other episodes the heroes hide out in some nearby caves, so my theory is the camp was built over an ancient group of caves (with zero land surveying by the Germans). Each cave was of different size and connections widened by normal hand digging methods. Work on them would have started before Hogan arrived. In short, the amount of dirt removed is relatively small. Either Newkirk or LeBeau would have initially stumbled on them, possibly while making an actual escape tunnel in the early construction. My theory is the French, British, Dutch and possibly Netherland POWs were used as forced labor to construct the camp. Timber supports in the tunnel were pilfered from construction materials. What is used as the radio room is the largest section. The emergency tunnel is of course new construction. Dirt disposal is not stated, presumably used in repairing the road which seamed to always need repair. Dumping one or two cubic yards (or meters) of dirt behind the berm next to the road using the emergency tunnel is theoretically possible in the Hero's writing universe. Anyway, using the "logic" ( lol ) of HH writing, that is my take.
