How did they film a Hogan's Heroes episode EVERY week? I'll tell you HOW! 

As someone who's actually shot on film, the cinematography is remarkable. The lighting and richness of colors, everything is so perfect.

One of a few shows that stand up today as still being funny and clean.

It’s interesting Robert Clary’s happy attitude since he was a death camp survivor. Always amazed at that.

I have watched all the episodes dozens of times, starting when they were actually on PrimeTime. Often try to imagine what the last episode, showing the prison camp's liberation, would have been like if the show hadn't been canceled so abruptly and there had been a final season to wrap things up. I can see Hogan pointing to the microphone in the photo on Klink's office wall and saying, "Well, I guess we won't be needing this anymore!" :) Thanks for all you do, love your channel!

I watch this show Monday thru Friday still to this day it comes on MeTV at 10:00 pm in Miami FL.

I would have loved to see it end by having the war end and the guys took Klink on a tour of the tunnels and all.

I spent two years at Rammstein airbase West Germany, 1982-84 Many times I had thoughts of SGT. Schultz asking “what are you doing in Heidelberg,Düsseldorf, Stuttgart... “ my response,“I know nothing...”thank you to the people of Germany made me feel welcomed and appreciated, The older German folks appreciated what America did to rebuild Germany after the war,The German Luftwaffe was greatly respected, The United States Air Force was well respected Proud and lucky to of been called a United States Air Force Airman, Thank you to all who have served and served today

I still watch this program every night. Love them all!!!!!

This has been on METV every night for a number of years and I still enjoy seeing it over and over. Always winter, yet there were leaves on the trees and they were planting flowers a lot.

I remember when Hogan Hero's started in 1965. I was 12 years old. We watched it on a black and white Zenith TV with rabbit ears antenna. That was long before cable. Always loved it.

Always so interesting hearing little known facts about my favorite shows growing up and even still today.

HH was my favorite as a kid. Great video. Thanks!

Those behind the scene shots are great. More please, Rick.

Hogan’s Heroes was one of the only shows I could watch with my dad. Now that my dad is gone. This show is even more special to me.

This helps explain why the show is so enjoyable. There's also history of some of the actors being directly affected by WWII beyond usual considering their role in the show.

One of my all-time favorite shows. Thanks for the behind-the-scenes looks

Best line ever...Shultz"I KNOW NOTHING!" Frequently used but never tired hearing it. LoL

Great lesson Professor Rick! Hogan's Heroes is by far my favorite sitcom of the era and I greatly appreciate the videos you do covering the show! I find them all very informative!

Have you ever thought of doing a show about Sea Hunt? Started to watch a few months ago. Lots of information on the sea. We know more now than we did back then. Great show.

Loved the show! We toured 40 Acres but its just a bunch of industrial warehouses now. Looks like any other industrial park. Literally nothing left. No traces of Hogans Heros, Gomer Pyle, Andy Griffith or any other set.

Very interesting video. I love learning the history and behind the scenes bits involving yjese shows

When I was a kid me and my friends would play in the backlot just before they tore it down.I first started to understand the magic of Hollywood when we realized they used sand on ground to mimic snow.We would play in a lot of backlots all over Culver City.All gone now Condos and mini malls took away that history

I contacted Robert Clary some years back. He responded by email. I had found an old 78 record of his and wondered if he still had a copy. He was very gracious and encouraged me to keep it. It is one of my cherished records that I collect.

Very interesting Rick. I always learn something when I watch your videos. Keep up the great work!

The Mansion “Tara” from Gone with the Wind was dismantled and sold to a collector to make room for the Hogan’s Hero’s exterior sets!

Pretty interesting Rick, and fun too! Thanks for posting!

Thanks Rick for yet another informative video. Your tireless efforts are very much appreciated. Be Hopeful, I am ☺🙂

Best TV show of it's time. My brother and I saw all the episodes first run and then all over again a gazillion times after syndication. It's still on ME TV every night between 10 and 11. Colonel Klink is just the best. Werner Klemperer was the perfect foil to Bob Crane's Hogan.

My family used to gather around the tv and watch this show every week.

So interesting, thank you Rick. I am grateful for your content and very much appreciate the work and care you take crafting these excellent television retrospectives. Heartfelt from Melbourne, Australia.

Very informative! Love that show. Thank you Rick

Thanks Rick! I am always amazed at the Creative GENIUS of the Directors and Producers who know just how each shot will fit in to the bigger picture as episode flow. KUDOS to the camera operators and Set coordinators in making each shot Color-Perfect!

Thanks for this presentation. Hogan’s is a great show!

You are so polished, Rick, since you started in the beginning with I Love Lucy. You are a joy to watch and listen to in these videos.

I used to make my wife literally cry laughing by marching around the room to the theme song intro when it would come on each night.... ....heavy sigh...💔

Great information. I watched Hogans Heroes when I was a kid. My father was a big fan. You have the best videos! ❤🙂

Well Done ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I love Hogan's Heroes. My only complaint is that the vid. was too short.

We want a 2 hour movie !!! Show the Last Day of the War !!!

I used to watch this show when I was a kid . Watching them now it’s amazing that this was done weekly!!!!!

Great photos! I especially like the one of Robert Clarey and Bob Crane at 3:33.

Thank you for posting these. Very informative and behind the scenes looks.

This was so well done! It was great seeing the behind the scenes photos. I'd love to see something on The Fugitive, if that's possible.

A classic show! The actors were true professionals. On rare occasions, it was amusing to see Washingtonia Robusta palm trees in some of the exterior film shots.

Rick!… Thanks once again!… I loved all the behind the scenes pics!!! 🙋‍♀️🤗👍

Sitcoms were typically filmed in 5 days. The 1-camera shows like HH had to use a laugh track, as they were not filmed in front of a studio audience or shown to a studio audience for laughter. 1-camera shows typically took much longer to be filmed, as every camera angle had to be filmed differently. The show's indoor scenes were filmed at General Cinema Studios. I'm not sure where that is or if it has a different name now.

One of the biggest rumours about Hogan's Heroes is Werner Klempermier had a stipulation that no episode can allow the Nazis to "look good" in the end. Being Jewish himself, he felt very strongly about this and threatened to permanently walk-off the show if it happened.

I enjoyed this thank you there is also an interview with Robert Clary on the American Archives of Television website in which he explains his acting on the show and his background because he was actually a survivor of the Holocaust...really good interview.. and you have to remember television filmed more episodes between 35 and 39 episodes were filmed a year when in these days you're lucky if you get a good 15 even ten, because now they divided seasons up into Sept and Jan now, not a whole year September to June or May..

Great video Rick

This was great... the actors really earned their money doing advanced outdoor scenes prob w/o knowledge of future script plots.

I loved the show I used to watch it all the time it’s so interesting to To see all the background of the videos or TV show😎

great job on the video you shared, Rick!

Enjoyed this video a lot. I love to see how all kinds of things are made including movies & tv shows. Thank you. I do have a couple of questions. I had read that Richard Dawson wrote a few of the scripts, did any of the other actors write any of the scripts? Also Bob Crane was a terrific drummer, I saw a couple of episodes where he played drums, was it ever explained on the show if he was a drummer as a civilian?

I'd always heard that it took awhile to make a 1/2hr sitcom, but until YOUR video Rick nineg, i never understood why. Thanks for the clarification

Was Stalag 13 always set in winter? Every episode had those white patches of spray paint on the ground which I guess was supposed to represent snow. I can't recall a single warm weather episode.

It was amazing how TV was in the 60s. None of the 10 or 16 show “seasons” we’ve come to expect these days. I bought a “Rat Patrol” DVD set awhile back and there were 32 episodes!! Hogan’s Heroes was the same! I remember when Bob Crane was murdered. I never really cared much for celebrities but his death hit me. You think they’ll be a sitcom about Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib prison some day?

Watched first run! A fave to this day!

love this show...!!! thumbs up !!! JD Lake George, NY

I remember as a kid watching HH with my Great Grandfather he used to laugh everytime he heard Shultz "I know nothing" those are the times I remember most about him his laughter

I had uncle and aunt whose name was Robert , and Clary. It was strange to see that every week to see Robert Clary on the screen every week. 😊

Rick, nice info pal, I luv this, thnxs

I’ve seen this since it originally aired. I still laugh at it.

Still flips me out there is a 4 lane road on the other side of the hill in front of the main gate and regular houses behind the barracks. As for the end that never happened. You have to keep in mind they were held by the Luftwaffe which was a whole different ball of wax. I see Patton rolling up to the gates and Klink formally surrendering the camp and Hogan being put in charge to get the prisoners home as Patton went on (Klink and friends that stayed behind being sent to the coooooler). Couple of the cast go on with Patton to help with connections with the underground in the area, Lebeau would go back to France right away for his mother and girlfriend, Newkirk could hot wire a staff car and whatever and whoever else he could pick up and be on his way on a road trip and Hogan could use his contacts in London to get Klink and Schultz fast tracked released and sent home and when everyone was gone Hogan along with Baker (Kinchloe's replacement that stayed behind to stay in contact with London all this time) could have jumped in a Jeep and drove out of the camp stopping just long enough to push the plunger down, blowing up all the evidence (tunnels and other stuff) saying something like, some secrets need to stay secret and then driving away. That way Schultz could have stayed in denial and Klink would be none the wiser which would be part of the reason they could be set lose because London didn't want their secrets out even after the war.

Another great video. Thank you.

I have just recently discovered your videos and channel. I love them. Thank you for looking at the shows I enjoyed growing up. Brings back many memories. Do you have any Adam 12 videos?

Have you done a video on studio and shooting locations? Relative to a map of LA. Studio lots that still exist. Ones that are gone. Favorite western ranch studios. The rock formations used from westerns to Star Trek.

Howard Caine (Cohen), aka Major Hochstetter, was one of the greatest un-sung talents in that show. He spoke dozens of languages/dialects and was an accomplished musician as well. It's said that he researched his character and added substantially to the success of the show for his personal efforts.

Nicely Done !

I love love this show it’s so nice to watch

Sometimes the voice from London on the radio was the same guy you would hear on Adam 12 as the radio dispatcher. He also played several minor roles on the show.

We have one of those classic channels. I DVR HH. Show is still hilarious today as it was back then.

Hi rick great work probably one of the greatest sitcoms of all time my last name is Schultz and my wife’s last name was hogan and was our favorite show thanx again rick

Ah, 26 minutes, those were the days! It may interest most people to know that today, a "half-hour" script is only 20 minutes long by page length. And the difference really shows as far as pacing and storytelling quality goes. The difference of over 20% (!) means that we no longer have that extra time to do the sort of "Tags" that were on many of the HH episodes, and it means that the audience is being gypped out of programming, all in the name of cramming more and more commercials into an hour of airtime. It would be another thing that would keep HH and a lot of other good shows from that period from being made today. It's yet another reason that these shows and so many others stand up and stand out over a lot of hat's being made these days.

Arthur Julian coincidentally wrote two of my favorite episodes: "Everybody Loves a Snowman" and "Look at the Pretty Snowflakes." Interestingly enough, Laurence Marks also went on to write for M*A*S*H in its earlier, sillier seasons; Gene Reynolds not only directed both shows, but he also was one the main producers for the first five seasons of M*A*S*H.

One thing to notice as you watch is how often they'd use unusual camera locations and setups. High shots in the barracks, looking through the bunks, etc. Given the pace of production they had to maintain, it's nice that they let the directors/cinematographers this level of freedom instead of just using standard blocking that would have been "easier" for each shot.

Thanks a lot. I love this type of information about TV shows (schedules, locations, etc.) Those behind the scenes pics are great, too. Keep it up. Your channel is great!

It's always interesting to hear how these sit coms were put together. So much work for 25 minutes of entertainment. Did they use special cameras or film on "Hogan's Heroes?" The picture quality always seemed superior to other television shows of the same era. I remember watching it with a friend who had a color console and remarking that it looked as good as anything you saw in a theater. I think "My Three Sons" had the strangest production process of any sit com in those days. Fred McMurray would only do the show if he could complete all of his scenes for the season in two months time. In many those heart warming scenes where he's talking to his sons, he's actually alone talking to the camera. Instead of shooting an entire episode at a time they did the whole season.

WOW !! Got to be some stock footage as fillers between scenes. I love the series - but I had to be careful about mother (a little sensitive where the series takes place).

@4:06 "...even driving from one studio to another studio, to get the exterior and then interior shots." So the scenes from inside the barracks were not from the interior of these (@2:33) buildings?: The photo form @2:33 are of just empty buildings? Where exactly were the barrack's interior scenes shot? Where exactly were the commandant's office scenes shot? Where exactly were the tunnel scenes shot? Also, what about scenes with them on the sides of the road, and by railroad tracks? Where exactly were those scenes shot? Were they in close proximity to the @2:33 photo area? Or somewhere else? Thank you.

Anyone have any info on the 7th season if it ever was talked about or how they would wrap up the series if not abruptly cancelled after the 6th season?

That was a favorite show of mine.

I grew up on Hogan's Hero's my favorite show back in the day

Wow I’ve never seen some of those pictures thanks

good info

Hogans Hero’s was based on Stalag 17.........a really good movie,....but a lot more serious!

This is great. One minor thing: The photo you shared of "Edward Feldman" is actually Edward S. Feldman, not Edward H. Feldman. They worked at the same time, so it's a common error. There is a shot of Edward H. Feldman walking behind Leon Askin at 3:42. I think you had another shot of him sitting in a director's chair next to Werner Klemperer and a big fellow, who I think is writer Laurence Marks (known as "Big Larry.") But I can't recall if it was in this video or another one.

This show is so funny and cool, I have every episode of this show and I watch it over and over 😊 cause its too funny!😆☺👍❤

in other words they applied a novel idea called...."HARD WORK"🤔🤔👍😁👍👌🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸

Been binge watching this great show here lately (1965-71 on METV and think OvationTV (?) (could be Paramount channel that air a 4-5 hour omnibus at 6am eastern time) - Whatever the case; think I’ve seen every episode now and even as a child in their first batch of reruns in the 80’s was always (strangely) attracted to this show and was always on after school along with the usual 70’s-80’s after school reruns like Gilligan’s Island, Brady Bunch, Star Trek, etc. But onto my main Q: I’m struggling to grasp locations and times of day for the outdoor shots? Based on something just read; they did shoot overseas?? Or was it all done in Cali at Desilu / Paramount? My question is the shadows during the night scenes when in the woods or exiting camp, or using the “emergency tunnel” out on a mission. Today (2021) I can shoot a couple holding hands walking down a beach with their feet in the surf at high noon and in Post convert it to a “night scene” and change the suns lighting to mimic moonlight. The only killer is the occasional odd hot spot or flare from the sun and lens used. But surely they didn’t have this technology for film back in 1965?? Or did they? I’m a camera guy but not a filmmaker. So don’t know the history like someone who went to NYU to become a director or filmmaker. But having just watched a 1967 episode as a Nazi general left Stalag 13 - the sun’s reflection and 4-way shadows cast off the primary characters - plus that “flare” off the German helmets - despite the scene supposedly being set late at night - it looks like it was filmed in broad daylight and then darkened somehow?? Even as the credits rolled and the camera pans back to a landscape shot; I can make out the shirt colors of the prisoners (these were just a handful of extras) but LeBeau’s red scarf/shirt/beret whatever is crystal clear too and very vibrant. Very unusual if truly filmed at night? May be incorrect outdoor lighting? but I’m leaning towards them doing daylight shoots and altering them in Post somehow?? Since you said know the cast call times I’ll assume you’ll know if they shot in the evenings too? Thanks

I love that show!

All shows were filmed in a week. That was routine. STUNADD !

I see nothing, I hear nothing, I know nothing

Hey Rick!

Thank you

So Rick what happened for an episode when it rained, yes rained, in L.A. every day and there were many outdoor scenes?

I went to school for commercial art. I was later a film projectionist. I was also in a short cable show & on local TV. A 2 person crew came to my house to shoot a 3 1/2 minute segment. The whole thing took 1 hour for interview + another hour to film. It was edited + one more piece filmed (without me) in the "field" I happened by (the field shot area) and was able to provide more info on the subject. They were there that morning. It aired late afternoon the same day. Lots of prep for three and a half minutes & no make-up. LOL

That exterior set was an area behind what is now Culver Studios. That area is now built into a subdivision.

As a young child, I could never really get into this show. I'll try to do so now.

Loved this show as a kid. Still do. Sad Robert is the only original cast member still alive.

I love this show.

Thanks Rick.