Hogan's Heroes
1965
📺 6 Seasons
🎬 168 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 25 min/episode
War & PoliticsComedy
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.
Where to Watch (US)
Stream
Amazon Prime Video
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Seasons
Season 1
At Stalag 13, a German prisoner-of-war camp, Colonel Robert Hogan and his fellow cohorts are a subversive group with many hidden talents. However, a spy has been planted amongst the men by the Germans.
Season 2
A German oil refinery is so heavily protected that allied bombers have been unable to destroy it. So, Colonel Hogan decides that the only way to fool the gunners is to use a German plane.
Season 3
Colonel Hogan is called on to destroy a German convoy inside a tunnel, but he balks when he discovers that his accomplice will be his old adversary, Colonel Crittendon.
Season 4
It appears Sergeant Schultz will be shipped off to the Russian front after he accidentally interrupts a black market meeting. If he goes, Colonel Hogan will lose his courier of secret messages between Stalag 13 and a female spy.
Season 5
To transmit information home, Colonel Hogan plans to cast an American actor to star in a German propaganda film.
Season 6
Colonel Hogan needs LeBeau to whip up something special for a German general, but the chef has made plans to escape to France.
Cast
User 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 paid homage to Adolf and Eva by declaring women to be fair and blond, while sending German males to die in war.
That was the American ideology of the late sixties up through the eighties, and it's not possible to watch movies or TV shows from that era without noticing it.
This particular show was boring when I was younger, but actually had some wit to it that is noticed more by older people.
It helps that every episode is totally ridiculous and can't be taken seriously.
April 4, 2023
Crew
Producer
Edward H. Feldman
Network
CBS
Production
Alfran Productions, Bing Crosby Productions, CBS
Keywords
germanyworld war iiprisoner of warmilitarysitcomwar absurditynazi parody