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Release Date:
17 September 1965 (USA) morePlot:
The inmates of a German World War II prisoner of war camp conduct an espionage and sabotage campaign right under the noses of their warders. full summaryAwards:
Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 10 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(11 articles)
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A Show that has lost its context moreUS TV Schedule:
Thur. Jan. 15 | 6:00 PM | TVLAND | My Favorite Prisoner | #4.18 | |
Thur. Jan. 15 | 6:30 PM | TVLAND | Watch the Trains Go By | #4.19 | more |
Cast
(Series Cast Summary - 7 of 115)Bob Crane | ... | Col. Robert E. Hogan (168 episodes, 1965-1971) | |
Werner Klemperer | ... | Col. Wilhelm Klink (168 episodes, 1965-1971) | |
Richard Dawson | ... | Cpl. Peter Newkirk / ... (168 episodes, 1965-1971) | |
Larry Hovis | ... | Sgt. Andrew Carter / ... (168 episodes, 1965-1971) | |
John Banner | ... | Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz / ... (167 episodes, 1965-1971) | |
Robert Clary | ... | Cpl. Louis LeBeau (167 episodes, 1965-1971) | |
Ivan Dixon | ... | Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe / ... (145 episodes, 1965-1970) |
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30 min (168 episodes)Country:
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EnglishAspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 moreSound Mix:
MonoFilming Locations:
Cinema General Studios - 846 N. Cahuenga, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA moreMOVIEmeter:
43% since last week why?Fun Stuff
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Schultz's rank is a Master Sergeant. moreGoofs:
Factual errors: The Gestapo did not wear black uniforms as seen in Hogan's Heroes. While it was certainly a nice touch of artistic license to differentiate the more sinister Gestapo like Major Hochstetter from the relatively benign Luftwaffe guards, this type of black uniform was a ceremonial uniform seen mostly on the guards at important buildings or at state functions. The appearances by the Gestapo in plain clothes and a Nazi party tie pin are closer to the truth. moreMovie Connections:
Referenced in "Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service: Hiatus: Part 1 (#3.23)" (2006) moreFAQ
Has Hogan's Heros Been re-released on DVD as a box set?Has Hogan's Heros Been re-released on DVD as a box set? YES!
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The problem with Hogan's heroes is that it has lost its context. People criticize it as a comedy set in a German prisoner of War camp, saying that trivializes the real human tragedies created by the Nazi regime. The thing is, Hogan's Heroes is not a spoof of prison camps. It's a spoof of World War II movies and TV shows. It came out in the wake of films like `The Longest Day', `The Great Escape', etc. which produced shows like `Combat', `The Gallant Men', 12 O'Clock High', all of which were hyper serious because of the subject matter. Such a trend requires a leavening spoof. And `Hogan's Heroes' and `McHale's Navy' provided that comic relief. Nobody ever criticized McHale's Navy for trivializing the Pacific War, any more than they criticized `F Troop' for not being a documentary about the Old West or `Get Smart' for not being written by John LaCarre. Why do we indict Hogan's heroes for being insensitive to the deprivations of the Nazis?
This show is itself based on a hit Broadway play and movie from a decade before called `Stalag 17' which won William Holden an Oscar. If you've seen Stalag 17, the humor there is much cruder and more oblivious of the real threat of the Nazis than Hogan's Heroes. Robert Strauss and Harvey Lembeck, (later to show up in another Military spoof to which HH also obviously owes a lot), decide at one point they would like to see some female Russian POWS take showers. They grab a bucket of paint and begin painting a stripe down the middle of the road toward the building where the showers are. This fools the guards until the paint a stripe right over to the window of this building, (the showers have windows?), and peer in. There is nothing this crude or insensitive in any episode of Hogan's Heroes. Yet this is a highly regarded film.
But now, 30 years later, when there are fewer films about that era made, the old show is viewed not a spoof of a show business trend but as a parody of the real event, which it was never really intended to be. This has allowed the critics to `pile on' and rip the show for being insensitive to the victims of Nazi oppression. All I remember is a funny show and that's all it was ever intended to be.