This show came out in 1965, only 20 years after the end of World War II. It was controversial even for its day. Nobody wanted anybody to make a comedy out of a POW camp. To soothe nerves and to show sensitivity to Jews, CBS made sure that all of the actors playing major villains were Jewish. Werner Klemperer, who played Klink, John Banner, who played Schultz, Leon Askin, who played General Burkhalter and even Howard Caine [born Howard Cohen] who played Major Hochstetter, the Gestapo officer.
@paktype Robert Clary "LeBeau," is also Jewish. He has a very interesting book that he wrote called "From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes." He is a very interesting person and he signed my book for me.
@paktype the involvement of so many jewish actors in a comical portrayal of nazis brings to mind mel brooks & the "springtime for hitler" scenes in "the producers" - - which incidentally was released less than 3 years after "hogan's heroes" debuted. i guess at the time, just 20 years removed from events, comedy was one way of dealing with feelings over the genocide.
@SeanRaleighSalesRep did you know that Universal Studios filed a lawsuit against CBS and Bing Crosby productions in the 70s? Because in 1964 they were offered a script for a series based on the movie "Stalag 17" but CBS turned it down, then a year later, they came out with "HOGANS HEROES".
I watched every episode of this program when I was kid, most of them many times. I've almost finished reading the autobiography of Rudolph Hoess, Kommandant KL Auschwitz, I have it open in another tab right now. It's quite different than Hogans Hero's. I also seen a web page once describing the actual LuftStalag XIII, it was different also. Robert Clary that played LeBeau in the series is on the "List of Famous Prisoners" of Buchenwald.
Bing Crosby was "PLAYING with FIRE" when this show debuted (in Black & White) on Friday, September 17,1965. Despite so many of the actors on the show having actually suffered in some or large part at the hands of the Nazis , many Americans that night still had the numbers of the concentration camps tatooed on their arms. In fact, William Holder was angered with Crosby
@Mr76Yearsago Sometimes you have to play with fire to achieve great things. HH was a chance for people from the war to sit back and laugh at the Germans as they were portrayed. And I have to admit that Klemperer and Banner (not to mention a few others) did make the enemy look a bit silly. It was a time when people needed to start laughing again.
@Mr76Yearsago That makes sense, I wouldn't be suprised if director Billy Wilder wasn't a bit P.O. at Crosby as well, being that he took the whole concept for this series right down to Sgt Schultz as a character straight from Stalag 17, especially if Wilder didn't get any acknowledgement for it.
This always struck me as more of a "guy" show, appealing much more to men than women. This may explain why (as far as I can remember) it was never part of the CBS daytime lineup. Contrast that with Gomer Pyle or M*A*S*H, which were afternoon staples for years.
For those of you post-Oprah, the networks, especially CBS, used to regularly air reruns of their prime time sitcoms, even cancelled shows, as part of their Monday-Friday daytime schedules.
pretty much...the americans were adaptable, the germans were arrogant, short-sighted and shot themselves in the foot with a nutball ideology....sounds like hogan and klink/schultz/hochstetter to me...
After about 1second in this clip i went..."In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune.
If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The A-Team.".....
Most of the changes from Pilot to the series seem to have been made to get more chicks onto the screen. They dump Klink's XO for Hilda, whom Hogan has to "work his way past" in many episodes. Then there's the re-headed female Russian spy introduced later on. Changes made to the intro credits are all in the name of extra exposition -- Carter doing his lab work, Kinchloe working the radio, etc. Overall, good changes.
Klink's father in real life was Otto Klemperer, a famous German Symphony Orchestra Conductor. Indeed, Werner(Klink), in later life did some orchestra directing too. He also did play the violin, and had good violin skills. However to play his part he had to act as if he played badly. Similar to Jack Benny who simulated to play while making screeching noises with the bow. And who also played quite well in a musicians good quality violin.
@infestation69 few people know this, but Hogan's Heroes was a Bing Crosby (Der Bingle) production. Another oddity is that Star Trek was a Desilu (Desi Arnaz and Lucy) production. And one more oddity. When the show "Leave It To Beaver" ended, it was immediately replaced with "The Munsters" which used the same crew, writers, directors, sets, etc. If you look closely at the exteriors of the Munster's house, you can recognize parts of Beaver's house.
One of the most recognizable themes in TV history. And I bet you don't even think of the music, just those thunderous drums. And for you trivia buffs out there, that's Bob Crane himself playing the thunderous drums. He was an accomplished musician as well as an actor.
Robert Clary aka Le Brou, Werner Kemperer Col Klink and John Banner Schultz were Jewish.
Also, Robert Clary was actually in a death camp during WW II, and most of his family was killed by the Nazis. I think if he could star in this show, it must have had some redeeming qualities for him.
@ryoushii If you want to be precise.. Hitler was also jewish. He destroyed an entire city to eradicate all records and evidence that his father was jewish. He did that by evacuating the city and using it as a artillery training ground. And, Hitler didn't hate the jews so much. He USED the hatred of the jews held by so many people in and out of Germany to fuel his quest for power, conquest, and control. So did the Catholic church.
I'm glad they changed the intro to the funnier version that we all know and love. I don't like Le Beau yawning without covering his mouth (how rude!). The revised version where he emerges from the trapdoor under the doghouse always cracks me up and is my favourite bit from the regular intro.
@ELcapalla2 I didn't know that. I've spent many hours looking at Holocaust info on the net. I'm actually surprised that he would appear in a TV show that is basically nonsense, after losing so many family members. A good movie I found recently posted on YT is Sophie Scholl The Final Days. U can find the link to the first part in my favorites if u are interested.
I'm glad they opted not to have a Russian supporting character. It would be too dismissive of actuality. Russians lucky enough to live at all were used as forced labor and kept in separate and inferior camps.
I realy don't know where Hogans Heroes was "insensitiv" ? I mean it was a comedie, and ALL Characters in this show were kind of archetypical simplified clishes of their country...... I'm german and like the show very much.
It's funny !
So there is no prob about this or any other "insensitiv" show or movie &c.
In Germany everybody knows, that US pupil only learn history from 1932 to 1946.
XD
We understand that there is no otherway to comunicate evil. It's fun!
@TremereTT I am a US Pupil or rather was a US Pupil (I am 31 now) and we rarely ever got to that point in history in history class because we always spent so much time yakking about slavery and the civil war as well as the discovery of the New World.
What's really funny about PC objections to this show is that Robert Clary, , LeBeau, was actually IN a Nazi death camp during WWII and was the only surviving member of his immediate family.
If anyone should have been upset by the show's subject matter, it should have been him. And, considering he stayed with the show for it's entire run, I guess he wasn't offended.
Oh sure this show was 'insensitive'. Just like any WWII era comic book was. That's what this show WAS - a comic book, showing the war the way we WISH it had been.
Love hogans heroes. My dad watched it when he was little and now he's shown us it! RIP all the great actors. it's on DVD definately. Is it really on blue ray?? x
Kinskey played the role of "Minsk" in the pilot, 'blab'. However, after the series was sold to the network, he declined to appear in it, due to personal feelings about the show (he thought making fun of German prisoner of war camps was in bad taste).
I'm wondering if there really were sabotage groups in POW camps during WW2. I heard that using prisoners for spying and sabotage would be a violation of the Geneva Convention.
"Supremely ridiculous" ?? Yeah, because "American Idol", Survivor, and a dozen reality TV shows are all classics that people will be watching 40 years from now. BTW, Howard Caine and Leon Askin were also Jewish.
greatest show ever. If TV Guide said it was one of the worst ever, than why was it on their cover on many occasions in the 60's? And if people think this show was insensitive, what do you consider Gomer Pyle while it ran during the Vietnam War?
@blu062 This show was brillant ! I only wish the show had a series finale with Hogan and his man going home. Klink finding out he had been duped and Sholtz going back to his Schottzy Toy Company. I have a 6 seasons on dvd.
@blu062 I liked both Gomer Pyle USMC and Hogan's Heroes. Sounds like TV Guide is run by a bunch of politically correct pansies nowadays who as usual have no sense of humor at all.
I loved this show from the get go , I watched it every nite on TV , wow , great memories here , I especially loved Bob Crane & Richard Dawson , they cracked some hella funny jokes about the camp & Clink , SGT Shultz , LOL , Great show !!!
that and the fact that it ran longer then the actual war was the us involvment in WWII was less then 4 years and this show was on the air for seven i believe plus the usual critics that want it to be more realistic asking questions like why can't they make an invention to get out of the camp or trick klink into letting them go. though if it wasn't cancelled I wonder what the finale would have been like.
i find it outrageous that tn guide voted it the fifth worst show in 2002. oh wait, no one reads the tv guide! this show is amazing. funny still even today
Ready for a weird story? Back in 1995 I was in Frankfort, Germany and I saw this on German TV. This was a year after the German government lifted the ban on Nazi paraphernalia and symbols....plus the voices were re-dubbed in German. From what I heard from some of my German colleagues, this is still played in some right-wing circles...
One of the best if not THE Best American sitcoms that still inspires to this day the values that america abide by. This show shows how the ingenuity of an allied force can stop evil and live amongst it while doing so. I rest my case when I say the best show ever made.
"Jews wouldn't allow it today?" What kind of stupid comment is that? If you knew your history, Robert Clary, John Banner were concentration camp survivors and Werner Klemperers' family escaped Nazi Germany.
@maccagirl56 I would say that if there had never been a Hogan's Heros made in the 60's we would never be seeing a show like it at all because people today are too PC to see that the show is a satire making fun of Nazi Germany, it's not just the Jews who would not allow it today but a great many other groups who are way too uptight for thier own good.
@ebag10 Yeah, they used to shoot the pilot episodes in B&W as it was cheaper. that way if the show flopped they saved a little money. the rest of the series was in color.
This comment has received too many negative votesshow
It was amazing to me that the generation that actually fought WW-2 could laugh about it afterwards. This is one show you will never see now; the Jews that control every aspect of the media will not allow it.
i remember my dad...hating tv.....only show he watched hogan heroes. he would take a towel with him to wipe off tears of laughter...my brother and i simply laughed to see him so hysterical. i miss paul...my dad so much. ty all hogan heroes association...for making him forget the diifficult times he had.
This show was so incredibly funny. Very, very saddening that Bob Crane was killed back in the early 80s ( I think). I don't think that the perp was ever caught.
Thank you, Jackotaco. I'll look out for it. I remember that Bob was killed not too long after his new tv show (forgot the name) went off the air. He also had been doing some commercials to. He had a bad struggle with porn addiction and winded up angering his wife or girlfriend when it was discovered he was secretly videotaping them (I vaguely remember). Suspicion was that there was a connection between the porn and his murder. Tragic loss.
Bob met his end on June 29. 1978. Very sad, I do believe it was John Carpenter his "friend" and hanger on.....Carpenter died in 1998 I think....RIP Bob!
@thomqkat Yeah, I always wondered why they did that. Obviously they were pretending to be Germans and Hogan, Carter, who by the way was supposed to be a light skinned Indian, Newkirk and LeBeau could pretend, but it didn't make sense having Kinchloe in a German uniform.
Yeah, in an episode or 2, they did have Kinch go with them on missions disguised as a Nazi. I think one episode was when Klink tried to get Hogan to take him to the headquarters of the underground by allowing himself to be taken prisoner by Hogan.
This is such a great show, just good clean fun in every way and I'm glad TVland shows it , now if they'll just start showing Mr. Ed again and maybe throw in alittle lost in space I would never have to leave my house.
rous, rous, rous................
vcomp1960 3 weeks ago
not one nazi salute in the whole bunch...
scouse7under7blouse7 1 month ago
What a great show
irishmike1100 1 month ago
This show came out in 1965, only 20 years after the end of World War II. It was controversial even for its day. Nobody wanted anybody to make a comedy out of a POW camp. To soothe nerves and to show sensitivity to Jews, CBS made sure that all of the actors playing major villains were Jewish. Werner Klemperer, who played Klink, John Banner, who played Schultz, Leon Askin, who played General Burkhalter and even Howard Caine [born Howard Cohen] who played Major Hochstetter, the Gestapo officer.
paktype 2 months ago
@paktype Robert Clary "LeBeau," is also Jewish. He has a very interesting book that he wrote called "From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes." He is a very interesting person and he signed my book for me.
Whiteyplaysthebanjo 2 months ago
@paktype the involvement of so many jewish actors in a comical portrayal of nazis brings to mind mel brooks & the "springtime for hitler" scenes in "the producers" - - which incidentally was released less than 3 years after "hogan's heroes" debuted. i guess at the time, just 20 years removed from events, comedy was one way of dealing with feelings over the genocide.
wallofvideo 1 month ago
I SAW NAHSSING! (imitating the accent)
IsaacClarke1000 2 months ago
lol i'm in grade 7 and my band is playing this song (i'm on the snare)
jesse10roo 3 months ago
Leonid Kinski?????
SeanRaleighSalesRep 3 months ago
this show is wack ..who wants a show about hitler and a concntration camp concentration camps dont look like that anyway
avq5 3 months ago
@avq5 It wasn't about a "concEntration camp" it was about a PRISONER OF WAR CAMP. There was and is a BIG difference.....
SeanRaleighSalesRep 3 months ago
@SeanRaleighSalesRep did you know that Universal Studios filed a lawsuit against CBS and Bing Crosby productions in the 70s? Because in 1964 they were offered a script for a series based on the movie "Stalag 17" but CBS turned it down, then a year later, they came out with "HOGANS HEROES".
starey1 2 months ago
Greatest show ever!
keithsmove 3 months ago
I watched every episode of this program when I was kid, most of them many times. I've almost finished reading the autobiography of Rudolph Hoess, Kommandant KL Auschwitz, I have it open in another tab right now. It's quite different than Hogans Hero's. I also seen a web page once describing the actual LuftStalag XIII, it was different also. Robert Clary that played LeBeau in the series is on the "List of Famous Prisoners" of Buchenwald.
clintonearlwalker 3 months ago
did you know Werner (Klink) is actually Jewish?
switcherxx 4 months ago in playlist TV movies music
@switcherxx john banner (schultz) was also jewish.
wallofvideo 3 months ago
Who brained Bob Crane?
mpjgbx 4 months ago
@mpjgbx dicky dawson done the dirty deed.
1skullduggery 2 months ago
Crane would rather make a porno!!!
Curtisba32 5 months ago
apoooool sdoooooodle....!
1skullduggery 5 months ago 5
klemperer was, among other things, an opera singer...hogaaaan!!
1skullduggery 5 months ago 3
I'll say this "Hulk Hogan Sure has Alot of Heroes" to call this Hogan's Heroes !!
warriorCI09 5 months ago
Simply the best series ever :)
RIP Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Ivan Dixon and Larry Hovis.
Veruka311096 5 months ago
Bing Crosby was "PLAYING with FIRE" when this show debuted (in Black & White) on Friday, September 17,1965. Despite so many of the actors on the show having actually suffered in some or large part at the hands of the Nazis , many Americans that night still had the numbers of the concentration camps tatooed on their arms. In fact, William Holder was angered with Crosby
for directly saterizing his role in "Stalag 17"
Mr76Yearsago 5 months ago
@Mr76Yearsago Sometimes you have to play with fire to achieve great things. HH was a chance for people from the war to sit back and laugh at the Germans as they were portrayed. And I have to admit that Klemperer and Banner (not to mention a few others) did make the enemy look a bit silly. It was a time when people needed to start laughing again.
fatkinson2011 5 months ago
@Mr76Yearsago That makes sense, I wouldn't be suprised if director Billy Wilder wasn't a bit P.O. at Crosby as well, being that he took the whole concept for this series right down to Sgt Schultz as a character straight from Stalag 17, especially if Wilder didn't get any acknowledgement for it.
cha5 3 months ago
very cool
namesuser1590 5 months ago
Klink :D
Mante53 5 months ago
My dad was a WWII vet. I remember how he would laugh while watching Hogan's Heroes.
It's a bright spot in my life.
noclouds111 6 months ago
The pilot was filmed in BW. Sgt Carter was added afterwards
MarkusHeracles 6 months ago
Where the hell is carter
silenthunter54 6 months ago
Pero que bien lo pasaban estos hijos de puta en la Stalag 12...
los alemanes eran unos imbéciles... buena cama... buen ambiente...
Sin combatir, con alimento, sin soportar brujas...
una sola consulta...
¿Quién se culiaba (fucked) a quién...
who´s fucked who´s.....
nachjagger33 7 months ago
Dad LOVED this show!
1onefinn 7 months ago
This always struck me as more of a "guy" show, appealing much more to men than women. This may explain why (as far as I can remember) it was never part of the CBS daytime lineup. Contrast that with Gomer Pyle or M*A*S*H, which were afternoon staples for years.
For those of you post-Oprah, the networks, especially CBS, used to regularly air reruns of their prime time sitcoms, even cancelled shows, as part of their Monday-Friday daytime schedules.
sbrady53 8 months ago
The good old days of after-school TV.
MrCombat1965 8 months ago
DIIIIIIISMISSED!!!
Navdan87 8 months ago
Haha, this is exactly what the Nazi regime was like.
Frusciantefan77 8 months ago
@Frusciantefan77
pretty much...the americans were adaptable, the germans were arrogant, short-sighted and shot themselves in the foot with a nutball ideology....sounds like hogan and klink/schultz/hochstetter to me...
jcfbell3001 7 months ago
Enjoyed this show greatly back in the 70s and still do to this day. Outstanding cast.
ACLTony 9 months ago
After about 1second in this clip i went..."In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune.
If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The A-Team.".....
Lengonator 11 months ago 3
@Lengonator The A-team is a joke compared to Hogans Heroes. :D
Stalin111 11 months ago 2
@Stalin111 hahaha yeah :) but i cant help it,i start humming the "A-team" intro everytime i hear this one :)
Lengonator 11 months ago
I guess that when the war was drawing to a close, Hogan and his man took Schultz and Klink prisoners. As a favor the Gestapo leader and One General,
joseagosto1 1 year ago
I've seen this show, but my parents didn't really want us to watch it...
shmuli9 1 year ago
Most of the changes from Pilot to the series seem to have been made to get more chicks onto the screen. They dump Klink's XO for Hilda, whom Hogan has to "work his way past" in many episodes. Then there's the re-headed female Russian spy introduced later on. Changes made to the intro credits are all in the name of extra exposition -- Carter doing his lab work, Kinchloe working the radio, etc. Overall, good changes.
50zcarsman 1 year ago
18 people need to be put in the cooler!
gunspinner21 1 year ago
who ever disliked this does not know true comedy
wolvenblacktalon1 1 year ago
Klink's father in real life was Otto Klemperer, a famous German Symphony Orchestra Conductor. Indeed, Werner(Klink), in later life did some orchestra directing too. He also did play the violin, and had good violin skills. However to play his part he had to act as if he played badly. Similar to Jack Benny who simulated to play while making screeching noises with the bow. And who also played quite well in a musicians good quality violin.
billace90 1 year ago
if you look up on google hogans heroes set you find the actual set and in google u can find wah it looks like today
popsnacks2 1 year ago
Still enjoying after seing first HH show about 25 years ago on a Pub TV in Deniliquin NSW
Jp
johnpro2 1 year ago
This show NEVER jumped the shark...in the entire six seasons.
ramester 1 year ago
@ramester I know. It was cancelled during the "rural purge" of the early 70's while the ratings were still high.
hanoc101 1 year ago
what a great show, and today's know it all critics have the pomposity and audacity to criticize it ? How typical
infestation69 1 year ago
@infestation69 few people know this, but Hogan's Heroes was a Bing Crosby (Der Bingle) production. Another oddity is that Star Trek was a Desilu (Desi Arnaz and Lucy) production. And one more oddity. When the show "Leave It To Beaver" ended, it was immediately replaced with "The Munsters" which used the same crew, writers, directors, sets, etc. If you look closely at the exteriors of the Munster's house, you can recognize parts of Beaver's house.
AxeNewkill 1 year ago
Such a terrible show you either have terrrible sense of humor or your super old to like this gay shit
KrypticSader 1 year ago
@KrypticSader I'm 15, and I like it. Besides, why are you even here watching the intro if you hate it so much?
pastasalad64 1 year ago 15
@derekfnord used to watch it on TV land or something
nealshireman 1 year ago
Sgt. Schultz was my fav. I named a schnauzer after him.
skewlboypin 1 year ago
One of the most recognizable themes in TV history. And I bet you don't even think of the music, just those thunderous drums. And for you trivia buffs out there, that's Bob Crane himself playing the thunderous drums. He was an accomplished musician as well as an actor.
jhunter1163 1 year ago
@jhunter1163 as well as a adult film director and actor.
Sauerkrautification 1 year ago
Actually that's not him in the TV show's theme, but he did do an album that included the show's theme and on that he did play the drums.
lyled1117 11 months ago
Robert Clary aka Le Brou, Werner Kemperer Col Klink and John Banner Schultz were Jewish.
DarthSideous63 1 year ago
@DarthSideous63 2 months ago
Robert Clary aka Le Brou, Werner Kemperer Col Klink and John Banner Schultz were Jewish.
Also, Robert Clary was actually in a death camp during WW II, and most of his family was killed by the Nazis. I think if he could star in this show, it must have had some redeeming qualities for him.
ryoushii 1 year ago
@ryoushii If you want to be precise.. Hitler was also jewish. He destroyed an entire city to eradicate all records and evidence that his father was jewish. He did that by evacuating the city and using it as a artillery training ground. And, Hitler didn't hate the jews so much. He USED the hatred of the jews held by so many people in and out of Germany to fuel his quest for power, conquest, and control. So did the Catholic church.
AxeNewkill 1 year ago
Leon Askin (General Burkhalter) was Jewish as well
lyled1117 11 months ago
did you know that La bou was really jewish and survived the consincation camp
amazing
delcity1959 1 year ago
@delcity1959 really? that intresting is it true?
KrypticSader 1 year ago
I'm glad they changed the intro to the funnier version that we all know and love. I don't like Le Beau yawning without covering his mouth (how rude!). The revised version where he emerges from the trapdoor under the doghouse always cracks me up and is my favourite bit from the regular intro.
Goodiesfanful 1 year ago
Comment removed
rnmomx6 1 year ago
I've had the Hogan's Heroes theme song stuck in my head my whole life. :V
PrinceOfDarkness111 1 year ago 2
lol this is sooooo unrealistic lol
nealshireman 1 year ago
Comment removed
M0N00D 1 year ago
Sgt Schultz : "I know nothing, I see nothing, and I say Nothing!"
kd4adv 1 year ago 10
One night I was looking at the list of "famous prisoners" from Buchenwald KZ, the name Robert Clary is there.
clintonearlwalker 1 year ago
@clintonearlwalker Yeah, he was a holocaust survivor. He was the only one in 12 family members to survive.
ELcapalla2 1 year ago
@ELcapalla2 I didn't know that. I've spent many hours looking at Holocaust info on the net. I'm actually surprised that he would appear in a TV show that is basically nonsense, after losing so many family members. A good movie I found recently posted on YT is Sophie Scholl The Final Days. U can find the link to the first part in my favorites if u are interested.
clintonearlwalker 1 year ago
I like the extended drums sequence
us71 1 year ago 2
FFFFCCCCCKKKKKKK THE REALITY SHOWS!!!!!!!!!!!
jk they are crap but they do entertain me
bubbles1714 1 year ago
awesome my dad and i still watch it every day.
treedmx 1 year ago
great show, even the german dubbed version!
peter11x 1 year ago
"Ich seh nix, ich hör nix und ich weiß nix." Sgt Schultz rules!
shockwaverider1 1 year ago
funny show tv shows were great back then[sigh]....allwe got now is reality crap shows.
georgelee43211 1 year ago
Great show. Told it like it was or wasn't. But funny as sh*t.
bleucheese14 1 year ago
Just one reason why I took up drums.
BilbosBastardSon 1 year ago
Most people call this awesome show insensitive because they don't know the difference between a POW and a person being kept in a concentration camp.
raiderdline61 1 year ago
Col. Klink: second only to Dr. Smith in the Pantheon of Immortal Comic Villains.
ilocarapid 1 year ago
@ilocarapid Klink was one of the good guys Hochstedder was the bad guy. He was so bad he was funny as hell.
TheGunslinger5854 1 year ago
I'm glad they opted not to have a Russian supporting character. It would be too dismissive of actuality. Russians lucky enough to live at all were used as forced labor and kept in separate and inferior camps.
Shatnerpossum 1 year ago
I realy don't know where Hogans Heroes was "insensitiv" ? I mean it was a comedie, and ALL Characters in this show were kind of archetypical simplified clishes of their country...... I'm german and like the show very much.
It's funny !
So there is no prob about this or any other "insensitiv" show or movie &c.
In Germany everybody knows, that US pupil only learn history from 1932 to 1946.
XD
We understand that there is no otherway to comunicate evil. It's fun!
TremereTT 1 year ago
@TremereTT I am a US Pupil or rather was a US Pupil (I am 31 now) and we rarely ever got to that point in history in history class because we always spent so much time yakking about slavery and the civil war as well as the discovery of the New World.
rocketdude1979 1 year ago
What's really funny about PC objections to this show is that Robert Clary, , LeBeau, was actually IN a Nazi death camp during WWII and was the only surviving member of his immediate family.
If anyone should have been upset by the show's subject matter, it should have been him. And, considering he stayed with the show for it's entire run, I guess he wasn't offended.
ryoushii 1 year ago 2
@ryoushii And Werner Klemperer was a German Jew who fled the country, and John Banner was an Austrian Jew who fled.
Shatnerpossum 1 year ago
This is an awesome song! My school band is playing this and it sounds just like it!
TheSeanMcLean 1 year ago
Oh sure this show was 'insensitive'. Just like any WWII era comic book was. That's what this show WAS - a comic book, showing the war the way we WISH it had been.
io9wwww 1 year ago 2
This show was so well acted.
dreadnaught2 1 year ago 2
One of the best intro and theme song in all of T.V. I do believe this was the inspiration for Macgyver. This and Get Smart.
nellgwen48 1 year ago
Comment removed
nellgwen48 1 year ago
this movie keep me smiling & smiling...
ebongdecoil 1 year ago
Love hogans heroes. My dad watched it when he was little and now he's shown us it! RIP all the great actors. it's on DVD definately. Is it really on blue ray?? x
emmafairleyp 1 year ago
RIP bob Crane.
CTFonPIT 1 year ago
Very nice. I watched this TV series when I was 10 but I didn't remember the title.
VincenzoMoretto 1 year ago
Kinskey played the role of "Minsk" in the pilot, 'blab'. However, after the series was sold to the network, he declined to appear in it, due to personal feelings about the show (he thought making fun of German prisoner of war camps was in bad taste).
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
Leonid Kinskey?
blabblab1212 1 year ago
IS IT ON BLUE-RAY YET
marieds185 1 year ago
loved hogan's heroes is it on dvd yet?
marieds185 1 year ago
Yep, all six seasons. You can even get the whole series in a special 'Kommandant's Kollection'
Carandini 1 year ago
Did the rest of the camp know that they were a espionage/sbotage group? That would have been a hard secret to keep.
hoosieryank1967 1 year ago
I'm wondering if there really were sabotage groups in POW camps during WW2. I heard that using prisoners for spying and sabotage would be a violation of the Geneva Convention.
GreenDay1981 1 year ago
Did we know...
:45 Clary was a child survivor of the Holocaust.
:38 Colonel Klink was Jewish, he fled Germany and served in US Army during WW2.
:41 Shultz was Jewish and served in the US Army Airforce during WW2.
actonbath 1 year ago
"Supremely ridiculous" ?? Yeah, because "American Idol", Survivor, and a dozen reality TV shows are all classics that people will be watching 40 years from now. BTW, Howard Caine and Leon Askin were also Jewish.
zl1vette427 1 year ago 2
With all those nightly inspections, the wonder is that Klink (realistically) would have got any sleep. No wonder he was so crabby.
hoosieryank1967 1 year ago
I'm glad the Russian guy quit the show. Carter is much better.
SwordAlchemistKiki 2 years ago 3
greatest show ever. If TV Guide said it was one of the worst ever, than why was it on their cover on many occasions in the 60's? And if people think this show was insensitive, what do you consider Gomer Pyle while it ran during the Vietnam War?
blu062 2 years ago 44
Agreed. Plus, I bet those same people didn't raise their voices about a comedy show based on the Korean War: M.A.S.H.
GreenDay1981 1 year ago 2
@blu062 This show was brillant ! I only wish the show had a series finale with Hogan and his man going home. Klink finding out he had been duped and Sholtz going back to his Schottzy Toy Company. I have a 6 seasons on dvd.
exnewsanchor 1 year ago 2
@blu062 I liked both Gomer Pyle USMC and Hogan's Heroes. Sounds like TV Guide is run by a bunch of politically correct pansies nowadays who as usual have no sense of humor at all.
ridgerunner721601 11 months ago
leonid kinsky missed on being on a hit show foe 6 years. besides he sucked , larry hovis was brillant as ditzy carter.
diesel021234 2 years ago 3
I loved this show from the get go , I watched it every nite on TV , wow , great memories here , I especially loved Bob Crane & Richard Dawson , they cracked some hella funny jokes about the camp & Clink , SGT Shultz , LOL , Great show !!!
LadySierraSays 2 years ago
Klink (Werner Klemperer), Schultz (John Bannon) and LeBeau (Robert Clary) were all Jews. Clary had escaped from a concentration camp in his youth.
I liked this show when I was a teenager, but now that I'm 50 I can see why so many people give it the Raspberry. It really is supremely ridiculous.
DeathToAllReligions 2 years ago
that and the fact that it ran longer then the actual war was the us involvment in WWII was less then 4 years and this show was on the air for seven i believe plus the usual critics that want it to be more realistic asking questions like why can't they make an invention to get out of the camp or trick klink into letting them go. though if it wasn't cancelled I wonder what the finale would have been like.
StevieGreig1 1 year ago
i find it outrageous that tn guide voted it the fifth worst show in 2002. oh wait, no one reads the tv guide! this show is amazing. funny still even today
isnover 2 years ago 3
Ready for a weird story? Back in 1995 I was in Frankfort, Germany and I saw this on German TV. This was a year after the German government lifted the ban on Nazi paraphernalia and symbols....plus the voices were re-dubbed in German. From what I heard from some of my German colleagues, this is still played in some right-wing circles...
rkogeneral 2 years ago
I don't remember Leonid Kinskey being in any episodes of HH
Maginel73 2 years ago
He only appeared the pilot. He turned down being in the show when it was picked up
RayNDeere 2 years ago
One of the best if not THE Best American sitcoms that still inspires to this day the values that america abide by. This show shows how the ingenuity of an allied force can stop evil and live amongst it while doing so. I rest my case when I say the best show ever made.
avahda 2 years ago 2
I want Schultz's bratwurst !!!
WAFFENDOUCHESTAFFEL 2 years ago
Great show and series. I love that opening drum cadence.
Skott62 2 years ago
Bob Crane-(Hogan) played the drums for the theme music.
kdraper2007 2 years ago
battle fields heros theme ?
themaninthevan0 2 years ago
All time, best shows. RIP
pkrska 2 years ago
Klemperer took the role on the condition that the Germans never win. Banners family died in the camps.
foolhardy44 2 years ago
"Jews wouldn't allow it today?" What kind of stupid comment is that? If you knew your history, Robert Clary, John Banner were concentration camp survivors and Werner Klemperers' family escaped Nazi Germany.
maccagirl56 2 years ago 2
Also, Howard Caine, who played Gestapo Major Hochstetter, was Jewish. They all thoroughly enjoyed making the Nazis look like fools.
dawoool 2 years ago 3
@maccagirl56 I would say that if there had never been a Hogan's Heros made in the 60's we would never be seeing a show like it at all because people today are too PC to see that the show is a satire making fun of Nazi Germany, it's not just the Jews who would not allow it today but a great many other groups who are way too uptight for thier own good.
rocketdude1979 1 year ago
I loved this show.
rogerwada 2 years ago
"I see nothing!!,I know noothing!!"
randomguy000000 2 years ago
Best. TV. Show. Ever. Period.
PrincipessaDellOpera 2 years ago 2
yes xD
SchultzFan 2 years ago
gosh black and white...
ebag10 2 years ago
@ebag10 Yeah, they used to shoot the pilot episodes in B&W as it was cheaper. that way if the show flopped they saved a little money. the rest of the series was in color.
kdraper2007 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
It was amazing to me that the generation that actually fought WW-2 could laugh about it afterwards. This is one show you will never see now; the Jews that control every aspect of the media will not allow it.
rradeski 2 years ago
ooo...steady on... anyway wb all the ww2 movies and games u have now?
ebag10 2 years ago
oh yes only the Jews control the media get a clue
txwarrior66 2 years ago
Today (090909) should be Hogan's Heros Day or at least Sgt. Schultz day.....nein, nein, nein...twenty-seven!
Samack55 2 years ago
why?
Daisyno2 2 years ago
HOGAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!
rycon246 2 years ago
i remember my dad...hating tv.....only show he watched hogan heroes. he would take a towel with him to wipe off tears of laughter...my brother and i simply laughed to see him so hysterical. i miss paul...my dad so much. ty all hogan heroes association...for making him forget the diifficult times he had.
leddger 2 years ago 4
Watched this when I was a kid. Loved it.
ryoushii 2 years ago 2
so did my dad
MTwillman 2 years ago
SCHULTZ!
cne08 2 years ago
As a kid, I used to laugh at Schultz.
leafyutube 2 years ago
Haha
FreneticKey 2 years ago
best theme song ever,10/5
ArmyMen333 2 years ago 2
Top show!
GT2TODO 2 years ago 4
I love the opening drum cadence....catchy
PreacherSly 2 years ago 2
wish I could find more of that drum cadence somewhere
raclarke11 2 years ago
Love those drums too ... just checked the Wikipedia entry for the show, apparently that's Bob Crane aka Col Hogan playing them!
It also says there was an album released for the show, that should have the full version on it if you can track it down.
MyNameIsBiff 2 years ago
all the actors who portraied germans in this show were in fact german and austrian jews who escaped from the nazis
hulkimodo 2 years ago 3
This show was so incredibly funny. Very, very saddening that Bob Crane was killed back in the early 80s ( I think). I don't think that the perp was ever caught.
ACLTony 2 years ago 2
True, I watched Auto Focus the other day and it is about Bob Crane's life from Hogan's Heroes and death. Watch it...
JACKOTACO 2 years ago
Thank you, Jackotaco. I'll look out for it. I remember that Bob was killed not too long after his new tv show (forgot the name) went off the air. He also had been doing some commercials to. He had a bad struggle with porn addiction and winded up angering his wife or girlfriend when it was discovered he was secretly videotaping them (I vaguely remember). Suspicion was that there was a connection between the porn and his murder. Tragic loss.
ACLTony 2 years ago
Bob met his end on June 29. 1978. Very sad, I do believe it was John Carpenter his "friend" and hanger on.....Carpenter died in 1998 I think....RIP Bob!
Gustavflyer 2 years ago
killed in 1978. I loved the episodes when they would go out on a mission and dress up like Nazis and the black guy would wear a Nazi uniform
gaguy1967 2 years ago 3
yea i always wondered about that too, wouldn't that black guy running around in an SS uniform sort have given them away lol
gen8joey 2 years ago
That was classic. They just dont make shows like this anymore.
edthewise 2 years ago 3
you never saw Kinch dressed as a Nazi, but he did impersonate alot of them on the phone. when he went out it was in all black commando garb.
kdraper2007 2 years ago
Kinch did wear nazi uniforms on occasion. I
blu062 2 years ago 13
@blu062: I always got a laugh when Kinchloe went out on patrol wearing a German army uniform...like there were Black Germans? :_)
thomqkat 1 year ago
@thomqkat There WERE, and there ARE, but during the Nazi terror, they either left or were extremely ostracised...
shmuli9 1 year ago
@thomqkat Yeah, I always wondered why they did that. Obviously they were pretending to be Germans and Hogan, Carter, who by the way was supposed to be a light skinned Indian, Newkirk and LeBeau could pretend, but it didn't make sense having Kinchloe in a German uniform.
ridgerunner721601 11 months ago
@thomqkat There was one episode where they had Kinchloe running around in an SS uniform. I bet he blended right in lol.
gen8joey 11 months ago
@gen8joey lol
tranurse 6 months ago
Yeah, in an episode or 2, they did have Kinch go with them on missions disguised as a Nazi. I think one episode was when Klink tried to get Hogan to take him to the headquarters of the underground by allowing himself to be taken prisoner by Hogan.
GreenDay1981 1 year ago
This is such a great show, just good clean fun in every way and I'm glad TVland shows it , now if they'll just start showing Mr. Ed again and maybe throw in alittle lost in space I would never have to leave my house.
CrustyConrad 2 years ago
this is so damn catchy i got this shit stuck in my head
azdrifter520 2 years ago
The drum cadence is awsome!! Makes me wanna march around my living room!
PreacherSly 2 years ago 6
@PreacherSly YOU ARE CORRECT WHAT A GREAT OPENING
mavivirgie 1 year ago
omg i love this show its as good as M*A*S*H!
jbourne117 2 years ago 6
MASH sucks.