Description: Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom set in a Nazi German prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during World War II. It ran for 168 episodes (six seasons) from September 17, 1965, to April 4, 1971, on the CBS network, the longest broadcast run for an American television series inspired by that war. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners covertly running a special operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the gullible commandant of the camp, and John Banner played the blundering but lovable sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz. OVERVIEW Hogan's Heroes centers on U.S. Army Air Forces Colonel Robert Hogan and his staff of experts who are prisoners of war (POW) during World War II. The plot occurs during the permanent winter season in the fictionalized Stalag 13 just outside Hammelburg in Nazi Germany, though details in the show are inconsistent with the real-life camp and city's location in Franconia. One episode, "Anchors Aweigh, Men of Stalag 13" for instance, mentions the camp being located 60 miles (97 km) from the North Sea. The group secretly uses the camp to conduct Allied espionage and sabotage and to help escaped Allied POWs from other prison camps via a secret network of tunnels that operate under the ineptitude of commandant Colonel Klink and his sergeant-at-arms, Sergeant Schultz. The prisoners cooperate with resistance groups (collectively called "the Underground"), defectors, spies, counterspies, and disloyal officers to accomplish this. They devise schemes such as having Sergeant Carter visit the camp disguised as Adolf Hitler as a distraction, or rescuing a French Underground agent from Gestapo headquarters in Paris. To the bafflement of his German colleagues who know him as an incompetent sycophant, Klink technically has a perfect operational record as camp commandant as no prisoners have successfully escaped during his tenure; Hogan and his men assist in maintaining this record so they can continue with their covert operations. Considering Klink's record, and the fact that the Allies would never bomb a POW camp, Stalag 13 appears to be a very secure location. As a result, the Germans often use the camp for high-level meetings, to hide important persons and develop secret projects. Klink frequently has many other important visitors and is temporarily put in charge of special prisoners. This brings the prisoners in contact with many important VIPs, scientists, spies, high-ranking officers, and some of Germany's most sophisticated and secret weapons projects such as the Wunderwaffe and the German nuclear weapons program, of which the prisoners take advantage in their efforts to hinder the German war effort.
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Case Type: Tall/DVD Case
Rating: G
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MPN: Multi Region Player Required To Play Outside Aust & NZ
Studio: Alfran Productions Bob Crane Enterprises & Bung Crosby Product.
Format: DVD
Region Code: DVD: 4 (AU, NZ, Latin America...)
Language: English
Release Year: Original release September 17, 1965 – March 28, 1971
Actor: Bob Crane Werner Klemperer John Banner Robert Clary, Ivan Dixon Larry Hovis Kenneth Washington
Features: Menu, Scene & Episode Selections
Movie/TV Title: HOGANS HEROES
Season: 4 Episodes - 01 Psychic Kommandant, 02 The Prince From The Phone Company, 03 The Safecrackers Suite, 04 I Look Better In Basic Black
Music Artist: Jerry Fielding
Video Format: PAL
Sub-Genre: Sitcom
Director: Not Published
Cinematic Movement: British New Wave
Edition: Standard Edition
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Type: TV Series
Producer: Edward H. Feldman
Genre: Military/War, Comedy
Run Time: 98 Minutes
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
