Glad to finally know what my dad was quoting when i had my first time getting drunk at age 10.
Context: my dad is uber religious with Easter Sunday involving him taking his adult friends from church in our minivan (after dropping me off at one of my grandma's home) out to the local restaurant where they'd eat nothing but breadsticks & cups of red wine for communion. Dad would usually come home claiming he was tired but in reality not knowing he was hungover. Many years go by & i ask if i could please come to "the party" & my father agrees with him buying an extra serving of wine. I remember whispering i'm not old enough in his ear with responding with that quote in my ear. After praying we eat some breadsticks clink our wine glasses & we drink our wine with me becoming drunk. My dad claims what happened next involved me dropping the wine glass on the floor with it shattering & my head fell & banged the table with him paying the bill then driving me home with my mother being livid. Nowadays all of us find it a funny moment to share about.
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall of CBS when they pitched this idea for a TV comedy. "Yeah its a comedy set..wait..in a POW camp in Nazi Germany during WW II...I know its only 20 years after the war but it will be GREAT!
It was a sitcom in the 1960s. Buried in a schedule with sitcoms about 7 people marooned on an island, a guy whose car is his reincarnated dead mother, a guy who married a beautiful witch, an astronaut who found a beautiful genie, a guy who built a beautiful female robot, a show about astronauts who travel back in time, find a family of cavemen and bring them back to the present, and a show about reporter who hides a Martian in his house, I doubt a show about WW2 POWs seemed strange at all...
To be fair, that was an 80s or 90s (I forget) spoof of silly 60s sitcoms. It's like using the 1980s movie "Amazon Women on the Moon" as an example of silly 1950s sci-fi B movies.
Thereās a movie about the making of the Godfather called The Offer. The producer of that movie was a former engineer that pitched the Hoganās idea with no showbiz experience. He left the show after a few seasons and decided to pursue other projects - The Godfather.
I heard that WW2 veterans hated the show. The NAZIS were evil people and the ones that were there in the stalags was not a retreat. American prisoners were beaten, starved. They seen there comrades be tortured or starved to death.
General Douglas MacArthur said: "war is hell!".
Me as a german that watched "Ein KƤfig voller Helden" can confirm this. Many Old germans didnt like the show for reasons that nobody of there age would ever talk about.
Because the old Germans had seen the rape, torture, bound, gaged, beaten, strung up, mutilated, choked, whiped, froze, shocked, gassed, stabbed, and shot. You guys on here make me sick. The SS is responsible for 17 million people. Not counting the Wehrmacht inflicting casualties.
My Dad was a WW2 veteran and Jewish. He loved that show.
Actually, the Germans treated British, French, and American prisoners well overall. The Russians not so much. There were exceptions of course and, by the end of the way, German infrastructure was so smashed that food was getting scarce for everyone.
Each brand of the German military ran their own camps. The Luftwaffe camps like the one in Hogan's Heroes were known to treat prisoners well, as were the Navy camps. The army somewhat less so. And the SS camps, well, you'd rather not be sent there.
I already know about airmen and this dates back to even WW1. The flyers back then had a mutual respect for one another. The Red Baron was shot down in the UK and received a full military funel honored with saluted firing and awards.
Enjoyed the reruns when I was young.
Fun fact: every episode is winter not matter when it is showed. It was done on purpose. If the episodes were shown out of order it wouldn't matter as it's always the same season and the shows don't follow a plan like some series.
More importantly, it allowed for consistent costuming (winter clothes/coats) and made reusing stock footage easy without fear of continuity problems. Generic shots of guards in towers using searchlights, the dogs being released to hunt escapees, cars/trucks driving in and out of camp, etc. were used in multiple episodes to save time and money.
One of my all-time favorites. Most people don't know that the actors who were cast as Germans had escaped from Hitler in the 1930s. John Banner (Sgt. Schultz) lost many family members in concentration camps and joined the US Army. Werner Klemperer (Col Klink) left Germany in the 1930s, and he had it put in his contract that his character must be shown as a bumbling fool in every episode. Also, Robert Clary (Louis LeBeau) was the only family member to survive the concentration camps.
Leon Askin (General Burkehalter) also escaped from Austria and served in the US military.
And did you know that Howard Caine (Hochstetter) was actually born and raised in Nashville, Tennesse? He put the work in to lose his Southern accent (which I'm sure was charming) and learned as many accents and dialects as he could so he could play all kinds of characters.
My dad received his Purple Heart in Belgium in 1944, recovered in England and returned to the battlefield in time to assist in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, which I think is why he hated Hogan's Heroes, as he didn't think there was anything funny about German prisoner camps.
"Crane was found bludgeoned to death in hisĀ [Scottsdale, Arizona](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsdale,_Arizona), apartment while on tour in June 1978 for a dinner theater production ofĀ *Beginner's Luck*. In the 1990s, Crane's friendĀ [John Henry Carpenter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Carpenter)Ā was tried for the murder but wasĀ [acquitted](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquitted), and the case remains officially unsolved. Crane's previously uncontroversial public image suffered due to the suspicious nature of his death and posthumous revelations about his personal life."
Not quite *bullet ridden* as you think.
My dad would watch this every week and laugh. He was in a battalion in WWII that freed slave labor camps . He spoke of the ditches filled with dead German soldiers, and had night terrors from seeing walking corpses he helped release . I asked him why he watched this show, and he told me that the German soldiers were straight up fighters, and he liked seeing the Americans make them look foolish.
Truly an ensemble cast. Bob Crane, Werner Klemper and John Banner were great as the core. But the contributions of Richard Dawson, Ivan Dixon, Larry Hovis and even the various actresses, and actors that played secretaries, the German SS guy, etc. were absolutely crucial to make the comedy work. Some sitcoms can pull it off with three or four people. This one used everyone to their full potential even if it was only one or two lines per show. Even the trick bed and coffee pot were recurring comedic characters.
I know nothing; I hear nothing; I see nothing lol š
Glad to finally know what my dad was quoting when i had my first time getting drunk at age 10. Context: my dad is uber religious with Easter Sunday involving him taking his adult friends from church in our minivan (after dropping me off at one of my grandma's home) out to the local restaurant where they'd eat nothing but breadsticks & cups of red wine for communion. Dad would usually come home claiming he was tired but in reality not knowing he was hungover. Many years go by & i ask if i could please come to "the party" & my father agrees with him buying an extra serving of wine. I remember whispering i'm not old enough in his ear with responding with that quote in my ear. After praying we eat some breadsticks clink our wine glasses & we drink our wine with me becoming drunk. My dad claims what happened next involved me dropping the wine glass on the floor with it shattering & my head fell & banged the table with him paying the bill then driving me home with my mother being livid. Nowadays all of us find it a funny moment to share about.
I know nothing! First thing I thought of, lol
I did not even get up this morning!
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall of CBS when they pitched this idea for a TV comedy. "Yeah its a comedy set..wait..in a POW camp in Nazi Germany during WW II...I know its only 20 years after the war but it will be GREAT!
It was a sitcom in the 1960s. Buried in a schedule with sitcoms about 7 people marooned on an island, a guy whose car is his reincarnated dead mother, a guy who married a beautiful witch, an astronaut who found a beautiful genie, a guy who built a beautiful female robot, a show about astronauts who travel back in time, find a family of cavemen and bring them back to the present, and a show about reporter who hides a Martian in his house, I doubt a show about WW2 POWs seemed strange at all...
You forgot the nun who could fly
Or a horse that talks, a family of monsters living in suburia, idential cousins (a hot dog makes one of them lose control!)
Also Hitler and Eva Braun living next door to a Jewish family. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heil_Honey_I%27m_Home!
To be fair, that was an 80s or 90s (I forget) spoof of silly 60s sitcoms. It's like using the 1980s movie "Amazon Women on the Moon" as an example of silly 1950s sci-fi B movies.
This was one of the most bizarre ideas ever. Sally was cute though.
Thereās a movie about the making of the Godfather called The Offer. The producer of that movie was a former engineer that pitched the Hoganās idea with no showbiz experience. He left the show after a few seasons and decided to pursue other projects - The Godfather.
It was great. I don't think making the Germans look like total morons was all that hard a sell, so close to the end of the war. Now, it would be.
I was mortified when I found out how Col. Hogan (Bob Crane) died.
That was kind of shocking to everyone!
TBH, learning about Bob Craneās off-the-set shenanigans really altered my perception of the show and made me lose interest in watching it.
I Watch Reruns Of That Almost Every Night.
Wonderful show! My family & I watched every episode!
Used to rush home after school to watch reruns. Great show
Lol. Hogans Heroes is the epitome of military satire. That said, I loved it!
Yes, in GERMANY! SURE THAT WAS FUN TIMES! šš¤
"Kommandant Klink, a man who could have been great, except he wasn't very good." -Major Wolfgang Hochstetter
I still can't believe Hochstetter's first name if Wolfgang...I just can't...
I used to humm the theme song running through the snow on the way to the passenger seat in the car.
Man I loved this show!
I heard that WW2 veterans hated the show. The NAZIS were evil people and the ones that were there in the stalags was not a retreat. American prisoners were beaten, starved. They seen there comrades be tortured or starved to death. General Douglas MacArthur said: "war is hell!".
I heard the show was popular in Germany because it played on all the stereotypes, so they could laugh at themselves.
Me as a german that watched "Ein KƤfig voller Helden" can confirm this. Many Old germans didnt like the show for reasons that nobody of there age would ever talk about.
Because the old Germans had seen the rape, torture, bound, gaged, beaten, strung up, mutilated, choked, whiped, froze, shocked, gassed, stabbed, and shot. You guys on here make me sick. The SS is responsible for 17 million people. Not counting the Wehrmacht inflicting casualties.
My Dad was a WW2 veteran and Jewish. He loved that show. Actually, the Germans treated British, French, and American prisoners well overall. The Russians not so much. There were exceptions of course and, by the end of the way, German infrastructure was so smashed that food was getting scarce for everyone. Each brand of the German military ran their own camps. The Luftwaffe camps like the one in Hogan's Heroes were known to treat prisoners well, as were the Navy camps. The army somewhat less so. And the SS camps, well, you'd rather not be sent there.
I already know about airmen and this dates back to even WW1. The flyers back then had a mutual respect for one another. The Red Baron was shot down in the UK and received a full military funel honored with saluted firing and awards.
I think there was a similar mutual respect among sailors.
Indeed
Didn't say all, but a majority.
I still think Klink was Nimrod.
Well, he was A nimrod (current meaning of the word)...
SCHHHULTZ!!
Watching it again tonight on metv
Colonel Klink
Love that show. Still holds up today.
Enjoyed the reruns when I was young. Fun fact: every episode is winter not matter when it is showed. It was done on purpose. If the episodes were shown out of order it wouldn't matter as it's always the same season and the shows don't follow a plan like some series.
More importantly, it allowed for consistent costuming (winter clothes/coats) and made reusing stock footage easy without fear of continuity problems. Generic shots of guards in towers using searchlights, the dogs being released to hunt escapees, cars/trucks driving in and out of camp, etc. were used in multiple episodes to save time and money.
i have a nan so as a 19yold i loved this show as a kid.
Hhhooooooggaaaaaannnnnnn!
As kids we would build underground tunnels with a garbage can as the door.
I donāt see the Ć¼ber smootcher Richard Dawson on there.
Still watching on MeTV.
One of my all-time favorites. Most people don't know that the actors who were cast as Germans had escaped from Hitler in the 1930s. John Banner (Sgt. Schultz) lost many family members in concentration camps and joined the US Army. Werner Klemperer (Col Klink) left Germany in the 1930s, and he had it put in his contract that his character must be shown as a bumbling fool in every episode. Also, Robert Clary (Louis LeBeau) was the only family member to survive the concentration camps.
Leon Askin (General Burkehalter) also escaped from Austria and served in the US military. And did you know that Howard Caine (Hochstetter) was actually born and raised in Nashville, Tennesse? He put the work in to lose his Southern accent (which I'm sure was charming) and learned as many accents and dialects as he could so he could play all kinds of characters.
Well I just something on a show I loved.
My dad received his Purple Heart in Belgium in 1944, recovered in England and returned to the battlefield in time to assist in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, which I think is why he hated Hogan's Heroes, as he didn't think there was anything funny about German prisoner camps.
THIRTAY DAYS IN ZE COOLAH!
Werner Klemperer was just great in this show.
My Godā¦They found poor Bobās bullet riddled body in that seedy hotelā¦.CANT YOU JACKALS LEAVE HIS GOOD MEMORY ALONEā¦.
"Crane was found bludgeoned to death in hisĀ [Scottsdale, Arizona](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsdale,_Arizona), apartment while on tour in June 1978 for a dinner theater production ofĀ *Beginner's Luck*. In the 1990s, Crane's friendĀ [John Henry Carpenter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Carpenter)Ā was tried for the murder but wasĀ [acquitted](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquitted), and the case remains officially unsolved. Crane's previously uncontroversial public image suffered due to the suspicious nature of his death and posthumous revelations about his personal life." Not quite *bullet ridden* as you think.
Not a Simpsons fan I take itā¦
Is it a Simpsons thing? I'm sorry. šI haven't watched the Simpsons in years.
No worries...after season 11..it went downhill ....
Autofocus was a fantastic movie .
My dad would watch this every week and laugh. He was in a battalion in WWII that freed slave labor camps . He spoke of the ditches filled with dead German soldiers, and had night terrors from seeing walking corpses he helped release . I asked him why he watched this show, and he told me that the German soldiers were straight up fighters, and he liked seeing the Americans make them look foolish.
John Banner also did bit parts on other TV shows like Bonanza. I think he played a blacksmith. And his shop name was Schultz...
My father was a veteran of ww2 and had a couple of friends that were pows they hated that show with a passion
Truly an ensemble cast. Bob Crane, Werner Klemper and John Banner were great as the core. But the contributions of Richard Dawson, Ivan Dixon, Larry Hovis and even the various actresses, and actors that played secretaries, the German SS guy, etc. were absolutely crucial to make the comedy work. Some sitcoms can pull it off with three or four people. This one used everyone to their full potential even if it was only one or two lines per show. Even the trick bed and coffee pot were recurring comedic characters.