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. Starring Bob Crane as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, the show was set in a German prisoner of war (POW) camp during the Second World War. The program featured Werner Klemperer as Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the commandant of the camp; John Banner as the portly inept sergeant-of-the-guard, Schultz; and a crew of Allied priso...
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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. Starring Bob Crane as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, the show was set in a German prisoner of war (POW) camp during the Second World War. The program featured Werner Klemperer as Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the commandant of the camp; John Banner as the portly inept sergeant-of-the-guard, Schultz; and a crew of Allied prisoners who assisted Hogan in running a Special Operations group from the camp.
Hogan's Heroes was produced by Bing Crosby Productions and CBS Productions.
The setting was a fictional version of Stalag 13, a POW camp for captured airmen located near the town of Hammelburg and run by the Luftwaffe; its location was 106 kilometers from Heidelberg. It bore no resemblance to its real-life counterparts, Oflag XIII-B and Stalag XIII-C.
The show's premise was that the POWs were actually active war participants, using the camp as a base of operations for...
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