Hogan's Heroes (1965)

Genre

sitcom

Country

United States

Length

6 seasons, 168 episodes

Rated

TV-PG

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 185 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of Allied prisoners in a World War II POW camp secretly run a sabotage and espionage operation right under the noses of their German captors. The camp commandant is clueless and the guard sergeant is easily fooled, creating comedic situations.

lightheartedwittycomedicupbeatplayfulbreezytongue-in-cheekirreverent

What happens

Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom created by Bernard Fein and Albert S. Ruddy which is set in a prisoner-of-war (POW) camp in Nazi Germany during World War II. It centers on a group of Allied prisoners who use the POW camp as an operations base for sabotage and espionage activities directed against Nazi Germany. It ran for 168 episodes (six seasons) from September 17, 1965, to April 4, 1971, on the CBS network, and has been broadcast in reruns ever since. 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 obtuse and oblivious commandant of the camp, and John Banner played the gullible and affable sergeant-of-the-guard Hans Schultz. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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