Hogan's Heroes - The Complete First Season
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Directors: Edward H. Feldman, Gene Reynolds, Howard Morris, Robert Butler Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson Rated: Unrated Retail Price (not our price): $22.99 Release Date: 2005-03-15 Studio: Paramount Run Time: 822 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Discs: 5 |
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Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner. The show that brought hardened war veterans to tears of laughter. A WWII German prisoner-of-war camp is home" for a group of inmates conducting espionage activities led by by the wheeling and dealing, smooth-talking Col. Hogan-and right under the noses of the befuddled Colonel Klink and the always-hungry Sgt. Schultz. All 32 first-season episodes on 5 DVDs. 1965/b&w-color/14 hrs., 45 min/NR/fullscreen.2) Amazon.com
Two years after 1963's The Great Escape thrilled movie audiences with a tale of Allied soldiers working cooperatively to flee a World War II-era prisoner-of-war camp, CBS found a hit situation comedy in the loosely similar Hogan's Heroes. Initially dismissed by critics as being in poor taste, the half-hour show starred Bob Crane (previously known for a supporting role on The Donna Reed Show) as Colonel Robert Hogan, leader of a resourceful band of French, British and American guests of the German Luftwaffe. Rather than sit out the war with his fellow captives, Hogan essentially used the POW camp, Stalag 13, as a base for sabotaging Nazi operations whenever possible, helping important prisoners escape, supporting the Resistance, gathering intelligence for the Allies, and generally screwing up enemy battlefield plans. The work was always dangerous, but Hogan's crew had a number of advantages: a network of underground tunnels beneath the camp (some leading to a nearby town), a flair for disguises, the complementary talents of Hogan's key staff, and the reliable idiocy of camp Commandant Klink (Werner Klemperer) and willful ignorance of lead officer Sergeant Schultz (John Banner). Season one of Hogan's Heroes found all of these elements securely in place and the series balancing farce with suspense. Typical storylines include "Hold the Tiger," in which the boys smuggle a new German Tiger Tank into the camp, disassemble it to construct a blueprint, and then reassemble it under Klink's nose. "The Prisoner's Prisoner" finds Hogan kidnapping a Nazi general, sneaking him into Stalag 13, and tricking him—a la Mission: Impossible--to reveal troop plans. In "The Prince from the Phone Company," one of Hogan's most-trusted confederates, radio operator Kinchloe (Ivan Dixon), disguises himself as an African prince trying to secure money from the Third Reich. Half the fun of these shows is watching Hogan thinking quickly on his feet whenever things start to go wrong, or when one of Klink's more intelligent superiors becomes suspicious that not everything at Stalag 13 is as under control as it seems. Besides Dixon, the other players making up Hogan's elite squad include Richard Dawson as the slightly disreputable Newkirk (with a talent for thievery), Larry Hovis as chemistry whiz Carter, and Robert Clary as the charming LeBeau. --Tom Keogh
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