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Hogan's Heroes
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Premiere September 17, 1965
Finale April 4, 1971
Airs Weeknights at 10PM and 10:30PM on MeTV
Creator Bernard Fein and
Albert Ruddy
Network/Provider CBS
Style 30-minute sitcom
Company Bing Crosby Productions
Distributor CBS Enterprises (until 1971)
Viacom Enterprises (1971–1995)
Paramount Domestic Television (1995–2006)
CBS Paramount Television (2006–2007)
CBS Television Distribution (2007–2021)
CBS Media Ventures (2021– )
Seasons 6
Episodes 168
Origin USA

Hogan's Heroes tells the story of United States Army Air Corps Colonel Robert E. Hogan, the senior prisoner of war at Nazi Luft-Stalag 13, a German prisoner of war camp for Allied air force personnel, and his multinational team of saboteurs as they deal with the war and their bumbling camp commandant, Colonel Wilhelm Klink. Each week, Hogan's Heroes would sabotage the Nazi war effort in some way under the nose of Colonel Klink and his sergeant of the guard, the pudgy Sergeant Schultz.

While the camp was used as a center of spy activity and escape aids (the surrounding area was criss-crossed with tunnels and there were huge cave areas under the Stalag used as everything from radio rooms to barber areas), Klink maintained that "no one had ever escaped from Stalag 13" even as he was constantly outmaneuvered by the wily Hogan (or occasionally saved from being shipped to the Russian Front by Hogan, since it was made painfully clear over the course of the show's six seasons that the only reason they were able to use Stalag 13 as effectively as they did was a combination of Klink's incompetence and Schultz's indifference).

Hogan's Heroes, while popular, was eventually canned during a reorganization of CBS's evening schedules that also saw the departure of several other popular shows such as The Beverly Hillbillies, all casualties of CBS' shift to watching demographics rather than ratings.

Contents

Cast

Actor Character Duration
Main Cast 1 2 3 4 5 6
Bob Crane Colonel Robert E. Hogan * * * * * *
Werner Klemperer Commandant Wilhelm Klink * * * * * *
John Banner Sergeant Hans Schultz * * * * * *
Robert Clary Corporal Louis LeBeau * * * * * *
Richard Dawson Corporal Peter Newkirk * * * * * *
Larry Hovis Sergeant Andrew Carter * * * * * *
Ivan Dixon Sergeant James "Kinch" Kinchloe * * * * *
Kenneth Washington Sergeant Richard Baker *
Supporting/Recurring Cast 1 2 3 4 5 6
Leon Askin General Albert Burkhalter * * * * * *
Cynthia Lynn Helga *
Sigrid Valdis Hilda * * * * *
Howard Caine Major Wolfgang Hochstetter * * * *

Seasons

Season  Premiere Finale #
CBS
Season One September 17, 1965 April 29, 1966 32
Season Two September 16, 1966 April 7, 1967 30
Season Three September 9, 1967 March 30, 1968 30
Season Four September 28, 1968 March 22, 1969 26
Season Five September 26, 1969 March 27, 1970 26
Season Six September 20, 1970 April 4, 1971 24

In-Depth

DVD Releases

Title Release Discs
Complete Series  (Region 1)
The Komplete Series November 10, 2009 purchase 28
Season Sets  (Region 1)
The Complete First Season March 15, 2005 purchase 6
The Complete Second Season September 27, 2005 purchase 6
The Complete Third Season March 7, 2006 purchase 6
The Complete Fourth Season August 15, 2006 purchase 6
The Complete Fifth Season December 19, 2006 purchase 7
The Sixth & Final Season June 5, 2007 purchase 6

External Sites

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