Hogan's Heroes

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Fall in line for a second hilarious season of laughs, starring the ragtag band of World War II POWs Known as Hogan's Heroes! Join Colonel Robert Hogan (Bob Crane) and his gang of merry saboteurs (Robert Cary, Richard Dawson, Ivan Dixon and Larry Hovis) as their hilarious plots, plans and schemes aimed at the German war machine are launched right under the noses of Stalag 13's inept camp commandant, Colonel Wilhelm Klink (Werner Klemperer) and his bumbling sidekick, Sergeant Hans Schultz (John Banner). It's a blitzkrieg of laughs, with all 30 Season Two episodes of the top-rated hit TV sitcom contained in this riotous five-disc collection.

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Despite a historically and morally questionable premise, the 1960s sitcom HOGAN'S HEROES was wildly popular during its premiere run and continues to remain one of the most classic (not to mention utterly unique) comedy series in television history. Set in a Nazi prison camp during World War II, the series follows a group of Allied POWs--Englishman Peter Newkirk (a pre-FAMILY FEUD Richard Dawson), Frenchman Louis LeBeau (Robert Clary), and Americans Andrew Carter (Larry Hovis) and James Kinchloe (Ivan Dixon, one of the first African-American actors to get equal billing)--led by the irrepressible Colonel Robert Hogan (Bob Crane) in their hilarious attempts to sabotage the Nazi war effort. Though often mischaracterized as a tasteless gloss on the real-life horrors of Nazi Germany (the series was set in a prisoner-of-war camp, rather than concentration camp), HOGAN'S HEROES was intended as parody and certainly pulled no punches in its unflattering depiction of idiotic Nazi officers such as the pompous Colonel Klink (Werner Klemperer), bumbling Sergeant Schultz (John Banner), and irascible General Burkhalter (Leon Askin)--in fact, Klemperer, Banner, and Askin were all Jewish, and Clary was a Holocaust survivor. This collection presents every episode from the controversial series' second season.

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1960s | Classic | Classic Television | Comedy | Farce | Military | Nazi Germany | Nazis | Prison / Prisoners | Series | Sitcoms | Soldiers | Television | Television / TV Series | Television Shows | Vintage TV | World War II

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