Hogan's Heroes

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Pratfalls, laughs, explosions and female double agents ... what more could one ask for? How about a fourth season of Hogan's Heroes! Prepare for a full-blown laugh attack from those heroic, funny and downright ingenious men of Stalag 13 in Hogan's Heroes: The Complete Fourth Season. Colonel Robert Hogan (Bob Crane) and his gang of merry saboteurs (Robert Clary, Richard Dawson, Ivan Dixon and Larry Hovis) have a whole new season of subterfuge to unleash on the German war machine and their POW camp's incompetent commandant, Colonel Wilhelm Klink (Werner Klemperer) and his bumbling sidekick, Sergeant Hans Schultz (John Banner). From barracks to guard tower to underground tunnel, the battalion of laughs unleashed in this top-rated TV sitcom will keep you chuckling through all 26 rollicking episodes of this four-disc set.

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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 all 26 episodes from the controversial series' fourth season.

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1960s | Classic Television | Comedy | Nazis | Prison / Prisoners | Sitcoms | Television | Television / TV Series | World War II

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