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DVD Hogan's Heroes - The Complete First Season
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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Experience the evolution of the series
The standout of the first year series is experiencing the (black & white) original and early episodes.... if you are a die hard Hogan's fan. More tension at times. [...] Schultz could care less but not with the blatent disregard nor all-knowing of the goings on. There methods are more crude, less developed,and less confident. I love most all of the episodes from all seasons but some of these episodes are just a little different tone and more interesting.
addictive and therapeutic
I am 48 years old and actually collected trading cards of Hogan s heroes in the 60s. (by the way write me if you have any of those mboulanger@tremblaybois.qc.ca)
My son is 21 and did not have a clue.
My parents are 78 and did not know about the show either..
And the I bought the first season DVDs, and got my orders!
Now my dad can t wait to see Shultz and hear the somewhat fun ...opening theme music. You just know it is going to be great "da da dada da da da"... Don t skip it.The Italian major taking lessons from Klink on how to operate a camp "iron fisted" is a gem in political sarcasm (you finally believe the italians were allies of the ...allies),in another episode Shultz posing as an officer shows what a very talented and consummate actor Banner (Shultz ) was. Klink to me is THE star of it all. Genius at every movement.
My mom for Christmas wants a T shirt of Shultz, now her underdog hero, who, quite wisely, never sees or hears anything.I saw it on e bay, she will get one.
My son ordered me, otherwise he won t talk to me anymore, to buy the seasons 2-5 dvds, which I did.
DO NOT BUY IF YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING ELSE OF YOUR TIME THAN LISTEN TO THESE SHOWS.
DO NOT BUY IF YOU WANT TO REMAIN DEPRESSED.THIS IS INSTANT CURE TO BLACK MOODS.
By the way this week my uncle who was tail gunner in a RCAF bomber (37 missions and survived) will be here. We will look at a couple of shows and I shall note his comments. Also I will meet a bomber pilot this week : he was downed and went to a luft stalag.I ll post his comments also.
Finally if you want to know if Hogan's gang plan's were so outlandish, read "COLDITZ" , a castle where allied officers were actually held by the germans during ww2.
Capturing a plane? Well it is not so crazy after all! Radio contacts with the allies, listening to the BBC? Well KInch was maybe there after all.A shop for fake uniforms, civilian clothes, forged documents? Yes it was all there and somehow you smell Shultz and Klink although... you also feel the gestapo not far away.Was not easy.
The french did dig a tunnel. They found and ended up in the ...wine cellar. TRUE.
marc boulanger
quebec
canada
Really Enjoy Hogan's Heroes - 1st season
We purchased the first season and were very happy with our purchase. It came in promptly and in excellent condition.
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A top 10 show in its first season (a top 20 show in its second), Hogan's Heroes, like Gilligan's Island, got little love from critics during its seven-year run, but it would come to be ranked among TV's guiltiest pleasures. Hogan's Heroes has gotten something of a bad rap. It is not a situation comedy set in a concentration camp. It is, instead, set in a P.O.W. camp, where Col. Hogan (Bob Crane, a former top radio jock, in his star-making role) and his men "trick the dumb Germans," to quote the late Crane's former wife, Sigrid Valdis, in her enlightening commentary on the episode, "Hogan Gives a Birthday Party." While Valdis reveals that the film Von Ryan's Express was a key inspiration for the series, the show seems to takes its cue from Billy Wilder's... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Howard Morris - John Rich - Robert Butler - Edward H. Feldman - Bob Sweeney DVD Release Date: Released the 27 September 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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"What is this man doing here?" an increasingly agitated Major Hochstetter of the Gestapo demands of Col. Klink (Werner Klemperer) in "War Takes a Holiday," one of the best episodes of Hogan's Heroes' third season (or any season, for that matter). "This man," of course, is Senior P.O.W. Officer Col. Hogan (Bob Crane), who, by now, has the run of Stalag 13, and seemingly, all of Europe. The beginning of the episode, "D-Day at Stalag 13," finds Hogan in London to receive his orders on how his barracks operation will further "tie up" the German general command to distract them from the planned Normandy landing. "You have quite a reputation for the offbeat and the bizarre, and for pulling it off," Hogan is told. And he more than lives up to it over the course of season 3. In "War Takes... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Marc Daniels - Howard Morris - Irving J. Moore - John Rich - Robert Butler DVD Release Date: Released the 07 March 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Probably the most successful bad idea in television history, Hogan's Heroes took an appalling premise--the suffering of World War II prisoners-of-war played for laughs--and turned it into a hugely popular series that ran for six seasons. Wily Colonel Hogan (Bob Crane, previously a regular on The Donna Reed Show) and his merry multicultural band of P.O.W.s--including cocky cockney Newkirk (Richard Dawson, pre-Family Feud), softhearted Frenchman LeBeau (Robert Clary, later to appear on Days of Our Lives), clumsy explosives expert Carter (Larry Hovis), and steadfast radio operator Kinch (Ivan Dixon), one of the first black characters on television to be treated as an equal by his peers without any self-congratulatory comment--carried out spying and sabotage... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Marc Daniels - Howard Morris - Irving J. Moore - John Rich - Robert Butler DVD Release Date: Released the 15 August 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Get ready for another season of wacky antics and laughs from the gang at Stalag 17. The guys are up to their old tricks to sabotage and subvert the Nazi efforts, along with the bungling Col. Klink and Sgt. Schultz. Here's what you can expect in Season 5.
The 26 episodes with original telecast dates include:
Episode 1: Hogan Goes Hollywood (9/26/1969)
Episode 2: The Well (10/3/1969)
Episode 3: The Klink Commandos (10/10/1969)
Episode 4: The Gasoline War (10/17/1969)
Episode 5: Unfair Exchange (10/24/1969)
Episode 6: The Kommandant Dies at Dawn (10/31/1969)
Episode 7: Bombsight (11/7/1969)
Episode 8: The Big Picture (11/14/1969)
Episode 9: The Big Gamble (11/21/1969)
Episode 10: The Defector... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Marc Daniels - Howard Morris - Irving J. Moore - John Rich - Robert Butler DVD Release Date: 19 December 2006
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Unlike the good doctors of the 4077 (otherwise known as "this hellhole" and "sewer"), M*A*S*H shows little signs of fatigue in its eighth season. Familiar characters reveal new sides of themselves and the series itself performs some radical surgery on sitcom convention. The most pivotal personnel change is the departure of Gary Burghoff, the only ensemble member to have appeared in the original film, as Radar. His splendid two-part send-off sets the stage for one of the season's best episodes, the Emmy-nominated "Period of Adjustment," in which Klinger (Jamie Farr) must begin to make the role of company clerk his own, and family man B.J. Honeycutt (Mike Farrell) is devastated when a letter from home relates how his baby daughter called a visiting Radar "Daddy." Pompous Charles... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Alan Alda DVD Release Date: Released the 24 May 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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