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Posted: 2/14/2017 12:46:49 AM EDT

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Back in the day I loved that show. Now a days I'm not sure I could sit through it.

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Concur. Helga (or Hilda) was hot though.

Posted: 2/14/2017 12:49:14 AM EDT

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All the principle Nazi's were Jewish actors

Posted: 2/14/2017 12:53:23 AM EDT

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Ive told this story before, but i met Robert Clary on Wilshire Blvd about a dozen years aho. Was going to lunch with the prez of the Academy and we bumped into him walking. He paints.

Posted: 2/14/2017 12:58:51 AM EDT

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When they found Bob Crane dead with a lamp cord wrapped around his neck.. Well, I thought some ex nazi finally caught up to him. The truth turned out to be way more lurid.

Posted: 2/14/2017 1:29:24 AM EDT

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Loved that show as a kid, was pretty upset when it was announced that Bob Crane was killed.

Posted: 2/14/2017 1:34:10 AM EDT

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One of the great shows of all time.

Posted: 2/14/2017 1:34:36 AM EDT

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Dad hated it and wouldn't allow it on in the house. But then he did spend a year in Stalag Luft 3.

Posted: 2/14/2017 1:34:40 AM EDT

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OP, what the Hell are your talking about?

Posted: 2/14/2017 1:38:23 AM EDT

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Bob Crane was killed with a tripod in Scottsdale. Rumor is he was banging his buddy's lady.

Unsolved.

Posted: 2/14/2017 1:42:48 AM EDT

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I always imagined that Col. Klink and Stg. Schultz were secretly sympathizers who only pretended to be oblivious. I wrote that part in, just in my own imagination, but it made the series some how make more sense to me.

BTW, I loved that show. Between that, I Dream of Jenie, and Bugs Bunny cartoons I wore our TV out.

Posted: 2/14/2017 1:45:38 AM EDT

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I was a kid and thought it was funny.

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Yep.

Posted: 2/14/2017 1:56:13 AM EDT

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Liked it. Liked a lot of shows in the 60s and early 70s.

Posted: 2/14/2017 1:57:59 AM EDT

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I thought it was funny

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Posted: 2/14/2017 2:07:08 AM EDT

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Great show!

Posted: 2/14/2017 2:18:46 AM EDT

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Yep, funny back in the day.

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I was a kid and thought it was funny.

Yep, funny back in the day.

This one & "Green Acres" are my all-time favorite comedy sitcoms. The stuff they did back in the 60's outclasses today's fare.

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Bob Crane was killed with a tripod in Scottsdale. Rumor is he was banging his buddy's lady.

Unsolved.

From what reports I've seen on the subject. Bob & the killer were friends who used to play the field together, but things started to go sour when Bob wanted to settle down, because this guy couldn't run in the same league without him. Pretty sad way to go.

This reminds me about David Carradine's odd demise. I wonder if the story will come out about that one?

Posted: 2/14/2017 2:30:21 AM EDT

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I was in high school when Hogan's Heroes originally aired. There was better stuff on TV.

Posted: 2/14/2017 5:51:06 AM EDT

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Funny show. Lots of HOT women.

Posted: 2/14/2017 6:31:49 AM EDT

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Grew up on re runs of Hogan's Hero's, good show..

Posted: 2/14/2017 6:43:48 AM EDT

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Great show and I never got tired of it in re-runs.

Doubt they could get away with it in todays politically correct atmosphere.

Posted: 2/14/2017 6:47:56 AM EDT

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Klink was played by Werner Klemperer, the son of the great German conductor Otto Klemperer.

I had the pleasure of dining with Werner in 1991 or so while he visited the Atlanta Symphony to narrate a concert of Beethoven's incidental music to Coriolan.

Posted: 2/14/2017 6:50:49 AM EDT

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Even today, hearing the theme music will make me want to pour myself a bowl of Kix and pull up a stool in front of the little kitchen TV. . . . . .

Posted: 2/14/2017 6:58:35 AM EDT

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This! Fascinating reading. Everyone should Google the cast.

Posted: 2/14/2017 7:29:53 AM EDT

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I watched it as a kid and thought it was funny. It comes on every day at 22:30 on me tv and I still think it's funny.

Posted: 2/14/2017 7:42:25 AM EDT

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Posted: 2/14/2017 8:04:12 AM EDT

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John Banner, Shultz was in the US Air Corps in WWII, he was used in recruiting posters during the war

Posted: 2/14/2017 8:08:02 AM EDT

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I was a kid when this was prime time TV

It actually became a segway into my Father telling me war stories of being a Tailgunner on a B24 battling NAZIs over Europe. I have read that, at the time, the subject matter was controversial. Maybe but I also know that people who had lived through the war years weren't as thinned skinned as people are today. Also, I guess after 20 years, anybody who survived it can begin waxing nostalgic even about the horrors of WWII.

FWIW- My Father crash landed in Yugoslavia on his final mission and had to walk back to Italy. The whole crew was escorted by Partisans who wanted the blood chit award. He thought the show was funny but little things like the wrong medals on the wrong uniform or references to Bomber Groups that never existed would make him scoff.

Personally, I thought the show was GREAT. Me and my friends even tried to build our own tunnel network but our moms put an end to that after only digging about five feet laterally. Probably for the best

. There really were only two German characters in uniform worthy of sympathy. The rest were portrayed as being thugs or just down right evil so I am not sure where people take offense to the show's subject matter. Certainly, the NAZIs were always portrayed as the "bad guys" (rightfully so).

Too bad Bob Crane was such a FREAK! I can only imagine if he had lived long enough to discover Internet porn

Posted: 2/14/2017 8:10:52 AM EDT

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also a Holocaust survivor

Posted: 2/14/2017 8:11:20 AM EDT

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Thankfully it was made before society turned into a bunch of butt-hurt sensitivity drama queens.

Posted: 2/14/2017 8:12:32 AM EDT

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All the principle Nazi's were Jewish actors

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Jews working in Hollywood? Are you sure about that

Posted: 2/14/2017 8:12:54 AM EDT

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I enjoy the show. I'm in my thirties, without cable, so I watch the reruns.

I like it, but I've always been surprised at how light they take the nazi/POW angle. I thought it was a little weird, but I still like the show.

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I enjoy the show. I'm in my thirties, without cable, so I watch the reruns.

I like it, but I've always been surprised at how light they take the nazi/POW angle. I thought it was a little weird, but I still like the show.

It was originally pitched as an American prison series with the Klink analog being the warden. They changed it because of the popularity of the movie Stalag 17. It was surprising how many of the bits made the crossover.

It used to come on in the afternoons in Chicago while I was stationed in Germany. My niece used to watch it religiously, and claimed to her mother that she'd occasionally see me in it. She was 4 or 5 at the time.

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One of my all time favorite shows. Wish I could pick it up on a channel somewhere.

Every single episode is on youtube. I power watched the whole thing a year or so ago, then did some research because I was trying to figure out if there was an overarching plot to the series. There wasn't. Apparently, back then, they disdained continuity, so each episode was essentially a free standing skit.

It was also noteworthy in that Kinch was not only a sergeant, but also Hogan's second in command -- the first black actor to be placed in a command position, in one of those kinds of shows apparently.

Posted: 2/14/2017 8:13:51 AM EDT

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Loved watching the reruns of it with my dad as a kid. I still watch it sometimes. It was and still is pretty damned funny.

Posted: 2/14/2017 8:22:51 AM EDT

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Why no movie? I want to see John Goodman as Sgt. Schultz.

Posted: 2/14/2017 8:31:58 AM EDT

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I always imagined that Col. Klink and Stg. Schultz were secretly sympathizers who only pretended to be oblivious. I wrote that part in, just in my own imagination, but it made the series some how make more sense to me.

BTW, I loved that show. Between that, I Dream of Jenie, and Bugs Bunny cartoons I wore our TV out.

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I often wondered what the characters Klink and Schultz would have done if ordered to execute the prisoners or otherwise commit war crimes. Schultz basically had a good heart but his overwhelming sense of self-preservation often prevented him from taking a stand. Klink was more narcissistic but still did not seem capable of premeditated murder. Still, I suppose one really doesn't know what they are capable of until fate forces you to decide. I like to think that as the war in Europe drew to a close they both did the right thing to make sure their charges were returned safely to the Western Allies and maybe in the process kept themselves out of a Soviet Gulag.

I Dream of Genie - A show about a scantily clad hottie who lives with a man she addresses as Master

Now there's some good, old-fashioned, family-hour, TV misogyny

Posted: 2/14/2017 8:42:07 AM EDT

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Love that show, still watch it when I'm flipping through the channels.

I remember the first time I saw Hogan bang on the side of the bunk and the bottom bunk flew up exposing the ladder to the tunnel

I love secret tunnels, passages, hidden rooms, etc.

Posted: 2/14/2017 8:45:48 AM EDT

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I've been watching the show recently. I find it really funny, but in the back of my mind I can't help but wonder if the subject matter is a bit too serious.

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Funny show. OP, curious why you ask?

I've been watching the show recently. I find it really funny, but in the back of my mind I can't help but wonder if the subject matter is a bit too serious.

I would give anything to have those types of thoughts.

I don't know anything about you, but a part of me is sincerely envious.

Posted: 2/14/2017 8:46:49 AM EDT

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Why no movie? I want to see John Goodman as Sgt. Schultz.

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Oh, he would be brilliant as Schultz!

How about Jim Carrey as Klink? I know he is a piece of shit person but he could own that role.

Posted: 2/14/2017 8:49:51 AM EDT

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Col. Klink made the show.

Posted: 2/14/2017 8:52:08 AM EDT

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I enjoy it. It comes on the ME TV channel and I watch it every night.

Posted: 2/14/2017 8:56:48 AM EDT

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Funny, the subject matter does not bother me.

Posted: 2/14/2017 9:05:59 AM EDT

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I loved that show as a kid. I still watch reruns once in a while.

Posted: 2/14/2017 9:09:24 AM EDT

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I really liked the show as a kid.

Posted: 2/14/2017 9:47:42 AM EDT

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Good show.

Posted: 2/14/2017 9:57:21 AM EDT

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Posted: 2/14/2017 10:12:37 AM EDT

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Concur. Helga (or Hilda) was hot though.

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She was married to Bob Crane in real life. (1970-78)

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:27:08 AM EDT

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I still watch it every night at 10pm with an antenna on one of the decimal digital channels.

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Yup! It's on MEtv all the time.

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:32:15 AM EDT

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Loved it back in the day.

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:43:00 AM EDT

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This show will always have a special meaning to me. It was the show that my dad and I used to always watch together. It is just like I cannot turn off Stalag 13 17 as it was my dad's favorite movie. Passed away 2 years ago last week and I still miss him