Hogans Heroes-4th Season (1968)

"...a mostly clever, entertaining series that stands up decently years later.  CurrentFilm.com
"The charm of Hogan's Heroes is Hogan himself, played with impish insouciance by Bob Crane.  Diane Wild, DVD Verdict

Editor's Note 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.

	Bob Crane
	John Banner
	Robert Clary
	Sigrid Valdis
	Bill Davenport, et. al. - Writer
	Bruce Bilson, et. al. - Director
	Clay Bartels, et. al. - Editor
	Gordon Avil, et. al. - Cinematographer
	Jerry Fielding, et. al. - Original Music By
	William A. Calihan Jr., et. al. - Producer

DVD Town 8 of 10
"Hogan's Heroes" was a double surprise. A sitcom about a Nazi P.O.W. camp? "Ridiculous," co-star Werner Klemperer told talk-show host Pat Jajak...It was far-fetched, and the walls of the underground tunnels looked like crinkled grocery-store bags, but for viewers "Hogan's Heroes" was pretty much what it was for the prisoners and downed pilots that the POWs helped: pure escapist fun. The final surprise is that the episodes are consistently of the same good quality. - James Plath