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Hogan's Heroes told the story of United States Army Air Corps Colonel Robert E. Hogan, the senior prisoner of war at Nazi Luft-Stalag 13, a German prisoner of war camp for Allied air force personnel, and his multinational team of saboteurs as they deal with the war and their bumbling camp commandant, Colonel Wilhelm Klink. Each week, Hogan's Heroes would sabotage the Nazi war effort in some way under the nose of Colonel Klink and his sergeant of the guard, the pudgy Sergeant Schultz.

While the camp was used as a center of spy activity and escape aids (the surrounding area was criss-crossed with tunnels and there were huge cave areas under the Stalag used as everything from radio rooms to barber areas), Klink maintained that "no one had ever escaped from Stalag 13" even as he was constantly outmaneuvered by the wily Hogan (or occasionally saved from being shipped to the Russian Front by Hogan, since it was made painfully clear over the course of the show's six seasons that the only reason they were able to use Stalag 13 as effectively as they did was a combination of Klink's incompetence and Schultz's indifference).

Hogan's Heroes, while popular, was eventually canned during a reorganization of CBS's evening schedules that also saw the departure of several other popular shows such as The Beverly Hillbillies, all casualties of CBS' shift to watching demographics rather than ratings.

Contents 1 Cast 2 Seasons 3 In-Depth 4 DVD Releases 5 External Sites

[edit] Cast

Actor	Character	Duration
Main Cast
Bob Crane	Colonel Robert E. Hogan	1	2	3	4	5	6
Leon Askin	General Albert Burkhalter	1	2	3	4	5	6
Werner Klemperer	Commandant Wilhelm Klink	1	2	3	4	5	6
Howard Caine	Major Wolfgang Hochstetter			3	4	5	6
John Banner	Sergeant Hans Schultz	1	2	3	4	5	6
Larry Hovis	Sergeant Andrew Carter	1	2	3	4	5	6
Ivan Dixon	Sergeant James "Kinch" Kinchloe	1	2	3	4	5
Kenneth Washington	Sergeant Richard Baker						6
Robert Clary	Corporal Louis LeBeau	1	2	3	4	5	6
Richard Dawson	Corporal Peter Newkirk	1	2	3	4	5	6
Cynthia Lynn	Helga	1
Sigrid Valdis	Hilda		2	3	4	5	6

[edit] Seasons

Season	Premiere	Finale	#
CBS
Season One	September 17, 1965	April 29, 1966	32
Season Two	September 16, 1966	April 7, 1967	30
Season Three	September 9, 1967	March 30, 1968	30
Season Four	September 28, 1968	March 22, 1969	26
Season Five	September 26, 1969	March 27, 1970	26
Season Six	September 20, 1970	April 4, 1971	24

[edit] In-Depth

• At a Glance: Additional information about the series

[edit] DVD Releases

Title	Release Date	#
Complete Series
The Komplete Series	November 10, 2009	28	purchase
Season Sets
The Complete First Season	March 15, 2005	6	purchase
The Complete Second Season	September 27, 2005	6	purchase
The Complete Third Season	March 7, 2006	6	purchase
The Complete Fourth Season	August 15, 2006	6	purchase
The Complete Fifth Season	December 19, 2006	7	purchase
The Sixth & Final Season	June 5, 2007	6	purchase

[edit] External Sites