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Hogan's Heroes - The Sixth & Final Season

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 0097368515444
Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 05, 2007
Running Time: 604 minutes
Sales Rank: 2922
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: September 17, 1965



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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 every episode of the series' sixth and final season.Runtime: 310 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 097368515444 Manufacturer No: 851544

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Just as the castaways were left to languish on Gilligan's Island, so, too, did cancellation deprive fans of seeing Col. Hogan (Bob Crane) and company finally liberated from Stalag 13. But at least this controversial series (again; it's a P.O.W., and not a concentration, camp!) went out literally with a bang, another successful act of sabotage of Nazi operations. The sixth season brought a new face to the barracks, Kenneth Washington as Sgt. Baker, replacing (without explanation) Ivan Dixon's 'Kinch.' Happily, some of the series' most entertaining recurring characters put in final appearances. Bernard Fox, as the hapless Col. Crittendon, enjoys his finest hour in the two-parter 'Lady Chitterly's Lover,' in which he must impersonate a look-alike British traitor, and Kathleen Freeman, as the dread Gertrude Berkhalter, upsets Hogan's plans to sneak a downed U.S. general out of camp in 'Kommandant Gertrude.' John Banner, as Sgt. Schultz, has one of his best episodes in 'Kommandant Schultz,' in which power goes to the cuddly buffoon's head when he is put in command of Stalag 13.

But mostly this season is business as usual, with Hogan and his men--Newkirk (Richard Dawson), LeBeau (Robert Clary) and Carter (Larry Hovis)--smuggling, hijacking, stealing, and otherwise disrupting the German war effort under the nose of clueless Col. Klink (Werner Klemperer, an Emmy nominee for this season). One standout episode is 'Eight O'Clock and All Is Well,' with guest star Monte Markham as a new prisoner with impeccable credentials whom Hogan discovers is actually a Gestapo spy. And in the episode 'Look at the Pretty Snowflakes,' Crane gets to demonstrate his virtuoso drumming as he attempts to cause an avalanche. Between the 'krauts, lice, stinking food and bloody awful weather,' life in Stalag 13 was no picnic. But, as Hogan tries to convince LeBeau not to return to France in the episode 'Cuisine a la Stalag 13,' let us not forget 'all the fun... all the laughs.' That is Hogan's Heroes' final legacy. --Donald Liebenson



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