Hogan's Heroes | |
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Genre | Sitcom |
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Composer | Jerry Fielding |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of seasons | 6 |
No. of episodes | 168 (list of episodes) |
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Producer | Edward H. Feldman[1] |
Running time | 25 minutes |
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Network | CBS |
Release | September 17, 1965 March 28, 1971 | –
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Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom created by Bernard Fein and Albert S. Ruddy which is set in a prisoner-of-war (POW) camp in Nazi Germany during World War II, which concerns a group of Allied prisoners who use the POW camp as an operations base for sabotage and espionage purposes directed against Nazi Germany. It ran for 168 episodes (six seasons) from September 17, 1965, to April 4, 1971, on the CBS network, the longest broadcast run for an American television series inspired by World War II.
Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners covertly running a special operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the gullible commandant of the camp, and John Banner played the blundering but lovable sergeant-of-the-guard Hans Schultz.