Intro to Pilot of Hogan's Heroes

This is the Intro to the first episode of Hogan's Heroes

[@SigMan68]

R.I.P Richard Dawson. This is still my favorite show of all time.

[@stoneblue1795]

Superb. I like the intro drums to run a bit longer like they do in this version. Very commanding intro. actually, the drums were by Bob Crane himself.

[@jimt1914]

Those drums are fierce. Listen to that before you go to the gym. :D

[@ThatsMrMoronToYou]

+Jim Tellekamp On YT is The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel. From 6:36 to 6:56, you'll hear that same drum beat.

[@thisoldchevy2371]

the quality is so bad.. check my channel I found a mint condition reel for this and wow the quality :D

[@neidelinda4214]

Jim Tellekamp 8

[@avahda]

One of the best if not THE Best American sitcoms that still inspires to this day the values that america abide by. This show shows how the ingenuity of an allied force can stop evil and live amongst it while doing so. I rest my case when I say the best show ever made.

[@Nicecatholicgirl]

The governor of Maryland is called Hogan. I heard a radio show play this theme to introduce him today.

[@jim6820]

Only Robert Clary(Corporal LeBeau) age 94, Kenneth Washington(Sgt. Richard Baker) age 74 and Nita Talbot(Marya) age 90 are the only living Hogan's Heroes cast members left.

[@simplenough]

This needs an update

[@jim6820]

@@simplenough all set.

[@magicsenna3455]

@jim68 Vous faites erreur sur l'âge de Robert Clary. Vous avez posé votre commentaire il y a 5 ans. En 2016, il avait 90 ans, pas 94. Il est né le 1er mars 1926...

[@coralprincess25]

Thanks for posting. I don't remember the longer intro at all. In some small way, this show helped our WW2 vets to deal with the hell that war is. Things weren't openly discussed like after Vietnam (MASH, etc.). My father enjoyed this show immensely.

[@florianderl]

God I love this show! I remember when it was screened on at 7am a few years ago, and I'd get up extra early just to watch it before going off to school. My teachers would always hear me giggle about something that occured in an episode that day xD

[@joemav57]

Dixon in an interview in the 90's said he left the series because it limited his talents. He had wanted very much to direct and write more and the TV show limited his opportunities. As for the series, it's last episode aired in April of 1971 and it was left to your imagination what happened to the Stalag 13 gang.

[@MoukkaGamer]

Can you imagine if the was aired today? There would be so many people would want to show banned.

[@RocketmanRockyMatrix]

ANTIFA

[@2199]

Thanks for the info. Also he was in the movie Car Wash back in the 70's.

[@darrinbaker00]

Playing the drums.....Bob Crane!

[@clintonearlwalker]

I watched every episode of this program when I was kid, most of them many times. I've almost finished reading the autobiography of Rudolph Hoess, Kommandant KL Auschwitz, I have it open in another tab right now. It's quite different than Hogans Hero's. I also seen a web page once describing the actual LuftStalag XIII, it was different also. Robert Clary that played LeBeau in the series is on the "List of Famous Prisoners" of Buchenwald.

[@clarkewi]

This show was amazingly subtile.

[@AwesomePossum27]

Whenever I play Axis and Allies and I control the United States, I whistle this as I plan my attack.

[@JACKOTACO]

True, I watched Auto Focus the other day and it is about Bob Crane's life from Hogan's Heroes and death. Watch it...

[@Jefferson196]

This is one of my favorite intros to a TV show

[@ACLTony]

Enjoyed this show greatly back in the 70s and still do to this day. Outstanding cast.

[@danielgraves6307]

I just noticed the bery first time that the original Family Feud host was in this that blows me away.

[@Aqualung8705]

My maternal grandfather loved this show. For him, it was an escape from his memories of being in a slave labor camp during WWII. He was Ukrainian, and met my late grandmother (Russian) there, and married her the next day. My mom was born in '46. In '52 they came to America, posing as a Polish family. They walked from the camp to the American sector.

[@Skott62]

Great show and series. I love that opening drum cadence.

[@VanWADebbie]

He went into directing. He would later play a judge on a Perry Mason movie. He did two Perry Mason episodes in 1963.

[@blakrakanchannelao7899]

Colonel Hogan and colonel Klink and SGT Schultz is my favorit 👍 RIP Bob Crane RIP Werner Klemperer RIP John Banner RIP Leon Askin RiP Larry Hovis RIP Richard Dawson RIP Ivan Daxon RIP Howard Caine You stay in our hearts, your memories of hogan's heroes are always on our hearts

[@jenniferlandoch7649]

It is a good only Hogan heroes episode in black and white. Guest Stars: Larry Hovis as Carter Noam Pitlik as Wagner Leon Askin as Burkhalter Stewart Moss as Olsen Walter Janovitz as ? Cynthia Lynn as Helga Richard Sinatra as Sergeant Riley No one ever escapes from (camp/Stalag) 13. This video was uploaded the same Year number of Stalags as of Stalag 13.

[@Veruka311096]

Simply the best series ever :) RIP Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Ivan Dixon and Larry Hovis.

[@mrjack4808]

Werner Klemperer who played Col.Klink agreed to do the show on one condition that he portray him as an incompetent inept Luftwaffe officer who had to run a POW camp while classmates of his became generals and field marshals.

[@treedmx]

awesome my dad and i still watch it every day.

[@ryoushii]

Watched this when I was a kid. Loved it.

[@AxeNewkill]

@infestation69 few people know this, but Hogan's Heroes was a Bing Crosby (Der Bingle) production. Another oddity is that Star Trek was a Desilu (Desi Arnaz and Lucy) production. And one more oddity. When the show "Leave It To Beaver" ended, it was immediately replaced with "The Munsters" which used the same crew, writers, directors, sets, etc. If you look closely at the exteriors of the Munster's house, you can recognize parts of Beaver's house.

[@ramester]

This show NEVER jumped the shark...in the entire six seasons.

[@AarHan3]

Like Get Smart, Hogan's Heroes' pilot was the only instalment in the entire series made in B&W.

[@starey1]

@SeanRaleighSalesRep did you know that Universal Studios filed a lawsuit against CBS and Bing Crosby productions in the 70s? Because in 1964 they were offered a script for a series based on the movie "Stalag 17" but CBS turned it down, then a year later, they came out with "HOGANS HEROES".

[@marcoasalazarm]

Dad's favorite series. Now mine. Poor fella, he ordered 5 out of 6 seasons not knowing that they didn't came with subtitles (in Spanish).

[@bdub24j]

Always liked the opening drum beats to this show. Comes to mind whenever I see WWII footage on the Mil/History channels.

[@michaelj.richard6835]

Hogan's Heroes Pilot (1965)

[@357blackhawk]

Ummm, Hogan's Heros was about a prison of war camp operated by the air force (stalag luft.) That is why Klink and the guards are wearing air force uniforms. You are thinking of the death camps operated by the SS.

[@fromthesidelines]

Again (and this is for 'kenobi'), CBS bought the series after seeing the pilot in February 1965. At that time, the network was not telecasting ANY of their programs in color, and the producers filmed the pilot in black & white because that's what CBS wanted [and they were also a production partner in the show]. When the decision was made to schedule at least half of CBS's 1965 fall line-up in color, they wanted "HOGAN" to be one of their first series filmed in color...

[@shaniahb70]

Hi from Germany; yes, I know this show, it's been aired several times, why not?´Though I have to admit that some episodes aren't aired, like some of Star Treck or stuff either. But, Hogans Heros is fun... Greetz from Beck's Town Bremen, Germany.

[@DarthHLT]

Yes it was in colour, execpt for the Pilot (Episode). The Show was filmed in colour but the Pilot was in Blak and White. With the beginn of the Show, with the begin of the First Episode it was mand and shown in colour. That's it! Ps.: I still love the Show. One of my favorites.

[@emmafairleyp]

Love hogans heroes. My dad watched it when he was little and now he's shown us it! RIP all the great actors. it's on DVD definately. Is it really on blue ray?? x

[@joemav57]

BTW, Colonel Klink did appear in an episode of the Batman (TV series) portraying himself. Batman and Robin encounter the Colonel while on one of their celebrity building scaling scenes. He apparently was tracking down a spy.

[@kchishol1970]

This series is NOT set in a concentration camp, it is a prisoner of war camp for WESTERN allied troops. Compared to the death camps, the concentration camps and the POW camps for Soviet POWs, the Nazis treated the Western Allied POWs with kid gloves.

[@Storzcouplings]

this show was way before my time but i love all these old shows compared to todays garbage on t.v.

[@357blackhawk]

all of the Germans were. Banner and Werner were refugees. IIRC, the guy that played Gen Burkulter broke out of a Gestapo jail and was also a refugee. The Gestapo major was the only US born.

[@goahead100]

I remeber running home to see this show on tv in 1977s why don't their bring it back on tv .

[@Caterpillarjon]

Hell yeah he does, I never noticed it until you pointed it out, but he really does!

[@SuzanneCromie]

RIP Richard Dawson

[@freebrook]

Best. Show. Ever.

[@csfreak50]

this is the only video i see on youtube about hogans heroes

[@GreenDay1981]

Yeah, in an episode or 2, they did have Kinch go with them on missions disguised as a Nazi. I think one episode was when Klink tried to get Hogan to take him to the headquarters of the underground by allowing himself to be taken prisoner by Hogan.

[@rocketdude1979]

@TremereTT I am a US Pupil or rather was a US Pupil (I am 31 now) and we rarely ever got to that point in history in history class because we always spent so much time yakking about slavery and the civil war as well as the discovery of the New World.

[@keithsmove]

Greatest show ever!

[@magicsenna3455]

Je viens de me taper les 6 saisons; ce fût un régal...

[@nastynate4916]

It’s funny because you have all of this up beat music and they just have the most tired facial expressions

[@hydrolito]

It's a comedy and shows aren't always realistic, they had David Caridine park Cherookee played a part Chinaman in Kung Fu TV show, and John Wayne play a mongolian in movie The Conquerer, Uhl Brennar played the King of Siam in the King and I, Tony Randall played a Chinaman in the 7 faces of Dr. Lao.

[@Gustavflyer]

Bob met his end on June 29. 1978. Very sad, I do believe it was John Carpenter his "friend" and hanger on.....Carpenter died in 1998 I think....RIP Bob!

[@paktype]

This show came out in 1965, only 20 years after the end of World War II. It was controversial even for its day. Nobody wanted anybody to make a comedy out of a POW camp. To soothe nerves and to show sensitivity to Jews, CBS made sure that all of the actors playing major villains were Jewish. Werner Klemperer, who played Klink, John Banner, who played Schultz, Leon Askin, who played General Burkhalter and even Howard Caine [born Howard Cohen] who played Major Hochstetter, the Gestapo officer.

[@fromthesidelines]

After the original pilot was produced, Leonid Kinskey wanted out of the series because he felt the show's format was "uncomfortable" to him. So Larry Hovis, the "guest star", was brought back and "Carter" became one of Hogan's "boys".

[@Goodiesfanful]

I'm glad they changed the intro to the funnier version that we all know and love. I don't like Le Beau yawning without covering his mouth (how rude!). The revised version where he emerges from the trapdoor under the doghouse always cracks me up and is my favourite bit from the regular intro.

[@Tazzman]

TV Land aired this on June 1! It was so cool to see this again! I heard it was the only b&w episode.

[@kdraper2007]

@Tazzman they sell the series on DVD. I have the first four seasons & they never get boring.

[@ebongdecoil]

this movie keep me smiling & smiling...

[@peter11x]

great show, even the german dubbed version!

[@clintonearlwalker]

One night I was looking at the list of "famous prisoners" from Buchenwald KZ, the name Robert Clary is there.

[@JMC01644]

Thanks for posting! What a great show! Keep posting more :)

[@fromthesidelines]

Kinskey played the role of "Minsk" in the pilot, 'blab'. However, after the series was sold to the network, he declined to appear in it, due to personal feelings about the show (he thought making fun of German prisoner of war camps was in bad taste).

[@TheSeanMcLean]

This is an awesome song! My school band is playing this and it sounds just like it!

[@MarkusHeracles]

The pilot was filmed in BW. Sgt Carter was added afterwards

[@Carandini]

Yep, all six seasons. You can even get the whole series in a special 'Kommandant's Kollection'

[@hoosieryank1967]

With all those nightly inspections, the wonder is that Klink (realistically) would have got any sleep. No wonder he was so crabby.

[@ryoushii]

What's really funny about PC objections to this show is that Robert Clary, , LeBeau, was actually IN a Nazi death camp during WWII and was the only surviving member of his immediate family. If anyone should have been upset by the show's subject matter, it should have been him. And, considering he stayed with the show for it's entire run, I guess he wasn't offended.

[@RepublicCommando29videos]

Best TV show ever

[@ThiefInLaw]

my paw paw was a POW and he said that Hogan's Heroes was realistic. He said POW camp was a real hoot!!!

[@grown.ass.nerd.]

Best. TV. Show. Ever. Period.

[@iichingg]

love it.

[@jaredjlinden]

This seems creepier in B&W, especially with the "Germany 1942" in the weird font. Thankfully the other episodes were in color.

[@SuperFinkle]

Thats great insight to the future

[@fromthesidelines]

The reason why the pilot was filmed in black & white, 'aar', was because that's what CBS was buying at the time {"no color shows" was their unofficial edict from 1959 through '65}. After the series was sold to co-sponsors General Foods and Philip Morris, CBS decided "HOGAN" would be one of their first series to be filmed in color for the fall of '65....

[@50zcarsman]

Most of the changes from Pilot to the series seem to have been made to get more chicks onto the screen. They dump Klink's XO for Hilda, whom Hogan has to "work his way past" in many episodes. Then there's the re-headed female Russian spy introduced later on. Changes made to the intro credits are all in the name of extra exposition -- Carter doing his lab work, Kinchloe working the radio, etc. Overall, good changes.

[@MissRailfan]

I miss that show on TV land, I loved Hogan. & SCHULTZ!! "I KNIW NOTHING, NOTHING!!!"

[@YEYSHONAN]

I loved this show.

[@AtarahDerek]

Whoa! I saw Sergeant Zale! And then I saw him again as a general in another episode. Still waiting for Col. Potter. Heh, that would be interesting.

[@Lengonator]

After about 1second in this clip i went..."In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The A-Team.".....

[@hmmmmmmmmm2]

From what I've heard, the series was shown throughout Western Europe -- except West Germany: For some reason, it was rejected there...

[@conagher1880]

Outstanding Air Force comedy!

[@hydrolito]

They sometimes have reruns of All in the family on cable, and you can buy it on DVD.

[@blu062]

greatest show ever. If TV Guide said it was one of the worst ever, than why was it on their cover on many occasions in the 60's? And if people think this show was insensitive, what do you consider Gomer Pyle while it ran during the Vietnam War?

[@Whiteyplaysthebanjo]

@paktype Robert Clary "LeBeau," is also Jewish. He has a very interesting book that he wrote called "From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes." He is a very interesting person and he signed my book for me.

[@roaklin]

The show got away with it because it was a POW camp and not a Death Camp. Also that was an era where lack of PC wasn't a big deal.I actually like this opening better.

[@cha5]

@Mr76Yearsago That makes sense, I wouldn't be suprised if director Billy Wilder wasn't a bit P.O. at Crosby as well, being that he took the whole concept for this series right down to Sgt Schultz as a character straight from Stalag 17, especially if Wilder didn't get any acknowledgement for it.

[@ryoushii]

@DarthSideous63 2 months ago Robert Clary aka Le Brou, Werner Kemperer Col Klink and John Banner Schultz were Jewish. Also, Robert Clary was actually in a death camp during WW II, and most of his family was killed by the Nazis. I think if he could star in this show, it must have had some redeeming qualities for him.

[@hmmmmmmmmm2]

There was only one b&w episode -- the pilot. The rest of the series was in color.

[@wolvenblacktalon1]

who ever disliked this does not know true comedy

[@kdraper2007]

@ebag10 Yeah, they used to shoot the pilot episodes in B&W as it was cheaper. that way if the show flopped they saved a little money. the rest of the series was in color.

[@wallofvideo]

@MrSchultzstaffel not only "blazing saddles," but also "mash" or "little big man."

[@hanoc101]

@ramester I know. It was cancelled during the "rural purge" of the early 70's while the ratings were still high.

[@skewlboypin]

Sgt. Schultz was my fav. I named a schnauzer after him.

[@prausch65]

I you watch the color intro, take notice that the drums have a faster more upbeat tone.

[@2199]

They also met Sammy Daivs jr. doing the same thing scaling a wall.

[@musicom67]

also realize it was only 20 years before 1965 when it ended, so it was fresh in people's memory... Just like when we do Iraq comedy in 2028.