Klink Destroys Burkhalter's House in Final Scene of Hogan's Heroes Series - 1971

[@Docjonel]

I always wished there had been a concluding episode that went this way: Stalag 13 gets word that American forces are approaching the camp. Klink resolves that he will stay on and deliver his prisoners to the Americans. The prisoners and staff of the camp line up as American forces enter. A jeep rolls up carrying an American general. The prisoners are surprised to see the high ranking officer. The general announces, "I am here because I have the great honor of meeting a top secret operative working for Allied intelligence who has done more for the war effort than anyone I know. That man, at great danger to himself, turned this camp into a base of operations behind enemy lines that carried out many vital operations. I will now proudly bestow this medal..." Hogan puts on his "Aw shucks, I was only doing my duty" smile, expecting to receive the award. "...on Colonel Wilhelm Klink." The prisoners react in stunned disbelief as the General pins a medal on Klink's uniform. Klink turns to Hogan and, with a sly smile, states, "You didn't really believe I was that dumb did you?" Camera shows the faces of the Allied prisoners as they realize Klink was the mastermind behind their successes.

[@ShatnerMethod]

Great!!!

[@generalburkhalter1854]

*K L I I I N N N K ! ! !*

[@ernestinemaloy2820]

@@ShatnerMethod hogans heroes was robbed of a great ending just like star trek tos was...fuck buracracy...

[@bufnyfan1]

never understood why Hogan's Heroes was not picked up by another network--around this same time Get Smart was on NBC and was cancelled yet CBS picked it up and continued it for another year--years later Taxi also left ABC and went to NBC

[@lucymanet3297]

That would have been an outstanding & hilarious ending! Not nearly as good, but you made me think of it with the fact that Hogan, his men, and we all thought of Hogan as the great mastermind but then it was really (haha) Klink: so imagine a slight variation on your ending and it turns out that not just Klink but Burkhalter and Hockstetter too were allied agents, a fact known only to each individual! Not that we'd want the joke to be on our gutsy and brilliant POW's, but imagine if all 3 of those Krauts were working for our side the whole time. Or maybe, better yet, not quite the WHOLE time...

[@freezegopher7054]

"Frankly General I thought it was a lousy neighborhood anyway." Last words of the series. Glad Bob Crane got to say them.

[@Foul_Quince]

But they didn't know they would be the last words in the show. As far as they were concerned, they were all coming back in 6 week or whatever time to start filming a new series, surely?

[@tenfourproductionsllc]

"Frankly General, you will be in a prison camp for the next ten years so no loss to you"

[@ralphangioli4852]

A shame they never had a concluding episode showing the end of the war and Hogan and his men finally being liberated.

[@anarchistatheist1917]

Agreed. I think Klink, and Schultz would have only spent a day or two in a POW camp before being released on behalf of Hogan and his men. Burkhalter would have spent some time in prison, and Hochstetter would have been tried in a war crimes trial, and possibly sentenced to a lifetime prison sentence.

[@fliegeroh]

In the last episode, Hogan goes into the pornographic film business and ends up getting murdered by his partner. It was never shown for obvious reasons.

[@justin764]

Anarchist Atheist Plot Twist: Klink actually knew Hogan and his men’s doing, but turned blind eyes along with Schultz. Klink, a dedicated veteran from WWI, have reached rank of Colonel all by himself, and have never believed Nazism and Schultz, the owner of toy company that turned into armaments company have became despised of the war Nazi party was doing, so they might have turned blind eyes onto Hogan and his men’s doings. After all, how’d Hogan and his men would have got out of troubles without getting sasses?

[@bowlnow824]

and showing the germans everything they did

[@altha-rf1et]

and all of them sees their tunnels

[@alexbaker2615]

I watch Hogan's Heroes 5 nights a week on Me TV, I never get tired of it!!!!

[@mrmetlhed]

Sundance channel has it on all Monday morning also.

[@ufafgd]

Nor do I...

[@Sammi3377]

@@mrmetlhed and saturdays from 11-6 and sunday mornings

[@simonamancinas.8252]

Lol, me too!🤣 I love those guys!!

[@SK-qc6fb]

Me Too!!

[@dobermanpac1064]

Two things at 67 yrs old keep me sane. Hogan and Andy Griffith on ME TV 📺

[@MrHtowntrucker]

Timeless classics.

[@MrHtowntrucker]

Throw in some Carol Burnett too.

[@kendallrivers1119]

Also Perry Mason, Matlock, The Jeffersons, Green Acres and now The Honeymooners again. All I need back is Odd Couple, WKRP and Mama's Family and my METV schedule would be perfection.

[@shanewilson398]

I’m 54, so for me sgt bilko, mash,mc hales navy, Gilligans island, I love lucy.

[@willjankel]

Me tv is the best.

[@rolandrodriguez3678]

This series never gets old, good old fashioned comedy. Will always be one of my favorites of all time

[@davidcosta2244]

It's surprising that this hasn't been canceled yet, just saying

[@Skank_and_Gutterboy]

Oh yeah, I still catch episodes.

[@irisfields1659]

I have the whole dvds set of hogan and the tricks they pulled on their enemies

[@josephjohnson448]

​@@kensellers4082 Much love and respect to your father protecting our freedom!

[@StellarYankee]

Even though it got cancelled I guess you can say the show went out with a bang.

[@justafanintexas7913]

It ended as scheduled as most of the performers on the show were moving on to other projects.

[@davidlafleche1142]

@@justafanintexas7913 The only actor in the series who got steady work after that was Richard Dawson. Everyone else was typecast. Crane was a good actor, but couldn't get much else besides a few stupid Disney movies (Superdad, Gus).

[@jllrue]

@@davidlafleche1142 A little hard to get a job when you've been murdered!

[@justafanintexas7913]

@@davidlafleche1142 - Werner Klemperer and Banner went to Broadway where they worked for years. Leon Askin went back into producing where he was very successful. Larry Hovis moved onto various projects. Robert Clary returned to France and produced plays and television projects. Point of fact, Dawson was the last of the original cast to land anything in relation to the end of the show.

[@timkellyD2R]

To my knowledge, of the core cast only Robert Clary is still with us.

[@thadcraft6415]

Hogans Heroes and The Andy Griffith show were my favorites and still watch them to this day. They never get old to me and I have seen the series hundreds of times.

[@iceblueeyes9455]

They are slap knee comedy. I like action mystery. But sometimes i need some fife. Ang. Klink.

[@seththomas9105]

And both shows were filmed in the same area. Nothern Germany and rural North Carolina were pretty close.

[@paraguaymike5159]

I wish this series would have gone 5 more years.

[@kenclark9888]

Paraguay Mike it would’ve lasted longer than the war itself, just like MASH

[@Sirfishy42]

Or had an actual ending, were the camp is liberated and Hogan shows Klink, Burkhalter, Höchstetter everything. It would break them

[@domandriacchi9082]

Nicholas Milich yeah I always hoped they would find out

[@domandriacchi9082]

This was not the last episode filmed actually, the actual final episode is “look at the pretty snowflakes

[@doug2496]

@@Sirfishy42 pretty sure its next to confirmed that klink was working for the allies in one episode

[@Ronbo710]

Loved watching this in the early 70s with my Grand dad a WW2 Vet. I was too young for him to tell me much about the War but his laughter was wonderful to hear.

[@arkady714]

Something that English speakers take for granted is how many actors - quite particularly on this TV show - worked and worked very well in languages that were not their mother tongue. John Banner (Schultz) and Leon Askin (Burkhalter) were both native German speakers. Robert Clary really was a Frenchman. Werner Klemperer, born in Germany but raised in the US since the age of 12, one might note, was very well spoken. This is impressive.

[@timengineman2nd714]

All four of the actors you mentioned were also JEWS!!! (The scar on Askin's check was from a SA Stormtrooper before he could flee the Nazis!! Clary was in a Concentration Camp as a child (which stunted his growth due to lack of food)! And also so was a certain Gestapo "major" (Sturmbannfurher), however he born and raised in the US.

[@leegenix]

*One of the most funniest shows on television. My dad and I loved every episode. He was a state side veteran of WW II and aviation mechanic.*

[@gailg1458]

I watch it every saturday morning on Sundance channel. It also appears on another, but I forget the name. One of the best sit coms ever

[@roberthudson1959]

On the other hand, my high school guidance counselor HATED the show because he had been a POW of the Germans. He almost went into cardiac arrest when the band played the theme song as part of a halftime show.

[@stanfrymann]

@@roberthudson1959 I marvel how the public was ready for a show like this so soon after the war. I really can't understand it.

[@kendallrivers1119]

@@stanfrymann guess peoppe were just cooler and more sensible unlike how uptight and fragile most are now which is why we won't see true comedy on television or film again til people loosen up again.

[@stanfrymann]

@@kendallrivers1119 Maybe. Seems really insensitive to those who had actually been in POW camps.

[@eddielane9569]

This show has always been my all-time favorite show and I love watching it all the time.

[@jacobzehner2004]

This series was golden I wish it didn’t end here. Pissed that CBS cancelled the show cause of the massive drop of ratings wish they still continued the show despite the massive drop of ratings

[@sportsygirl8]

Love this scene! It had a pretty good final scene, but with this show I wished they would have had an actual finale where the war was over, or the camp being liberated something along those lines and seeing each character saying their "Goodbyes"

[@jimmyc2895]

I love Hogans Heroes. Will be watching later tonight on ME TV

[@davebrown9714]

Me too every nite 👍🏾👌🏾

[@kenkarish826]

I also.

[@chriscepec1655]

Me as well

[@kenkarish826]

@kevin lawrence 👍

[@jimmyc2895]

@kevin lawrence all you need is a digital antenna to get metv and lots of other channels for free

[@StevenCodeBlack]

Burkhalter: "Do you know what else is in that direction Klink?! THE EASTERN FRONT!"

[@ckersh74]

The Eastern Front was only a few miles outside of Berlin at that point in time.

[@StevenCodeBlack]

​@@ckersh74Exactly 💯

[@bufnyfan1]

Hogan's Heroes-wasn't supposed to be cancelled--in fact all the cast believed there would be a seventh season--however CBS decided to cancel a large part of their lineup (Beverley Hillbillies, Gilligan's Island, Hogan's Heroes" etc) in what was called the "rural purge"--the network was going after a younger demographic audience and the decided to completely revamp their programming to do that. What I have always wondered is why another network (ABC, NBC) didn't pick up the option to keep producing Hogan's Heroes? it was being done at that same time for Get Smart which switched networks. Its also interesting that most of the writers for Hogan's Heroes went right over to work on MASH not that many years after Hogan's Heroes was cancelled--their creativity also made MASH a hit

[@mackermaldrill2656]

Gilligan's Island, was long gone by the time CBS axed Hogan's in 1971.

[@Torontotootwo]

​@Macker Maldrill Gosh, it's nice to be correct once or twice in a lifetime, hunh?

[@skydogstudio]

Leon Askin used to come in to my print shop near the corner of Wilshire and Doheny around 1980. I believe he had an office across the street at 9171 Wilshire. We became friendly I never brought up hogans heroes but I brought his work on the meeting of minds show with Steve Allen. I told him I loved the improv they did.... he didn't get mad but he did sort of yell at me stating that every word that was said was written by Mr. Allen... no improv! He then calmed down a bit and realized that it was a compliment that I thought it was improv. I'm glad that he lived a long life and it was cool meeting him and other celebrities that came in the shop...

[@jasonfaber1463]

I laughed so hard when Col Hogan said “Frankly General, I thought it was a lousy neighborhood anyway”.

[@buffalobraves9]

One of the greatest sitcoms in TV history. And IMO John Banner’s Sgt. Schultz is one of the funniest characters in the long history of television.

[@scoop4363]

So here's my imagined made-for-TV episode. It's 25 years to the day after the end of the war, fade to ritzy restaurant in NY, Klink is the maitre d, barking out orders, sucking up to customers, and immaculately dressed -- a job tailored to him perfectly. LeBeau is the chef, and standing over him salivating over his latest culinary delight is, you guessed it, the owner, Schultz. The name of the place, Tunnel 13. You get the idea it's a special night, a private affair, and one by one in walks the crew: Americans, French, English, and even a few Germans, older and so glad to see each other. At some point the doors are closed, the curtains drawn, and everybody is seated. First, the toast to those departed, a solemn moment, and then the "remember when" begins. Fade back to camp. Hogan gets word the Russians have joined the hunt and Germany will soon be lost. German camp personnel are ordered to Berlin for the last stand, Klink and Schultz are beside themselves with fear. Papa Bear orders Hogan to evacuate the camp in one mass escape. Knowing that Klink and Schultz face certain death or worse, imprisonment by the Russians, he invites them into the barracks, shows them the tunnel, hands them both civilian clothes, and says nothing as he and his men file one by one down the ladder for the last time. Schultz starts changing immediately, Klink soon follows. Down the ladder, through the tunnel, and out the hollow stump. Allies are waiting to haul them all to safety. Burkhalter drives into camp, it's empty, he stands there confused and lost. His driver encourages him to get in the car so they can get out before the Allies and Russians take control. Back to the restaurant, dinner's over, the real party has started, in walks Marya Parmanova. "Hogan Dahlink. You are having a party and not inviting me? And I thought we had something special."

[@KimberlyGreen]

I like this. I would only add 2 things. #1 Don't forget Hilda. Hogan was too much of a playboy to marry her, but I think he probably would have rescued her for all the help she gave them. #2. Hochstetter should be dealt with. I imagine it going down like this ... Hogan busts into Klink's office to get him out. Hockstetter screams "Vat is this man doing HERE?!" as usual. Followed by the sound of a silenced pistol shot. Pan to Hogan holding a smoking gun and saying "Colonel Klink, the Russian Front or come with me? Which will it be?"

[@TerryWHayes-yb3cj]

@ Scoop: Honestly, This Synopsis Sounds Absolutely Brilliant! (I Can't Think Of A Better Ending To The Series Than This!). ~ 😉👍

[@scoop4363]

@@TerryWHayes-yb3cj Thank you. I've been thinking on this for years. I followed up to Kimerbely G.'s reply with a couple of more paragraphs, but can't seem to locate them. Briefly, Hilga marries Carter and they have twin blond girls, and Hochstetter gets his comeuppance (less violently than Kimberly's suggestion) when Carter impersonates Hitler one more time and orders Hochstetter into some hopeless situation where in the end he thinks he was set up by the Fuhrer himself, followed by the worst sense of betrayal Hochstetter could possibly suffer. With all the retro TV stuff these days, I surprised someone hasn't jumped on this.

[@chrisgerardy2877]

Sounds perfect! 😉

[@scoop4363]

@@chrisgerardy2877 Thanks!

[@darrenturner8035]

Wonderful childhood memories watching this show.

[@andrewsmactips]

The little swasticas on the gauges. Hysterical.

[@maximusextreme3725]

*Swastikas, but yes, I noticed that too😄

[@andrewsmactips]

maximusextreme Thanks. I knew it was wrong but dammit, Google refused to correct me.

[@maximusextreme3725]

@@andrewsmactips Those damn Nazis at Google! 😊

[@chrishenning8829]

ACHTUNG!! DAS BLINKEN LIGHTEN!!

[@Tom-inthetrash]

I miss the show, it was the best show on TV.

[@davebrown9714]

Its still on metv

[@jessiehughes9432]

I do too!! I watched it in the 70s as a kid! 👌👌

[@harrisjessop1679]

This is one show i can spend hours upon hours watching.

[@robertcruz6974]

Guys who's post this I love it. I came home on leave, from the Army, in 1966, first saw this on my B/W TV. I was 19 years old, I loved it. Thanks for posting.

[@ShatnerMethod]

You're very welcome, Robert! We watched Hogan on a B&W TV too.

[@dvvalant]

A friend had relatives who were Germans in Germany. They absolutely loved watching "Hogan's Heros".

[@NoxAtlas]

As a German myself, I can say that "Hogan's Heroes" is my favorite show. Especially my father loves Schultz and Klink because they are hilarious. Many Germans who grew up with this show love it. It's not like the show intended to make fun if Germans in general, they just made the Nazis look as buffoons. And we all know the Nazis totally deserve everything they get in this series.

[@klauskain2447]

I am german - but i loved this Show.

[@canuck_gamer3359]

I recently watched the series from start to finish (over several weeks, no binge watching for me lol) and what I found most remarkable was how strong the series ended! I always had the impression that Ivan Dixon left because he felt his character had been taken as far as it could and that the series was growing stale. But if you do watch the entire series, it can easily be argued that the final two seasons are the best! It's easy to look back and wish it had ended differently but this series really deserved a finale. The best part is that the material is all there for the writers, imagine the final season with the war coming to an end, how Hogan and his men can aid the liberation of the region, Klink and Schultz in a constant state of near panic, the chaos that characters like Burkhalter and Hochstetter would be facing and on and on! It seems it would have been a natural!

[@rkiry]

You're correct about Ivan Dixon. It's been stated that he left because he felt the writers started giving too much attention to Newkirk/Carter comedic scenes -- because the two actors (Dawson and Hovis) played so well off one another. Dixon's character was left with fewer scenes. Also, it's also been stated that the entire cast was getting tired of John Banner's scene stealing. There was even an episode (Season 5, episode 1, "Hogan Goes Hollywood") that parodied this. In reality, Dixon was a talented actor and director who was involved in numerous projects at the time. He just simply was too in demand to hang around as a minor character on HH. It's too bad his character was always overshadowed. The "Kinch" character was Hogan's reality check and, as such, he kept the show from being too absurd.

[@kendallrivers1119]

@@rkiry yeah Dixon actually was my grandfather's college roommate. I couldn't believe it when I found out lol.

[@kendallrivers1119]

Barney Miller got a finale, one of the best ever done imo but it too was at its best in the later years. Some shows just are rare exceptions like that. It helped that Barney had such a perfect ensemble that even with losing a few popular characters it wasn't badly affected.

[@realazduffman]

@@kendallrivers1119 Your grandfather was in a LuftStalag?

[@tomsmith3045]

@@rkiry One of the great things about the show was what you mentioned, that they made Kinch the level headed one of the group. That was a good thing to do in the 70's, and they did it in a really subtle way I think.

[@souldavidthompson4854]

Amazing series! So many great actors in the cast, with real drama mixed with the funny bits.. They just don't make 'em like this anymore.

[@ronvorpe4048]

Ive been watching Hogan's Heroes on MeTV since I had knee replacement surgery in November and Im up at night with pain.This show gets me through it and I wish theyd have had a finale like Mash did.

[@generalburkhalter1854]

Would it make you feel better if I told you that I was Nimrod all along?

[@paulphillips1884]

I liked that the rocket shown was actual German footage of a failed rocket, i is said that more Germans died from their own rockets than that of their enemy

[@captin3149]

@james crowe He's actually correct, maybe YOU need to read some history books.

[@byronscherer4986]

@james crowe I don't know if he was or not however only a fraction of the designated war criminals were tried at Nuremburg.

[@artmcteagle]

@james crowe Patton was wrong, the Nazis needed to be defeated.

[@artmcteagle]

​@james crowe No. Do you like war crimes?

[@artmcteagle]

@james crowe The only good nazi is a dead one.

[@JosephScarbrough]

_Technically,_ this _isn't_ the final scene from HOGAN'S HEROES, it was just the last to air. According to the production numbers, "Look at the Pretty Snowflakes" was the last episode filmed, which means the real final scene of the series would have been Klink sneezing and causing a small avalance of snow to fall off the roof of the barracks and covering him.

[@ShatnerMethod]

Thanks for pointing this out - here's the scene with sneezing Klink: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4vLf6iDj9usars

[@altha-rf1et]

I do remember seeing that esp somewhere, never did watch the whole thing just remember they showed the clip of the outside when the avalanche started to fall

[@barrygaynor1025]

Great show. Graet cast.

[@captjim007]

Hogan's Heros was more than a funny TV show. It reminds people of a time in America when things seemed so much simpler.

[@marcschneider4845]

Seeming simpler is not the same as being simpler. Life has never been simple. It's just that looking back and knowing how things came out, it appears to be simpler. Lots of veterans coming home from the war thought that they would be returning to unemployment. Instead, they returned to a booming economy. Things are never as simple as they seem.

[@danstone8783]

Leon Askin was also a treasure. Love every appearance he made on HH.

[@yummyyum36719]

I love him.

[@Chanticlair47]

I eagerly awaited the line “Klink…SHUT UP!”….every time he was on, what a riot!

[@ed056]

He was an Austrian Jew who's parents died in Treblinka.

[@russs7574]

Just saw him the other day playing a science teacher on an episode of Happy Days. He was just as funny.

[@parcivale]

@@Chanticlair47 Almost as funny as Hochshtetter's "WHO IS THIS MAN????" referring to Hogan who he's already met over and over again

[@scootergeorge9576]

See the "snow" on the ground? to the very end, it was always Winter in Stalag 13!

[@SSN515]

but it was "Springtime for Hitler and Germany"

[@hlcepeda]

@@SSN515 LOL!!!!

[@scootergeorge9576]

@@SSN515 - Camp was in occupied territory? "Winter for Poland and France..."

[@coolbear6441]

They did it on purpose for continuity...

[@scootergeorge9576]

@@coolbear6441 - Perhaps but... it may have been so that there was no need to worry about what was outside the "frosted" windows with interior scenes or what was inside empty shells of set buildings.

[@studinthemaking]

It was a great unintentional way to end the series. Probably, better than the end of series they had planned.

[@flashhog01]

I would have been great to see the show end with Klink finding out about the operation, finally befriending Hogan and being taken to England.

[@kendallrivers1119]

Sounds cool Though I doubt Werner would've played that. He wouldn't play Klink as anything but the enemy.

[@spentlizard353]

Best way to end the show would be Kline being utterly confused as to why the Allies are praising him and then being annoyed at how he was duped the entire war.

[@stevemcdowell6661]

Hogan's heroes was such a great show. Really put the screws to the Nazis. Burkhalter and Clink actors were jewish.

[@Custerd1]

Steve Mcdowell Best part was that Werner Klemperer had it in his contract that he would only play Klink if the Germans lost in every episode.

[@stevemcdowell6661]

@@Custerd1 If I'm not mistaken, Clink lost his parents in the death camps also

[@craigjames9155]

@@stevemcdowell6661 Werner Klemperers Father, Otto, was a famous orchestra conductor. He survived the war.

[@Ae13UPrime]

Major Hochsteder was part Jewish and Clary, who was in a concentration camp during the war, lost a number of relatives in the camps.

[@baritonewoman2540]

John Banner (Sgt Schultz) was also Jewish, and left Austria in 1938. Lost most of his family in the war.

[@eric777100763]

The only thing I have to say is: I know nothing!

[@rebelbatdave5993]

Thanks! BACK WHEN TV WAS GOOD!

[@ETHRON1]

I'm glad they have left this alone as far as reboots..

[@russs7574]

Well, really. How you gonna make a "woke reboot" of this show? Oh wait, they're dong "Wonder Years" with an all-Black cast. And "Highway to Heaven" is being redone with Michael Landon's character magically transformed into a black female. Oh, and we have "The Equalizer," except that Edward Woodward's original character has been taken over by Queen Latifah. OK...thank goodness the Woke Warriors of Hollyweird have left their claws of this show.

[@thewatcher5271]

What A Great Show. I Grew Up Watching Hogan's Heroes In Black & White In Real Time. Never Saw It In Color Until I Bought The Series . . .

[@paraguaymike5159]

RIP Bob Crane.

[@specialized29er86]

best TV series ever made

[@lindsaykelly2224]

Too bloody right mate

[@kentfrederick8929]

I watched Hogan on CBS, when I was in grade school. My father had to explain to me that life in a Luft Stalag was not all fun and games. One of his good friends spent over 2 years in a Luft Stalag, after being shot down over the Netherlands. (He spent more than a month being moved from safe house to safe house by the Underground, with a cover of being a deaf-mute, trying to get to a pick-up point for an Allied sub. Someone in the Underground was a rat and contacted the Gestapo.) That said, the show is still very funny.

[@braggarmybrat]

Now THAT would be a book or a movie I would watch! Thanks for sharing.

[@elizabethhestevold1340]

Used to love that show. Great characters.🇩🇰🇺🇸👍💜🦅

[@rclaughlin]

*Hogan's Heroes* was canceled as part of the CBS rural purge. Bob Hope put it this way in a comedy routine he delivered shortly after the fact: Hogan and his men dug a tunnel and came up in the unemployment office.

[@TD402dd]

I always thought a twist to the end would have been the camp was in East Germany, and Hogan would have smuggled Schultz and Klink to Allied lines with a made of story of how they were behind the shenanigans that Hogan's crew performed which Klink would have to admit to.

[@JohnnyTubeNYC]

"Welp - there's always dinner theater." -Bob Crane on hearing show was cancelled

[@jackdanereacts4527]

He wasn't cancelled. He was killed in his sleep. Kind of impossible to be Hogan's Heroes without Hogan. He was into porn, and someone murdered him in his sleep.

[@bige.3474]

@@jackdanereacts4527 He was murdered in 1978. The show ended 1971.

[@crystalglass7106]

@@bige.3474 glad someone got it right.

[@paulkersey9553]

@@jackdanereacts4527 That someone was a guy named John Carpenter (not the director of "Halloween" and "Escape From New York").

[@glenlee9537]

@@jackdanereacts4527 you got your time line wrong

[@blakrakanchannelao7899]

I wish there was another series, I was in 90's generation really like this TV series

[@tod3msn]

The final scenes were filmed out of sequence so when the actors where making the tv series they did not know which scene was going to be the final one.

[@RogbodgeVideo]

Love the Bad Neighborhood comment

[@protorhinocerator142]

Hogan's Heroes is the only reason I know any German words at all.

[@u.v.s.5583]

Schnell, Achtung, Apfelstrudel, Wiener Schnitzel, Herr Kommandant. All vocabulary you will ever need if you ever live in a German speaking country. Ach, ja, the Schnapps und Bier too.

[@billace90]

Werner Kemplerer (Colonel Klink) was an accomplished violinist. He even played in the first violins section of the Philarmonia Orchestra under the direction of his father the great Otto Kemplerer. A video of Werner playing with the Orchestra (Beethoven’s Ninth) can be seen here in KZbin. No, he was not wearing the monocle there.....

[@dansf2]

I saw him play a few times on the show and he was terrible.

[@rcfnc]

Loved this show.

[@karenshaffer7803]

Watch this show M-F 10pm and 1030pm. Dosen't matter if their repeats. Love this show. Thanks for the laughs.

[@southerncharity7928]

I wish this series would have gone on for 1000 years 🙂

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

@Douglas Farshtey What did he do there??

[@bbcala9719]

Loved Hogan's Hero's, watched it all the time as a kid and still watch it to this day

[@bearforceone689]

Hogan's Heroes is a show that should not have worked but it just did, I watched it endlessly as a kid and it really is to bad the show got cancelled so abruptly, maybe it was made at a time when series finales were not thought of as such a big deal but a show like that deserved a proper goodbye - I would of loved for the finale to be Stalag 13 gets liberated, Major Hochstetter gets arrested for war crimes, General Burkhalter flees to South America, Hogan shows Klink all the tunnels and Klink say 'I knew about them all along, what did you think I was some kind of idiot? I was on your side' then Hogan and his men, Schultz, Klink and Hilda go into town have a few Beers and toast to the end of the War.

[@ronrice1931]

Heck of a good show, I never missed it. Funny how that "I know nothing, nothing" line is still around!

[@joelmartin2549]

Fun fact: that is footage of a real V2 rocket fired from Peenemunde, it’s a test rocket, and you can tell by its paint pattern, the rockets were painted that way so it was easy to see what they were doing in flight.

[@altha-rf1et]

Good catch

[@zehkie6295]

I have only mentioned hogans heroes a few times on google and personal messaging, the fact i got recommended this on KZbin frightens me

[@kingboagart899]

I mentioned to a retrumplikkkan that I thought his opinion was nazi-like and get bombarded. It's kinda spooky.

[@jessiehughes9432]

Hogan almost always got the last word in.ZING!!😆😆😆

[@markschroeder2578]

Or as he put it in an earlier episode "Go Home", "Chop...Chop...Chop!" 😂😂😂😂

[@arober9758]

Incredible and double incredible!!🇺🇸🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@damanifesto]

Dahaha, even the gauges had swastikas!

[@peters6601]

Great series I enjoyed first time around. Was surprised to see it shown on German TV (speech dubbed) in the early 2000s.

[@orbitingeyes2540]

Wow, really? Anything with a swastika or Nazi uniform was banned when I was a kid.

[@generalburkhalter1854]

Naturally, the German dub was superior.

[@texasaggie8449]

Such a greatest show

[@MrTbraida23]

Leon Askin’s voice is so memorable. You hear it after decades and there’s no mistaking it’s his voice. He was a great character actor.

[@stephendavidbailey2743]

Burkhalter was my favorite character.

[@barbconway4123]

Hogan's heroes is my favorite thing to watch on TV because I came from Germany 😂

[@696969640]

i know nothing just kidding

[@johnlewisbrooks]

This show actually made WWII funny and it amazes me they didn't cross the line with the humor. Anti war sentiment was hit in the 50s and 60s and the director and most of the crew were worried the show would go too far.

[@davehue9517]

Werner Klemperer made Hogan's Heroes a great show... it's still great in reruns

[@kimber4573]

Few people know: General Burkhalters scar was from WWII. In real life when he was beaten up by the SS while tied to a chair. Lebeau was in a concentration camp, The last time he seen his Mother is when he was pulled off a train from her. Her last words to him were "Do what ever thay say" he was a wise guy and she knew that they would kill him. Sgt. Shultz's parents were murdered in a concentration camp. Col. Klink is Jewish. Awesome cast.

[@theconductoresplin8092]

I had no idea his parents ._. I always felt sympathy for him in the show but now in real life I feel sympathy for him

[@finchborat]

And Burkhalter is also a jew.

[@dodygirl40]

love hogans heros, grew up with them watching on tv , the area filmed at , being shared with some much history from other shows.. its awesome to learn.. ty for sharing info // ;)

[@lilyrose3145]

This was the funniest show ever. Loved it.😃😃😃😃😃

[@paulgabolinscy2502]

Used to love this as a kid

[@dwighta8215]

General Burkhalter was always a hoot!

[@654472]

Watch it every night. Love it.

[@chucknasty1532]

Wow, who knew General Burkhalter lived just a few hundred yards from Stalag 13?

[@gundammakerworldbreaker6133]

the male ain't dumb. building a home near a camp is safe.

[@generalburkhalter1854]

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer, they say.

[@chucknasty1532]

@@generalburkhalter1854 Ahh, General Burkhalter, what a pleasure it is to have you here on my thread! Now we know that it was YOU that coined that phrase and not Don Corleone! Please don't try to fix me up with your sister, Frau Linkmeyer!

[@chucknasty1532]

@@gundammakerworldbreaker6133 That's probably true

[@generalburkhalter1854]

@@chucknasty1532 Why wouldn't you want to marry my sister? There are worse things in the world than being a brother-in-law to Albert Burkhalter, wouldn't you agree?

[@geraldcampbell6834]

Hopefully some day they revive the movie can’t wait for more!

[@kendallrivers1119]

Could you imagine them trying to get this show on the air today? No way in hell lol. Even then it was a risk but today it'd be impossible. But that's dumb because this is true comedy! The sad part is we may never get genuinely funny or influential comedy again because everyone's gun shy.

[@russs7574]

Oh Sweet Jesus....the "woke mobs" would NEVER have stood for this. No enough diversity in the cast. They would have tagged Kinch and Helga as merely "tokens"....and we know that among Liberals, especially the Keyboard Warriors, diversity for it's own sake is something to be pursued at all costs.

[@parcivale]

I remember listening to a podcast about the creators of Hogan's Heroes. Apparently when Fein and Ruddy pitched the show the executives at CBS were appalled "You want to set a sitcom in a concentration camp??" "No, No No, a POW camp." Apparently they had to clarify the distinction to executives at CBS and Bing Crosby Productions over and over and over again. (But had none of them seen William Holden's Stalag 17?). It helped immeasurably that Fein, Ruddy, and, of course, all the actors playing Klink, Schultz, and Burkhalter were Jewish and had been anti-Nazi refugees.

[@scootergeorge7089]

Still snow on the ground, proving Summer never came to Stalag 13! 1971 was the year that Pat Buttram of Green Acres (which, unsurprisingly, got canned) famously commented that CBS "canceled every show that had a tree in it- including Lassie." Yes, including Hogan's Heroes.

[@lukebecker1959]

I watch this show everyday during the week its not on tv on the weekends

[@genehollon1472]

ME TOO . I wish it were on 7 days each week

[@JeffSoncrant-or1fg]

Man oh man, I loved Hogans Heroes

[@georgekoszta2999]

Love this show

[@w.s8676]

Such a great show...every episode was great

[@xhetoomni8134]

It was sad Bob Crane was murdered by his best friend.

[@jockellis]

I never heard that they discovered the killer. Who was he?

[@realphoenixking]

@@jockellis His best friend. Bob had broken off the friendship and he is suspect # 1, but it was never proven and likely never will be since he is now deceased.

[@jockellis]

@@realphoenixking Thanks. BC’d deaths ranks up there with JFK, Sam Cook snd MLK that I remember where I was when I heard the news.

[@xhetoomni8134]

@@jockellis It was his best friend. They took pictures of women. It was said that the guy was not getting none of the action so he bludgeoned crane to death. There are graphic pictues on google. I am not a freako! These pictures can turn your stomach.

[@secretagent86]

@@xhetoomni8134 i think the comment was that bob crane was a freako

[@ETHRON1]

My mom loved the show and she is German and grew up after the war in Germany...

[@gator2813]

Considering Hollywood's fondness for remakes I'm surprised no one has done a Hogan's Heroes remake / reboot.

[@E3ECO]

I understand it was under consideration but fell through.

[@sergiozammel8261]

Unfortunately, what made this show great was the characters (The cast). Do you really think that you could replace any of the Germans like Schultz, KlinK, or Burkhalter? Those were like a masterpiece.. irreplaceable.

[@markseslstorytellerchannel3418]

It was considered and Russell Crowe was thought of to play Hogan.

[@jamescpotter]

In real life, Klemperer was from a Jewish family (his father was the famous orchestral conductor Otto Klemperer) and found the role to be a "double-edged sword"; his agent initially failed to tell him the role of Klink was intended to be comedic. Klemperer remarked, "I had one qualification when I took the job: if they ever wrote a segment whereby Colonel Klink would come out the hero, I would leave the show."

[@joelmartin2549]

Pretty sure that rocket landed on Peenemünde, not on Burkhalters house.

[@hlcepeda]

True... but it was so funny, that I easily forgave the use of stock footage and accepted the fantasy! 😁

[@xXxJustCallMeM]

They use allot of the same stock footage. Not really an option to do anything else. You also see germans with thompsons and .30 cal machine guns sometimes aswell.

[@kittyhawk9707]

No Shit Sherlock.. so glad you figured that out all by yourself.

[@imagine9265]

This show brings back my childhood memories I would watch it playing with my original GI JOES

[@rmaxwell3294]

Not only is it always winter but 80% of the time on the night scenes you hear crickets singing

[@simplywonderful449]

Those are German crickets,, and they're tough - chirping for mates right through the winter!

[@pirobot668beta]

Production of TV shows had become sort of mechanized: some over-worked editor sees a 'night time' scene filmed outdoors, they throw in crickets songs because, well, it's night! Network studios would often pool the talent between shows, so a foley guy might make sounds for 5-6 shows. "Night is night, so we get crickets!"

[@rmaxwell3294]

@@pirobot668beta That makes a lot of sense, thanks for the reply. Much appreciated...

[@gmackinnon648]

Glad I got to download 50+ episodes before gestapo KZbin sensors deleted most if not all full episodes 😊✌️

[@66kprdwd]

Hoooooogaaaaan!!

[@promeitheus]

Colonel Klink is top 10 sitcom names of all-time

[@danielbrooks9508]

Good 'ol Colonel Klink!!

[@edv7981]

The Iron colonel

[@edwardrossman9448]

An all time great show. I still watch it alot picking back up with it starting a couple years ago and often dont recall the episode so its like a new show.

[@coloradostrong]

_Alot_ is a town in India. _A lot_ is more than one of the; multiples of.

[@edwardrossman9448]

@@coloradostrong You wish you had my vocabulary.