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Thank you TV Land for putting it back on the air!

to doug in boston it was general burkhalter that was always trying to set klink up with his homely sister. hochstetter was the malovent gestapo major in later episodes always on the verge of giving klink a nervous breakdown whenever he showed up at stalag 13

It may have been covered before (haven't read every post), but how can Bob Crane's death 7 years after the show's end make it JTS?

Same with Rebecca Schaeffer and My Sister Sam. Died after show was off, and people vote that it made MSS JTS.

Jes' wunderin'.

In the second season two-parter, "A Tiger Hunt in Paris," Henry Cordon played Antonovich, an actor who pretended to be Himmler (yes, part of a Hogan scheme). Cordon appeared in four other episodes as a Nazi officer, but all were fictional characters William Christopher never played Hitler or Himmler, but he did play a Nazi army private in the first season, "Request Permission to Escape," and one of the prisoners in several other episodes. As a prisoner, he did pretend to be a Nazi several times, including the second season "Will the Real Adolf Please Stand Up," where Larry Hovis pretended to be Hitler.

I know Larry Hovis dressed up as Hitler in this series. Didn't another prisoner do the same, but as another Nazi? I'm thinking of William Christopher... did he pretend to be Himmler (as part of one of Hogan's schemes) in an episode?

The "cooler" was a solitary confinement prison cell, with iron bars like any other prison cell. It was part of the stalag, but not part of the barracks.

What kind of punishment was "the cooler"? Did this show ever specify what exactly what "the cooler" was?

Dr. Mengele was never referred to or portrayed in the series. In the episode "Klink's Rocket," from season 2, Hogan takes a piece from a lamp in Klink's office and convinces a general that it is a rocket part from an Allied factory. The Germans go to bomb the factory and are ambushed by the waiting Allies. At the end of the episode, Klink muses, "I wonder what that part was." Hogan replies, "Probably part of a lamp," and the two laugh uproariously.

Was Doctor Mengele ever portrayed in this series? I thought a reference was made about him in a scene involving a lampshade in Col Klink's office. Can someone help me out here please? -- Carol.

Bob Crane was never gay. That said...
I own all these on DVD now. My in-laws brought over season 1 one day and I couldn't stop watching them and laughed at every episode. Unfortunately, Ivan was replaced and the cast pretended like it never happened. That's what bothered me the most. The first episode of the sixth season was pretty bad, but the rest turned out OK.

Watching them without interruption or waiting for next week to see what happens you can tell that the writers start re-using the same jokes/cliffhangers that are in all the previous episodes. These also really demonstrate how stupid all the Nazis must be. Any Nazi who discovers the "operation" or might get Klink removed from his post gets in a car which explodes at the end of the episode. When Klink gets suspicious Hogan just mentions the word "gestapo" and Klink always cowers in fear.

There is plenty of original jokes of varing degrees of humor in each episode and I still like the series as a whole.

i think barry was just being a wise ass dou** ba*

This was a staple of late night tv in Boston, but at some point in the early 90's it went away...It was a great show, and anything that makes fun of Nazi's so effectivly is ok by me.
I used to love the scenes where Hochstetter would try to set Klink up with his grotesque sister Gertrude (who later stole a scene in Dragnet with Tom Hanks and Dan Acroyd) Crane was a smooth dude, and the supporting cast was excellent...Schultz was one of the most loveable characters in the history of TV.

Too bad Crane never found another vehicle that was suited to his talents (or at least a paying one) He lived his dream, he just chose the wrong wing man.

No, Barry, Stalag 13 did not have any cremetoriums. It was NOT a concentration/extermination camp. It was a POW camp. This confusion was the main reason people thought Hogan's Heroes was in such horrible taste. Concentration/extermination camps were used by the Germans for their own citizens and the citizens of the lands they conquered. POW camps were for captured military--conditions weren't rosy, but prisoners could receive mail and Red Cross packages and Geneva Conventions were supposed to be followed.

Did Stalag 13 have any crematoriums?

I think a great test of jumping v. not jumping of any show has to be if it provides you will a good referance point years and years after it when off the air. Every time I see Barry not that Hussian Obama say I did not know what the good rev. Wright was saying, I here in my head Sgt. Shultze saying "I hear nothing, I see nothing."