Hogan's Heroes Memories.

[lookingfortruth]

I'll admit it. I'm a girl in her Thirties who loves Hogan's Heroes.


My introduction to the show was through my grandfather. I remember being little and sitting with him as he watched it and with Mr. Dawson's passing I thought it would be a nice Sunday thread to celebrate Mr. Dawson's work and the show.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Schultz!!!!

I loved that show...

[Baitball Blogger]

20. I know nuuuuthing.

[Aristus]

2. My memories of Hogan's Heroes mostly involve my father.

My father was a dead-ringer for Bob Crane. And his name was Bob, too. We would be in a restaurant somewhere, and people at other tables would hear my mother calling my father 'Bob' and come over to our table to ask if he was Bob Crane.

My Dad was pretty mischievous, so sometimes he would say 'yes'. Mostly he would say 'no', though, and thank the person for asking.

NYC_SKP, your pic looks exactly like my dad...

[PassingFair]

4. "Bob" didn't end up in a good place....

Hate for your dad to have been mistaken for him near the end, the wrong people were looking for him:


http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/classics/bob_crane/3.html

[Tom Ripley]

9. John Carpenter was Dawson's swinging buddy before he hooked up with Crane

"It's an orgy, Bob...group grope"

[Aristus]

11. Near the end?

People were still mistaking him for Crane a couple of years after Crane's death. It was a little weird...

[OriginalGeek]

3. Every afternoon after school

for as far back as I can remember. Hogan's Heroes and then Gomer Pyle.


Survey says: We'll miss ya Richard.

[Ron Obvious]

5. What?

What, what, what, what? Richard Dawson died?

Oh, man. I just checked and he did. Damn! RIP, Richard.

Irrelevant fact: I knew a guy called Hogan at work. Nobody could say his name other than "Hooooaaaagggggannnnnn!", Colonel Klink-style.

[Phentex]

6. I just mentioned him to my son earlier this week...

He was watching an old version Family Feud and I told him about Richard Dawson.

My mom was a game show fanatic and absolutely loved Richard Dawson.

My brothers watched HH but that was before my time.

[rug]

7. I know nothing.

[Ron Obvious]

8. You misspelled 'nuthink'...

All the Nazis in HH were played by jews, but isn't it great that fat ol' General Burkhalter was played by an Austro-Hungarian Jew called Leon Ashkenasi who lived to be 98 and died only in 2005?

[A HERETIC I AM]

10. Robert Clary, who played Corporal Louis LeBeau was imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp....

as well as Ottmuth, Blechhammer and Gross Rosen. He ended up in Buchenwald and was liberated in April, 1945, when he was 19 years old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Clary

Hogan's Heroes was a great show and one of the few of its type (Wartime Sitcoms) that was a success.

[SwissTony]

18. Yes, very difficult to pitch comedy with such a subject.

The Brits had a couple of good ones. Allo Allo was brilliant. Managed to make the Brits, Germans and French look hopeless. And Dad's Army was also excellent.

[Kaleva]

21. "Blackadder Goes Forth" is also very good.

[ManyShadesOf]

28. had no idea. Wow.

HFS

"Hogan's Heroes was a great show and one of the few of its type (Wartime Sitcoms) that was a success."

If had the humor and heart (and unfortunately some time-based bigotry) to have mass appeal

[Kaleva]

12. John Banner's parents were neighbors to Adolf Hitler when John was born.

Many of the German characters were played by Jews.

"John Banner was born to Jewish parents on January 28, 1910. 21-year-old Adolf Hitler, a street artist who had failed to be accepted by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, was living down the street in a Vienna men's hostel."

Many of John Banner's(Sergeant Feldwebel Hans Georg Schultz) relatives died in Nazi concentration camps.

The Nazi's made two attempts to assassinate Werner Klemperer's(Colonel Oberst Wilhelm Klink) father.

Leon Askin(General der Infanterie Albert Burkhalter) was arrested in 1933 by the SA and beaten in jail.

Howard Caine(Major Wolfgang Hochstetter) was born and raised in the US and served in the Navy during WWII.

http://propagander.tripod.com/hh.html

[MerryBlooms]

14. Wow, I had no idea. ty

[hifiguy]

16. I hadn't heard that until a few years ago.

Werner Klemperer (Col. Klink) was the son of the great conductor Otto Klemperer and was himself a musician and conductor. The younger Klemperer agreed to play Klink only if Klink were portrayed as a bumbling idiot; Klemperer pulled it off to perfection. It takes a very good actor to be that funny in such an odd role.

[Frank Cannon]

25. Klemperer was terrific.

It took quite a performer to not only make you laugh at a Kommandant of a German POW camp, but also to make you feel sorry for him from time to time (like during those occasional visits from the even more obnoxious General Burkhalter).

Man, I loved that show. It's sad that so many of the cast are gone.

[ManyShadesOf]

27. thank you for that

what came through, in character and actor was a heart of gold beautiful man

[Brigid]

13. My favorite "Hogan's Heroes" eoisode:

The gang needed to get some newly arrived prisoners out of the camp, so they decided to make Klink think the war was over. They created fake radio broadcasts, the whole bit. It worked. The Germans were celebrating and partying and talking about what they will do once they get out of the army. The gates were standing wide open. Most of the prisoners had left. Then General Burkhalter showed up.

Burkhalter: Kliiiink! What is the meaning of this?!

Klink: Oh, General, sir! Haven't you heard? The war is over!

Burkhalter: No, I had not heard -- and neither have the Americans! They bombed Berlin not one half hour ago!

Klink: Schultz! Close the gates! The war is back on again!

[geardaddy]

15. Hoooogaaan! Diiiiismiiiiiissed!

I love that show.

[Burma Jones]

17. My Dad, lying on his stomach, writing his dissertation, watching Hogan's Heroes

I'm 52 and watched the show in it's original run.....

[Kaleva]

19. In Germany, it's illegal to say "Heil Hitler!" so it's dubbed to "How high is your corn!"

"Although the show was a hit in syndication in Germany, certain liberties had to be taken. It's illegal to say "Heil Hitler" in Germany today (and is considered bad taste), so when the German soldiers gave the party salute, the characters said, "How high is your corn?" The absurdity of it all was especially funny to German viewers......"

http://sharetv.org/shows/hogans_heroes/trivia

[RFKHumphreyObama]

22. I didn't make the connection

In Australia I'm quite sure we didn't get the version of Family Feud that he hosted (we would have had our own local version) so, when I heard of Richard Dawson's passing, I didn't realize who he was. But now I realize he was Captain Newkirk, it makes it somewhat personal for me.

Hogan's Heroes has been on hundreds of times in syndication and initially I never paid any attention to it. Then in about the late 2000s, for some reason, I started watching it and I became hooked. Currently, I believe I have watched almost every episode of the show and some of them I believe I have seen quite a few times. No matter how many times I have watched an episode and heard the jokes, however, they never fail to make me laugh hysterically every time. I love everything about that show -the characters, the acting, the humor, the storylines, everything. I think it is one of the funniest, most entertaining and most enjoyable shows of all time and I believe that it helped me get through one of the dark periods of my life

Thank you Richard Dawson and may you rest in peace. I will forever be grateful

[Kaleva]

23. The real names of Richard Dawson & his first wife-Colin Lionel Emm & Diana Mary Fluck

[Art_from_Ark]

24. Newkirk? Gone? Oh no!

I remember Hogan's Heroes from the first season. It was one of my favorites. One of my favorite lines from the series was "Klink, you schtink!"

[ManyShadesOf]

26. What's not to love?!

This show had it all.