I'm in my 70's now. Back then, this show was just comedy & we all needed to laugh now & then. Some of these comments just don't understand the culture back then, they are to young. We had a lot of silly shows back then, like McHale's Navy. That's not the way the Navy actually was, it was just funny, but people take them the wrong way now. I'm glad I was born when I was. Kids played outside, got plenty of exercise. No cell phones, no video games. Didn't take everything so seriously. We just enjoyed life.
I almost came to my own sad ending this week-I’m still in ICU-but I wanted to say how much I loved John Banner. His character still floats through TV History.
this show would not fly these days. it's so sad, people just can't laugh at each other anymore without someone being offended. this was a great show with a great cast. i still watch it to this day .
My uncle spent a year as a POW in a German camp. When Hogan's Heroes came on, he commented that the German guards never wore helmets while on duty in the camps. They wore cloth caps. Helmets were reserved for combat.
Excellent job on a great character actor. I had read about his grave being occupied by someone else nowadays but that article didn’t clarify what happened to John Banner’s remains. Thank you for disclosing his resting place. It was a funny show for that time but it wouldn’t fly today, imo. No more than “All in the Family” or “Sanford & Son” because today’s society doesn’t know how to poke fun at itself. Too much “me” instead of “we” nowadays…Dan
The toy company mentioned in the episode was "Schatz Toy Company," meaning "sweetheart." Klink and Schultz thought that the war might be almost over. Klink was nice to Schultz briefly, thinking that he could land a job at the Schatz Toy Company after the war.
Great info in your videos....thank YOU. Do you think they could make such a TV show as Hogan's Heroes today? TV shows no longer exists...EVERYONE is absolute garbage. That is why 're-runs' rule the airways!!! Thank you for your most enjoyable videos about our beloved actors, movies and TV shows.
i made service calls to an autobody repair shop in the 80's in vancouver owned by a maximillian messerschmitz. he was a master seargent in the german army in ww2 and i couldn't help but like him. he was quite a character and a great story teller. he was a smarter version of schultz. rip max and john.
You're a great presenter. And I'm happy knowing I'm watching the REAL LSE channel. 👍 (edit: I also meant to say that I'm 56, but never ever watched HH. As a kid in the 70s, I was VERY interested in war history but I much more enjoyed watching the documentary tv shows about WW2 and Vietnam, like The World at War (BBC) and real footage of Vietnam, so I wasn't interested in watching HH or MASH. I guess to a 7 year old learning about death and destruction through documentaries and reading encyclopedias, it seemed strange to laugh about it, it didn't seem funny. I watched every other comedy and sitcom as a kid BUT HH and MASH. However, just after watching your bio on Banner, I may give HH a try.
Loved the show when I was a kid. I think a big part of why it worked was they had such a talented cast. No, they probably couldn't do a show like it now.
Sad to know that John Banner is forgotten in this manner. And no. They couldn't make Hogan's heroes in the United States. Which is a tragic tale in how we want to forget History. And yet, to judge history by repeating the same mistakes.
See if you can locate the early 60s film Operation: Eichmann. Banner plays Rudolf Hoess. Eichmann is played Werner Klemperer! During their scenes together Klemperer and Banner interact with each other the exact same way they would fave years later as Klink & Schultz! It's eerie watching those scenes since here they're NOT playing cartoonish parodies but REAL non-fictional Nazies! (Eichmann was still alive when that film came out!)
That is about the strangest thing I have ever heard 😮 wow. It's really very disrespectful, huh? No way could we make that show today. I remember so many of us using his phrase. 😅
I loved the show so much that when my fourth grandson showed me my choices of DVD's that I could have for Christmas, I picked Hogan's Heroes. We were out shopping and he asked if we could go over to the video section. He then asked if I had a choice of tv programs put on DVD which would I pick, and that is the one I picked. I don't watch any of the new stuff on TV anymore, hardly any, because of the, in my opinion, trash that it has become. The only time my TV is on is because I am watching a DVD. I don't have cable anymore, just an antenna, and if the TV is on in between, it is on METV or GETTV. They are basically old tv programs. Or Laff TV, that has Tim Allen's tv shows on it. Sunday is pretty much tv day.
Oh definitely couldn’t make that show today. I’ve said this over and over again actors from that Era just looking so much older than their actual age, he was younger than I am now but for goodness sake, who would ever believe he was only 63???
Wow, he actually lost family in the Holocaust and made those Hogans heroes episodes! That must have been very hard for him as it would remind him over and over of all of it. My Father was over in Europe during WW2. He was an Omaha beach survivor and he really didn't say much and nobody in his family was murdered by those lunatics. It must have been really hard for him.
There's a great book about Hogan's Heroes, its stars, and its episodes called "Hogan's Heroes : Behind the Scenes at Stalag 13!" (1998) by Brenda Scott Royce with a foreword by Werner Klemperer aka Colonel Klink. TV Land network was created from Nick at Nite around then and brought the show back to some prominence. I remembered the show well from its syndication on our local station in the 80s, but I got to watch all 168 episodes or whatever it is. Loved the show, the characters, the actors, and watching it and reading about it with my dad. I think we both read it cover to cover. There's no way you could make a war comedy now, and perhaps you really shouldn't. HH caught a lot of heat for supposedly trivializing the war and the holocaust. Many people could not understand that it was in a stammlager prisoner of war camp, aka a stalag, and not a konzentrationlager, aka a concentration camp or KZ. M.A.S.H offered something similar, but few people know how horrific the "forgotten" Korean War was. As someone else noted prior to this, MeTV still shows HH nightly.
If you read the classic WW2 book, The Great Escape, by if l'm not mistaken, Paul Brickhill, you will see that Hogan's Heroes was often just an exaggeration of what really happened in these POW camps. The POW camp where The Great Escape took place was run by the Luftwaffe & with air force prisoners & air force guards they had high enough education education to know a bit of each others languages ( especially the British prisoners knowing a bit of German & the German guards knowing a bit of English) British prisoners, especially, being crafty would , when opening their Red Cross parcels, which contained tasty items like chocolate & raisons, lure the closest nearby German guard ( who they usually knew by name) & invite him to share in some of the goodies, thereby forming a bond with that guard, then months later take advantage of that bond , then try & coax a special item from the guard, ( like a compass) Also small escapes were almost routine & the escapees were nearly always immediately caught & put in solitary confinement ( the cooler!)
Quite a few of the characters in Hogan's Heroes had been directly impacted by WW2 in real life, and they were staunchly anti-Nazi. Werner Klemperer, conscious that he would be playing the role of a German officer during the Nazi regime, accepted the part only on the condition that Klink would be portrayed as a fool who never succeeded. Funnily enough, the show later became a hit on German TV, where it is known as 'Ein Kafig voller Helden' or 'A Cage full of Heroes'.
There is a channel on TH-cam run by a guy in Poland who hand digs graves and retrieves what bones may be left and readies the grave for the next temporary occupant. Often, he finds latex gloves that the coroner has sewn up inside the body during the autopsy.
It would not be possible to create a new series as people have taken comedy and othe forms of societal norms to the extreme. Sad but true. I never saw Hogans Heroes until the mid Eighties. I continue to watch this show now even at 60 years old.
I love Hogan's Heroes and watch it in re-runs to this day. It's sad to say, but I don't think that it could be made today. Unfortunately "sense of humor" has been a casualty of the woke culture we live in these days. Shows like Hogan;s Heroes, F-Troop and most of (if not all of) Mel Brooks' movie catalog can no longer be done without offending someone. It's a shame that people can't laugh at themselves anymore.
Werner Klemperer John Banner and Leon Askin ( General Burkhalter ) were all three Jewish . Leon Askin as a boy sang the funeral hymn for the funeral of Kaiser Franz Josef of Austria Hungary in 1916 and moved back to Austria after his retirement.
There was no prisoner of war camp ever that could get away with all their shenanigans. That's what made it funny. Today with political correctness and almost no sense of humor with the networks this show would never get on the air. It was simple comedy with no 'agenda.' Miss it.
I don't think they could make this show again, for a lot of reasons. Probably the biggest reason is that almost all of that generation and experience are gone now. It was a way of exercising demons for a lot of people who were affected by the war.
MeTV runs Hogans Heroes at 9:00 PM in Phoenix, which I watch before hitting the sack. I sleep like a baby. The Andy Griffith Show is also one of my favorites. The Reality TV is not for me.
In regard to your closing remark about Hogan's Heroes not being Politically Correct today: the show's detractors are ALWAYS missing the point! At the end of each episode the 3rd Reich is not only defeated but humiliated and embarrassed as well. Plus, remember Klink, Schultz and Berkhaltar are played by German and Austrian actors, all who escaped Der Vatarland in time! It is the ULTIMATE middle finger to the 3rd Reich! Personally, I like to think part of Hitler's Eternal Damnation includes being forced to bingewatch Hogan's Heroes reruns... always being reminded those idiot Nazies are played by Jewish actors who escaped!!
2025...WW2 is now 80 years away. Most younger people would not get the references made in the show. What people often got wrong, was that it didn't take place in a concentration camp, but a Luft Stalag camp, for Allied Airmen. They really only ridiculed the Nazis on the show, so, I don't see how it would offend most people. And again, the timeline is just not relevant for today.
He was my personal favorite from the cast.❤ There is no way they could make that show today😢
I am 36 but I love old tv shows like this.
I'm in my 70's now. Back then, this show was just comedy & we all needed to laugh now & then. Some of these comments just don't understand the culture back then, they are to young. We had a lot of silly shows back then, like McHale's Navy. That's not the way the Navy actually was, it was just funny, but people take them the wrong way now. I'm glad I was born when I was. Kids played outside, got plenty of exercise. No cell phones, no video games. Didn't take everything so seriously. We just enjoyed life.
People get too offended now
Too much turmoil and chaos now days.
@@dhtisme7034 Sgt. Bilko
Democrats would cancel it in a second
I still watch Hogan's Heros every evening on MeTV.
John Banner was a great actor. RIP
Sorry Hawken you misspelled heroes
Loved this man and his character. I watched all of Hogan's Heroes reruns till they stopped. 😢
"I KNOW NOTHING, NOTHING" 😅😂🤣🙋♀️
Hogan's Heroes' was great! The original is always the best. RIP my heroes.
I used to watch "Hogan 's Heroes" all the time back when I was a kid. Shultz was my favorite character. And he NEVER TOLD ON ANYONE. RIP SHULTZ.
I almost came to my own sad ending this week-I’m still in ICU-but I wanted to say how much I loved John Banner. His character still floats through TV History.
Keep on Keepin' on.
You’ve got this.
I agree with you. John Banner was lovable as Sargent Schultz. He was good at serious acting as well. Hurry up and get well real soon.
this show would not fly these days. it's so sad, people just can't laugh at each other anymore without someone being offended. this was a great show with a great cast. i still watch it to this day .
They can't make comedy today. No talent & political correctness has destroyed it.
👏👏👏 bullseye
Thanks Steve for sharing this about John Banner. I enjoy him in all he did. 😢❤ He died to young.
They could never make this show today. Can you imagine what they do to it? He was one of my all-time favorites on there. ❤
Loved him!
My uncle spent a year as a POW in a German camp. When Hogan's Heroes came on, he commented that the German guards never wore helmets while on duty in the camps. They wore cloth caps. Helmets were reserved for combat.
Thank you
To Mr Robert Banner rest in peace God bless 🙏 to you and your families 😊❤
I meant to put down John Banner i apologize sorry
I never knew all those other movies he was in. I didn't recognize him when he was younger. Appreciate all the information you give us.
Wonderful actor in Hogens Heroes.
These days you cannot make anything just entertaining.
Wouldn't fly now a days.
I enjoy your channel alot.
Very fascinating stories
Thanks for that tip! A new show/ remake would not be the same y can't find that kind of talent now😢
Re run....great show from my childhood..loved it!
Man I loved this show when I was a kid. Sadly no, this show among many shows couldnt be made today. Thanks for all you do for us.
Thanks for watching Tommy!
Yes show changed the world 🌍 great fans here in Columbia SC nice cast too
Oh no. The cast was one of a kind.
Thanks Steve.
They need to still make shows like this.
He was quite a handsome man when he was young. He slowly morphed into what one would expect a comedic actor to look like.
Excellent job on a great character actor. I had read about his grave being occupied by someone else nowadays but that article didn’t clarify what happened to John Banner’s remains. Thank you for disclosing his resting place. It was a funny show for that time but it wouldn’t fly today, imo. No more than “All in the Family” or “Sanford & Son” because today’s society doesn’t know how to poke fun at itself. Too much “me” instead of “we” nowadays…Dan
The toy company mentioned in the episode was "Schatz Toy Company," meaning "sweetheart." Klink and Schultz thought that the war might be almost over. Klink was nice to Schultz briefly, thinking that he could land a job at the Schatz Toy Company after the war.
Hey thanks for correcting my mistake. See, I am not AI.
I really like your videos.
I appreciate that!
My dad was in WWII and would laugh his a$$ off watching this show
I watch Hogan's Hero's...now.. Thats crazy to CANCEL that show. loved it.
WOW NEVER KNEW, ABSOLUTELY LOVED HIM STILL DO, BLESS UR FAMILY SIR & U !!!!!😮😮😮😮😊😊😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
Great job on this video.
Thank you!
Great info in your videos....thank YOU. Do you think they could make such a TV show as Hogan's Heroes today? TV shows no longer exists...EVERYONE is absolute garbage. That is why 're-runs' rule the airways!!! Thank you for your most enjoyable videos about our beloved actors, movies and TV shows.
Just another great show they couldn't make today. I wish they would have let John Banner - RIP 🙏🇦🇹🎭🙏
i made service calls to an autobody repair shop in the 80's in vancouver owned by a maximillian messerschmitz. he was a master seargent in the german army in ww2 and i couldn't help but like him. he was quite a character and a great story teller. he was a smarter version of schultz. rip max and john.
You're a great presenter. And I'm happy knowing I'm watching the REAL LSE channel. 👍 (edit: I also meant to say that I'm 56, but never ever watched HH. As a kid in the 70s, I was VERY interested in war history but I much more enjoyed watching the documentary tv shows about WW2 and Vietnam, like The World at War (BBC) and real footage of Vietnam, so I wasn't interested in watching HH or MASH. I guess to a 7 year old learning about death and destruction through documentaries and reading encyclopedias, it seemed strange to laugh about it, it didn't seem funny. I watched every other comedy and sitcom as a kid BUT HH and MASH. However, just after watching your bio on Banner, I may give HH a try.
I appreciate that!
No way !It was way to funny to make it today !
Interesting video.
Well done 🎉
He was so awesome, and Hogans Heroes was one of my favorites. So weird about the grave site.
I just discovered your channel! It's wonderful! Thank you, i subscribed. I grew up on Hogan's Heroes, such wonderful days. Thank you!
Awesome! Thank you!
Thank you, Steve, for J.Banner tribute
I think the toy company's name was Schatiz Toy Company. My last name is Schultz and kids would tease me saying my dad was Schultz on Hogan's Hero's.
Schatz Toy Company, meaning sweetheart.
You are right, it was the schatzi toy company 🙂
The name "Schultz" appears on every Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Woodstock comic strip.
Could anybody else play Shultz the way John Banner did? He played one of the all time greats and will never be forgotten.
Hi Steve! John Banner was outstanding in "Hogan's Heroes," don't think the reception would be as welcome today as it was when it first aired. 🤔
If memory serves me right, I believe it was the Schottzy Toy company that Sgt. Schultz owned.
Loved the show when I was a kid. I think a big part of why it worked was they had such a talented cast. No, they probably couldn't do a show like it now.
Sad to know that John Banner is forgotten in this manner. And no. They couldn't make Hogan's heroes in the United States.
Which is a tragic tale in how we want to forget History. And yet, to judge history by repeating the same mistakes.
See if you can locate the early 60s film Operation: Eichmann. Banner plays Rudolf Hoess. Eichmann is played Werner Klemperer! During their scenes together Klemperer and Banner interact with each other the exact same way they would fave years later as Klink & Schultz! It's eerie watching those scenes since here they're NOT playing cartoonish parodies but REAL non-fictional Nazies! (Eichmann was still alive when that film came out!)
I wonder if the guy who dug up his bones knew how famous he was. Such a shame for a Beloved actor to end up this way.
They Got ONE Thing In Common... They Got The Banner Down Below!
That is about the strangest thing I have ever heard 😮 wow.
It's really very disrespectful, huh?
No way could we make that show today. I remember so many of us using his phrase. 😅
It was The Shotzi Toy Company. I love John Banner in that helmet. He makes the show!!
I loved the show so much that when my fourth grandson showed me my choices of DVD's that I could have for Christmas, I picked Hogan's Heroes. We were out shopping and he asked if we could go over to the video section. He then asked if I had a choice of tv programs put on DVD which would I pick, and that is the one I picked. I don't watch any of the new stuff on TV anymore, hardly any, because of the, in my opinion, trash that it has become. The only time my TV is on is because I am watching a DVD. I don't have cable anymore, just an antenna, and if the TV is on in between, it is on METV or GETTV. They are basically old tv programs. Or Laff TV, that has Tim Allen's tv shows on it. Sunday is pretty much tv day.
Loved Hogan's Heroes .....Wow ...never heard of "double-decking " grave sites ....learn something new everyday .!
Oh definitely couldn’t make that show today. I’ve said this over and over again actors from that Era just looking so much older than their actual age, he was younger than I am now but for goodness sake, who would ever believe he was only 63???
I was in the 5th grade when He passed. Someone cut out His obituary taped it up. The teacher let it stay up for a week
What a comedic genius. I think the name of the toy company Schultz owned was called the Schotzie Toy Company.
Wow, he actually lost family in the Holocaust and made those Hogans heroes episodes!
That must have been very hard for him as it would remind him over and over of all of it.
My Father was over in Europe during WW2. He was an Omaha beach survivor and he
really didn't say much and nobody in his family was murdered by those lunatics.
It must have been really hard for him.
Sad about the grave ! That’s so odd
Yes I think they could make it today Hogan heroes
Hogan’s Heros definitely could not be made today.
That sucks that he's under someone else. 😢
I am sure he doesn't care.
@@joesimons7387It’s not about you Joe. Bad mood today?
us who remember are a dying breed, but maybe some generations will like the acting
I have heard of this type of grave before. Very strange to me.
No! They could not make Hogan's Heros today. No way.
There's a great book about Hogan's Heroes, its stars, and its episodes called "Hogan's Heroes : Behind the Scenes at Stalag 13!" (1998) by Brenda Scott Royce with a foreword by Werner Klemperer aka Colonel Klink. TV Land network was created from Nick at Nite around then and brought the show back to some prominence. I remembered the show well from its syndication on our local station in the 80s, but I got to watch all 168 episodes or whatever it is. Loved the show, the characters, the actors, and watching it and reading about it with my dad. I think we both read it cover to cover. There's no way you could make a war comedy now, and perhaps you really shouldn't. HH caught a lot of heat for supposedly trivializing the war and the holocaust. Many people could not understand that it was in a stammlager prisoner of war camp, aka a stalag, and not a konzentrationlager, aka a concentration camp or KZ. M.A.S.H offered something similar, but few people know how horrific the "forgotten" Korean War was. As someone else noted prior to this, MeTV still shows HH nightly.
If you read the classic WW2 book, The Great Escape, by if l'm not mistaken, Paul Brickhill, you will see that Hogan's Heroes was often just an exaggeration of what really happened in these POW camps. The POW camp where The Great Escape took place was run by the Luftwaffe & with air force prisoners & air force guards they had high enough education education to know a bit of each others languages ( especially the British prisoners knowing a bit of German & the German guards knowing a bit of English) British prisoners, especially, being crafty would , when opening their Red Cross parcels, which contained tasty items like chocolate & raisons, lure the closest nearby German guard ( who they usually knew by name) & invite him to share in some of the goodies, thereby forming a bond with that guard, then months later take advantage of that bond , then try & coax a special item from the guard, ( like a compass) Also small escapes were almost routine & the escapees were nearly always immediately caught & put in solitary confinement ( the cooler!)
Quite a few of the characters in Hogan's Heroes had been directly impacted by WW2 in real life, and they were staunchly anti-Nazi. Werner Klemperer, conscious that he would be playing the role of a German officer during the Nazi regime, accepted the part only on the condition that Klink would be portrayed as a fool who never succeeded.
Funnily enough, the show later became a hit on German TV, where it is known as 'Ein Kafig voller Helden' or 'A Cage full of Heroes'.
I always felt that Schultz knew exactly what was going on in Stalag 13. My personal theory is, Schultz was the Heroes's contact Nimrod.
I bought all the DVDs
There is a channel on TH-cam run by a guy in Poland who hand digs graves and retrieves what bones may be left and readies the grave for the next temporary occupant. Often, he finds latex gloves that the coroner has sewn up inside the body during the autopsy.
Wow, fun times.
He actually used the famous “I know nothing” on the show The Untouchables.
O HELL NO
It would not be possible to create a new series as people have taken comedy and othe forms of societal norms to the extreme. Sad but true. I never saw Hogans Heroes until the mid Eighties. I continue to watch this show now even at 60 years old.
They could make that show today, but it would be a drama focusing on the mistreatment of POW's!
Actually, it was the Schatzi toy company. Schatz (Schatzi) is German for treasure. The episode was War Takes a Holiday S 3 E 21.
That’s crazy about the burial situation
At least he had a quick death. Its weird I am older now than Mr Banner was when he died. Sgt Schultz was the best character on the show.
Yes they could
I love Hogan's Heroes and watch it in re-runs to this day. It's sad to say, but I don't think that it could be made today. Unfortunately "sense of humor" has been a casualty of the woke culture we live in these days. Shows like Hogan;s Heroes, F-Troop and most of (if not all of) Mel Brooks' movie catalog can no longer be done without offending someone. It's a shame that people can't laugh at themselves anymore.
They could, but they won't.
Werner Klemperer John Banner and Leon Askin ( General Burkhalter ) were all three Jewish . Leon Askin as a boy sang the funeral hymn for the funeral of Kaiser Franz Josef of Austria Hungary in 1916 and moved back to Austria after his retirement.
There was no prisoner of war camp ever that could get away with all their shenanigans. That's what made it funny. Today with political correctness and almost no sense of humor with the networks this show would never get on the air. It was simple comedy with no 'agenda.' Miss it.
I know NUTING!.....how 'bout a candy bar Schultz? NOW I know someting.🤣
He was the best!👍
An interesting side note about Hogans Heros. Rod Serling of Twighlight Zone, Absolutely hated the show, b.c. it made a joke of the camps.
He did not have to join the Army due to his age, but did so anyway.
His company was called the shaty toy company, not Schultz toy company.
I don't think they could make this show again, for a lot of reasons. Probably the biggest reason is that almost all of that generation and experience are gone now. It was a way of exercising demons for a lot of people who were affected by the war.
MeTV runs Hogans Heroes at 9:00 PM in Phoenix, which I watch before hitting the sack. I sleep like a baby. The Andy Griffith Show is also one of my favorites. The Reality TV is not for me.
I believe the story was that Shultz owned the "Schatzi" Toy Company and Colonel Klink wanted a job there.
In regard to your closing remark about Hogan's Heroes not being Politically Correct today: the show's detractors are ALWAYS missing the point! At the end of each episode the 3rd Reich is not only defeated but humiliated and embarrassed as well. Plus, remember Klink, Schultz and Berkhaltar are played by German and Austrian actors, all who escaped Der Vatarland in time! It is the ULTIMATE middle finger to the 3rd Reich!
Personally, I like to think part of Hitler's Eternal Damnation includes being forced to bingewatch Hogan's Heroes reruns... always being reminded those idiot Nazies are played by Jewish actors who escaped!!
he was the funniest one on the show.
2025...WW2 is now 80 years away.
Most younger people would not get the references made in the show.
What people often got wrong, was that it didn't take place in a concentration camp, but a Luft Stalag camp, for Allied Airmen.
They really only ridiculed the Nazis on the show, so, I don't see how it would offend most people.
And again, the timeline is just not relevant for today.
It would never make on TV now
I KNOW NOTHING!!!
I hope they don't EVER do a remake on Hogan's Heroes bc I know nothing's!! 😅
It wasn't the Shultz company it was the Shotzie toy company
Strange about renting a grave site. Never heard of that