In regards to the Colonel Burkhalter, you're right they screwed up as he is clearly dressed as a General, but even if he was a Colonel and was an inspector, Klink would have kissed his hiney.
It also could have been based on "date of rank". Burkhalter is older so he would have been a colonel many years before Klink, so based on "date of rank" Burkhalter would have been senior.
@@Paulanthny - that's because Major (Sturmbannführer) Hochstetter was SS and of the Gestapo. Hochstetter had the power to arrest Klink, and that's why he showed up so often, to investigate him and the camp.
As to equal rank, a fellow officer who received his commission before you received yours, is your superior officer. Also, someone from an inspector generals office with the power to take away your breathing privileges or your job and send you to the Russian Front would also command this level of respect in the Pilot.
Additionally, superiority can be a matter of positional authority as well. For example the USS Ohio' Blue Crew commanding officer is Capt. David Soldow, and it is assigned to Submarine Squadron 19 whose commodore is Capt. Michael Lewis. Even though they are the same rank, even if say Soldow had held the rank of captain longer, he would still be subordinate to Capt. Lewis as a matter of position in the chain of command.
Plus Klink was afraid of anybody that had any connection to authority whatsoever. It was a running gag of the show. The pilot doesn't matter as far as rank for the rest of the series either. They are testing the series and not yet finalizing things.
Any military officer knows that it is not at all unusual for an officer of the same rank but earlier time in grade to command another officer of the same rank. That was NOT a blooper.
The Luftwaffe supervised and ran the POW camps. Klink was Luftwaffe and Burkhalter was Wehrmacht. So this in itself is a huge blooper that supersedes the one of rank
German here - I love the show, albeit I've only watched it on German TV which unfortunately means a dubbed version. Concerning the water tower: No, in Germany we don't have this type of water tower. Our water towers are mostly very big brick and mortar structures from the outside, rather looking like church or bell tower.
I found some dialogs even funnier in German. Also klink and Schultz speaking their own rolls. Schultz has a Baverian accent and Klink saxonian. Historically there are tensions between those tribes (lol). Imo:That made it even better, a rare occurrence when doubing.
Couldn't agree more. I'm 62 years old and these episodes have a lot of meaning. I'm so tired of everyone killing each other etc, it's tough to find a "good decent honest clean" show to watch anymore. :)
When I was in High School Bob Crane came and did a talk about Hogan's Heroes and making television. He brought some blooper reels and talked about the scene and it was a great visit. But, what's funny was during the bloopers our projector broke down and our teachers tried to get it working. Bob Crane said to us that he was a "home movie buff" (yea, "home movies" as we learned a few years later) and offered to take a look. He came off the stage and fixed our projector and proceeded to finish his visit. I'll never forget that.
Thanks for sharing that ... It`s a 100% Koool slice of life... there is a 45 rpm record of Bob Crane plays Hogans Heros, picture sleeve... I have a picture of it some where around here as well the record ...
Rick, thank you so much for lifting my spirits with your analogies of the Hogan Heroes bloopers. I truly believe that the show occasionally wanted their fans to catch the bloopers. It was part of the creative ridiculousness of the production. What a great show!!😄
One exception to not really having continuity from one episode to the next was from S1E5, where Klink talked about some of the happenings in the prior episodes when he was telling Hogan he had to lose him. He mentioned the tank diappearing and reappearing, which was in episode 2. I seem to recall at least one other episode where structures of one type or another made it into outdoor shots. Thanks for sharing!
During the filming of Hogan's Heroes, Dr. Ben Casey and Slattery's People, I was the mail boy for Desilu Studios. Every time I delivered mail to the Hogan Heroes set, Bob Crane would call out my name and the director called, "cut." The actors had a lot of fun and Bob Crane was a really nice guy. He always had a blonde actress with him in his dressing room. I wrote a story line with dialog for Hogan's Heroes. The Producer, Ed Feldman spent a couple of hours critiquing my storyline with me. He told me that every episode of Hogan's Heroes was based on something that actually happened. My storyline was not based on an actual factual event and I could not sell it to CBS. Those were fun times. Your video brought back a lot of happy memories. Thank you.
@@General5USA Thank you so very much for your information. I took the Assistant Director test that was given at USC (my alma mater). Saul Weislow was Bing Crosby Productions Vice President of legal affairs. He told me that there were around 125 people who took the test and I placed in the top 1%. Unfortunately, Ben Casey and Slattery's People were cancelled and BCP's 2 new pilots did not sell. There was no place for me to go. I could stay and be the mail boy for just Hogan's Heroes or I could leave. I left since there was no place for me to go. Basil Grillo had been Bing Crosby's accountant and he was BCP's president. I later found out that his son, Gary, was an assistant director. I went to USC with Gary. By the way, the Assistant Director breaks down the script as to what the costs should be. I went to Universal and then to Paramount, but nothing happened for me so I went to work in finance (my degree is in finance and real estate). I was a stock broker, in financial public relations and then an institutional real estate banker. My true love was in the entertainment industry, but I needed to have an income that I could rely on and build a life on. Thank you again for your telling me more about Hogan's Heroes.
Yale Crandall ..I just remembered didn’t We have a party for you for your success with your exams ? We had cake and all kinds of things I t was meant to be a surprise so we kept it a secret. The surprise was on us. We kept the secret so well no one made arrangements to make certain you were there for the party. By the time you arrived the cake and refreshments were gone . if you think a little , or maybe you remember, They gave me....us... money go to dinner.
@@General5USA I don't remember a party for me or dinner. I remember the Desilu Christmas party. I won a Tensor light, which I still have and use. Lucille Ball almost ran her golf cart into me while I was riding my bicycle delivering mail. No one encouraged me to stay. They told me that since they hadn't sold their 2 one hour pilots there was nothing for me at BCP. I was promised if I was a mail boy at Universal during the Christmas holiday, there was a job for me in production. I took the job. There was not a job for me in production. It was a typical show business ruse. Then I went to Paramount's accounting department. What a dismal job that was. Everyone thought that they were in show business. They weren't. That is when I said that I have had enough. I left my "show business" career and entered into the real world, whatever that means. For me, the "real" world has had its harsh realities as well. Now as a senior citizen, no one is promising me anything. "They" are just waiting around for me to die. I have had 6 wives. Each one dropped me when I ran out of money. It has been said: "when money flies out the window, love walks out the door!" I pray that your life has turned out better than mine. May God bless you and yours.
I loved Hogan’s Hero’s when I was young, and to this day I continue to love it. It’s one of two of my favorite ‘oldies’ that I still enjoy as much today as I did back in the day! Gun smoke is another of my passionate favorites!!!
I was a 10 year old kid when Hogan's Heroes originally aired in the sixties and I'm still learning things thanks to you! It's like enjoying the show all over again.
So glad to see someone keeping HH alive such a funny show from my childhood memories, not sure reflective light is a "Blooper" but as a "Hollywood editor" myself, i love the break down.
When this show originally aired most of us had small black and white TVs with blurry pictures and no VCRs. Even if you thought you saw something wrong you couldn't back it up and look again because it was live. We never imagined we would have 55" HD TVs and DVRs. I don't believe the producers or camera crews ever thought we would see the errors. Even so I still try to imagine it's 1940's Germany every time I watch an episode of Hogan's Heroes.
makeminefreedom yes, black/white film covered lots of visual defects. It also enabled tricks like the special effects crew using chocolate syrup for Janet Leigh’s blood going down the drain in “Psycho. I get a kick out of shows like Hogan and Andy Griffith, who have no problem showing the Culver City telephone poles and power lines, on day time wide shots when they’re suppose to be in rural areas.
I have always taken notice of things in the background and details on the sets of TV shows like the reflections in shiny objects that show lights and other things.
Thanks for those! Very clever plots, hilarious dialogue, and perfect casting. How did they ever come up with all that in the context of a WW2 prisoner of war camp? Genius!
A lot of the story plot lines were taken from memoirs of soldiers who had been inmates at Lüftwaffe prison camps. Quite a few came from cast and crew who had first-hand knowledge.
Whenever I watched these episodes, I was so high I couldn't tell if there were bloopers, just sat back, and had a really good laugh.thank you for this vid.,it enlightened me.🐻papa bear, signing off.
I met Mr.Klemperer in Beverly Hills in the 70’s . His father Otto was a world famous conductor and when I told him how I knew of his Dad and had some of his classical recordings he was impressed and very kind to me
You’re very lucky to have met him! I still can’t get over that all apart from Robert Clary are gone - very sad. While it’s sad they’re gone, we are so lucky they lived - and lived to the fullest. Now we can enjoy their work - and it’s digital so it’s immortalized, therefore so are they :-)
@@markstevenson432 Growing up in BH gave me a wonderful opportunity to meet many past stars from the 60s & 70s. Mr. K also played Max in a LA Music Center Prod of “The Sound of Music” which I saw.
Amazing how much laugh -out-loud comedy they could create about such a serious real -live subject . John Banner was hilarious . Warner Klemperer . Fabulous . Great writing. Bob Crane , so versatile . Great cast . Still love it !
The comic timing in the scenes between Crane And Klemperer is terrific...you know,where Hogan manipulates Klink without Klink realizing it..a frequent device..and what makes those scenes even more impressive is that they were working on a closed set,but expertly playing as if an audience were present..the timing!! The interplay!! Superb.
It looks novel and amazing only if you haven't seen Phil Silvers' Bilco or Andy Griffith's Stockdale. They were doing the same thing in a time before reverence for governement institutions and the military saw a sharp dcline.
IKR? And remember, the war hadn’t even been over for very long when it started. Britain was still on rations for a lot of things. Or pretty dang close to it.
I have watched & re-watched "Hogan's Heroes" since it began, and recently my daughter started enjoying the reruns with me. We both enjoy the antics and the positivity of folks trying to just "get along" on a personal level (ie: Hogan & Klink, Schultz & EVERYBODY, lol!) to survive through difficult times beyond their control.
I recently rewatched Hogan’s Heroes on TH-cam. Because the actor William Christopher, who played Father Mulcahy on MASH, was not yet well known, they used him to play three different minor characters on the show.
Technically, the term "blooper" refers to mistakes that were inadvertently left in the final cut of a film. Outtakes are the funny slip-ups and other errors that are edited out and generally not seen by the public.
The bloopers were left in because they were impossible to spot due to the broadcasting which was picked up by rabbit ears or expensive outside antennas and received on mostly black & white TV sets. Under ideal conditions the reception was usually (not always) pretty good. Less than ideal weather conditions resulted in a less than ideal picture. If the TV station was far away, the picture would have deal with some “snow” (on B&W sets) or “confetti” (on color sets), “ghosts” (slight doubling of the picture) or generally poor reception. Nobody in 1965-71 ever dreamed that we’d be watching TV shows or movies on video tapes, let alone on DVD or BluRay. Even The JETSONS, America’s favorite family from the future, didn’t have such luxuries (until Season 2 in 1985).
michael mckenna Don’t dare run the vacuum or the blender when watching your favorite shows. If you lived in Metro Area suburbs, the must have in the 1960s, was the outdoor RCA Color Antenna, that attached to your roof or chimney. It gave great reception on color or b/w televisions. Even in poor weather conditions, it was pretty solid.
@@hbg143 I also wish they'd stop adding ''things you didn't know'' as if they were the only ones to find these things, and we were just children accepting everything without notice.
Awesome 👍 I liked the blooper where Carter knocked Klink's hat off since Newkirk, Shultz and Carter broke character. I always love your positive take on life ❤️ Thanks Rick9
Hogan’s Heroes is my all-time favorite TV show! Your H’s H’s bloopers reel is awesome! One you forgot, though, also from the pilot episode: Lieutenant Carter vs. Sergeant Carter.
And Carter escapes...then on episode 2 he is back as a sgt I also think it's funny how they used the same actors multiple times under different names...and what happened to Kinch? What happened to Klink's 1st secretary? I can't remember all the bloopers I've seen in the shows...there were sooo many
Ah, the beauty of being able to watch something over and over to find the flaws. Back when we watched it, there were no such devices. We saw it in B&W and didn't have but a second to catch mistakes. And if we did, there was no rewind to verify. Thanks for the bloopers not seen until now. It was entertaining.
BRAD, I NEVER looked for FLAWS, I skipped right over those, and enjoyed immensely the PLOT, DIALOG, COMEDY, and HILARITY of this SUPERB CAST and their great expertise in DELIVERING my favorite comedy from its iNCEPTION and continuing even now. M E TV has it MON--FRI-- . GREAT COMEDY !!!!!!
One of my favorite episodes is where Carter impersonates Hitler. Klink's initial reaction when he thinks it's really Hitler he's talking to is priceless! A semi-blooper occurs when Burkhalter arrives in his staff car, supposedly in the perpetual Winter, with the top down!😄
We've rewatched Hogan since it's been on MeTV before calling it a night. I was a fan during the original run and my husband since we've been watching these last years. We both never seem to tire of repeats. The episode that ends with Major Hochstetter shooting the GASTANK instead of the tires has us laughing out loud every time as our favorite. Good clean classic Television.
Here's some trivia: The actual rifle carried by Sgt. Schultz throughout the show was, in reality, a Krag-Jorgensen -- A weapon used by US forces in the Spanish-American War (1898). Schultz should have been carrying a Model 1898 German Mauser rifle instead....
@@rkgaustin That could have happened. The German commonly used captured weapons. I gather they rather liked t he M-1 carbine as well as Soviet burp guns.
Yeah and the 🌴 to the left I believe that's what they are. Plus the seen where Carter hits col Klink with the broom, they would of still had straw brooms because those brooms didn't come out until the late 60's early 70's. I look my self for bloopers and mistakes! Live, laugh, and love.
Yep watched it as a kid of 8 in 1965 with my father and still watch it today at 64 never tired of it , if they were going to cancel the show after 1971 at the last minute being in the top 10 still they should of made a Final Season for 72 the 7th where the Allies were moving in on Hitler and eventually Germany Surrendering and Hogan putting the word in for Klink and Schultz to be Spared ,CBS Blew it , it would of been a classic ending 7 year run for a Classic T V Show !!!
Something I always considered a blooper that is visible on most episodes is how you can always see patches of snow on the ground but yet the trees have pure green leaves still on them instead of dead branches as it should be with a cold snowy winter.
Actually, these tiny bloopers represent what a disciplined show this was. I'm surprised somebody didn't say that the Germans speaking English with other Germans was a blooper. Of course Hogan's Heroes was entertainment and wasn't supposed to be a documentary.
The Germans speaking in English was not a blooper. It was a creative liberty used to make the show easier to follow. It was a comedy, not a history lesson. And having Germans speaking German with English subtitles would slow up the comedy to a point where it was no longer funny! On “COMBAT”, which was a drama, the Germans spoke in German to keep it authentic. For those actors to master their lines in German, was not an easy task. But according to a friend who was from Germany, the German was spoken fluently.
I never knew if we were supposed to believe that the Germans spoke English to the prisoners, or whether the prisoners were speaking German to Klink and Schultz but the show's producers kept it in English to avoid subtitles which would have wrecked the comedic flow. But the prisoners were surely speaking German on the many occasions when they were dealing with Germans visiting the camp or when they were pretending to be German officers or soldiers, and the thought of all of them being fluent enough in German to fool native speakers was even more unbelievable.
Great video Rick! Sometimes I get confused by the terms bloopers, outtakes, or just plain mistakes. I think of actors blowing their lines in a comical way as..bloopers? Well make no mistake, I find this and all your vids entertaining, informative, AND fascinating. Thanks for all you do sir!
I always felt the fact that Hogan puts the car in reverse by accident fits right into the scene as he his trying to drive an unfamiliar car in a foreign country. Makes sense that he doesn't handle the gears without error.
Notice how the car is right hand drive in a country which drove on the right hand side of the road. The car should have been left hand drive. Or was there a bit of both?
Something I think was a blooper in the pilot episode is that Carter was a Lieutenant in his first appearance, though he was known as a Sergeant through the rest of the series.
Hey McHale's Navy is my favorite! I used to watch that nonstop! I could quote probably 75 percent of the full episodes by heart. It's on TH-cam, if you don't have it on DVD. (We do.)
@Red Did you ever see anyone killed in either of those shows? Did you ever see a man and woman in bed together, or hear foul language in either of them?
Schultz kept switching from being married to being single, and the character in S01E01 sometimes played an Allied soldier and sometimes played a Nazi in later shows (don't recall his name). He was the one who was planted as a spy and discovered the tunnel but was deemed crazy after he pulled the chain on the water tower and got Klink all wet, when he was showing them where the tunnel was.
My favorite blooper is in the 1st season in the opening frames it shows LeBeau wearing a green beret instead of his usual red one. But the next shot it’s back to the red one. I love all episodes, we bought the DVD set and watch them every night at bedtime
I think you are using 2019 tech on a 1960's 1/2 hour TV show. You have to keep in mind no one had a 60" flat screen with pause and reverse back then. Most had 20" or less black and white TV's. You were lucky to make out what car it was let alone being able to see a light reflection in the chrome.
@@samiam619 It was in one or two of he snips in this video. I'm trying to remember--in the episode with the sidecar motorcycle, which side was the sidecar on?
@@samiam619 The one where Hogan accidentally puts the car in reverse - that's a car designed for driving on the left side of the road (so probably not built in Germany *or* America). Not so surprising then that he messed up the gears, since he had to operate them with the opposite hand to usual.
@@josephtaub20 In several episodes, one of the camp trucks is British. This wouldn't be uncommon as captured vehicles could be assigned to rear units where it wouldn't be a problem if there were failures, while freeing up German trucks for front line units.
In the pilot Carter was a Lieutenant and escaped. When episode two was written, he was a Sargent. He also took orders from Kinchlow, despite the fact he out ranked Lunch. All in all, it remains one of my favorite shows.
I don't think Carter was suppose to be a regular after the pilot. He was hired full time after the pilot . I just looked it up. " In 1965, when another actor backed out of the television show Hogan's Heroes, Hovis was cast as "Sgt. Andrew Carter", a POW in a German prison camp who was an expert on explosives. In the pilot episode, Carter was a lieutenant, and was only going to appear in that one episode. For the series, the character became Sgt. Carter, replacing a character played by Leonid Kinskey in the pilot. (Kinskey decided after the pilot that he did not want to stay with a show that had actors pretending to be Nazis.) "
Worse, Kinchloe was a Technical Sergeant ("T" badge below the chevrons on his rank insignia) -- not one of the Line like Carter. Thus Carter could (theoretically) lead a combat unit, whereas Kinchloe could not. FUN FACT: It's mentioned in passing (by Hogan) early on that Kinch was an employee of his local telephone company prior to the war -- probably working as a hardware installer/troubleshooter. That's how he knows so much about electrical devices.
As to order-taking, Carter no doubt assumed that any orders Kinch gave him were simply being passed along from Hogan himself, since Kinch was Hogan's Operations guy and minded the store while Hogan was away.
I wonder if the fact that both Kinchloe and Carter were sergeants was intentional, as I read in a Stephen Ammbrose book that when senior officers heard that POWs who were sergeants and higher were better treated by the Luftwaffe, they promoted anyone flying missions over enemy territory.
A number of bloopers I’ve noticed with the show over the years: In some angles of the camp, you can see palm trees in the background. Nearly every episode appears to take place in winter, as there always seems to be snow on the ground. This includes one episode that takes place on D-Day-which was in the late spring! You would see a wedding ring on Sgt. Carter’s hand on occasion, even though the character was not married (Larry Hovis refused to remove his wedding band and usually wore gloves to hide it). The gang blew up the same bases, bridges, towers and trains on a number of occasions (reusing footage). Schultz would flirt and even date some pretty girls, even though he was married. Note that doors had door knobs, not handles like most German doors.
I just recently bought the entire series on DVD. NIce restored picture and the audio quality is great. Nice to watch full episodes without the commercials.
I bought them too..i put on my potable dvd player&go to sleep watching..live in apt.wonder if the upstairs can hear the music..lol (player volume stuck on loud..)
ah , guys % gals , in the sixties there was no scalded ☕ coffee ☕ , you had to OVER ROAST the beans yourself , and then SCALED the GROUNDS yourself , oh yea THE CUP w \ coffee brewed to perfection WOULD COST about five 5 ¢ends . What a laugh . $2.00 and 😈 UP 😈 for a cup of ☕ coffee ☕ ! ! ! 😁 LiFLaLed 😁
So much fun!!! Great job as always 😎 Favorite blooper is everyone’s reactions after Carter knocks Klink’s hat off with the broom. It’s hilarious to see the actors break character. (But such a tiny bit! They were real pros!)
Nope. I could see by the writing and arrow in the tag this was not going to be a blooper reel.There is a video simply called "Hogan's Heroes bloopers" where you can see actual outtakes from the actual show.
Already knew more about Hogan's Heroes and you guys do. You know what it's even better to be friends with the people that were on the show like I was. I was a friend of Richard Dawson & Werner Klemperer
Thanks for these. On the whole it was a very well-run production. You missed a good one though. In the season 3 episode (11) Is General Hammerschlag Burning?, some of the gang go to Paris to infiltrate a club to convince a girl to help them get the defense plans for Paris. Kinchloe knows the girl from school, and goes along too. When she sees him and realises who he is, she says: "You're out of uniform and a long way from home. Ivan Kinchloe". Now, that isn't his name in the show. His real name is Ivan Dixon, but in the show he is playing Sergeant James Kinchloe. I think they know, due to the grinning going on, but for some reason it was left in. Always makes me smile too.
They are talking in the barracks and it's around Christmas time and Newkirk mentions Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer but the only problem is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was an invented until 1952 by Gene Autry , World War 2 was in the early 1940s but somehow Rudolph time traveled back to the 40s , that's a Blitzen miracle
my favorite parts in whole series was 1) schultz is nearly always on prisoner's side, he frequently says things like " I don't think you should give the prisoners your car" and he dresses up as general in one episode and visiting Goring in another 2) when prisoners are marching they whistle the hogan hero's theme song - hilarious !
The best story line that denigrated laughs was General Burkhalter’s Sister trying to be fixed up with Klink. Always got a laugh from me. The actress playing the General’s sister Gertrude knew how to play comedy and so did the actor playing Col Klink. That whole storyline of General Burkhalter’s sister Gertrude and Col Klink was really hilarious. I’ll never forget the line Gertrude said to Col Hogan when the Hogan said Klink was volunteering for the Russian front, “why does everyone I’m interested in volunteer for the Russian front?” Great comedy.
Well, Burkhalter could have been the same technical rank as Klink, however if he had his rank sooner that would mean he outranked Klink. Also, he could have had a more authoritative position, such as being from the German military equivalent of the Inspector General's office. And let us not forget that Klink was also very differential to MAJOR Hochstetter, whom he outranked by 2 grades. But obviously Hockstetter had a more "fearsome" position. The military can be a little confusing at times when it comes to a rank versus authority. For example when the (U.S.) Sergeant Major of The Army goes to visit a base he's giving all the protocol reception and treatment of a lieutenant general, but he still has to salute the newest of second lieutenants. But woe be unto the shavetail (2nd Lt.) or anybody else that makes any kind of deal out of it if he doesn't.
I had a brother-in-law who was a Regimental Sergeant Major in the Australian Army. This is the senior non commissioned rank but RSM's were the gods of the parade ground. In the parade ground everyone was subject to their authority.
There was another episode where the Heroes make stairs for Kline made out of “bricks” which are really “gold” bars. However, you never see them again after that episode. :)
A bit of semi-canonical post-war history: Hogan and his men were freed after Germany surrendered-Hogan returned to the US to a hero’s welcome, was made a general and later married Klink’s secretary Hilda. Hogan used his connections and influence to prevent Klink and Schultz from being prosecuted for war crimes, in part, because they were Luftwaffe, not Nazi and because, despite their threats to do so, neither one ever had a POW killed. Schultz converted his factory back to toy production and he had pity on Klink and gave him a job as his bookkeeper. Years later, Hogan received a package from Germany; a book by Wilhelm Klink that told of his experiences during the war and the man he respected the most. Klink claimed that was never loyal to the Third Reich, he knew about the tunnels, the sabotage attempts and of most of the antics of Col. Hogan and the boys. He played dumb and allowed it all to happen in order to do his part to bring down Hitler from within. Hogan was never sure if his former foe was telling the truth or not, but was quite flattered by the book’s title: Hogan’s Heroes.
Another interesting thing about “The Pilot” is that while they always talk about Stalag 13 throughout the series in the very first episode they say Camp 13.
Also, in WWII, the Germans had separate camps for officers (oflags) and enlisted men. Plus, the Luftwaffe camps, (luftstalags) would not have had enlisted army personnel.
Thanks so much - grew up loving this, my parents (both survivors of WW2, mom from England, Dad in the Royal Canadian Air Force) loved it and the fact that John Banner and Werner Klemperer were both Jewish......you really entertained with this!!! Again, thank you.
I have always loved Hogan's Heroes. It's funny, also the characters are interesting, and the episodes have just enough reality to give the humor depth.
William Christopher, later on MASH, as chaplain Father Mulcahy, while on Hogan's Heroes played an American POW, an English flyer, who was eager to get home to England, for a cricket match, and a tired German soldier, who did not want to take Carter, as an escapee, into custody.
I too have watched Hogans Heroes many times, but because I am not analyzing every frame, I tend to miss these tiny 1 or 2 flame 'bloopers'. I try to watch it as a comedy SHOW, not 30 minutes of film cells that I must inspect minutely, so I can pick up anything that is slightly anomalous. Watching a program that closely is more than just entertainment, that is fanaticism at a frightening extreme. Just sit back, relax and enjoy the show.
YEP,, SURE WAS, B U T - He covered it beautifully !!!!! ENTIRE CAST, GREAT ACTORS. -- TRY to imagine YOURSELF before the cameras and HOW YOU would react to some of these hare-brained schemes that TURNED OUT GREAT .
@@genehollon6989… also consider this was low budget and filmed on the fly to pump out each episode quickly. Sometimes a chuckle "happens" when it wasn't planned, but what the heck!
Their are different grades of Colonel, but all are formally addressed as "Colonel" , so it IS normal & customary for a full Colonel to be in a superior position.
Another blooper Rick, you called Burkhalter actor Leon Astin. It's actually Askin. There were several right hand drive vehicles in the show, whereas they should have all been left hand drive. Also, the double agent (spy) in the pilot episode also played Captain Morgan , an allied officer in a later episode.
Not necessarily. The German military was notorious for pressing captured vehicles into service, the Morris- CS8 would have been a Dunkirk acquisition and perfect for a secondary support role such as in a prison camp. The Rolls's often seen would have likely been confiscated from its owners during the capture of France. So the German using right drive hand drive vehicles is factually correct.
@@matthewq4b Yes. The Germans also refurbished crashed allied warplanes and put them into service too. The planes were often in fairly good shape as the former operators often had great incentive to land the plane in one piece, as odds of injury/death from parachuting were HIGH. Later in the war, unknown solo bombers were not allowed to join up with allied formations, as they could get into the formation and start shooting it up from the inside.
A colonel (Burkhalter) in the SS or Gestapo was higher in power than a colonel in the luftwaufa (Klink) so it was not an error. Plus, Klink is a timid bureaucrat who is not at all militaristic
I hate to tell ya that never happened. The SS and Gestapo had to follow rank like anyone else.. so no a major like hochstetter would have NEVER disrespected a Col or a General.
My father was a POW from the Battle of the Bulge and he found this show hilarious. He enjoyed how the nazis were made to look like arrogant buffoons which my father believed them to be.
Yeah I agree back in the day it was still a discussion if the Nazis were the good guys. And the actor Schultz actually lost his family to the Germans since they were Jewish and he was out of Germany when this happened
Hogan’s Heroes was first released in Germany when I was on my first tour there. The Germans went ape poo-poo because German soldiers were insulted so much. The young Germans also went berserk when new textbooks were released: it stated roughly 8 million people died then. They started asking en masse what their families knew, and how they allowed it. SGT Schultz was a good looking young man during WW2...in fact, he was used on recruiting posters.
@Jim Smith - John Banner was Jewish and emigrated to the US prior to the war. He was, indeed, on an American recruiting poster. He wasn’t heavy until he married a French woman, and he said it was her cooking that plumped him up for the role of Sergeant Schultz.
Let’s not leave out, that in hogans barracks #2 or sometimes it’s #3, they change out the Periscope Sink for a Locker ALL the time! Plus one of Hogans background actors is cast as a german guard all the time. Lilly Frankel plays a nightclub singer/underground agent and goes off to England yet she is in the final episode as the woman agent that helps hogan spot the mobile rocket launchers. There is more but this is loads for now.
Burkhalter being a Colonel is not a blooper. Burkhalter would be a Colonel in the administation branch of the Prisoner of War camps, and any report he made would have strong sway over Klink. Also in such a position he would have made contacts in other divisions of HQ and thus be a man to fear. Let us not forget that Shultz had a General as a close friend and when Klink found out he bent over backwards to please him. Connections can be as powerful as rank.
But Burkhalter was a Wehrmacht officer. Stalag Luft camps were overseen by the Luftwaffe. An authority crossover like that would be extremely unusual, especially in a overly complex organisation that was the German armed forces.
Started watching this with my uncle was in Germany in World War II I'm in my late 60s but in 1970 I started watching the show went on from 1965 to 1971 my uncle passed away man but I still watch it every night on Me-TV it's really a good show yes Vietnam was going on and I was getting drafted my uncle would always tell me I would be fine
Best memories with my dad were watching Hogan's Heroes with him. We'd get up at 6:30 am in Tucson and watch it before school. In Minnesota, it was on at 5:00 on Channel 5 and he'd rush home from work to watch with me.
Another enjoyable video. Thanks for posting. A couple more things. The power poles and line construction seen outside the fence are typical of the designs used in Southern California during that era. Also, the stock footage used when railroads were sabotaged generally showed steam locomotives of North American design.
in the episode where they fly an airplane out of the camp and through a section of fence they just cut down, you can clearly see the movie set parking lot in the background.
The pilot was an interesting ep. There were a few character changes from the pilot to the season 1 ep 1. Larry Hovis played Lt Carter and was with a group of men to be sent by Underground back to England. Then he is suddenly Tech Sgt Carter and part of the team after that. There was a Russian prisoner who did the tailoring. He was replaced by Sgt Carter and the tailoring was split between Le Beau and Newkirk.
As a wee kid I was raised on McHale Navy, Hogan's Hero's, Black Sheep Squadron and MASH. As an adult I was a civilian contractor for US military aviation for Southern Air Transport, BASI and Evergreen along with many other companies. Early television gave me the guidance on how to handle the Pentagon brass that surrounded me for over 20 years world wide. I have no doubt I caused psychological breakdowns repeatedly. I'm an old coot now and I am still laughing at those moments in time when I pulled out the "handbook on how to make the brass foam at the mouth!" Thanks to those programs, I did it very well!
Colonel Burkhalter is correct in the pilot. The other officers knew that he had special authorization to oversee the POW camps, and that he was being groomed for promotion. I am unfamiliar with the German officer insignia and decorations, so there is likely a discrepancy there (as was the case in many other episodes).
We also know Col. Klink was fearful of anyone with a bit of authority, even deferring to Major Hochstetter on several occasions (although that's partly because he's Gestapo, and even Burkhalter was a bit scared of him). Also worth noting is that the ranks weren't really settled in the pilot, with Lt Carter becoming Sgt Carter for example.
@@rodh1404 I noticed that too, about Carter, but if you watch the pilot episode it is explained...sort of. Basically, Carter was just supposed to spend a day or two at Stalag 13. So that the prisoner numbers stayed the same, there was a stupid system where an enlisted man temporarily left camp and the flyer on the run (usually a pilot, or at least an officer) took his place. I guess it was not that dumb an idea on some level as Klink would pay stricter attention to officers than enlisted men. So Carter was temporarily demoted to replace the enlisted man. Why Carter didn't just hide in a tunnel is a mystery. I also forget why he stayed...maybe because he turned out to be some kind of bombs expert?
@libra8a I was considering that option too, and then they just decided to avoid the confusion by making Burkhalter a General. But looking at the insignia on Klick's shoulders, it's very hard to tell but he seems to have the two pips of a full Colonel. If it's only 1 pip, that would definitely make him a Lt Col.
@@rodh1404If Major Hochstetter was a member of the GEheime STAat POlizei,or Secret State Police, why did he wear the black uniform of the Waffen-SS Totenkopf ( Death's Head) Division? His men had the uniforms of the Adolf Hitler Brigade. The Brigade was the personal body guards of Hitler.
@@howardkerr8174 Right, a mystery about Carter. He first appeared as First Lieutenant Carter. If he was trading places, why wasn't his name changed to that of the escapee?
There are plenty of reasons why "Colonel Burkhalter" wasn't an error, for those familiar with military rank and status. The main reason the writers changed him to General was that most civilians don't understand those reasons, as demonstrated by this video.
Yeah, it was not an error, but people that have not served would likely misunderstand (this video for example). An inspector is doing their job and has that authority - regardless of their rank. The Captain of my ship outranked many of our inspectors, that is quite normal. 😎
I was thinking the same thing. In the Air Force, our Group Commanders were Colonels and worked for our Wing Commander, also a Colonel. They addressed the Wing Commander as someone who outranked them, in this case, someone who was their boss and serving in a position of higher status.
Modern power lines (and traffic lights) happen all the time, even when they aim to be period correct for a shoot. After all, how many people notice? Same goes for a boarded up house. Where did they find plywood back before 1950? As I was saying.... happens all the time!
In regards to the Colonel Burkhalter, you're right they screwed up as he is clearly dressed as a General, but even if he was a Colonel and was an inspector, Klink would have kissed his hiney.
Absolutely! That’s exactly my point and it flew by many peoples heads haha. That’s ok though. Glad you liked the video!
It also could have been based on "date of rank". Burkhalter is older so he would have been a colonel many years before Klink, so based on "date of rank" Burkhalter would have been senior.
@@Woody615 You are 100% correct . I was going to make the same reply .
My understanding is that Klink was a Colonel forever, longer than anyone else.
He was also afraid of Major Hochstetter.
@@Paulanthny - that's because Major (Sturmbannführer) Hochstetter was SS and of the Gestapo. Hochstetter had the power to arrest Klink, and that's why he showed up so often, to investigate him and the camp.
I still love Hogans Heroes after all these years. Still better than the crap they show nowdays.
You are right about that! I still enjoy Hogan's Heroes after all these years!
That show is a true classic!
saw first run and dad a WWII VET howled with laughter to see the JERRIES get their due
I'd prefer a test pattern to most of the garbage on TV now.
It's on every night on metv
As to equal rank, a fellow officer who received his commission before you received yours, is your superior officer. Also, someone from an inspector generals office with the power to take away your breathing privileges or your job and send you to the Russian Front would also command this level of respect in the Pilot.
Additionally, superiority can be a matter of positional authority as well. For example the USS Ohio' Blue Crew commanding officer is Capt. David Soldow, and it is assigned to Submarine Squadron 19 whose commodore is Capt. Michael Lewis. Even though they are the same rank, even if say Soldow had held the rank of captain longer, he would still be subordinate to Capt. Lewis as a matter of position in the chain of command.
Plus Klink was afraid of anybody that had any connection to authority whatsoever. It was a running gag of the show. The pilot doesn't matter as far as rank for the rest of the series either. They are testing the series and not yet finalizing things.
Aren't there also different levels of colonel?
Any military officer knows that it is not at all unusual for an officer of the same rank but earlier time in grade to command another officer of the same rank. That was NOT a blooper.
The Luftwaffe supervised and ran the POW camps. Klink was Luftwaffe and Burkhalter was Wehrmacht. So this in itself is a huge blooper that supersedes the one of rank
German here - I love the show, albeit I've only watched it on German TV which unfortunately means a dubbed version.
Concerning the water tower: No, in Germany we don't have this type of water tower. Our water towers are mostly very big brick and mortar structures from the outside, rather looking like church or bell tower.
I found some dialogs even funnier in German. Also klink and Schultz speaking their own rolls. Schultz has a Baverian accent and Klink saxonian. Historically there are tensions between those tribes (lol). Imo:That made it even better, a rare occurrence when doubing.
_Ein Käfig voller Helden_ it's called in German, right? "A Cage Full of Heroes".
@@mosseisleyYT That's right.
Best things on in 2020 is reruns. Hogan's Heroes, Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, The Saint been enjoying them all.
Who noticed that ALL the shows (except “The Saint”) mentioned by Ron Parker were CBS-TV shows?
Yep, they are still on TV but reruns
Couldn't agree more. I'm 62 years old and these episodes have a lot of meaning. I'm so tired of everyone killing each other etc, it's tough to find a "good decent honest clean" show to watch anymore. :)
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All my favorite TV shows are late 50's to mid-70's, and I have the DVD collections. Great for viewing marathons, with no commercials.
When I was in High School Bob Crane came and did a talk about Hogan's Heroes and making television. He brought some blooper reels and talked about the scene and it was a great visit. But, what's funny was during the bloopers our projector broke down and our teachers tried to get it working. Bob Crane said to us that he was a "home movie buff" (yea, "home movies" as we learned a few years later) and offered to take a look. He came off the stage and fixed our projector and proceeded to finish his visit. I'll never forget that.
That's awesome and kinda humorous
I just had to go read the wiki on Bob Crane. I did not know THAT. Funny story you have there.
@@jasonmaxwell2883 Yeah, well.... :) (!!)
Thanks for sharing that ... It`s a 100% Koool slice of life... there is a 45 rpm record of Bob Crane plays Hogans Heros, picture sleeve... I have a picture of it some where around here as well the record ...
....ya, making home movies in the buff...he had his problems which ultimately led to his "alleged" murder....
Rick, thank you so much for lifting my spirits with your analogies of the Hogan Heroes bloopers. I truly believe that the show occasionally wanted their fans to catch the bloopers. It was part of the creative ridiculousness of the production. What a great show!!😄
One exception to not really having continuity from one episode to the next was from S1E5, where Klink talked about some of the happenings in the prior episodes when he was telling Hogan he had to lose him. He mentioned the tank diappearing and reappearing, which was in episode 2.
I seem to recall at least one other episode where structures of one type or another made it into outdoor shots.
Thanks for sharing!
During the filming of Hogan's Heroes, Dr. Ben Casey and Slattery's People, I was the mail boy for Desilu Studios. Every time I delivered mail to the Hogan Heroes set, Bob Crane would call out my name and the director called, "cut." The actors had a lot of fun and Bob Crane was a really nice guy. He always had a blonde actress with him in his dressing room. I wrote a story line with dialog for Hogan's Heroes. The Producer, Ed Feldman spent a couple of hours critiquing my storyline with me. He told me that every episode of Hogan's Heroes was based on something that actually happened. My storyline was not based on an actual factual event and I could not sell it to CBS. Those were fun times. Your video brought back a lot of happy memories. Thank you.
@@General5USA Thank you so very much for your information. I took the Assistant Director test that was given at USC (my alma mater). Saul Weislow was Bing Crosby Productions Vice President of legal affairs. He told me that there were around 125 people who took the test and I placed in the top 1%. Unfortunately, Ben Casey and Slattery's People were cancelled and BCP's 2 new pilots did not sell. There was no place for me to go. I could stay and be the mail boy for just Hogan's Heroes or I could leave. I left since there was no place for me to go. Basil Grillo had been Bing Crosby's accountant and he was BCP's president. I later found out that his son, Gary, was an assistant director. I went to USC with Gary. By the way, the Assistant Director breaks down the script as to what the costs should be. I went to Universal and then to Paramount, but nothing happened for me so I went to work in finance (my degree is in finance and real estate). I was a stock broker, in financial public relations and then an institutional real estate banker. My true love was in the entertainment industry, but I needed to have an income that I could rely on and build a life on. Thank you again for your telling me more about Hogan's Heroes.
Yale Crandall ..I just remembered didn’t We have a party for you for your success with your exams ? We had cake and all kinds of things I t was meant to be a surprise so we kept it a secret. The surprise was on us. We kept the secret so well no one made arrangements to make certain you were there for the party. By the time you arrived the cake and refreshments were gone . if you think a little , or maybe you remember, They gave me....us... money go to dinner.
Do you still have the episode?
@@General5USA I don't remember a party for me or dinner. I remember the Desilu Christmas party. I won a Tensor light, which I still have and use. Lucille Ball almost ran her golf cart into me while I was riding my bicycle delivering mail. No one encouraged me to stay. They told me that since they hadn't sold their 2 one hour pilots there was nothing for me at BCP. I was promised if I was a mail boy at Universal during the Christmas holiday, there was a job for me in production. I took the job. There was not a job for me in production. It was a typical show business ruse. Then I went to Paramount's accounting department. What a dismal job that was. Everyone thought that they were in show business. They weren't. That is when I said that I have had enough. I left my "show business" career and entered into the real world, whatever that means. For me, the "real" world has had its harsh realities as well. Now as a senior citizen, no one is promising me anything. "They" are just waiting around for me to die. I have had 6 wives. Each one dropped me when I ran out of money. It has been said: "when money flies out the window, love walks out the door!" I pray that your life has turned out better than mine. May God bless you and yours.
@@General5USA I was not hired by Gary Crosby. But I did live across the street from 1 of the Crosby twins in Brentwood, California.
I loved Hogan’s Hero’s when I was young, and to this day I continue to love it. It’s one of two of my favorite ‘oldies’ that I still enjoy as much today as I did back in the day! Gun smoke is another of my passionate favorites!!!
Me too Barbara plus three stooges Abbott and Costello
I was a 10 year old kid when Hogan's Heroes originally aired in the sixties and I'm still learning things thanks to you! It's like enjoying the show all over again.
So glad to see someone keeping HH alive such a funny show from my childhood memories, not sure reflective light is a "Blooper" but as a "Hollywood editor" myself, i love the break down.
When this show originally aired most of us had small black and white TVs with blurry pictures and no VCRs. Even if you thought you saw something wrong you couldn't back it up and look again because it was live. We never imagined we would have 55" HD TVs and DVRs. I don't believe the producers or camera crews ever thought we would see the errors. Even so I still try to imagine it's 1940's Germany every time I watch an episode of Hogan's Heroes.
We also didn't care if things were perfect. This was entertainment and not PC schoolhouse.
makeminefreedom How true!
What hilarity , 😁 LiFLaLed 😁
makeminefreedom yes, black/white film covered lots of visual defects. It also enabled tricks like the special effects crew using chocolate syrup for Janet Leigh’s blood going down the drain in “Psycho. I get a kick out of shows like Hogan and Andy Griffith, who have no problem showing the Culver City telephone poles and power lines, on day time wide shots when they’re suppose to be in rural areas.
I have always taken notice of things in the background and details on the sets of TV shows like the reflections in shiny objects that show lights and other things.
Thanks for those! Very clever plots, hilarious dialogue, and perfect casting. How did they ever come up with all that in the context of a WW2 prisoner of war camp? Genius!
A lot of the story plot lines were taken from memoirs of soldiers who had been inmates at Lüftwaffe prison camps. Quite a few came from cast and crew who had first-hand knowledge.
How? They stole the idea from "Stalag 17", of course. I'm guessing you also do not know "The Flintstones" was a rip off of "The Honeymooners".
Big fan of Hogans Heroes. Unfortunately there are no real comedies anymore they too busy being politically correct or pushing an agenda. Great video
True...true...true🙌👍
Or they're all about sex and nothing else. Years ago writers had to use more imagination
So true, try calling a French person cockroach nowadays.
Yea, he was so funny. I think his best work was in McHale's Navy and later (in my opinion) was with Don Knotts in the Apple Dumpling Gang.
This political correctness, is going to destroy this country.
I know nu-ting, I see nu-ting, I know nu-u-u-ting!. Shultz was my favorite character. 😂
Looks like he might win out. ..Anyone else ? Or should I just call it?
Hilda was my favorite character.
Yes ! He was the show cutie pie.
APPLE STRUDEL
✋😁 BIG SMILE
@Shawn Powell - Shultz, Klink, Burkhalter, and Hochsteder were all Jewish. Robert Clary (Lebeau) survived Auschwitz.
Whenever I watched these episodes, I was so high I couldn't tell if there were bloopers, just sat back, and had a really good laugh.thank you for this vid.,it enlightened me.🐻papa bear, signing off.
My favorite is the episode where they hide the gold in the brick steps to Klink's office and then you never see the steps ever again.
the guy pointed out right drive is the biggist blooper by far
That episode was just on MeTV™ on March 24, 2020...
"These steps are as good as GOLD." Col. Klink.
Yep, the steps were the only continuity issue I really never got over 😄.
Hogan's Heroes is a great show, one of the best.
I agree but try to watch it again and laf tracks I can not stand
I met Mr.Klemperer in Beverly Hills in the 70’s . His father Otto was a world famous conductor and when I told him how I knew of his Dad and had some of his classical recordings he was impressed and very kind to me
You’re very lucky to have met him! I still can’t get over that all apart from Robert Clary are gone - very sad. While it’s sad they’re gone, we are so lucky they lived - and lived to the fullest. Now we can enjoy their work - and it’s digital so it’s immortalized, therefore so are they :-)
@@markstevenson432 Growing up in BH gave me a wonderful opportunity to meet many past stars from the 60s & 70s. Mr. K also played Max in a LA Music Center Prod of “The Sound of Music” which I saw.
@@richardallen3810 Oh, that must have been wonderful!
I still watch this show as an adult, never tire of it ,thanks
Neither do we!😀🤣
Amazing how much laugh -out-loud comedy they could create about such a serious real -live subject . John Banner was hilarious . Warner Klemperer . Fabulous . Great writing. Bob Crane , so versatile . Great cast . Still love it !
And Sgt. Schultz's cop out "I see/know/hear nothing!"
The comic timing in the scenes between Crane And Klemperer is terrific...you know,where Hogan manipulates Klink without Klink realizing it..a frequent device..and what makes those scenes even more impressive is that they were working on a closed set,but expertly playing as if an audience were present..the timing!! The interplay!! Superb.
Leon, and the fella who played Burkhalter, and Hochstetter respectively, can't be left out either.
It looks novel and amazing only if you haven't seen Phil Silvers' Bilco or Andy Griffith's Stockdale. They were doing the same thing in a time before reverence for governement institutions and the military saw a sharp dcline.
IKR? And remember, the war hadn’t even been over for very long when it started. Britain was still on rations for a lot of things. Or pretty dang close to it.
I have watched & re-watched "Hogan's Heroes" since it began, and recently my daughter started enjoying the reruns with me. We both enjoy the antics and the positivity of folks trying to just "get along" on a personal level (ie: Hogan & Klink, Schultz & EVERYBODY, lol!) to survive through difficult times beyond their control.
I never tire of it.
We have the set and watch them often, enjoy them tremendously!
My kids are in their 20s and 30s and they love Hogan's Heroes. As soon as they hear the theme they come over and watch with me.
I didn't know there were any that even knew what Hogan's Heroes was. That has to be one of the funniest 1/2 hour sitcoms ever done.
And think...Bing Crosby produced this. I've never heard a comment from his kids.
One of the greatest tv shows of all-time!!! Thanks for the bloopers!!! xoxo The Clarences
I recently rewatched Hogan’s Heroes on TH-cam. Because the actor William Christopher, who played Father Mulcahy on MASH, was not yet well known, they used him to play three different minor characters on the show.
Or in other words the "bloopers" are so small as to be, not bloopers.
Technically, the term "blooper" refers to mistakes that were inadvertently left in the final cut of a film. Outtakes are the funny slip-ups and other errors that are edited out and generally not seen by the public.
The bloopers were left in because they were impossible to spot due to the broadcasting which was picked up by rabbit ears or expensive outside antennas and received on mostly black & white TV sets. Under ideal conditions the reception was usually (not always) pretty good. Less than ideal weather conditions resulted in a less than ideal picture. If the TV station was far away, the picture would have deal with some “snow” (on B&W sets) or “confetti” (on color sets), “ghosts” (slight doubling of the picture) or generally poor reception.
Nobody in 1965-71 ever dreamed that we’d be watching TV shows or movies on video tapes, let alone on DVD or BluRay. Even The JETSONS, America’s favorite family from the future, didn’t have such luxuries (until Season 2 in 1985).
"HILARIOUS " in the title is a big stretch too.
michael mckenna Don’t dare run the vacuum or the blender when watching your favorite shows. If you lived in Metro Area suburbs, the must have in the 1960s, was the outdoor RCA Color Antenna, that attached to your roof or chimney. It gave great reception on color or b/w televisions. Even in poor weather conditions, it was pretty solid.
@@hbg143 I also wish they'd stop adding ''things you didn't know'' as if they were the only ones to find these things, and we were just children accepting everything without notice.
Awesome 👍 I liked the blooper where Carter knocked Klink's hat off since Newkirk, Shultz and Carter broke character. I always love your positive take on life ❤️ Thanks Rick9
Hogan’s Heroes is my all-time favorite TV show! Your H’s H’s bloopers reel is awesome! One you forgot, though, also from the pilot episode: Lieutenant Carter vs. Sergeant Carter.
And Carter escapes...then on episode 2 he is back as a sgt
I also think it's funny how they used the same actors multiple times under different names...and what happened to Kinch? What happened to Klink's 1st secretary? I can't remember all the bloopers I've seen in the shows...there were sooo many
Oh and the Older New Guard? Is is in the opening standing guard * at a gate I think? Lol
Ah, the beauty of being able to watch something over and over to find the flaws. Back when we watched it, there were no such devices. We saw it in B&W and didn't have but a second to catch mistakes. And if we did, there was no rewind to verify. Thanks for the bloopers not seen until now. It was entertaining.
BRAD, I NEVER looked for FLAWS, I skipped right over those, and enjoyed immensely the PLOT, DIALOG, COMEDY, and HILARITY of this SUPERB CAST and their great expertise in DELIVERING my favorite comedy from its iNCEPTION and continuing even now. M E TV has it MON--FRI-- . GREAT COMEDY !!!!!!
Of course! That's a next-gen hobby.
One of my favorite episodes is where Carter impersonates Hitler. Klink's initial reaction when he thinks it's really Hitler he's talking to is priceless! A semi-blooper occurs when Burkhalter arrives in his staff car, supposedly in the perpetual Winter, with the top down!😄
I loved that one too.
larry hovis nailed that impersonation of hitler, talking about his fat generals, lol
We've rewatched Hogan since it's been on MeTV before calling it a night. I was a fan during the original run and my husband since we've been watching these last years. We both never seem to tire of repeats. The episode that ends with Major Hochstetter shooting the GASTANK instead of the tires has us laughing out loud every time as our favorite. Good clean classic Television.
Here's some trivia: The actual rifle carried by Sgt. Schultz throughout the show was, in reality, a Krag-Jorgensen -- A weapon used by US forces in the Spanish-American War (1898). Schultz should have been carrying a Model 1898 German Mauser rifle instead....
I came in to say this so thanks for that. Also, there are episodes where the camp guards are carrying Thompson's.
And did you notice that all the Germans speak English to each other? I can’t believe they let that happen!
Of course. You'd have to be a military person to spot that!
Germany gave Krag-Jorgensen's to second line troops. Every country had to improvise by using other nations weapons.
@@rkgaustin That could have happened. The German commonly used captured weapons. I gather they rather liked t he M-1 carbine as well as Soviet burp guns.
I really enjoy watching HOGANS HEROS reruns, great actors, great comedy, ..
I like the lush green foliage of central Germany in wintertime.
I thought that I was the only one!------------I wonder how they kept from sweating under those heavy winter coats.
Yeah and the 🌴 to the left I believe that's what they are.
Plus the seen where Carter hits col Klink with the broom, they would of still had straw brooms because those brooms didn't come out until the late 60's early 70's. I look my self for bloopers and mistakes! Live, laugh, and love.
On a similar note, quite a few nice tans for war time Germany.
I saw somewhere that the “snow” was actually salt.
Thanks for the Hogan’s Heroes bloopers. I really love your blooper series Rick, they’re always fun to watch. Keep up the great work.
Watch Hogans Heros every day, love it.
Station? Anywhere to start from S1E1?
@@js121066 MeTV2, on from ten to eleven if you live in EST, if you live in Central Time, it's nine-ten
Liberal Demoncrat RACIST will end up taking this off the air too! Never vote demoncrat
Yep watched it as a kid of 8 in 1965 with my father and still watch it today at 64 never tired of it , if they were going to cancel the show after 1971 at the last minute being in the top 10 still they should of made a Final Season for 72 the 7th where the Allies were moving in on Hitler and eventually Germany Surrendering and Hogan putting the word in for Klink and Schultz to be Spared ,CBS Blew it , it would of been a classic ending 7 year run for a Classic T V Show !!!
Been a fan of the show now for 50 + years,mum and dad used to watch this when i was a child.I still love it.
Something I always considered a blooper that is visible on most episodes is how you can always see patches of snow on the ground but yet the trees have pure green leaves still on them instead of dead branches as it should be with a cold snowy winter.
I often noticed that too, plus it was always sunny which is not real common in European winters. You would expect a lot of overcast days.
Actually, these tiny bloopers represent what a disciplined show this was. I'm surprised somebody didn't say that the Germans speaking English with other Germans was a blooper. Of course Hogan's Heroes was entertainment and wasn't supposed to be a documentary.
The Germans speaking in English was not a blooper. It was a creative liberty used to make the show easier to follow.
It was a comedy, not a history lesson. And having Germans speaking German with English subtitles would slow up the comedy to a point where it was no longer funny!
On “COMBAT”, which was a drama, the Germans spoke in German to keep it authentic. For those actors to master their lines in German, was not an easy task. But according to a friend who was from Germany, the German was spoken fluently.
I always noticed that to but they really couldn't do it any other way.
I never knew if we were supposed to believe that the Germans spoke English to the prisoners, or whether the prisoners were speaking German to Klink and Schultz but the show's producers kept it in English to avoid subtitles which would have wrecked the comedic flow. But the prisoners were surely speaking German on the many occasions when they were dealing with Germans visiting the camp or when they were pretending to be German officers or soldiers, and the thought of all of them being fluent enough in German to fool native speakers was even more unbelievable.
I love this show I laughed a lot watching it with all of the family
Great video Rick! Sometimes I get confused by the terms bloopers, outtakes, or just plain mistakes. I think of actors blowing their lines in a comical way as..bloopers? Well make no mistake, I find this and all your vids entertaining, informative, AND fascinating. Thanks for all you do sir!
Still love this show. Thanks for sharing this, another really fun TH-cam, thanks RickNineG
I always felt the fact that Hogan puts the car in reverse by accident fits right into the scene as he his trying to drive an unfamiliar car in a foreign country. Makes sense that he doesn't handle the gears without error.
Plus, that car is right-hand drive and how many americans have driven such a thing?
@@donaldoehl7690 RHD was not normal for a German army car too.....
Notice how the car is right hand drive in a country which drove on the right hand side of the road. The car should have been left hand drive. Or was there a bit of both?
@@PatBuckleyracecar - I'm British and came here to point out the same... Why would they have a RHD car in Germany !? DUH!
I've saw a lot of bloopers myself I love the show I have the whole series watch it every day thanks for sharing with us
Something I think was a blooper in the pilot episode is that Carter was a Lieutenant in his first appearance, though he was known as a Sergeant through the rest of the series.
They even call him a sergeant when no Germans are around lol
This show, and McHale's Navy are my favorite shows from the old days when TV was fun, not full of sex and violence.
Hey McHale's Navy is my favorite! I used to watch that nonstop! I could quote probably 75 percent of the full episodes by heart. It's on TH-cam, if you don't have it on DVD. (We do.)
Never heard of McHale's Navy, thanks for the recommendation.
Is this the same actor, as Colonel Crittendon from Hogans Heroes? Looks a lot like him.
@@golem5809 Yes Bernard Foxx qas on both shows.
Me too, loved them both !
@Red Did you ever see anyone killed in either of those shows? Did you ever see a man and woman in bed together, or hear foul language in either of them?
Schultz kept switching from being married to being single, and the character in S01E01 sometimes played an Allied soldier and sometimes played a Nazi in later shows (don't recall his name). He was the one who was planted as a spy and discovered the tunnel but was deemed crazy after he pulled the chain on the water tower and got Klink all wet, when he was showing them where the tunnel was.
Noam Pitlik he appeared in several other episodes including the 'gonkulator' and yes appeared as a member of both sides
Schultz didn't keep switching from being married to being single. He was just cheating on his wife all the time.
My favorite blooper is in the 1st season in the opening frames it shows LeBeau wearing a green beret instead of his usual red one. But the next shot it’s back to the red one. I love all episodes, we bought the DVD set and watch them every night at bedtime
I think you are using 2019 tech on a 1960's 1/2 hour TV show. You have to keep in mind no one had a 60" flat screen with pause and reverse back then. Most had 20" or less black and white TV's. You were lucky to make out what car it was let alone being able to see a light reflection in the chrome.
A continuing gaff-car steering wheels change sides left or right, Which side of the road id Germans drive on?
Joseph Taub They drive on the right like we do. Where did you see a right hand drive car?
@@samiam619 It was in one or two of he snips in this video. I'm trying to remember--in the episode with the sidecar motorcycle, which side was the sidecar on?
@@samiam619 The one where Hogan accidentally puts the car in reverse - that's a car designed for driving on the left side of the road (so probably not built in Germany *or* America). Not so surprising then that he messed up the gears, since he had to operate them with the opposite hand to usual.
@@josephtaub20 In several episodes, one of the camp trucks is British.
This wouldn't be uncommon as captured vehicles could be assigned to rear units where it wouldn't be a problem if there were failures, while freeing up German trucks for front line units.
In the pilot Carter was a Lieutenant and escaped. When episode two was written, he was a Sargent. He also took orders from Kinchlow, despite the fact he out ranked Lunch. All in all, it remains one of my favorite shows.
He outranked Lunch?
I don't think Carter was suppose to be a regular after the pilot. He was hired full time after the pilot . I just looked it up. " In 1965, when another actor backed out of the television show Hogan's Heroes, Hovis was cast as "Sgt. Andrew Carter", a POW in a German prison camp who was an expert on explosives. In the pilot episode, Carter was a lieutenant, and was only going to appear in that one episode. For the series, the character became Sgt. Carter, replacing a character played by Leonid Kinskey in the pilot. (Kinskey decided after the pilot that he did not want to stay with a show that had actors pretending to be Nazis.) "
Worse, Kinchloe was a Technical Sergeant ("T" badge below the chevrons on his rank insignia) -- not one of the Line like Carter. Thus Carter could (theoretically) lead a combat unit, whereas Kinchloe could not. FUN FACT: It's mentioned in passing (by Hogan) early on that Kinch was an employee of his local telephone company prior to the war -- probably working as a hardware installer/troubleshooter. That's how he knows so much about electrical devices.
As to order-taking, Carter no doubt assumed that any orders Kinch gave him were simply being passed along from Hogan himself, since Kinch was Hogan's Operations guy and minded the store while Hogan was away.
I wonder if the fact that both Kinchloe and Carter were sergeants was intentional, as I read in a Stephen Ammbrose book that when senior officers heard that POWs who were sergeants and higher were better treated by the Luftwaffe, they promoted anyone flying missions over enemy territory.
A number of bloopers I’ve noticed with the show over the years:
In some angles of the camp, you can see palm trees in the background.
Nearly every episode appears to take place in winter, as there always seems to be snow on the ground. This includes one episode that takes place on D-Day-which was in the late spring!
You would see a wedding ring on Sgt. Carter’s hand on occasion, even though the character was not married (Larry Hovis refused to remove his wedding band and usually wore gloves to hide it).
The gang blew up the same bases, bridges, towers and trains on a number of occasions (reusing footage).
Schultz would flirt and even date some pretty girls, even though he was married.
Note that doors had door knobs, not handles like most German doors.
Oops. My bad. The Prussian semaphore moved above horizontal, not below it. Sorry about that German railfans.
You will be pointing out the flaws in our beloved show ...AT THE RUSSIAN FRONT!
30 days in the Cooler!
DIIIIIIISSSSSSSMISSED..
I just recently bought the entire series on DVD. NIce restored picture and the audio quality is great. Nice to watch full episodes without the commercials.
I bought them too..i put on my potable dvd player&go to sleep watching..live in apt.wonder if the upstairs can hear the music..lol (player volume stuck on loud..)
Nothing nearly as bad as a Starbucks Coffee cup in any of these scenes.
Not as bad a blooper as a Starbucks cup in MY HOUSE!
ah , guys % gals , in the sixties there was no scalded ☕ coffee ☕ , you had to OVER ROAST the beans yourself , and then SCALED the GROUNDS yourself , oh yea THE CUP w \ coffee brewed to perfection WOULD COST about five 5 ¢ends . What a laugh . $2.00 and 😈 UP 😈 for a cup of ☕ coffee ☕ ! ! ! 😁 LiFLaLed 😁
If you're referring to GoT, it wasn't a Starbucks cup... It was from a local independent shop.
I think you're confusing this with Star-Buck Rogers, that TV show from the late 70's...
They used the original Starbucks coffee pot for a listening device.
So much fun!!! Great job as always 😎 Favorite blooper is everyone’s reactions after Carter knocks Klink’s hat off with the broom. It’s hilarious to see the actors break character. (But such a tiny bit! They were real pros!)
I love Werner's acting. He's probably my favourite in the whole show.
Anyone else expecting actual bloopers as in a blooper reel of actual moving pictures, out takes?
Yes, just seeing photos and being told about bloopers is like one big blooper. This video!
Nope. I could see by the writing and arrow in the tag this was not going to be a blooper reel.There is a video simply called "Hogan's Heroes bloopers" where you can see actual outtakes from the actual show.
More like "goofs", at least that's what IMDB labels the category.
There's no bloopers in this video.
@@alcahallic4526 sthu
The one continuity of the series, it's always winter.
And their snow is always white sand.
I think it was salt
And there were always crickets chirping when they were in the woods at night.
I think it was inspired by the film Stalag 17, which was set in December 1944
Even the D-Day invasion episode which would take place on June 6th had ice on the windows.
Already knew more about Hogan's Heroes and you guys do.
You know what it's even better to be friends with the people that were on the show like I was. I was a friend of Richard Dawson & Werner Klemperer
Thanks for these. On the whole it was a very well-run production. You missed a good one though. In the season 3 episode (11) Is General Hammerschlag Burning?, some of the gang go to Paris to infiltrate a club to convince a girl to help them get the defense plans for Paris. Kinchloe knows the girl from school, and goes along too. When she sees him and realises who he is, she says: "You're out of uniform and a long way from home. Ivan Kinchloe". Now, that isn't his name in the show. His real name is Ivan Dixon, but in the show he is playing Sergeant James Kinchloe. I think they know, due to the grinning going on, but for some reason it was left in. Always makes me smile too.
These hardly seem like true bloopers but, I still watch the show every night! ME TV Network plays it every weekday evening! My thanks to ME TV!
They are talking in the barracks and it's around Christmas time and Newkirk mentions Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer but the only problem is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was an invented until 1952 by Gene Autry ,
World War 2 was in the early 1940s but somehow Rudolph time traveled back to the 40s , that's a Blitzen miracle
my favorite parts in whole series was 1) schultz is nearly always on prisoner's side, he frequently says things like " I don't think you should give the prisoners your car" and he dresses up as general in one episode and visiting Goring in another 2) when prisoners are marching they whistle the hogan hero's theme song - hilarious !
Love these bloopers! Hogan's Hero's is one of my favorite comedy series of all time! What a great Show! Gilligan's Island too!
The best story line that denigrated laughs was General Burkhalter’s Sister trying to be fixed up with Klink. Always got a laugh from me. The actress playing the General’s sister Gertrude knew how to play comedy and so did the actor playing Col Klink. That whole storyline of General Burkhalter’s sister Gertrude and Col Klink was really hilarious. I’ll never forget the line Gertrude said to Col Hogan when the Hogan said Klink was volunteering for the Russian front, “why does everyone I’m interested in volunteer for the Russian front?” Great comedy.
>>The actress playing the General’s sister Gertrude
@@alexmuenster2102 yep and both were hideous lol but both went on to do many sitcoms and movies
@@wingtipsworld5909 Both were EXTREMELY talented and versatile actresses!
Well, Burkhalter could have been the same technical rank as Klink, however if he had his rank sooner that would mean he outranked Klink.
Also, he could have had a more authoritative position, such as being from the German military equivalent of the Inspector General's office.
And let us not forget that Klink was also very differential to MAJOR Hochstetter, whom he outranked by 2 grades. But obviously Hockstetter had a more "fearsome" position.
The military can be a little confusing at times when it comes to a rank versus authority.
For example when the (U.S.) Sergeant Major of The Army goes to visit a base he's giving all the protocol reception and treatment of a lieutenant general, but he still has to salute the newest of second lieutenants.
But woe be unto the shavetail (2nd Lt.) or anybody else that makes any kind of deal out of it if he doesn't.
I had a brother-in-law who was a Regimental Sergeant Major in the Australian Army. This is the senior non commissioned rank but RSM's were the gods of the parade ground. In the parade ground everyone was subject to their authority.
There was another episode where the Heroes make stairs for Kline made out of “bricks” which are really “gold” bars. However, you never see them again after that episode. :)
Well, no, of course not. It was actually kind of a big deal that they made changes to the set at all for that episode. In 60's TV, you didn't do that.
I wonder if someone took the bricks home after the war ended.
@@earlleeruhf3130 Schultz did 😆.
A bit of semi-canonical post-war history: Hogan and his men were freed after Germany surrendered-Hogan returned to the US to a hero’s welcome, was made a general and later married Klink’s secretary Hilda. Hogan used his connections and influence to prevent Klink and Schultz from being prosecuted for war crimes, in part, because they were Luftwaffe, not Nazi and because, despite their threats to do so, neither one ever had a POW killed. Schultz converted his factory back to toy production and he had pity on Klink and gave him a job as his bookkeeper.
Years later, Hogan received a package from Germany; a book by Wilhelm Klink that told of his experiences during the war and the man he respected the most. Klink claimed that was never loyal to the Third Reich, he knew about the tunnels, the sabotage attempts and of most of the antics of Col. Hogan and the boys. He played dumb and allowed it all to happen in order to do his part to bring down Hitler from within.
Hogan was never sure if his former foe was telling the truth or not, but was quite flattered by the book’s title: Hogan’s Heroes.
This is amazing!
Hogan and Klink were lovers.
Hortense Weinblatt no...Just no
Maxx Albrecht Agreed. No. Going to poke out that mental picture with a Qtip now.
Wtf is this crap?
loved that show, thanks for sharing these.
I'm a great fan of Hogan's Heroes. Thanks Rick, loved it.
Another interesting thing about “The Pilot” is that while they always talk about Stalag 13 throughout the series in the very first episode they say Camp 13.
That's right. I guessed later on the must have thought Stalag 13 had a better ring to it.
and in the very first episode carter is a lieutenant and the rest of the show he's a sfc.
The word Stalag is German for “main camp”
In the pilot Carter was an escaped prisoner who comes to Camp 13. Not a member of Hogan's crew.
Also, in WWII, the Germans had separate camps for officers (oflags) and enlisted men. Plus, the Luftwaffe camps, (luftstalags) would not have had enlisted army personnel.
Thanks so much - grew up loving this, my parents (both survivors of WW2, mom from England, Dad in the Royal Canadian Air Force) loved it and the fact that John Banner and Werner Klemperer were both Jewish......you really entertained with this!!! Again, thank you.
Rick, I learn something fascinating and funny in all your blooper videos.
I have always loved Hogan's Heroes. It's funny, also the characters are interesting, and the episodes have just enough reality to give the humor depth.
Love all of Hogans Heroes
I still faithfully watch it every evening
One actor plays a different german soldier over and over through the whole series. He's the supply depot officer in Klink vs the Gonkulator.
Yes, David Morick.
And Hochstetter also started with a different rank.
William Christopher, later on MASH, as chaplain Father Mulcahy, while on Hogan's Heroes played an American POW, an English flyer, who was eager to get home to England, for a cricket match, and a tired German soldier, who did not want to take Carter, as an escapee, into custody.
@@adelarsen9776 Col. Feldcamp?
The actor who played Murray on Mary Tyler Moore and Cpt Steubing on Love Boat was a nasty SS officer a few times
Amazing I have watched the episodes so many times and never caught the bloopers. Great job! 😁
i expected to see a new car in the background or somthing or a german with m-1
I too have watched Hogans Heroes many times, but because I am not analyzing every frame, I tend to miss these tiny 1 or 2 flame 'bloopers'.
I try to watch it as a comedy SHOW, not 30 minutes of film cells that I must inspect minutely, so I can pick up anything that is slightly anomalous.
Watching a program that closely is more than just entertainment, that is fanaticism at a frightening extreme. Just sit back, relax and enjoy the show.
All these bloopers are funny as, infact the whole show is a blooper.
I love this show heaps.
Love all the actors they are priceless indeed.
That is James B Sikking in the final blooper. Soldaten on the left. He later played on Hill Street Blues and was Doogie Houser's dad.
Sikking was on 3 episodes.
Also played a soldier in Von Ryan's Express!
Howard on Hill street. The paramilitary swat monster. Folks in LA used to joke that he was inspired by Daryl Gates, and vice versa :)
A Trekkie too!
@@rossbrumby1957 Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
Bob Crane going in reverse is my favorite, since it was obviously a mistake
Being as it was a right hand drive car I'm sure it was an easy mistake to make.
This was only one of the great foul ups and ab libs that that was left in several series and movies!!
YEP,, SURE WAS, B U T - He covered it beautifully !!!!! ENTIRE CAST, GREAT ACTORS. -- TRY to imagine YOURSELF before the cameras and HOW YOU would react to some of these hare-brained schemes that TURNED OUT GREAT .
@@genehollon6989… also consider this was low budget and filmed on the fly to pump out each episode quickly. Sometimes a chuckle "happens" when it wasn't planned, but what the heck!
reminds me of car scene with lee oswald
Their are different grades of Colonel, but all are formally addressed as "Colonel" , so it IS normal & customary for a full Colonel to be in a superior position.
Another blooper Rick, you called Burkhalter actor Leon Astin. It's actually Askin.
There were several right hand drive vehicles in the show, whereas they should have all been left hand drive.
Also, the double agent (spy) in the pilot episode also played Captain Morgan , an allied officer in a later episode.
Not necessarily. The German military was notorious for pressing captured vehicles into service, the Morris- CS8 would have been a Dunkirk acquisition and perfect for a secondary support role such as in a prison camp. The Rolls's often seen would have likely been confiscated from its owners during the capture of France. So the German using right drive hand drive vehicles is factually correct.
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I didn't realise. Thanks for that.
A lot of captured right, as well as left hand drive vehicles used by Germans during the war.
@@matthewq4b Yes. The Germans also refurbished crashed allied warplanes and put them into service too. The planes were often in fairly good shape as the former operators often had great incentive to land the plane in one piece, as odds of injury/death from parachuting were HIGH. Later in the war, unknown solo bombers were not allowed to join up with allied formations, as they could get into the formation and start shooting it up from the inside.
A colonel (Burkhalter) in the SS or Gestapo was higher in power than a colonel in the luftwaufa (Klink) so it was not an error. Plus, Klink is a timid bureaucrat who is not at all militaristic
Burkhalter wasn't Gestopo but Hochstetter was which is why he who was only a Major could boss around a Colonel
I hate to tell ya that never happened. The SS and Gestapo had to follow rank like anyone else.. so no a major like hochstetter would have NEVER disrespected a Col or a General.
My father was a POW from the Battle of the Bulge and he found this show hilarious. He enjoyed how the nazis were made to look like arrogant buffoons which my father believed them to be.
You do realize their top soldiers and commandos were at the fronts?
@@bretwein3793 that explains why Schultz guards the barracks
Yeah I agree back in the day it was still a discussion if the Nazis were the good guys. And the actor Schultz actually lost his family to the Germans since they were Jewish and he was out of Germany when this happened
Glad your dad made it out alive. My father was in the South Pacific.
@@kathrynmolesa1641 What was his experience?
Hogan’s Heroes was first released in Germany when I was on my first tour there. The Germans went ape poo-poo because German soldiers were insulted so much. The young Germans also went berserk when new textbooks were released: it stated roughly 8 million people died then. They started asking en masse what their families knew, and how they allowed it. SGT Schultz was a good looking young man during WW2...in fact, he was used on recruiting posters.
@Jim Smith - John Banner was Jewish and emigrated to the US prior to the war. He was, indeed, on an American recruiting poster. He wasn’t heavy until he married a French woman, and he said it was her cooking that plumped him up for the role of Sergeant Schultz.
One of my favorite bloopers was the scene with Schultz spraying the water from the hose on Klink. Quite hilarious!
Let’s not leave out, that in hogans barracks #2 or sometimes it’s #3, they change out the Periscope Sink for a Locker ALL the time! Plus one of Hogans background actors is cast as a german guard all the time. Lilly Frankel plays a nightclub singer/underground agent and goes off to England yet she is in the final episode as the woman agent that helps hogan spot the mobile rocket launchers. There is more but this is loads for now.
Burkhalter being a Colonel is not a blooper. Burkhalter would be a Colonel in the administation branch of the Prisoner of War camps, and any report he made would have strong sway over Klink. Also in such a position he would have made contacts in other divisions of HQ and thus be a man to fear. Let us not forget that Shultz had a General as a close friend and when Klink found out he bent over backwards to please him. Connections can be as powerful as rank.
But Burkhalter was a Wehrmacht officer. Stalag Luft camps were overseen by the Luftwaffe. An authority crossover like that would be extremely unusual, especially in a overly complex organisation that was the German armed forces.
Yes, this location of where this was filmed is nothing but office buildings now in Culver City.
Started watching this with my uncle was in Germany in World War II I'm in my late 60s but in 1970 I started watching the show went on from 1965 to 1971 my uncle passed away man but I still watch it every night on Me-TV it's really a good show yes Vietnam was going on and I was getting drafted my uncle would always tell me I would be fine
Best memories with my dad were watching Hogan's Heroes with him. We'd get up at 6:30 am in Tucson and watch it before school. In Minnesota, it was on at 5:00 on Channel 5 and he'd rush home from work to watch with me.
ME TV has it on. Love that show.
Carter's broom looks a little too modern for 1940's Germany!
Also, near the water tower are obviously 1960's telephone poles.
@Gus Goose
Very true and it nearly cost us the war.
Pamela Mays Poor old Carter got busted back to the Ranks after the Pilot, is actually a Loo-tenant in the Pilot and only a Sargent then after.
Another enjoyable video. Thanks for posting. A couple more things. The power poles and line construction seen outside the fence are typical of the designs used in Southern California during that era. Also, the stock footage used when railroads were sabotaged generally showed steam locomotives of North American design.
in the episode where they fly an airplane out of the camp and through a section of fence they just cut down, you can clearly see the movie set parking lot in the background.
The pilot was an interesting ep. There were a few character changes from the pilot to the season 1 ep 1. Larry Hovis played Lt Carter and was with a group of men to be sent by Underground back to England. Then he is suddenly Tech Sgt Carter and part of the team after that. There was a Russian prisoner who did the tailoring. He was replaced by Sgt Carter and the tailoring was split between Le Beau and Newkirk.
As a wee kid I was raised on McHale Navy, Hogan's Hero's, Black Sheep Squadron and MASH. As an adult I was a civilian contractor for US military aviation for Southern Air Transport, BASI and Evergreen along with many other companies. Early television gave me the guidance on how to handle the Pentagon brass that surrounded me for over 20 years world wide. I have no doubt I caused psychological breakdowns repeatedly. I'm an old coot now and I am still laughing at those moments in time when I pulled out the "handbook on how to make the brass foam at the mouth!" Thanks to those programs, I did it very well!
Colonel Burkhalter is correct in the pilot.
The other officers knew that he had special authorization to oversee the POW camps, and that he was being groomed for promotion.
I am unfamiliar with the German officer insignia and decorations, so there is likely a discrepancy there (as was the case in many other episodes).
We also know Col. Klink was fearful of anyone with a bit of authority, even deferring to Major Hochstetter on several occasions (although that's partly because he's Gestapo, and even Burkhalter was a bit scared of him). Also worth noting is that the ranks weren't really settled in the pilot, with Lt Carter becoming Sgt Carter for example.
@@rodh1404
I noticed that too, about Carter, but if you watch the pilot episode it is explained...sort of. Basically, Carter was just supposed to spend a day or two at Stalag 13. So that the prisoner numbers stayed the same, there was a stupid system where an enlisted man temporarily left camp and the flyer on the run (usually a pilot, or at least an officer) took his place. I guess it was not that dumb an idea on some level as Klink would pay stricter attention to officers than enlisted men. So Carter was temporarily demoted to replace the enlisted man. Why Carter didn't just hide in a tunnel is a mystery. I also forget why he stayed...maybe because he turned out to be some kind of bombs expert?
@libra8a I was considering that option too, and then they just decided to avoid the confusion by making Burkhalter a General. But looking at the insignia on Klick's shoulders, it's very hard to tell but he seems to have the two pips of a full Colonel. If it's only 1 pip, that would definitely make him a Lt Col.
@@rodh1404If Major Hochstetter was a member of the GEheime STAat POlizei,or Secret State Police, why did he wear the black uniform of the Waffen-SS Totenkopf ( Death's Head) Division? His men had the uniforms of the Adolf Hitler Brigade. The Brigade was the personal body guards of Hitler.
@@howardkerr8174 Right, a mystery about Carter. He first appeared as First Lieutenant Carter. If he was trading places, why wasn't his name changed to that of the escapee?
There are plenty of reasons why "Colonel Burkhalter" wasn't an error, for those familiar with military rank and status. The main reason the writers changed him to General was that most civilians don't understand those reasons, as demonstrated by this video.
Yeah, it was not an error, but people that have not served would likely misunderstand (this video for example). An inspector is doing their job and has that authority - regardless of their rank. The Captain of my ship outranked many of our inspectors, that is quite normal. 😎
I was thinking the same thing. In the Air Force, our Group Commanders were Colonels and worked for our Wing Commander, also a Colonel. They addressed the Wing Commander as someone who outranked them, in this case, someone who was their boss and serving in a position of higher status.
Great vid. I love hogans heroes!
I love these blooper videos! I also noticed the episode with the water tower what looked to me like modern power lines.
Modern power lines (and traffic lights) happen all the time, even when they aim to be period correct for a shoot. After all, how many people notice? Same goes for a boarded up house. Where did they find plywood back before 1950? As I was saying.... happens all the time!