|
In response to
"Anyone else reminded of Hogan's Heroes when the Russians lose another general? How Colonel Klink was always trying to avoid being sent the the Russian front? -- nm*"
by
.
|
I'm fascinated by "Hogan's Heroes" for a number of reasons: 1) It's a comedy set in a Nazi prison camp...
Posted by
howie (aka howie)
Apr 16 '22, 14:59
|
2) All of the major Nazi characters were played by Jewish actors whose families has escaped from Germany or Austria.
3) It was always winter, even during the D-Day episode, which took place in June of 1944. There was always fake snow on the ground and frost on the windows yet you could see green grass and trees in the camp exterior scenes. The actors always wore heavy coats, even though they shot in sunny Los Angeles.
4) All of the nighttime exterior scenes were shot in broad daylight using a filter to make it look dark. This was because Bob Crane also had a popular early-morning radio show and couldn't shoot at night.
5) The D-Day episode was in season 3, and the show went on for 4 more seasons. So the show lasted longer after the invasion than the war did.
6) The prisoners often dressed up as Nazi soldiers and fooled real Nazis even though everyone was speaking in English with bad German accents.
7) John Banner (Sgt. Schultz) got third billing, after Bob Crane and Werner Klemperer, and before the rest of the actors who played the titular 'Heroes'.
8) Almost every episode had a joke about someone getting sent to the Russian front.
|
Responses:
|
