Hogan's Heroes

Hogan's Heroes
GenreSitcom
Created by
Starring
Music byJerry Fielding
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons6
No. of episodes168 (list of episodes)
Production
ProducerEdward H. Feldman
Running time25 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkCBS
ReleaseSeptember 17, 1965 (1965-09-17) 
March 28, 1971 (1971-03-28)

Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom created by Bernard Fein and Albert S. Ruddy which is set in a prisoner-of-war (POW) camp in Nazi Germany during World War II, and centers around a group of Allied prisoners who use the POW camp as an operations base for sabotage and espionage activities directed against Nazi Germany. It ran for 168 episodes (six seasons) from September 17, 1965, to April 4, 1971, on the CBS network, and has been broadcast in reruns ever since.

Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners covertly running a special operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the obtuse and oblivious commandant of the camp, and John Banner played the gullible but affable sergeant-of-the-guard Hans Schultz.