50 Years Ago: 'Hogan's Heroes' Ends Six-Season, Nazi-Fooling Run
Hogan's Heroes, which ended its six-season run on April 4, 1971. Packed with fascinating on- and off-screen stories and noteworthy trivia, the show was set in 1942 in a POW camp called "Stalag 13" in Germany. This camp was populated by prisoners from a variety of countries whose goal, in virtually every episode, was to hinder the Nazi war effort. Led by American Air Force Col. Robert Hogan (Bob Crane), the prisoners were made up of the traditional '60s TV-style band of lovable misfits. Cpl. Louis LeBeau (Robert Clary) was a Frenchman and food lover who, among other things, had tamed the Germa...
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