Bought the first season of Hogan's Heroes--amid all the furor about this series, it's still darn funny. And I don't think Robert Clary, John Banner, or Werner Klemperer would have done the show if they thought it in bad taste; they all suffered too much at the hands of the Nazis. My dad, a World War II vet, used to love this series; he used to say wistfully that they had wished the Germans were that stupid!

I don't know if they still show it since Borg-ization, but Hogan used to be a mainstay of WSBK-TV38. Series came and series went, but Hogan's Heroes and The Three Stooges, like Old Man River, just kept rolling along.

The picture is absolutely stunning, the color deep and true; it sure never looked this good on our 19" black and white Magnavox--or in reruns in [washed out] color later on. (The soundtrack is rather odd; the dialog is soft, but the laugh track and the sound effects are loud.) But what made my jaw drop is that the episodes even include the old CBS color logo! This would be the equivalent of the Star Trek episodes having the NBC peacock precede it. Sure brings back memories of Friday nights in the 60's, The Wild, Wild West followed immediately by Col. Hogan and his crew.

BTW, the "Tiger tank" in that eponymous episode is really an M-7 Priest, according to James.

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