Things You Didn’t Know about Hogan’s Heroes

I wasn’t much of a fan.

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Some situations seem like they would be difficult to mine humor from. Take a German POW camp during World War II. That’s a tough premise to start with. There are some other elements that came to light later that made Hogan’s Heroes even more dubious to look back fondly upon.

The star of the show, Bob Crane, had a serious dark side. He was a serial womanizer who was into porn and was ultimately murdered in grisly fashion. That’s kind of a tough background for a syndicated comedy to operate in. Still, with that being said, here are some more things you might not have known about Hogan’s Heroes.

1: Sgt, Shultz had a famous catch phrase, “I know nothing!”

And that catch phrase has been picked up by numerous politicians since then.

2: Robert Clary, aka Cpl. Louis LeBeau, went on to play in a number of soap operas.

Well, at least he wasn’t in a German POW camp.

3: Richard Dawson had, perhaps the best post-Hogan’s Heroes career of any of the cast members.