Hogan's Heroes is a American
television situation comedy that ran for 168 episodes from
September 17,
1965, to
July 4,
1971, on the
CBS network. Starring
Bob Crane as
Colonel Robert E. Hogan, the show was set in a
German prisoner of war (POW) camp during
the Second World War. The program featured
Werner Klemperer as the commandant of the camp,
Colonel Klink, and
John Banner as the portly inept sergeant-of-the-guard,
Schultz, as well as a crew of Allied prisoners who assisted Hogan in running a
Resistance group from the camp.
Hogan's Heroes was produced by
Bing Crosby Productions.