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Hogan's Heroes - The Complete Fifth Season

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Get ready for another season of wacky antics and laughs from the gang at Stalag 13. The guys are up to their old tricks to sabotage and subvert the Nazi efforts, along with the bungling Col. Klink and Sgt. Schultz. Here's what you can expect in Season 5.

The 26 episodes with original telecast dates include:
Episode 1: Hogan Goes Hollywood (9/26/1969)
Episode 2: The Well (10/3/1969)
Episode 3: The Klink Commandos (10/10/1969)
Episode 4: The Gasoline War (10/17/1969)
Episode 5: Unfair Exchange (10/24/1969)
Episode 6: The Kommandant Dies at Dawn (10/31/1969)
Episode 7: Bombsight (11/7/1969)
Episode 8: The Big Picture (11/14/1969)
Episode 9: The Big Gamble (11/21/1969)
Episode 10: The Defector (11/28/1969)
Episode 11: The Empty Parachute (12/5/1969)
Episode 12: The Antique (12/12/1969)
Episode 13: Is There a Traitor in the House? (12/19/1969)
Episode 14: At Last-Schultz Knows Something (12/26/1969)
Episode 15: How's the Weather? (1/2/1970)
Episode 16: Get Fit or Go Fight (1/9/1970)
Episode 17: Fat Hermann, Go Home (1/16/1970)
Episode 18: The Softer They Fall (1/23/1970)
Episode 19: Gowns by Yvette (1/30/1970)
Episode 20: One Army at a Time (2/13/1970)
Episode 21: Standing Room Only (2/20/1970)
Episode 22: Six Lessons From Madame LaGrange (2/27/1970)
Episode 23: The Sergeant's Analyst (3/6/1970)
Episode 24: The Merry Widow (3/13/1970)
Episode 25: Crittendon's Commandos (3/20/1970)
Episode 26: Klink's Escape(3/27/1970)

This season marks Col. Crittendon's fourth appearance in the show. It would also be Sgt. Kinchloe's (Ivan Dixon) last year with the series.

"Hogan's Heroes" is the Best! I've got mine and re-watched them all several times already!

For Hogan's fans everywhere I want to recommend a movie I ran into recently that I hadn't seen in ages. It is a wonderful, but forgotten cross between Kelly's Heroes & Hogan's Heroes set in 1943 Italy...complete with a bank heist!...and General Burkhalter!!!

It's called "What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?" and Hogans' fans and "Kelly's Heroes" fans alike should give this a try.

Next to last season of Hogan's Heroes still has many great episodes. Last year for Ivan Dixon, to be replaced by Kenneth Washington for the sixth and last season.

I have all five season's of Hogan's Heroes and I feel that this season had several of the best shows. Most TV series get worse after the first few seasons as they struggle for new material for story lines. The writers on Hogan's Heroes always managed to keep the war going strong and I never tire of the show.

This show is among the all time greatest comedies. It was and is a marvelous program suitable for all ages. I have always loved this series and watched for it to come on, which was, unfortunately, all too infrequently. Now, I can watch it as and when I wish on DVD.

The story line of a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany in which American "prisoners" are running an "underground railroad" right under the noses of the Germans could easily have gone down a different road and not have been the great comedy it became. It would only have taken a change in casting, using American actors for all the parts. The casting department must have seen this, because many of the actors actually came from the countries they represented. John Banner, for instance, was actually a German soldier in WWII. Richard Dawson is really British. Many of the French underground were really French, etc. It all folds together to create one of the funniest shows ever produced, and it doesn't matter which episode you see. They are all of a piece, but never the same. Truly a marvelous piece of work which I a proud to own and am looking forward to the release of the 6th (and sadly, the last) season.

Quality of merchandise is very good. These are very entertaining episodes of the comedy series and we look forward to completing our collection.

If you enjoy Hogan's Heroes, this season is a must have. You'll love it. We did!

... it keeps us out of trouble," as Cpl. Newkirk (one of the POW's) says. Add in a bumbling Kommandant, a Sergeant who loves to eat strudle, and some German officers who actually WANT to win the war and you've got Hogan's Heroes. Bob Crane stars as American Colonel and mastermind Robert Hogan, Werner Klemperor as 'the fabulous' Col. Klink, and John Banner as Sgt. Shultz. Hogan's band of saboteurs includes: Robert Clary as the loveable little Frenchman LeBeau, Richard Dawson plays the English, safe-cracking Newkirk, Ivan Dixon is an American named Kinchloe who handles all the radio stuff, and finally Larry Hovis as Carter, demolishions expert if you trust him around explosives. I sure wouldn't!

We watch this as a family. It is as funny and delightful now as when I first watched it with my family as a child on our black and white television. Our children also watch it with their friends, all of whom love it. I think it might be the first real "ensemble acting" series. The interplay among the actors is wonderful.

As always i was pleased with most of the episodes!
Not the best season of the show, but still very good!