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Hogan's Heroes - The Complete Fourth Season

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The 26 episodes in this slim 4-DVD package contain those that aired in the 4th season from 22 September 1968 to 22 March 1969. There are no extra features like those in the boxed sets for Seasons 2 & 3.

The episodes you get in this package include:
Episode 1: Clearance Sale at the Black Market
Episode 2: Klink vs. the Gonculator
Episode 3: How to Catch a Papa Bear
Episode 4: Hogan's Trucking Service...We Deliver the Factory to You
Episode 5: To the Gestapo with Love
Episode 6: Man's Best Friend Is Not His Dog
Episode 7: Never Play Cards with Strangers
Episode 8: Color the Luftwaffe Red
Episode 9: Guess Who Came to Dinner?
Episode 10: No Names Please
Episode 11: Bad Day in Berlin
Episode 12: Will the Blue Baron Strike Again
Episode 13: Will the Real Colonel Klink Please Stand Up Against the Wall?
Episode 14: Man in a Box
Episode 15: The Missing Klink
Episode 16: Who Stole My Copy of Mein Kampf?
Episode 17: Operation Hannibal
Episode 18: My Favorite Prisoner
Episode 19: Watch the Trains Go By
Episode 20: Klink's Old Flame
Episode 21: Up in Klink's Room
Episode 22: The Purchasing Plan
Episode 23: The Witness
Episode 24: The Big Dish
Episode 25: The Return of Major Bonacelli
Episode 26: Happy Birthday, Dear Hogan

Werner Klemperer (Col. Klink) would win an Emmy award, Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in Season 4.

Look for more hilarious antics from Hogan and company. It's another keeper!

I have been eagerly awaiting the release of season four as I am sure many other have been. I do own all previous seasons on DVD and am thrilled with the audio/video transfer. But has anyone else noticed a weak mastering of the audio on season 4? I have to turn up my TV louder to hear it which produces that "white noise" sound in the background. Oh well, I can deal with it. Can't wait for season 5!!!!

Another trip to Luftstalag 13, mind you still there has never been an escape from Stalag 13. Maybe, Just maybe this will be the year of the first escape!? Not if the Iron Colonel has anything to say about it.

Another hilarious season of Hogan's Heroes. The series really began to excel at the fourth season, the show was established, and the cast had grown together.

We see some familiar guests' appearances, Colonel X, with his elite commandos appears, who outranks Hogan. Many funny episodes from the crew at Stalag 13, and Schultz is fantastic. As stated earlier extras are lacking, but at least we have a reasonable release time. So hurry and add this season to your collection and hope it holds you over until the fifth season is released.

Same outrageous comedy/action as in the first three seasons- that's good.
The color/picture restoration is good (on the couple of episodes I've watched so far) and I haven't noticed any sound trouble- that's also good.
This time around you get only 26 episodes instead of 30-32 and no extras of any sort- that's really a cheap stunt for the DVD people to pull. No deleted scenes, no subtitling (it is closed captioned), no added extras (season 2 had several very good ones), not a single episode has a commentary or added photo gallery. This time around the producers didn't even bother to thank the surviving cast members and their families, you get nothing beyond episode dates and outlines on the DVD cases.
The set is well worth owning, I just hope that when season 5 comes out someone puts out some extras of some sort- they really add to the experience.

I remember watching the reruns of Hogans Heroes on TV years ago and I loved the show. Then the channels that carried them either dropped the reruns or changed the time where I couldn't see it often. The DVDs have allowed me to see many of the episodes I enjoyed without commercial interruptions. I give the entire series a thumbs up, including the 4th Season.

The complete Fourth Season is worth buying if you are a Hogan's Heroes fan but as each year in the series progressed I liked it less. The first year was by far my favorite. The series still makes me laugh and remember the times I watched it with my Dad.

... it keeps us out of trouble," as Cpl. Newkirk (one of the POW's) says. Add in a bumbling Kommandant, a fat 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!

The Fourth Season of HOGAN'S HEROES picks up right where the Third Season ended. HOGAN'S HEROES was one of the few series where, with the exception of Ivan Dixon's departure toward the end of the show's run, there were no drastic changes season to season. That is probably why the series did so well in syndication in that you could mix and match or otherwise view the episodes in any order without losing continuity. Even those shows that did harken back to an earlier storyline, like Klink's recurring encounters with General Burkhalter's sister, could well stand on their own merit.

Much as we noted in the second half of Season Three, the overall story lines were a little more vague regarding the war's timeline. In Season Four we have additional references to Stalingrad as if it were an on-going campaign.

Toward the end of the fourth season there are an increasing number of out-of-camp episodes with Hogan and his crew found in the local hotel, a hospital, or a German headquarters. There are also more episodes with Burkhalter and Hochstetter appearing in the same show. I still marvel at the fact that the outdoor Stalag 13 set was only separated from sprawling Culver City by tree studded earthen berm. Overall the production team did a fantastic job in making us believe that the camp was out in the county somewhere. Season four is the first time you can spot two California palm trees sneaking into the scene over background barracks roofs.

As the show neared the end of the 1960s the number of episodes per season also dropped. Season Four contains 26 shows. That is still a healthy number when you consider the pitiful number of episodes boasted by today's half-hour television series.

Hogan and his team have changed very little. Schultz is just as lovable as he was in the earlier episodes. His boyish expressions still steal every scene, even when he is in the background. At times Klink's character is a slightly stricter than in previous seasons. No doubt this was to refresh the notion that the POWs were still fairly new to the compound. Despite its several year run, Season Four is still hilarious.

About the only thing missing in this DVD set are special features. When you buy Season Four you get just that. Still it is worth the modest price to continue the HOGAN'S HEROES saga.

We already owned the first 3 seasons and couldn't wait until season 4 came out. Our kids love the show and it's one of my husband's favorites. Klink is hilarious, Schultz is so loveably dumb and Carter is a real kick. These are ageless. My Dad in his 70's still likes them, we like them (not saying how old we are, but plenty old), and my kids like them too, they're teenagers.

this is a box set you cant aford too pass up for its great fun for the whole family too watch , funny and lovable as well, and it is just a wonderfull time I had watching the show on the tv and now you can buy in on box set on dvd, my thinking get the boxsets let your kids watch something that has humor not killing and crime and dope and ect. not too teach them the world is a bas place out there all. tks.