Product Details

• Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Richard Dawson, Robert Clary
• Writers: Albert S. Ruddy, Art Baer, Arthur Julian, Ben Gershman, Ben Joelson
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 27
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: June 5, 2007
• Run Time: 4281 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (64 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000P5FH4O
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,187 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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The inmates of a German World War II Prisoners of War camp conduct espionage and sabotage campaign right under the noses of their warders. While the enemy is often gullible, easily fooled or downright incompetent – the real strength of Hogan’s men are the elaborate ruses and sometimes dangerous lengths they will go to complete their mission. This Boxset includes Seasons 1 - 6.

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40 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good things come to those who wait, May 14, 2007

By	Crowhurst (New York, USA) - See all my reviews

It took me years to assemble something close to a complete collection of Hogan's Heroes episodes from the heavily edited television re-runs back in the 1990's. It was a labor of love that paid off well in the years before the ascendency of the digital video disc.

Of all the wonderful television classics now released to DVD, none excites me more than Hogan's Heroes. I have been patiently awaiting the day when the complete series would become available and I am thrilled that that day is finally here.

Having said that I think greater care and attention to detail should have been devoted to the presentation and packaging of this one-of-a-kind television classic. I would have liked to have seen more DVD extras including more commentary, interviews, subtitle options, maybe a half-hour documentary, and definately a specially designed box to house all the DVDs (for example the box could have been a mock TNT detonator, or maybe a footlocker, or a shortwave radio... hello? it's not hard to think of ideas for packaging this collection). This product is simply the individual season packages bundled together in shrink wrap. But I guess one can't expect that the major studios to be interested in anything much more than the quick buck. Just look at the hack job they did with TV classics like WKRP In Cincinnati and Happy Days which resulted from studios unwillingness to pay for the rights to include the original music from these series in the DVD releases.

Fortunately music copyright royalties are not an issue with the DVD release of Hogan's Heroes. Fans everywhere can now enjoy, complete and without interruption, any and every episode of the heroics of Hogan and his men in the comfort of their own home. If this isn't modern living then I don't know what is!

29 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth waiting for the complete set, July 2, 2007

By	S. Reichman (SE Penna.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The complete set of six seasons was well worth the wait. I saw Season Six at Walmart and almost bought it there but when I found the complete set on Amazon, it was one of those, "now's the time" purchases (wincing as I clicked the purchase button...) ;^D

You will fine all the episodes very entertaining with lots of healthy laughs. It is really neat watching my kids enjoy the program as much as I have and still do.

The problem is tearing them away from small installments (they wanted to watch four in one sitting). 168 episodes is alot but most of us who saw the originals and re-runs had to wait a week at a time - the wonders of technology today.

Anyhow, the quality of this set is excellent, remastered DVDs, there are a few bonuses on some of the season sets, if there was a negative more bonus material would have been a plus.

Opinion statement: Some say M*A*S*H was the all time hit, Actually I liked Hogan's Heros more and it was more family friendly, very minimal adult-type humor, Hogan's Heros has the type of humor the kids can enjoy, even at their level. Hogan's Heros successful six seasons paved the way for M*A*S*H to become a reality and a success.

It is a good family friendly set and I'll not hesitate to recommend it. It is an investment in some fun moments with you spouse and kids! (...that's 65 cents per episode...)

36 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Colonel Klink? Make that Emmy award Best-Supporting-Actor Werner Klemperer/Klink! & Well deserved was it., June 6, 2007

By	tendays komyathy (U.S.A. & elsewhere traveling) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

The comedian Gilbert Gottfried (AF-lac!) has a bit about the least likely idea to make a sitcom about. Picture this: A Nazi-era German prisoner-of-war camp; allied inmates behind barbed-wire. It's a Comedy! Yeah, right. But somehow it made it into production & now it's out on DVD, finally. I'm not saying it's the greatest sitcom or anything, but it's a vaudevillian incarnation; a treat of the first order, and can be watched again and again---the test of a genuinely whimsical show. ("Family Ties" & "Barney Miller," amongst others, were funny when they were running, but are not at all interesting to me anymore, for instance.) Quite possibly, the thing that saves "Hogan's Heroes" is that it wasn't contemporary when it came out. The plots of this WW2-set show run the gamut of the allied inmates trying to swipe or disable anything of a military nature that passes through the camp, to kidnapping German scientists, blowing up bridges miles from camp, and impersonating German officers in town...as they utilize escape tunnels to leave and return to camp, as well as employing hidden radio transmitters to send and receive coded messages from London, and most importantly play on Camp Kommandant Colonel Klink's gullibility to make him an unwitting partner in some measure, in their exploits. TV programs set in specific historical periods are simply not as easily "dated" as other shows are (think of "Sanford & Son," "Growing Pains; even dramas the likes of "Hill St. Blues"). "M*A*S*H," for instance, is still a great show and, like Hogan's Heroes," is holding up well. Exaggerated characters helps too---think of Hawkeye Pierce's Groucho Marx-inspired one-liners in "M*A*S*H." Colonel Klink likewise is a standout, and is thus (in my opinion at least) the real star of "Hogan's Heroes;" in the same sense that Gracie Allen was more essential than George Burns in making the great Burns & Allen combination successful. Klink's flamboyantly delicious delivery of his oft-repeated (of course, ridiculously untrue) lines, admonishing anyone and everyone that "There has Nev-er been an escape from Stalag 13!" or "This is the toughest P-O-W camp in all of Germany," never get old. Even funnier is when he cannot even finish such lines before being told to shut up by General Burkhalter or other visiting superior officers. While you're at it too, there's another show very much like this one. It was made in the the UK and is called "Allo, Allo." It's also set in WW2 Europe, but this time in a German-occupied French town. Akin to "Hogan's Heroes" the Germans are likewise obtuse while the French resistance attempts to persuade the same unfortunate cafe owner each episode to facilitate their wacky schemes along the lines of Hogan's men. Check out some reviews of it. If you're a fan of "Hogan's Heroes" you'll probably think it a riot; I do. Cheers!