Trivia: Howard Caine, who was best known as Major Wolfgang Hochstetter, was born in Tennessee, was Jewish, and served in the United States Navy in WWII in the Pacific fighting the Japanese. He was fluent in 32 American and foreign dialects.
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16th Oct 2016
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
16th Oct 2016
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Trivia: Werner Klemperer (Kommandant Wilhelm Klink) was born in 1920. So here when he says to Carter, "I am 49", he's declaring his real age.
16th Oct 2016
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Visible crew/equipment: As Klink and Schultz approach the barracks where Le Beau is "weightlifting", there is a cord or cable along the ground that would be for studio equipment.
16th Oct 2016
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Continuity mistake: As Schultz takes the balloons away from Hogan, Newkirk is nowhere to be seen. A second later, he witnesses the entire scene.
16th Oct 2016
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Continuity mistake: As Klink asks about the forecast, his hand is around the microphone end of the receiver, then a moment later it's around the handle.
16th Oct 2016
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
The Antique - S5-E12
Question: When Hogan gives Klink $100 for the cuckoo clock, the bill handed over was a crisp American $100 note. How did Hogan get an American $100 note? At best, in this time period, he should only have Reich Marks. And how would he have 333 Marks, 33 pfennigs? Unless he had a side businesses going, this seems unlikely.
Answer: Werner Klemperer fled Nazi Germany as a teenager. His two conditions for taking the role of Colonel Klink were that he had to be a bumbling idiot and he always had to lose. It would then be a character mistake that if Hogan offers him a fresh American hundred-dollar bill, he's not going to ask questions, he's going to take the deal. The fact that he's Commandant and could just confiscate the money from Hogan would never occur to him because, again, he's a bumbling idiot who, by the actor's contract, always has to lose.
Chosen answer: Hogan and his men are running a spy ring out of the camp, they have access to supplies from outside. (In another episode, they have to convince a defecting German officer that they're legitimately working for the Allies by arranging a specific personal ad to run in the next day's London Times, so a new $100 bill is not beyond their capabilities).
Answer: Rightfully, Hogan should not have any money at all. POW were stripped of all cash they carried. The intention was to make escape more difficult. The fact that Hogan has what is the equivalent of a third of the price of a KdF-Wagen (You'd probably know it as a Volkswagen Beetle) in cash should rightfully make Klink more than a litle suspicious.
16th Oct 2016
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Continuity mistake: In this episode, the picture next to the light switch wire is a group seated around a table. In "The Defector" (S5:Ep10) the picture was of Hitler making a speech, and the microphone he's speaking into hides the Heroes' bug.
16th Oct 2016
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Continuity mistake: As the men are lined up, Klink starts to grill Hogan. Klink has his pistol aimed directly at Hogan, then it's at a 35 degree angle toward and close to Hogan's face. A moment later it's about two feet away from his face.
16th Oct 2016
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Continuity mistake: In Room 210, Newkirk's sleeves are down to his wrists, but in the close up of his hands, the sleeves are totally missing.
16th Oct 2016
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
16th Oct 2016
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Visible crew/equipment: As the car with the kidnapped Klink takes off, the Stalag 13 buildings are reflected in the windows, along with the camera equipment and lighting. (00:01:20)
16th Oct 2016
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Will the Blue Baron Strike Again? - S4-E12
Continuity mistake: The cigar Hogan takes from Klink goes from green to light brown when starts to name the top invitees to the party.
16th Oct 2016
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Continuity mistake: As the ambulance leaves the hotel, there is snow on top of the fenders and spare tire. Back at the truck, there is snow on the fenders, but not the spare. This would be impossible as at the speed driven, the snow would have blown off any horizontal surface.
16th Oct 2016
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Continuity mistake: As Hogan, Carter, and Newkirk go to get out of the Army truck, the ambulance doors are wide open. As Hogan walks by, the doors are straight out toward the truck.
16th Oct 2016
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Other mistake: As Schultz goes to stick a pin in the map, he supposedly hits his finger. But if you look closely, he actually stuck it in the map at the very tip of his finger. This is clear because he didn't move the pin at all.
16th Oct 2016
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
16th Oct 2016
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Trivia: The idea was for the series was to always be winter, so that the episodes could be shown in any order, hence the reason there is always snow on the roofs and ground, and frost on the windows. In fact, the filming was mainly done in summer, with temperatures in the 90s, and the actors had to wear their coats, and act as if it were cold.
16th Oct 2016
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Continuity mistake: In this episode, the Notausgang (Emergency Exit) sign is over the door. In other episodes, it is on the door.
16th Oct 2016
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Continuity mistake: The bridge Buckles and the boys put TNT on is significantly different than the one blown up. Also, the one destroyed is a re-used shot of a bridge being blown up.
16th Oct 2016
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Other mistake: As Buckles holds up the scale model of the Bismarck, the diagonal cut where it's supposed to "break" is visible.
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Answer: It's a comedy, not a documentary.
stiiggy
Perhaps it was counterfeit. There are numerous episodes where they deal in counterfeit monies.