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16th Oct 2016

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

16th Oct 2016

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

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.

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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.

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.

Captain Defenestrator

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).

Captain Defenestrator

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)

16th Oct 2016

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

16th Oct 2016

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

16th Oct 2016

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

Trivia: In the first few seasons the "snow" was actually salt piled in strategic places, along with patches of white paint. Later on, it was all white paint on the roofs and ground.

Movie Nut

16th Oct 2016

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

16th Oct 2016

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

16th Oct 2016

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

Bad Day in Berlin - S4-E11

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.

Movie Nut

16th Oct 2016

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

16th Oct 2016

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

The Gasoline War - S5-E4

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.

Movie Nut

16th Oct 2016

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

Trivia: Larry Hovis (Sgt. Carter) refused to remove his wedding band, and so, he usually (with several exceptions) wore gloves.

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16th Oct 2016

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

The Klink Commandos - S5-E3

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.

Movie Nut

16th Oct 2016

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

16th Oct 2016

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

16th Oct 2016

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

16th Oct 2016

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

16th Oct 2016

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

16th Oct 2016

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

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