Hogan's Heroes (1965)

5 mistakes in Watch the Trains Go By

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Starring: Bob Crane, John Banner, Robert Clary, Werner Klemperer

Genres: Comedy, War

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Watch the Trains Go By - S4-E19

Visible crew/equipment: As Carter and Newkirk are caught by the wire, the shadow of the camera pulling back is seen on the ground.

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Watch the Trains Go By - S4-E19

Continuity mistake: As Schultz is by the car, Hogan is behind the fire brigade equipment. When Klink calls Schultz, Hogan gets up from behind the equipment. A second later, in a closeup, he comes up from behind the equipment again.

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Watch the Trains Go By - S4-E19

Visible crew/equipment: As Schultz stops the car, studio equipment is reflected in the windows.

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Watch the Trains Go By - S4-E19

Visible crew/equipment: As Linkmeyer and Klink get in the car, a man in a white shirt can be seen moving around the camera position in the reflection on the car under her window.

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Watch the Trains Go By - S4-E19

Visible crew/equipment: When Klink is by the fence acting busy and talking to Schultz, twice you can see the shadow of the camera on Klink's overcoat.

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Quotes

Never Play Cards with Strangers - S4-E7

Hogan: You wanted to see me, Commandant?
Klink: Yes, I do. Hogan, one of the most important men in Germany today is visiting Stalag 13.
Hogan: [Looking at Hitler's picture] Old Bubble head's coming here?

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Trivia

The Reluctant Target - S2-E30

Trivia: When Klink is begging Hogan to trade places with him for fear of assassination, he says to him something like."I want to live til 80...all my family has lived til 80." Werner Klemperer, who played Klink, passed away in 2000 aged 80.

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Questions

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.

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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.

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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.

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