HOGAN’S HEROES - THE COMPLETE SERIES (CBS 1967-72) EXCELLENT RETAIL QUALITY!!! Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Richard Dawson, Larry Hovis, Robert Clary, Ivan Dixon, Kenneth Washington

Set in Stalag 13 – a Luftwaffe POW camp outside of Hammelburg, Germany, in the middle of World War II – the premise of this sitcom was that American prisoners of war would have no desire to escape from a German prison camp if they could use their superior intelligence to aid other allies in escaping from the camp while making their surroundings as comfortable as a luxury resort. Naturally, in order to accomplish all this, the Germans running the camp – including the Kommandant, Luftwaffe Colonel Klink (Werner Klemperer), and his main prison guard, Sergeant Schultz (John Banner) – would have to be fairly incompetent, inept and somewhat stupid. Since the depiction of these befuddled officers bore little resemblance to the way real-life Nazis behaved, this TV show has always been surrounded in controversy. Ever since it first aired, many objections were raised over the fact that the German soldiers on this series acted like lovable buffoons – “I know nothing, I see nothing” – rather than