Hogan's Heroes (tv) . The Boston Phoenix . 12-01-97

Hogan's Heroes (tv)

DIRECTED BY: Wilhelm Klink

REVIEWED: 12-01-97

Hogan's Heroes was truly a creature of its time. This tasteless sit-com about a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp could not have been made in the sanitized '50s or the more politically correct '70s, but it fit right in with the high-concept shows of the '60s. It was established in the first episode that the American prisoners had built an underground hideout, which was mildly implausible. In order to sustain this joke, the hideout became more and more elaborate, and the series became completely divorced from reality. One saving grace about Hogan's Heroes is that it may have been necessary to savage the German military before TV could get away with doing the same thing to American generals on M*A*S*H.

Taken from The Boston Phoenix's "50 Years and Counting," a retrospective of the most influential programs from television's first half-century. Click here for the full article.

--Robert David Sullivan

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All in the Family (tv)
The Brady Bunch (tv)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show (tv)

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