Avoiding Controversy with Tasteful Comedy: Hogan’s Heroes (TV Showcase #37)

This is one of the few classic television shows that is still highly recommended and watched by people my age, albeit it’s not as popular as other shows like “Get Smart” or “The Twilight Zone“. At surface level, this show is very much like many other 1960s sitcoms, and the style of humour is basically the same. But I’d like to mention something else the show did, completely outside of its technical aspects. So let’s take a trip back to the 1940s and over the pond to wonderful Germany in a look at “Hogan’s Heroes”.

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