If you though most of today's TV is bad...

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by fireftr18

And I'm one of them.

Did you realize that Hogan's Heroes was loosely based on Stalag 17?

yep. lots of interesting trivia with that show.

like... Sgt Schulz actor John Banner left Austria with a traveling show before hostilities, while he was gone, crap hit the fan... ultimately his family died in a concentration camp.

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by fireftr18

Did you realize that Hogan's Heroes was loosely based on Stalag 17?

The main reason I tracked down S17 and watched it. It's a great movie.

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

yep. lots of interesting trivia with that show.

like... Sgt Schulz actor John Banner left Austria with a traveling show before hostilities, while he was gone, crap hit the fan... ultimately his family died in a concentration camp.

Lots of the characters were jewish and some of them had experiences in concentration camps.

Still one of my favorite shows of all time no matter where the actors came from.