Bob Crane

Bob Crane plays Col. Robert Hogan on Hogan’s Heroes, the 1960s sitcom of Allied POWs running rings around bumbling Luftwaffe officers from inside Stalag 13 — WWII as high-wire farce. Klemperer’s Klink, Banner’s Schultz, a controversial camp premise turned into clockwork syndication. Suspension of historical disbelief required and never free. Hogan is the tunnel as a personality. Crane makes a barracks feel like a con, which is the joke and the problem. File the run as CBS, 1965–1971: a 1960s assignment Hogan's Heroes cannot subcontract. Col. Robert Hogan still has to do the week.

On-ramp: s01e01, filed as The Informer is the high-wire contract: Allied POWs running rings around Luftwaffe bumblers, WWII as sitcom architecture from inside the wire. Hogan's Heroes treats that hour as the open. Bob is not a later garnish.

The mid-file marker is s01e03. Kommandant of the Year — Klemperer's Klink as vanity farce, Banner's Schultz already the look-the-other-way engine. If you want the last listed hour, s03e01 still reads The Crittendon Plan opens season three as allied-bungling comedy: Crane's Hogan still the tailor of the camp. He is not a guest of the premise there. Col. Robert Hogan is why the later hour still has a human temperature.

The farce is the product; the premise is the argument. On TV Flash he is 1960s sitcom craft — the Hogan who photographed as a grin and played as the reason the Stalag still sits uneasy in reruns. CBS kept the lights on; this desk keeps Crane. Watch the hours that stay on Col. Robert Hogan when the format wants a product.