Hogan's Heroes

Otto o.sell at telda.net
Sun Apr 8 12:41:40 CDT 2001


From: Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
To: Michel Ryckx <michel.ryckx at freebel.net>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: VV(12): Benjamin --> Klemperer

Dave asked:
> By the way, am curious, any
> of the Europeans, and, esp. the Germans on the list
> ever see the American sitcome, "Hogan's Heroes"?  Set
> in a Luftwaffe P.O.W. camp?  WK, a Jew whose family
> had fled the Nazis (his father was the famous
> symphonic conductor), played the lovable screw-up
> commandant, Colonel Klink.  One wonders how this even
> got on the air.  TV Land (an "oldies" cable station
> here) has been running whole evenings of it lately,
> though ...
>

No, I'm sorry, but I remember a sitcom whose name I don't know about the
stupid German soldiers and the prisoners running the camp in fact. Have seen
it once or twice but I'm a Mash-fan.
I'm not (and have not been in the last fifteen years) much into tv, I mostly
watch soccer and, I admit, occasionally The Simpsons - but tonight there
will be Deep Impact with many commercial breaks of course.
The proliferation/americanisation of the channels hasn't increased the
quality, more to the contrary. I guess I would like TV Land, watching old
Bonanza and Daktari and Hawai 50 and . . .

Otto






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