I have seen every episode of Hogan's Heroes in seasons 1 thru 5. I haven't gotten around to getting season 6 yet. I have noticed in a few episodes, Hogan refers to his home town. In 1 particular episode, he mentions Bridgeport Connecticut as his home. His quote is something like "I can't wait to get back to Bridgeport Connecticut". In the episode "to the gestapo with love" one of the girls interrogating Hogan mentions Cleveland Ohio as his home, and Hogan doesn't dispute it. I'm not sure if it was a gaffe in the writing or if hogan was purposely not disputing it to throw the gestapo off.

Doesn't he also mention Milwaukee - or am I just thinking of when Hochstetter asked if they'd met and he asked, 'Ever been to Milwaukee?" He could have had relatives there, trained near there, etc.

I think he was trying to throw the Gestapo off - and I wouldn't be surprised if he's from somewhere else entirely, even than we ever heard. Remember how he kind of mysteriously tels Carter once, "There's a lot about me you dn't know."

I even read one fic...well, I won't spoil it. "The Meister Manipulator," I think it is. There's some really good ideas out there on a lot of things about Hogan, Klink, etc.

Coincidently, with regards to Bridgeport, Connecticut being mentioned on the show as being where Hogan was from, Bob Crane himself was born and raised in the state of Connecticut. :tiphat:

In season 2 episode "Hogans Gives a birthday party" The german general who claims repsonsibility for shooting down hogan seems to imply that hogan is from Indianapolis.

Apparently the writers didn't conference with each other about what was first given as his hometown.

Apparently the writers didn't conference with each other about what was first given as his hometown.

The writers did drop the ball a lot. I wonder if they could have envisioned the Internet and how people would have access to all sorts of information, would they have tried to be more exact with story lines. The gaffs were all through the series. The continuity of the timeline was non existent. When you apply the story line to real events in history the entire show covered less that one year in real time. Case in point season 1 "I look better in basic black." You have a trio of American women singer entertaining in Germany. This would only happen AFTER the invasion. Since at the end Hogan asked for an extra hour of light to celebrate armistice day. Then that would place in the time period of Nov 1944. Season two "operation briefcase" having to do with the assignation attempt on Hitler would place that episode in the week of July 20th 1944. Seeing the war ended in May of 1945 that would have the entire series taking place in a period of time right at one year.

Not to mention episodes that do not follow a time line. The final episode in season 6 when Hogan is waiting in the cabin and lily frankel enters hodan says in a quetion form "frankel?" and she replaies "lily" making seem that neither knew each other. Hogan spend the rest of the episode trying to get to know her better. However in season 5 "6 lesson with Madame LaGrange" It is clear that Hogan and Lilly Frankel know each other very well and she ends up leaving germany at the end of the episode. how many time did Tiger leave germany over the years only to return in another episode?

The pilot episode and the early part of the first season seems to say that the series was based earlier in the 1940s but the last part of season one and on clearly indicates it was 1944 and on. Interesting item though no matter what time of the year it was there always seemed to be some snow on the ground.

Right, it seems like there's always that snow on the exterior sets. Thank you for the WWII notes. When Hogan mentioned Armistice Day, of course he was referring to the holiday that celebrated the anniversary of the end of the First World War. It's interesting that many younger people today are unfamiliar with the origins of what later became known as Veterans Day (in the U.S.).

Anyway, lots of other series had their share of continuity gaffes as well. For example, on TAGS, Barney Fife's middle name was once given as Milton, while normally he was Bernard P. Fife. Possibly the later writers did not have easy access to all of the previous, existing episodes.

I do recall Hogan's mention of Indianapolis in one episode.

And recently I viewed an episode in which his hometown is stated as Cleveland.