40 Years Ago Today: "Hogan's Heroes" Ended With No Real Resolution - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Brian Damage · 04-04-2011, 10:13 PM

April 4th, 1971 - The final episode of "Hogan's Heroes" aired.

Sitcom Collector · 04-10-2011, 08:49 PM

The final episode of HH had to be the D-Day episode from the third season. Since the Stalag was close to the French border, not too soon after that the Germans would have closed Stalag 13 and moved the prisoners deep into Germany, something Hogan would never have allowed.
I suspect the ending was very anti-climatic. Klink and Schultz woke up one morning and discovered the camp deserted.
What would have followed would be left to your imagination.
But the D-Day episode made a perfect ending/

TMC · 09-03-2018, 04:01 AM

How Hogan’s Heroes Should Have Ended

TheLogoMan94 · 11-23-2019, 10:06 PM

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How Hogan’s Heroes Should Have Ended

Fantastic take on a potential ending! I would’ve loved to see an actual finale. Too bad it never got one.

D-Dey · 11-14-2022, 11:22 PM

I used to think the ending should involve the prisoners revolting and kicking the living crap out of every Nazi guard from Colonel Klink to some random extras playing Soldats. Throw in some escaped Jews from a concentration camp, and you've got a bigger motive for an uprising. Now I think it should involve Colonel Hogan going behind the scenes at the Nuremburg Trials and trying to convince the judges to go easy on Klink and Schultz.

And now, I've got my 5000th post!

Sgt. Saunders · 11-15-2022, 12:12 AM

I’d like to know just what happened to Sgt. Kinchloe on the show? He wasn’t there for HH’s final season.

Did Kinch escape through one of the GIs’ secret tunnels and make his way back to London? If so, didn’t Sgt. Kinchloe’s escape ruin Colonel Klink’s “perfect” record of no successful escapes at Stalag 13?

At the war’s end, would General Burkholder and SS Major Hocksteder face charges as possible war criminals by the victorious Allies?

And, did General Burkholder finally palm his sister off on the decidedly uninterested Wilheim Klink?

torcan · 02-04-2024, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Sgt. Saunders

I’d like to know just what happened to Sgt. Kinchloe on the show? He wasn’t there for HH’s final season.

Did Kinch escape through one of the GIs’ secret tunnels and make his way back to London? If so, didn’t Sgt. Kinchloe’s escape ruin Colonel Klink’s “perfect” record of no successful escapes at Stalag 13?

I always wondered about the Kinch/Baker switch as well - and what happened "between seasons" that would be a plausible explanation.

Too bad there wasn't a proper finale, but in those days it was rare for a show to have a final episode. I think Mary Tyler Moore was one of the earliest, wasn't it?

Charles Knox · 02-04-2024, 02:19 PM

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I always wondered about the Kinch/Baker switch as well - and what happened "between seasons" that would be a plausible explanation.

Too bad there wasn't a proper finale, but in those days it was rare for a show to have a final episode. I think Mary Tyler Moore was one of the earliest, wasn't it?

Leave It To Beaver, The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Fugitive all had series finales. Still very uncommon, but not unheard of. A lot of sitcoms during that period overstayed their welcome and got canned.

Unless Hogan pulled one last stunt and made Klink and Schultz appeared to be geniuses, so they could defect to America and work for Walt Disney or NASA, I just cant imagine there being a happy ending for the two.

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04-10-2011, 08:49 PM	#2
Sitcom Collector Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Nov 12, 2010 Posts: 31	The final episode of HH had to be the D-Day episode from the third season. Since the Stalag was close to the French border, not too soon after that the Germans would have closed Stalag 13 and moved the prisoners deep into Germany, something Hogan would never have allowed. I suspect the ending was very anti-climatic. Klink and Schultz woke up one morning and discovered the camp deserted. What would have followed would be left to your imagination. But the D-Day episode made a perfect ending/

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Sgt. Saunders Member Forum Regular Join Date: Nov 27, 2021 Location: The Garden State Posts: 540	I’d like to know just what happened to Sgt. Kinchloe on the show? He wasn’t there for HH’s final season. Did Kinch escape through one of the GIs’ secret tunnels and make his way back to London? If so, didn’t Sgt. Kinchloe’s escape ruin Colonel Klink’s “perfect” record of no successful escapes at Stalag 13? At the war’s end, would General Burkholder and SS Major Hocksteder face charges as possible war criminals by the victorious Allies? And, did General Burkholder finally palm his sister off on the decidedly uninterested Wilheim Klink?