

These are the funny Nazis."Ĭrane's sexual behavior did affect other castmates. "Bob, what are you talking about?" the agent said, according to Robert's 2015 book about his dad. When his agent sent Crane the script for Heroes, the actor mistook it for a drama. That led to a regular spot as a happy-go-lucky dentist on The Donna Reed Show.

After legendary TV writer Carl Reiner appeared on Crane's radio show, he gave the broadcaster a guest gig as a philandering husband on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Before going in front of the camera, the Connecticut-born Crane made his name as a radio host, interviewing Marilyn Monroe, Bob Hope, and Charlton Heston on CBS' L.A. Along the way, it made Crane, who played the womanizing Col. Very loosely inspired by World War II movies like The Great Escape (1963), Heroes featured a motley crew of inmates in a German prisoner-of-war camp outfoxing a remarkably inept Third Reich for six seasons. Yet when it debuted on CBS in the fall of 1965, Hogan's Heroes was an overnight hit. IN THE 1960S, SITCOMS WITH LAME jokes punctuated by a bad laugh track were the norm, but only one dared to mix that cheesiness with bumbling Nazis.
