Hogan's Heroes - The Complete 2nd Season
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Movie Reviews of Hogan's Heroes - The Complete 2nd Season
Movie Review: Love It
Summary: 5 Stars
Best TV show!! The Family loves it! Great way to spend the evening with the Family!Movie Review: "Hogan's Heroes" ramps it up in Season 2
Summary: 4 Stars
A number of things have changed between the premiere Season 1 DVD set and this one, for Season 2.
For one thing, the box set is smaller. It has a few less episodes (because that's what TV networks began doing at the time, ordering fewer episodes), and the five disks that comprise the season are contained in three cases.
Not that that's a bad thing. It really doesn't make any difference. What does make a difference is the menu that is used for this edition of the show. Season 1 merely had a static menu with a picture and the episode titles. People often complain about such bare-bones menus...but as the saying goes, be careful what you wish for, because in Season 2 we get it: a nicely-done animated menu -- with an obnoxiously loud audio track that includes sirens and military drum rolls (which is why this DVD set rates four stars instead of five). The drumming's harsh repetitiveness can be merely annoying in the daytime...but in the evening, try falling asleep watching an episode, only to be jarred awake by strident drums when the episode is over and the DVD jogs back to the main menu.
On the other hand, this time we do get something else buyers complained about last time: features, including a photo gallery, some on-the-set home movies, network promos and more. They're a welcome addition.
Like the previous set, these episodes are also closed-captioned, though you can access them only through your TV's remote control, not your DVD player or any on-screen menu. Kind of odd, but at least they're there.
As for the shows themselves: it's obvious that in Season 2 the series was finding its stride. The missions become more dangerous, the villains more villainous. By this point the writers have managed to inject a more serious side without necessarily giving up the hi-jinks that made the show so popular in the first place. In "Diamonds in the Rough", for example, the heroes encounter a Gestapo man who knows literally everything about their operation; and "Operation Briefcase" roughly tracks the real-life assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler, including some (fictional) very tense moments when the bomb looks like it may go off prematurely.
More location shooting (and a wider variety of interior sets) indicate that the series was, by this time, operating with a somewhat larger budget. In the two-parter "A Tiger Hunt in Paris", we even go to gay Paree.
What doesn't change is that the shows are still quite funny, if unbelievable. Even fans of the series will have to admit that the plots have more holes in them than a lace shawl. In many episodes, all it would take is a conversation between two of the characters for them to realize that they have been duped by Hogan. (In "A Tiger Hunt in Paris", for example, Klink, in Paris, checks by phone with Cpl. Gruber (actually Newkirk) and determines that Hogan has not left Stalag 13. But when Klink returns to camp, it would require only one conversation with the real Cpl. Gruber to reveal that Gruber never received such a call.) There are dozens of such incidents scattered throughout the series, so plot-wise the episodes don't bear much inspection.
Also, you may have trouble believing Hogan's German aliases, such as "Hoganmeyer". An Irish name combined with a Jewish-sounding one. Yeah, that'd be convincing in Nazi Germany.
You're better off if you just go along with it all and have fun.
Quality-wise, the season opener, "Hogan Gives a Birthday Party" seems to suffer from poor contrast. But really, that's not too unusual in DVDs made from shows 40 years old. One volume of "M*A*S*H" has an episode transferred from 16mm, because all the 35mm prints were, unfortunately, in bad condition. So this is nothing new, and thankfully it is rare. We're lucky to have the good quality prints we do have, and once again CBS has done a very nice job of mastering them, ensuring that you will enjoy these episodes over and over again.
If only they hadn't put that damned drumming on the menu....
Movie Review: Best season of all...
Summary: 5 Stars
I love Hogans Heroes, and this season is my favorite. If you haven't bought a HH season yet, buy this first. Why? Because it is the best season of all and has the best episode of the series "Art for Hogan's Sake."
It is hard to imagine HH without all of the main characters, that is why the final season without Kinchlow is the least favorite of mine. HH#2 is the most original and most humorous of all. (But all of the others are VERY enjoyable as well.) You will be able watch these over and over again. They are all family friendly...unless you don't want your kids watching Hogan kiss a girl in every episode.
Movie Review: "CBS Presents This Program In Color"
Summary: 5 Stars
It's great to see this second season of Hogan's Heroes so perfectly intact, that each episode still wears the network announcement that it is in color (which also appears at the beginning of 31 of 32 first season DVD shows). By (1966-67) all prime time television was broadcast in color, though during season one (1965-66) Hogan in color was up against ABC's The Addams Family in black and white on Friday nights. Season two of Hogan's Heroes is just as brilliant as season one. Watching the episodes in chronolgical order, it's evident that Hogan's Heroes hit it's stride from the very beginning.Movie Review: Complete episodes we never saw on t.v.!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the most fun we've had "watching t.v." in a long time. We grew up watching Hogan's Heroes reruns. I taped as many episodes as I could in recent years for our children to enjoy as we had. They love this show! But we suspected that increased number of commercials had cut into the episodes. We imagined segments of film lying on the cutting room floor. Well, now we know that to be true - we had missed so much great comedic content! There are numerous scenes or parts of scenes per episode that never made it onto the small screen. Now we have complete episodes, and we just love every one of them. Such underrated comedic actors! Such an underrated show. We'll certainly be buying every season.