More than 60 years after it first premiered, one classic WWII sitcom is still finding an audience on Prime Video.
Hogan’s Heroes is currently listed among the highly rated shows on Prime Video’s Rotten Tomatoes page, where it has a 100% audience score. The series is also available to stream in its entirety, with all six seasons on Prime Video.
‘Hogan’s Heroes’ Ran for Six Seasons
The CBS series debuted on Sept. 17, 1965, and ran for six seasons before ending in 1971. It starred Bob Crane as Colonel Robert Hogan, the leader of a group of Allied prisoners secretly conducting espionage and sabotage missions from inside a German POW camp.
Werner Klemperer played the bumbling German commandant Colonel Klink, while John Banner portrayed Sgt. Hans Schultz. The ensemble also included Robert Clary, Richard Dawson, Larry Hovis, and Ivan Dixon.
The unusual premise allowed the show to turn the POW camp into the setting for a traditional sitcom, with Hogan and his fellow prisoners repeatedly outsmarting their German captors while secretly helping the Allied war effort.
The Classic Sitcom Still Has a 100% Audience Score
The audience score is what makes Hogan’s Heroes particularly interesting on today’s streaming landscape.
Rotten Tomatoes currently lists the series with a 100% Popcornmeter score, although the site notes that it has fewer than 50 audience ratings. The first season also has a 100% Tomatometer score based on three critics’ reviews.
The show also has a 7.8/10 rating on IMDb from more than 14,000 users, suggesting its appeal extends well beyond the relatively small Rotten Tomatoes audience sample.
It’s Still Available to Stream on Prime Video
For anyone looking to revisit the series, Prime Video currently has all six seasons available.
The streaming service describes the show as a comedy set in a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp, where the inmates conduct espionage and sabotage operations under the noses of their warders.
That adds up to 168 episodes across the six-season run, giving viewers plenty of classic television to work through.
