JFK, who also recognized talent when he saw it, might have made Hogan his Air Force aide, working directly out of the White House. (Greg Kinnear, anyone? Probably more likely Kirk Douglas.) Hogan might have served in Korea, flying the same kinds of bomber missions he flew in Europe during WWII on the other hand, he probably would have already been back in Washington, with a high-level job in the Pentagon.Ĭome the early 60s, Hogan would still have been only about 50.
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In due course, a movie would have been made based on the book, and it’s fun to speculate on who would have played Hogan in the movie. (An earlier episode had actually involved the brass bringing Hogan back home, cashing in on his accomplishments by having him lead bond drives throughout the country.)Īnd where do things go from there? There certainly would have been a book about such an audacious assignment, just as there was with A Bridge Too Far, A Man Called Intrepid, The Great Escape and other true war stories, probably called, simply, Hogan’s Heroes, by General Robert Hogan as told to David Halberstam. The Army, recognizing what it had on its hands, would have made the most of the photogenic, dynamic Hogan.
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Already a full colonel, it’s reasonable to assume that Hogan would have come out of the war at least a Brigadier General, with a brilliant future should he decide to stay in the service. The men would have been lauded as true heroes for their daring behind-the-lines escapades, none more so than Colonel Robert Hogan himself. Hogan and his men probably would have vouched for Schultz, who really was just a working man at a job he didn’t particularly like, and possibly even Klink, who when all was said and done didn’t really bear the POWs any real malice he was too incompetent to have done too much harm.
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(In reality, they might have committed suicide, but let’s not make this too realistic.) Myself, I prefer to think of the series concluding with the end of the war Burkhalter and Hochstetter, being true believers in the Nazi regime, probably would have been taken prisoner themselves by the Allies. The Allies might have come to liberate the camp, or they might simply have terminated Hogan’s assignment (the POWs, you recall, were stationed at Stalag 13, posing as prisoners but in reality operating a massive underground commando and espionage ring). So what would that final episode have been like? Well, many of the major events of the war had come and gone during Hogan’s run (though not necessarily in linear order) including D-Day. And so, we return to February 21, 2012, and an episode that never was. Therefore, for your pleasure, as well as that of those who'd like to offer their own scenario on how Hogan's Heroes ends, I thought I'd bump it back to the top. However, because it was originally published so long ago, it occurs to me that very few of you have had the chance to see this continuing discussion in the combox. I have no other essay that can make that claim, which I think speaks less to my skill as a writer and more to the enduring popularity of Hogan's Heroes. Over the years, this post has continued to get comments two, in fact, in the last couple of weeks. And, being a comedy, we can be pretty sure that it won't be a tragic end that befalls these much-loved characters.
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Additionally, there's the unique dymanic of the relationship between the captors and captives, especially that between Hogan and Klink, that really begs a "rest of the story" story. After all, the concept is a closed circuit we all know that World War II ended, and so the heroes' time in Stalag 13 would have come to an end as well. But if there were ever a series that deserved a closing episode, it's Hogan. Back then, though, that generally wasn't the case.
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Today, of course, it would go without saying just about any series that isn't cancelled in the middle of its first season gets the chance to have the last word. Today, though, I make an exception.Ī few years ago-almost nine now, if you can believe it-I wrote what I thought was a fanciful little piece speculating on what would have happened if one of my favorite shows, Hogan's Heroes, had been given a final episode. Idon't think I've ever given an old piece a bump to the top to be sure, I've resussitated a few old pieces here and there, if they prove to be timely in their subject matter (or if I prove to be untimely in my ability to come up with something new), but usually once I write something, it becomes part of the archives, destined to be found only by people looking for it (or stumbling upon it).