THE DAY COLONEL KLINK FINALLY LOST HIS COOL ON THE SET

The studio lights were always a bit too bright for a man who preferred the dim, cultured atmosphere of an opera house. Werner Klemperer sat across from the…

THE SERGEANT WHO SAW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL

The studio lights were always a bit too bright for my taste, even after all those years in front of the camera. I remember sitting there on that…

THE DAY COLONEL KLINK LOST HIS DIGNITY IN A CUP OF COFFEE

It was one of those late-night talk show appearances in the late eighties, the kind where the host is leaning in with genuine curiosity and the audience is…

THE DAY SERGEANT SCHULTZ FINALLY LOST HIS PANTS ON SET

The theater was packed for the final afternoon of the nostalgia convention. Robert Clary sat on the velvet-draped stage, looking much smaller than he did on the television…

THE DAY SGT. SCHULTZ LOST MORE THAN HIS DIGNITY

It is funny how a single sound can bring it all back. I was sitting in this little studio last week, doing a podcast for a classic television…

WERNER KLEMPERER RECALLS THE DAY COLONEL KLINK FINALLY CRACKED

It was a crisp afternoon in the mid-nineties when Werner Klemperer sat down for what he thought would be a standard retrospective interview. He was older then, his…

THE DAY SERGEANT SCHULTZ BIT INTO A CLAY APPLE STRUDEL

John Banner sat back in the plush velvet chair of the television studio, his eyes twinkling under the bright stage lights. It was late in his career, and…

THE HILARIOUS TRUTH BEHIND THE GOURMET MEALS ON HOGANS HEROES

The lights in the small auditorium were dim, but Robert Clary’s smile was as bright as it had been in 1965. He sat on the stage during a…

THE DAY SERGEANT SCHULTZ GOT STUCK IN THE STALAG TUNNEL

Interviewer: We are sitting here with the one and only Richard Dawson. Richard, the stories from the set of Hogan’s Heroes are legendary, but people always want to…

THE DAY THE SCHNITZEL REBELLED AGAINST SERGEANT SCHULTZ

The host leaned forward, adjusting his headphones as the studio lights caught the silver in his hair. He looked at the guest across from him, a man whose…