S3 Ep41: The Death of Bob Crane: A Television Star's Secret Life

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Handsome and charismatic, the actor Bob Crane led the cast of the hit sitcom "Hogan's Heroes" for six seasons from the mid-sixties into the beginning of the next decade. The show ended in 1971, and Crane began traveling the country in a touring play. When he was found dead in his hotel room in Arizona in 1978, was it due to a secret life that he kept hidden from public view?

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0:00.0	Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they change laws, change society, or even earn the label,
0:15.6	Crime of the Century.
0:18.4	But the stories that made headlines in decades past
0:21.5	aren't necessarily remembered today.
0:25.0	I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author,
0:27.5	and in each episode of this show,
0:29.5	I'll examine a case that's maybe lesser known today but was huge when it happened.
0:35.0	This is crimes of the centuries. Close your favorite
0:55.0	favorite sitcom. What do you see? Probably a living room, right? Maybe a coffee shop?
1:01.0	Occasionally there might be a workplace to shake things up a bit. But tell me, were any of you
1:06.0	picturing a Nazi labor camp with multiple Nazis as supporting characters? If you don't know what I'm talking about already, I
1:14.3	venture that you'll be surprised to learn that not only did such a show exist, but it
1:19.7	aired on American television a mere 20 years after the end of the Second World War.
1:25.9	For those who weren't obsessed with TV land in the 1990s,
1:30.4	the show is Hogan's Heroes, from Inside Edition.
1:35.0	It's one of the most beloved and strangest sitcoms ever, Hogan's Heroes.
1:40.0	It takes place in of all places a German prison camp during World War II, not exactly fertile grounds for comedy.
1:48.0	Bob Crane played the title character Colonel Robert Hogan, an American POW in a labor camp.
1:55.0	Along with a ragtag group of Allied soldiers,
1:58.4	Colonel Hogan fought the Nazis from inside
2:01.2	their very own camps, escaping to blow up a railroad bridge, only to be brought
2:06.5	back to their bunks when the bumbling German guard did his final rounds.
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