Screenwriting : You never can tell what some people will buy by Constance York

A Hogan's Heroes reboot?

Pierre Langenegger But starring Hulk Hogan in the reboot.

Or Paul Hogan?

Hi Constance, My advice is to not stop until your screenplay is written. Just keep on writing. Your idea sounds interesting. The producers was also a hit: https://youtu.be/UpUqlKJUGLAhttps://youtu.be/UpUqlKJUGLA

I wrote this post because I keep seeing Hogan's Heroes reruns being shown one channel and I started thinking about how this concept was possibly green lighted to begin with. It blows my mind. The show debuted in 1965 when WWII was still very fresh in many minds. Can you imagine the pitch session for this and who thought this was a good idea? I remember my mother watching it and liking the show, but I never liked it and now that I'm older and looking back on it- I find that it took an extremely harsh reality and made light of it.

I'm wondering how actual POWs felt about the show. Or actual concentration camp survivors. Did they find Sgt Schultz funny? Does anyone else feel any kind of moral obligation with their writing? And when I say that- let me assure you I laugh at funerals and don't tiptoe around sensitive subjects. I'm talking about taking a horrible reality and downplaying it.

Pamela it was a joke. There is no way I would even think of writing a series like that. Glad you agree.

One POW, my uncle, thought it was funny. We asked him because my Mother was always telling us, "Your Uncle George wouldn't think that show's funny. He was in a German POW camp you know".

I have a great idea for at television show too. Its a comedy about a country who's leader is totally incompetent but half of the people stubbornly support him because its tradition while the other half resists. They draw a line dividing the land into two halves and some people keep changing sides and others keep sneaking stuff over the border to each other. Think it could work?

Thanks for the info Laura. I'm not familiar with Stalag 17- was it a comedy?

And while POW camps were different than concentration camps, their horror shouldn't be trivialized. In my opinion. Maybe I just see it differently, especially after reading up on the SOE and what happened to them. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Female-Spies-.... I think the Nazis were so evil, it was difficult for people to grasp what they had actually done- because then they would share in the blame for looking the other way as long as they did (?) Shows like this helped people to live in denial, to believe "no, it couldn't possibly have been as bad as it was." Again- just my opinion.

Very well said, Constance. Like Pam I thought you were putting forward a serious idea. A friend of mine, Jan, may he rest in peace, sporting a dread number tattoo on his forearm, having escaped as a child to spend the rest of his life searching for the graves of his gased family members, would whisper, whenever anyone sympathetically commented on how difficult it was to watch realistic movies about those times, say Schindler's list, for e.g., that if people had to endure such torturous lives, the least the rest of us can do is watch it and learn from it. >> I also know for a fact that he'd seen 'The Producers' and thought it was hilarious.

Andrea, I agree that some films need to be seen and Schindler's List is definitely one of them. It should be required viewing in schools. I also feel the way your friend did- that as hard as they are to watch- we MUST. We owe it to them. As far as Hogan's Heroes goes- perhaps veterans liked the fact that the Nazis were portrayed as bumbling idiots.