The reviewer, who's supposedly a researcher, has at least one of his facts wrong - that the pilot was B/W because CBS was the last network to go color.
Both ABC and CBS were pretty much forced into going full color the season *after* Hogan's Heroes began because NBC (who was owned by RCA, the...
Love this series and will absolutely purchase the BR. I don't watch it as often as I'd like but *will* appreciate the smaller space on the shelf as my DVDs are the original releases so take up a good amount of shelf space.