Năm 1965, Bob Crane, người đã đạt được một số thành công trước đó với tư cách là một diễn viên phụ trên truyền hình, đang làm DJ đài phát thanh buổi sáng thành công tại KNX Los Angeles. Mặc dù yêu thích công việc, nhiếp ảnh (đặc biệt là hình thể phụ nữ) và đánh trống, nhưng Crane vẫn muốn trở thành một ngôi sao điện ảnh. Vì vậy, với một chút miễn cưỡng, anh đã nhận lời đóng vai chính trong bộ phim sitcom truyền hình mới mang tên Hogan's Heroes (196).

In 1965, Bob Crane, who had achieved some earlier success as a television supporting actor, was working as a successful morning radio DJ at KNX Los Angeles. Despite enjoying his work, photography (especially of the female form) and drumming, Crane wanted to be a movie star. So it was with some reluctance that he accepted the title starring role in a new television sitcom called Hogan's Heroes (1965), a WWII POW comedy. To his surprise, the show became a hit and catapulted him to television stardom. The fame resulting from the show led to excesses and a meeting with home video salesman and technician John Carpenter, with who he would form a friendship based on their mutual interests, namely excessive sex (for Crane, purely heterosexual sex) and capturing nude females on celluloid. His fame allowed Crane to have as much sex as he wanted, which was incongruent to his somewhat wholesome television friendly image, and the way he portrayed himself to almost everyone except Carpenter and his...