Porn on Demand

WHEN Bob Crane, the star of TV’s Hogan’s Heroes, was found murdered in an Arizona motel in the late 1970s, among his personal effects were several hundred pounds of video equipment. Crane had state-of-the- art stuff for the time: a huge video camera, a heavy playback tape machine (roughly the size of four microwave ovens stacked together), and enough lights to form a small production company.

Crane was a porn freak. And back then, being a pom freak wasn’t for the casual hobbyist. The airline overweight-luggage charges alone were suitable barriers to entry, and the enormous cost of what was essentially professional television equipment managed to keep the riffraff out. Or in, depending.

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Rob Long is a writer and producer and a co-founder of Ricochet.

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WHEN Bob Crane, the star of TV’s Hogan’s Heroes, was found murdered in an Arizona motel in the late 1970s, among his personal effects were several hundred pounds of video equipment. Crane had state-of-the- art stuff for the time: a huge video camera, a heavy playback tape machine (roughly the size of four microwave ovens stacked together), and enough lights to form a small production company.

Crane was a porn freak. And back then, being a pom freak wasn’t for the casual hobbyist. The airline overweight-luggage charges alone were suitable barriers to entry, and the enormous cost of what was essentially professional television equipment managed to keep the riffraff out. Or in, depending.