Heil Honey I'm Home!

Heil Honey I'm Home! - Furor over the Führer

Jerry Lewis's unfinished film, The Day The Clown Cried, was long considered the last word in Holocaust-related bad taste. And then along came Heil Honey I'm Home!, an I Love Lucy - like sitcom about Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun.

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The surprise here isn't that Heil Honey was canned after one episode. The surprise is that this scarcely-believable and jaw-droppingly inappropriate comedy got as far as it did. Just to be clear, your worst suspicions about the title are correct. This is a breezy sitcom in which Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun find themselves living next door to a Jewish couple called the Goldensteins.

It aired on Sky's Galaxy channel in 1990, back when Murdoch's brains trust were willing to try anything once, in the hope that it might stick. This didn't stick. But it's still extraordinary viewing. From the gaudy, golden interior of the Goldensteins' house to the central plot (Neville Chamberlain is coming to visit and Hitler is keen to direct conversation away from his recent invasion of Czechoslovakia), everything about it is eye-poppingly wrong. Still, if you're going to make a show that gets cancelled after one episode, why not do it in style, eh?

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Interview with the creator of Heil Honey, I'm Home!

A man strides into his apartment and raises his right arm. "Heil, honey, I'm home!" he shouts at his wife, who's bustling around in the kitchen. The man is Adolf Hitler -- yep, that Adolf Hitler -- and this is the opening of Heil Honey, I'm Home!, a British sitcom that aired for one episode before being cancelled.

Heil Honey I'm Home! article and interview

Blog Curious British Telly looks at infamous sitcom Heil Honey I'm Home!, and interviews the show's writer, Geoff Atkinson.