Heil Honey I'm Home!
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Heil Honey I'm Home! was a short-lived and controversial British television sitcom, produced in 1990.
The show was centred on fictionalised versions of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, who lived together in suburban bliss, until the day their lives are turned upside-down by their new neighbours, the Goldensteins, who are Jewish. The show's plots inevitably centered around Hitler's inability to get along with his neighbours. A caption at the beginning of the episode presented the series as a 'lost' sitcom from the 50s, recently re-discovered. The show spoofed elements of 1950s and 1960s American sitcoms such as Leave It to Beaver, including the corny title, plot and dialogue that was light to the point of vacuous, and unwarranted applause whenever a character appeared on screen.
The plot of episode 1 involved Adolf telling Eva of the nearing arrival of Neville Chamberlain, and begging her not to tell the Goldensteins. Of course, Eva lets it slip to Rosa that Chamberlain (the most important man in Europe) is coming round and Rosa tells Arny. They then crash the dinner party the Hitlers have prepared for Chamberlain.
The programme was written by Geoff Atkinson and commissioned by satellite television channel Galaxy, part of British Satellite Broadcasting (which later became part of BSkyB). It was shown at 9.30pm on a Monday night, after an episode of Dad's Army. During the credits of Dad's Army, Galaxy's announcer said the man himself after the break as the Galaxy comedy weekend continues.
To say it was controversial is an understatement. When the first episode was aired, it was seen by virtually all as being in very poor taste. It was accused of crassly trivialising Nazism and the horrors of the Holocaust, and of being an insult to British survivors of the Nazis' atrocities. Altogether, eight episodes were produced but only one was ever screened; the inevitable furror that accompanied the first episode led BSB to pull the remaining shows, and they have not seen the light of day since. The show has since become renowned as one of the most controversial programs ever to have been screened in the UK; it listed at #61 on Channel 4's The 100 Greatest TV Moments from Hell.
Cast
- Neil McCaul as Adolf Hitler
- DeNica Fairman as Eva Braun
- Gareth Marks as Arny Goldenstein
- Caroline Gruber as Rosa Goldenstein
- Laura Brattan as Ruth
- Patrick Cargill as Neville Chamberlain (episode 1)
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