Heil Honey I'm Home!

Heil Honey I'm Home!

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starring = Neil McCaul
Denica Fairman
Maria Friedman
Gareth Marks
Caroline Gruber
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"Heil Honey I'm Home!" was a short-lived and controversial British television sitcom, produced in 1990.

The show centred on fictionalised versions of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, who live together in suburban bliss, until the day their lives are turned upside-down by their new neighbours, Arny and Rosa Goldenstein, 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" and "I Love Lucy", including the corny title, light (even vacuous) plots and dialogue, and unwarranted applause whenever a character appeared on screen.

The plot of episode 1 involved Adolf telling Eva of the impending 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 'And unless Arthur Lowe defeats him, it's the man himself in a few moments in "Heil Honey, I'm Home!", as the "Galaxy Comedy Weekend" continues.'

The programme proved controversial when first aired, as it was seen by many as being in very poor taste. It was accused of crassly trivialising Nazism, although others have defended it as being in the same tradition of Third Reich parodies such as "'Allo 'Allo!" and "Hogan's Heroes", or along similar lines to the portrayal of Hitler as a domestic fool in "The Producers". They also point out the crassness was intentional, and part of the parody anyway. [cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20010128131000/http://mudhole.spodnet.uk.com/~frogger/corpses/update2/hell.htm|title= SOTCAA: The 100 Greatest Moments From TV Hell|Publisher= SOTCAA|date=2000]

Only one episode (the pilot) was ever screened, although eight episodes were planned and a number were recorded. The filming of the series was cancelled immediately by Sky (BSkyB) on its acquisition of British Satellite Broadcasting. This was probably due in part to the ire that accompanied the first episode. Neither the pilot or other episodes have ever been aired since. The show has since become renowned as one of the most controversial programmes ever to have been screened in the UK; it listed at #61 on Channel 4's "The 100 Greatest TV Moments from Hell". [cite web|url=http://www.sitcom.co.uk/sitcoms/heil_honey.shtml|title=British Sitcom Guide - Heil Honey I'm Home|Publisher=The British Sitcom Guide|date=2007]

Cast

* Neil McCaul as Adolf Hitler
* Denica Fairman as Eva Braun (replaced by Maria Friedman in unaired episodes) [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0988994/ Hitler: The Comedy Years by Jacques Perreti (Channel 4, 2007)] ]
* Gareth Marks as Arny Goldenstein
* Caroline Gruber as Rosa Goldenstein
* Laura Brattan as Ruth
* Patrick Cargill as Neville Chamberlain

ee also

*List of television series cancelled after one episode

References

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/h/heilhoneyimhome__1299003509.shtml BBC Comedy Guide - "Heil Honey I'm Home!"]
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