The British sitcom Heil Honey I'm Home, featuring Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun as neighbours to a Jewish couple, was commissioned for a full eight-episode series in 1990 and had high expectations. The pilot episode aired after Dad's Army on a Sunday night, parodying American sitcoms of the 1950s with all characters adopting American accents. However, following a backlash, the remaining seven episodes never saw the light of day.
Set in 1938 Berlin, the show portrays the Hitlers living next door to a Jewish couple, the Goldensteins, and has been labelled "perhaps the world's most tasteless situation comedy". Within a minute of the show starting, Hitler, portrayed by Neil McCaul, enters the room and shouts "Heil, honey, I'm home" to his wife Eva Braun, played by Denica Fairman. The episode is filled with references to invading Poland and Adolf being described as either a "very very bad Hitler" or a "naughty Hitler".
Early in the episode, Adolf tells Eva that he is expecting a visit from Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, played by Patrick Cargill, who later makes Adolf sign a document - the Munich Agreement - promising not to invade Europe to maintain peace, reports the Daily Star . As the plot in the pilot unfolds, viewers can infer his hatred for his neighbours who seem content to live next door to the Fuhrer, as he is also referred to in the episode. Adolf confides in his wife, saying: "If I was to invade Poland, who would be the first to know? Rosa Goldenstein," as he attempt.
