Heil Honey, I'm Home! the Sitcom

I love to throw a curveball into the mix when looking for things to write for this blog. Sometimes it’s a memory but more often than not, something will come from something I write. A flickering of a memory can spark off a search. Well that happened the other day on writing about the old British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) which lead to a google for the programming schedule.

I remembered Jupiter Moon a science fiction series broadcast on the Galaxy Channel, which after the merger with sky became Sky 1. Jupiter Moon was a bit crappy sold to the watching public as a soap opera in space. The channel also showed repeats from the BBC library – Doctor Who, Secret Army, and Grange Hill.

Writers come up with some crazy ideas for TV sitcoms but I would have loved to be in the room when someone came up with the idea, Heil Honey, I'm Home! A comedy show about Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun living next door to a Jewish couple in pre-war Berlin.

Although the series was British produced, it was filmed like an American 50s-style sitcom, ‘Hi Love Lucy’ comes into mind with the accompanying catchy theme tune and canned laughter and clapping. I can’t remember watching it but I get the feeling I must have back in the day. A quick search of YouTube and I found it but wish I hadn’t I couldn’t crack the tiniest of giddles it was that bad.

The setup is both simple and totally insane. Adolf Hitler with his trusty wife Eva Braun, you were never going to get a history lesson. They are neighbours of Arny and Rosa Goldenstein, it’s in the surname folks just in case you missed it they are Jewish. His day-to-day consists of being Chancellor of Germany’s National Socialist party and hiding his plans for global domination from the Allied forces. The jist of this first episode was British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was dining with the Hitler’s but Eva was not to mention it to the Goldenstein. Adolf was still smarting after the Goldenstein spoiled is last party for Mussolini.

On finding out Rosa invites herself a long to dinner to set the Prime Minister up with her visiting niece, who’s a bit nerdy if not borderline insane. Hitler decides the best way to hide the “Peace for our time” agreement document, stick it in the icebox. As I mentioned earlier only one episode was broadcast of the rumoured eight episode first season after an outcry and it when into the dustbin where it belonged.