WW2 buffs discover comedy series to 'rival Dad's Army' axed after one episode

World War 2 buffs have just discovered a classic sitcom set during the war years that was once set to "rival Dad's Army", but instead found itself axed after just one episode. Seven episodes never aired, though they were filmed, after the programme was branded "perhaps the world's most tasteless situation comedy".

And its name? Heil Honey I'm Home! Originally produced in 1990 - when perhaps showrunners should have already known better - the sitcom followed a fictional version of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, who found themselves living next door to Jewish couple Arny and Rosa Goldenstein.

Hitler, obviously, struggles to get along with his neighbours in this bizarre version of 1938 Berlin. Despite the controversy, the show was actually produced as a spoof of the classic American sitcom, showing Hitler and Braun as simple stock characters played by Neil McCaul and DeNica Fairman.

The first episode sees British prime minister Neville Chamberlain (Patrick Cargill) arrive at the Hitler house, only for their neighbours to interrupt the gathering and presumably for 'hilarity' to ensue. Except the show proved so controversial that only the pilot episode ever saw the light of day.

11 episodes were planned in total, eight of which were recorded. Eventually Hitler would have secretly been seen to plan the deaths of his Jewish neighbours - and perhaps it's better that the tapes will remain lost media.

Written by Geoff Atkinson, the show was originally screened at 9:30pm on a Sunday, directly after an episode of Dad's Army - perhaps to show that the two programmes had something in common. During the closing credits for Dad's Army, the continuity announcer joked: "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."