Controversy and Cancellation
The programme proved controversial when first aired. Television historian Marian Calabro described Heil Honey, I'm Home! as "perhaps the world's most tasteless situation comedy". 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. One comedy historian cites Heil Honey, I'm Home! as a "heavy-handed concept", and argues the show was a failure as a comedy because it "disastrously exceeded" the limits of irony.
Only the pilot was ever screened, although eight episodes were planned and a number were recorded in which a story arc was about Adolf and Eva's attempt to kill the Goldensteins without the Goldensteins knowing it's Adolf and Eva. 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 nor other episodes have ever been aired since; however, many copies of the pilot exist and have been shown on YouTube and other video-sharing sites. 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 100 Greatest TV Moments from Hell.
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