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2. Heil Honey I’m Home

So bafflingly distasteful is this swiftly cancelled 1990s British sitcom that you might use the phrase “you couldn’t make it up”, only obviously someone did – Geoff Atkinson, to be precise, a jobbing comedy writer with one of the most insane ever ideas for a TV show taking pride of place on his resume.

As the name suggests, Heil Honey I’m Home is a sitcom about Adolph Hitler, who lives with his wife Eva next door to a Jewish couple. A lighthearted spoof of US comedies of the ‘50s and ‘60s, the show remarkably made it to air for one episode, before being hurriedly yanked from public view and never spoken of again. Atkinson acknowledged later that the intended satire didn’t quite come across, which is somewhat of an understatement.

The comedy is derived from spoofing sitcoms, rather than the atrocities of the Third Reich, with Adolph and Eva a typical TV husband and wife embroiled in petty squabbles with their neighbours. The thing is, the fact that the lead character was perhaps the worst bloke who ever lived was a little hard to get past.