1. Heil, Honey, I'm Home! (1990), 1 episode
So if I told you there was a sitcom out there that featured the happy home life of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun living next door to Jewish neighbours, you'd assume I was referencing some kind of Family Guy cutaway. Well, Family Guy hasn't ever done that cutaway. And there's a good reason for it. Because someone actually made this as an actual TV series that was actually aired on TV. I just tried to watch the first episode, which you can see on YouTube. I made it less than five minutes. It's intended as a satire of banal American sitcoms of the 1950s and 1960s, and I can see how it might have worked for a five minute sketch on some comedy show. A comedy show like, say, Monty Python. Who did, in fact, do
a Hitler sketch. The most baffling part of this isn't the fact that it got green-lot, got a pilot, was picked up, and had the first episode aired, no, the most baffling part is that SIX OTHER EPISODES WERE MADE. That means someone actually wrote out that much material for this TV series. It's an astounding achievement in its own way.
So that's our take on 10 TV shows that should never have made it past the pilot stage. What ones would you add?