I'm surprised that you needed 15 minutes to explain why a sitcom about Hitler was cancelled after one episode. I could've done it in about 15 seconds. 1. It was about Hitler. 2. It wasn't funny.
I absolutely knew it would be 'Heil Honey, I'm Home". I went to watch the filming of the pilot episode. It was filmed at Bray Studios. We didn't know what we were going to see. Pretty sure we went along with a group of people from the Maidenhead 18+ group. It was a dud - it just didn't work and I felt sorry for the cast but couldn't fake laughter. The best part of the evening was the drink at the bar!
That's amazing, you were there for the filming! Also, sorry you were there for the filming, you really did earn that drink 😅. But seriously though that's brilliant bud! Thanks for sharing! 👍
Sounds like ' Spring time for Hitler' and his treatment generally in The Producers (Mel Brooks 1967). BTW I Iike your amusing presentation style so I'm subbing you.
It's immediate cancellation was due to a barrage of complaints from viewers after a scene where a male school teacher made a lewd remark about a female pupil
@@johnjames-glover4630 Maybe, maybe not, but I think it was also recognised that it was unwatchable end-to-end. It wasn't a victim of early woke-ism or political correctness, it actually was unwatchable.
Father Ted is one of the funniest shows ever created, even though I had a bit of a hard time going back to that eighties style of sitcom where everything is very staged, which I know was the intention because GL wanted it that way. I have seen every single episode so many times. great vid, subbed.
@@KismetMulhaneski-to3wg You're right. Folklore states Milligan ditched MP as he didn't think it was funny enough. Whether that's true or not we'll never know. Every time I think of the name Piles Road I snigger. It brings out the immature child in me.
@@peaeater1 😁 My view of MP is very limited to.clips and sections - John Bird's career didn't seem to suffer with that and all his "Rumbabwe" routines etc (he'd probably be lynched let alone cancelled for doing that now) but it would appear BBC really had an ambiguous relationship with SM from the 80s onwards as one of their almost exclusive treasures (I watched the whole series of Curry and Chips online and couldn't believe YT had shown some a modicum of broad mindedness leaving it available for people to judge for themselves etc) !!!
@@KismetMulhaneski-to3wg All episodes of MP are here on UA-cam if you're interested. I couldn't get into C and C. Admittedly, I didn't really give it a chance.
I felt sorry for Tony Brothers who was quite famous in Eastbourne. He played the Superbra customer in one episode of Are You Being Served but the Melting Pot would have been his only regular role as - I think it was Sheikh Yamani or something.
Friends and Big Bang are sorry excuses for entertainment. As an American, this is a controversial statement. Don't care, not apologizing. Most of American "entertainment" is so low bar, lowest common denominator stuff, it's really cringe.
Only saw that one episode and it was rubbish, but I agree with you, and tbh I'm not sure Springtime For Hitler was much funnier, but I really like The Presenters. OTOH, Jojo Rabbit and Death of Stalin are brilliant. But that's not to say they made a mistake in making it. Better to take a risk on a bunch of crap shows if it creates a possibility of a stroke of genius, rather than play it safe and risk mediocrity. There's plenty of rubbish sitcoms out there, even by 1990s standards. this just gets the headlines because of Hitler
Titch vision As an expert on 'all things sitcom.....Can I ask you a question? The B.B.C back in 1970 came up with sitcom set in Roman times ...Up Pompei it went on for a about a dozen episodes. My question was it shown in U.S.A. at anytime in the early 70's( incedently talking of 4th wall m.o.....Franky Howard employed this in his funny role as 'Lurkio' Thx.
If I'm honest, I'm not sure. I couldn't find out anything, but maybe it did. Though I couldn't see it being a massive hit over there. That what I think anyway 😅
I think Heil Honey was before its time... Its 25 minutes of parody in fact it was parody .... It was shown with being a long lost tapes of a1970s US sitcom... being rediscovered... It should have been titled "THE LONG LOST TAPES OF HEIL HONEY" shown in 405 NTSC (Never The Same Colour) with NBC 70's logos at the start and end... Edited like the way Victoria Wood did the "Acorn Antiques" section in her show Thats the idea Geoff Atkinson was going for... It was just Galaxy's presentation of it that was wrong...
I’m pausing this at 40 seconds to take a guess… I think I remember this when I was a kid. There was one, it was about a school or something, that was on ITV for one episode and it was so bad it was cancelled. I remember because I watched it and it was awful and I never thought about it again until now. Late 80’s/early 90’s I think. They had schoolgirls dressed too sexily
@@gbhxu nice one! Just found it, this does sound like the one I have sim memories of- they made a big deal of it and then pulled it immediately. I’ll watch it tonight after work
Hello my fellow Bret Hart's Smokey The Cat .&. Wrestling Bios fan!! I subbed at the end, your description was the funniest review of this pilot I've seen (not seen any, but even as an Aussie with British grandparents was aware it existed). Mel Brooks: To Be or Not to Be, was the first parody I saw. That, or that one banned episode of Faulty Towers. Majority of "jokes" in Heil Honey, are based on facts that many aren't aware of nowadays (or even back then). It was well portrayed, but not very funny. On The Busses, George and Mildred, Love Thy Neighbour, Mind Your Language, Are You Being Served, Dads Army. Those were and still are funny!! .. .. Well, except for woke's who see offence in everything!!
Would you be offended if I read all that with an Aussie Accent in my head? 😅 Honestly though thanks for the Sub! I really appreciate it 😁. "I want to shout out to my One little Fan out there, Hello Smokey! MY CAT"! 😂
This is obviously an American, not British, sitcom pilot. Too stupid in the American comedy sense to sit through and watch. I have no actual objection to the content but this wasn't even remotely funny. The BBC showing appears to be part of a Galaxy Comedy Weekend, the context of why this weekend existed I have no idea. I assume that this Galaxy network was some sort of American network as I had never previously heard of it and I doubt this was ever shown in the UK at the time it was made. As for the complaint by you know who, that was to be expected but I suspect this was a one off showing as part of this special weekend anyway.
Definitely British - as not only did Galaxy/British Satellite Broadcasting trade off the fact they made original content (Jupiter Moon is a cult classic that should be on this channel) but the male lead is actually one of the main actors from the remake of Crossroads (some years after this) and also appeared in Jonathan Creek! As far as it being controversial I think it would go some way to beat The Melting Pot and Curry and Chips (they were 1970s though and the audience were probably more stoic - the banned episodes of The Goodies being another good example,).
While BSB did show re-runs of BBC programmes, by license, 50% of programmes have to be original programming. BSB spent a fortune across the 4 channels that had to show original programmes. Heil Hunny was canned and when Sky took over deleted. I was lucky to see the pre test transmissions, so I actually saw the programme in March 1990.
@@Jaspacat1965 I wondered why all those clips shows always seemed to have it on VHS! Thanks for clearing that up as alot of people were probably none the wiser.
It looks like an American sitcom because that was the main part of the premise...the parody element is not really that it includes or makes light of Hitler's antics, but that it was supposed to be parodying American sitcoms from the 50s/60s. The dialogue and characters are intentionally vacuous and the comedy corny...as per many US sitcoms churned out in that era. Vapid, banal, ridiculous and superficial...complete with a roaring laugh track, characters being applauded on entering a scene, and jokes telegraphed from a mile away. The joke part is not Hitler, it is the sitcom itself that is the joke. Obviously it didn't work. It was a bad idea made worse by the subject matter it chose...the entire 'JOKE' was the bad sitcom...and that's not enough to carry an episode, never mind a series. Watch a few clips of shows such as 'I Love Lucy', 'The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show', 'The Honeymooners', 'The Phil Silvers Show', 'Father Knows Best', 'I married Joan' or pretty much anything from that period and you'll recognise the elements and tropes Heil Honey was attempting to parody.
@tichvision Re: Up Pompei being shown America O.K thanks for looking into If anything transpires in the future, put the info in your comments. I reckon theres a good chance you'll still be going Salute!
I'm surprised that you needed 15 minutes to explain why a sitcom about Hitler was cancelled after one episode. I could've done it in about 15 seconds.
1. It was about Hitler.
2. It wasn't funny.
I absolutely knew it would be 'Heil Honey, I'm Home". I went to watch the filming of the pilot episode. It was filmed at Bray Studios. We didn't know what we were going to see. Pretty sure we went along with a group of people from the Maidenhead 18+ group. It was a dud - it just didn't work and I felt sorry for the cast but couldn't fake laughter. The best part of the evening was the drink at the bar!
That's amazing, you were there for the filming! Also, sorry you were there for the filming, you really did earn that drink 😅.
But seriously though that's brilliant bud! Thanks for sharing! 👍
@@titchvision2147 'Amazing' is perhaps a touch too strong. Unless you meant amazing that a 'witness' to this crime against comedy posted a comment!
That's exactly what I meant 😅
Decent analysis, you deserve more than 218 subs so I have subbed
I'm glad you liked the video. And thank you for the Sub and comment, I really appreciate it 👍.
Brilliant video- new subscriber - great channel ❤
Sounds like ' Spring time for Hitler' and his treatment generally in The Producers (Mel Brooks 1967). BTW I Iike your amusing presentation style so I'm subbing you.
Thank you for the Sub! I really appreciate it! And I'm glad you enjoyed the video! 👍
Hardwick House was also cancelled after the first episode although the pilot had been screened.
Yeah I heard about that one, from what I've seen it's messed up. Though I think it's something that South Park would do, if that makes sense? 😅
It's immediate cancellation was due to a barrage of complaints from viewers after a scene where a male school teacher made a lewd remark about a female pupil
Plus the incinerated new girl.
@@johnjames-glover4630 Maybe, maybe not, but I think it was also recognised that it was unwatchable end-to-end. It wasn't a victim of early woke-ism or political correctness, it actually was unwatchable.
I think two episodes were screened simultaneously and that was it.
A pity we didn't get to see Rik and Ade as the former pupils.
Father Ted is one of the funniest shows ever created, even though I had a bit of a hard time going back to that eighties style of sitcom where everything is very staged, which I know was the intention because GL wanted it that way. I have seen every single episode so many times. great vid, subbed.
It's such a weird thing. I'm curious as to what the other episodes are like. Kind of surprised they've never been leaked after all this time.
I think I read somewhere that Starlin was gonna be in one episode. I bet they're locked up somewhere like the Ark of The Covenant 😅.
@@titchvision2147 Even though I hate those films, I get the reference. They could also be labelled in a way that makes them not easy to find.
there was an episode from a series on channel 4, that only played the first episode, and was listed as an adult version of Grange Hill.
Somehow I knew exactly what show it was going to be just from the title.
I’m about to find out if I also know what it is just from the title…
I didn’t, but I should have done!
(I was thinking of Hardwicke House which, it turns out, managed to transmit two episodes before being yanked)
I knew by the title. Still haven't confirmed it. But I suspect its HHIH. Will edit if I'm wrong.
@@CJJC Yeah, I assumed Hardwicke House.
It would've done numbers then and now
Kinda sucks it was cancelled immediately, but I understand why
Spike Milligan's 'Melting Pot' suffered a similar fate - although all episodes are available on here.
Melting Pot was definitely given less time than Curry & Chips unless I'm mistaken, which I thought was actually more (wilfully) offensive!
@@KismetMulhaneski-to3wg You're right. Folklore states Milligan ditched MP as he didn't think it was funny enough. Whether that's true or not we'll never know.
Every time I think of the name Piles Road I snigger. It brings out the immature child in me.
@@peaeater1
😁 My view of MP is very limited to.clips and sections - John Bird's career didn't seem to suffer with that and all his "Rumbabwe" routines etc (he'd probably be lynched let alone cancelled for doing that now) but it would appear BBC really had an ambiguous relationship with SM from the 80s onwards as one of their almost exclusive treasures (I watched the whole series of Curry and Chips online and couldn't believe YT had shown some a modicum of broad mindedness leaving it available for people to judge for themselves etc) !!!
@@KismetMulhaneski-to3wg All episodes of MP are here on UA-cam if you're interested.
I couldn't get into C and C. Admittedly, I didn't really give it a chance.
I felt sorry for Tony Brothers who was quite famous in Eastbourne. He played the Superbra customer in one episode of Are You Being Served but the Melting Pot would have been his only regular role as - I think it was Sheikh Yamani or something.
The funniest thing is that Patrick Cargill(father dear father, carry on cleo)....was the
only silly old sod to jump on board!
Once war was avoided it could have developed into a Alf Garnett type character.
In an alternate universe, definitely. 😂
Or not.
Hitler signed Chamberlain's peace agreement not to invade anyone else and went on to invade Poland anyway.
"I have in my hand Piece of paper."
Glad we didn't have to put up with rubbish.
"It could have passed as another U.S. sitcom". Man! That IS an insult. (I've never watched the Big Bang Theory either)
Friends and Big Bang are sorry excuses for entertainment. As an American, this is a controversial statement. Don't care, not apologizing. Most of American "entertainment" is so low bar, lowest common denominator stuff, it's really cringe.
Only saw that one episode and it was rubbish, but I agree with you, and tbh I'm not sure Springtime For Hitler was much funnier, but I really like The Presenters. OTOH, Jojo Rabbit and Death of Stalin are brilliant.
But that's not to say they made a mistake in making it. Better to take a risk on a bunch of crap shows if it creates a possibility of a stroke of genius, rather than play it safe and risk mediocrity.
There's plenty of rubbish sitcoms out there, even by 1990s standards. this just gets the headlines because of Hitler
Yet Allo Allo which also trivialized WWII & the Nazis ran for years. [Yes I know it was a parody of Secret Army.]
If Allo Allo was as (un)funny as HHiH, it would've probably lasted the same length of time on british televsion.
was a great time to be a kid wasnt it
Titch vision
As an expert on 'all things sitcom.....Can I ask you a question?
The B.B.C back in 1970 came up with sitcom set in Roman times ...Up Pompei it went on
for a about a dozen episodes.
My question was it shown in U.S.A. at anytime in the early 70's( incedently talking of 4th wall m.o.....Franky Howard employed this in his funny role
as 'Lurkio'
Thx.
If I'm honest, I'm not sure. I couldn't find out anything, but maybe it did. Though I couldn't see it being a massive hit over there. That what I think anyway 😅
If the Board of Deputies of British J's says 'pull the plug,' then you pull the plug. No one argues
I saw it. It was beyond dreadful.
I think Heil Honey was before its time... Its 25 minutes of parody in fact it was parody .... It was shown with being a long lost tapes of a1970s US sitcom... being rediscovered... It should have been titled "THE LONG LOST TAPES OF HEIL HONEY" shown in 405 NTSC (Never The Same Colour) with NBC 70's logos at the start and end... Edited like the way Victoria Wood did the "Acorn Antiques" section in her show Thats the idea Geoff Atkinson was going for... It was just Galaxy's presentation of it that was wrong...
I always find the "...roles for ...actors" arguments funny. Do they even realise what they're saying?
I’m pausing this at 40 seconds to take a guess… I think I remember this when I was a kid. There was one, it was about a school or something, that was on ITV for one episode and it was so bad it was cancelled. I remember because I watched it and it was awful and I never thought about it again until now. Late 80’s/early 90’s I think. They had schoolgirls dressed too sexily
Hardwick House. All episodes on UA-cam
@@gbhxu nice one! Just found it, this does sound like the one I have sim memories of- they made a big deal of it and then pulled it immediately. I’ll watch it tonight after work
The whole thing is fucking sick
I agree that there a very few US (or US style) sitcoms that are actually funny to a UK audience. Frasier, what was that all about?
Love and peace.
I only watched it for the Dog 😅.
Back at you Bud!
Its on youtube
Bring it back!!
Can you imagine if they did? 😂
Just watched it, it wass just terrible. Not because of the hitler, it was just bad
Hello my fellow Bret Hart's Smokey The Cat .&. Wrestling Bios fan!! I subbed at the end, your description was the funniest review of this pilot I've seen (not seen any, but even as an Aussie with British grandparents was aware it existed). Mel Brooks: To Be or Not to Be, was the first parody I saw. That, or that one banned episode of Faulty Towers.
Majority of "jokes" in Heil Honey, are based on facts that many aren't aware of nowadays (or even back then). It was well portrayed, but not very funny. On The Busses, George and Mildred, Love Thy Neighbour, Mind Your Language, Are You Being Served, Dads Army. Those were and still are funny!! .. .. Well, except for woke's who see offence in everything!!
Would you be offended if I read all that with an Aussie Accent in my head? 😅
Honestly though thanks for the Sub! I really appreciate it 😁.
"I want to shout out to my One little Fan out there, Hello Smokey! MY CAT"! 😂
I wanna see Jesus 90210!!!!!!!
Wtf how did this disgusting show Show Hitler as a decent human being 👎👎 speaking from an old Prussian family certainly nothing to laugh about 🙏🕯️🦅
"those people" getting upset again. lol
jump cuts? what are you, 12? pmsl
This is obviously an American, not British, sitcom pilot. Too stupid in the American comedy sense to sit through and watch. I have no actual objection to the content but this wasn't even remotely funny.
The BBC showing appears to be part of a Galaxy Comedy Weekend, the context of why this weekend existed I have no idea. I assume that this Galaxy network was some sort of American network as I had never previously heard of it and I doubt this was ever shown in the UK at the time it was made. As for the complaint by you know who, that was to be expected but I suspect this was a one off showing as part of this special weekend anyway.
Galaxy was a UK satellite channel.
Definitely British - as not only did Galaxy/British Satellite Broadcasting trade off the fact they made original content (Jupiter Moon is a cult classic that should be on this channel) but the male lead is actually one of the main actors from the remake of Crossroads (some years after this) and also appeared in Jonathan Creek!
As far as it being controversial I think it would go some way to beat The Melting Pot and Curry and Chips (they were 1970s though and the audience were probably more stoic - the banned episodes of The Goodies being another good example,).
While BSB did show re-runs of BBC programmes, by license, 50% of programmes have to be original programming. BSB spent a fortune across the 4 channels that had to show original programmes. Heil Hunny was canned and when Sky took over deleted. I was lucky to see the pre test transmissions, so I actually saw the programme in March 1990.
@@Jaspacat1965
I wondered why all those clips shows always seemed to have it on VHS! Thanks for clearing that up as alot of people were probably none the wiser.
It looks like an American sitcom because that was the main part of the premise...the parody element is not really that it includes or makes light of Hitler's antics, but that it was supposed to be parodying American sitcoms from the 50s/60s. The dialogue and characters are intentionally vacuous and the comedy corny...as per many US sitcoms churned out in that era. Vapid, banal, ridiculous and superficial...complete with a roaring laugh track, characters being applauded on entering a scene, and jokes telegraphed from a mile away. The joke part is not Hitler, it is the sitcom itself that is the joke. Obviously it didn't work. It was a bad idea made worse by the subject matter it chose...the entire 'JOKE' was the bad sitcom...and that's not enough to carry an episode, never mind a series.
Watch a few clips of shows such as 'I Love Lucy', 'The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show', 'The Honeymooners', 'The Phil Silvers Show', 'Father Knows Best', 'I married Joan' or pretty much anything from that period and you'll recognise the elements and tropes Heil Honey was attempting to parody.
@tichvision
Re: Up Pompei being shown America
O.K thanks for looking into
If anything transpires in the future, put the info in your comments.
I reckon theres a good chance
you'll still be going
Salute!