THE BBC has searched its archives but cannot find any trace of an offensive 1970s sitcom about how much better life would be if Hitler had won the war.

After Reform leader Nigel Farage defended himself against charges of schoolboy racism by pointing to It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, the BBC looked for popular 1970s sitcoms about farcical shenanigans under cheerful Nazi rule but came back empty-handed.

A spokesman said: “We were spuriously accused of bias by a frothing right-winger so we naturally assumed we were guilty, because that’s the BBC way.

“But going through our 1970s sitcom output, we certainly found sexism. Homosexuality was treated in a manner most light-hearted. There was more than a little blackface, and you would not believe the size tits had to be before we deemed them funny.

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