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Fawlty Towers was a British sitcom made by the BBC for BBC2 in 1975. Fawlty Towers only lasted two series, with 6 episodes in each series but is remembered as one of the greatest British sitcoms. Fawlty Towers is set in a fictional hotel called Fawlty Towers, located I Torquay, Devon on the “English Riviera

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  • Fawlty Towers was a British sitcom made by the BBC for BBC2 in 1975. Fawlty Towers only lasted two series, with 6 episodes in each series but is remembered as one of the greatest British sitcoms. Fawlty Towers is set in a fictional hotel called Fawlty Towers, located I Torquay, Devon on the “English Riviera
  • Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom produced by BBC Television and first broadcast on BBC 2 in 1975. Twelve television program episodes were produced (two series each of six episodes). The show was written by John Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth, both of whom played major characters. The first series in 1975 was produced and directed by John Howard Davies; the second in 1979 was produced by Douglas Argent and directed by Bob Spiers.
  • The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay, on the "English Riviera". The plots centre around tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty (Cleese), his bossy wife Sybil (Prunella Scales), a comparatively normal chambermaid Polly (Booth), and hapless Spanish waiter Manuel (Andrew Sachs) and their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests.
  • The original concept of the Fawlty Towers documentary came about when a BBC producer was poisoned by a digruntled hotel owner at the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay in 1967. Appalled that the hotel had long been notorious for its dislike of all public service broadcasting, the producer threatened to sue. In the end the two sides agreed a settlement, by which the hotel agreed the BBC to make a television programme about them for no extra fee. The owner of the hotel, Basil Fawlty (ex-Royal Marines naval clerk, wounded during the Second World War in an incident with a German made filing cabinet) agreed to the conditions and filming was given the go ahead in 1971 as the hotel was fully booked by the British navy until then. Fawlty Towers would become one of the first fly-on-the-wall documentaries.
  • A Sitcom created by John Cleese and Connie Booth which focused on Basil Fawlty, a bad-tempered snob who runs "the crummiest, shoddiest, worst-run hotel in the whole of Western Europe". One of the all-time classic TV shows, it benefited greatly from its cheerful willingness to create horrible human beings and let them act according to their nature at all times: Basil doesn't get a single Pet the Dog moment, ever. The series was intelligent, effervescent and daring, and the only complaint one can make is that there wasn't enough of it (only 12 episodes were ever made).
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