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May 30, 2024 · 'Fawlty Towers,' the 1970s BBC comedy series co-created by and starring John Cleese, ran for just two seasons. But it managed to gain a following that is still growing today.
Feb 19, 2018 · MORE : Fawlty Towers voted best British sitcom with Alan Partridge meeting his biggest fan being named funniest scene. A British treasure, John Cleese is one of the country's best-loved...
Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1975 and 1979. Two series of six episodes each were made. The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a dysfunctional fictional hotel in the English seaside town of Torquay in Devon.
Sep 27, 2007 · Fawlty Towers was famously inspired by a seethingly rude hotel proprietor John Cleese encountered whilst away filming with the Monty Python team. Unwittingly, Donald Sinclair became the...
Feb 8, 2023 · Don't mention the war. Or ask for Waldorf salad. These are all the reasons BBC2 comedy Fawlty Towers starring John Cleese still holds up.
- Lloyd Farley
- Senior Author
Fawlty Towers is set in a fictional hotel on the southwestern English coast that is run by a hapless and rude host, Basil Fawlty (John Cleese), and his wife, Sybil (Prunella Scales), along with the hotel’s waitress and housekeeper, Polly Sherman (Booth), and its kind but often confused Spanish waiter, Manuel (Andrew Sachs).
Sep 17, 2015 · When Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant wrote the finest British sitcom of the past 40 years, The Office, their epic account of an imagined paper merchants' in Slough, they had the protagonist...
