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LMAO ...tru ROFL material..... to my mind,the best British comedy ever. Come to think of it there are not any American sit-coms that top it(tough call)...(i always did like barney miller)...
Only fawlt...too few episodes...if I remember correctly, they were concerned with quality not quantity as a production goal.
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Fawlty Towers was a British sitcom made by the BBC and first broadcast on BBC1 in 1975. It is set in a fictional hotel named Fawlty Towers in the Devon town of Torquay on "the English Riviera".
The hotel is owned and run by the eccentric Basil Fawlty and his censorious(but practical and most often right) wife Sybil, helped by the maid Polly, the Spanish porter Manuel who could barely speak English(of poor Manuel-Basil said-"would be easier to train a monkey") and (in the second series) the chef Terry.
Permanent guests were the half-senile Major Gowen and the bewildered old ladies Miss Tibbs and Miss Gatsby. Very few other guests ever stayed long.
The plots are intricate and farcical, involving coincidences, misunderstandings, cross- purposes, accidental meetings and missed meetings. Basil Fawlty's eccentricity drives the plots. It was a total hilarious farce. Basil steadfastly refused to learn from his mistakes.
Only twelve episodes were ever broadcast, but the series has had a lasting and powerful influence. In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, voted for by industry professionals, Fawlty Towers was placed first. It also was voted fifth in a BBC poll in 2004 of the general public to find "Britain's Best Sitcom".
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CAST
* Basil Fawlty (played by John Cleese)
* Sybil Fawlty (Prunella Scales)
* Polly Sherman (Connie Booth)
* Manuel (Andrew Sachs)
* Major Gowen (Ballard Berkeley)
* Miss Tibbs (Gilly Flower)
* Miss Gatsby (Renee Roberts)
* Terry the Chef (Brian Hall)
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Fawlty Towers Theme Song
Pictures of the characters
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Fawlty Towers Episode Guides
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1: A Touch of Class
His pretentious snobbery leads Basil to encourage
a somewhat classier clientele to Fawlty Towers
(“rather than the riff-raff we normally get in
here”).
Lord Melbury's arrival is right up his street;
there's nothing Basil won't do for the nobility.
With hand-rubbing obsequiousness the proprietor
is only too pleased to cash his Lordship's cheque.
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2: The Builders
Not for the first time, Basil's tight-fistedness
finds him out. There is building work required in
the hotel lobby and, when Sybil's back is turned,
Basil immediately goes for the lowest quote for
the job. But he soon discovers why O'Reilly and
his men come so cheap…
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3: The Wedding Party
Basil's prudish nature is outraged by what he
perceives to be an outbreak of promiscuity at
Fawlty Towers. As ever, he grabs the wrong end
of the stick and then proceeds to beat himself
with it. Yet another terrible day for Basil ends
with his apparent discovery by the guests in a
compromising position with Manuel.
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4: The Hotel Inspectors
Basil is terrified by the news that hotel
inspectors are in the area — and well he might be.
The awful probability occurs to him that the
eccentric guest to whom he has been so appallingly
offensive may be one of the officials. His
ranting turns to a pathetic fawning — but has he
got the right man?
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5: Gourmet Night
The cream of Torquay society turns out for a special
gourmet night at Fawlty Towers. Expectations are
high but so, unfortunately, is the chef. In fact,
he's incapably drunk! A desperate Basil hurtles
round to a friend's restaurant in a car that's about
as reliable as his chef(due to the fact, he has
neglected his wife's advice to have it repaired).
His mission is to find a replacement main course —
he's out for a duck. (When the car breaks down-He
"thrashes it, to within an inch of it's life" with
a tree branch).
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6: The Germans
Sybil is in hospital for her ingrowing toenail.
“Perhaps they'll have it mounted for me,” mutters
Basil as he tries to cope during her absence. A
fire-drill ends in chaos with Basil knocked out by
the moose’s head in the lobby. The deranged host
then encounters the Germans and tells them the
“truth” about their Fatherland…(was voted best,
funniest episode-although personally, i would be
hard pressed to choose).
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7: Communication Problems
It’s not a wise man who entrusts his furtive
winnings on the horses to an absent-minded
geriatric Major, but Basil was never known for
that quality. Parting with those ill-gotten gains
was Basil’s first mistake; his second was to
tangle with the intermittently deaf Mrs Richards.
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8: The Psychiatrist
A young “yobbo” has booked in and — to Basil's
intense fury — Sybil obviously fancies him. Basil
believes he may have smuggled a girl into his
room and Basil's sense of propriety is offended. A
psychiatrist arrives to add to his discomfort
and the voluptuous Australian girl stands just a
bit too close to the light switch. “There's enough
material here for an entire conference,” muses the
psychiatrist as he observes the baffling phenomenon
known as Basil Fawlty.
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9: Waldorf Salad
Basil's customary, well established, routine,
catches up with him, an American guest demands a
quality of service not normally associated with the
“Torquay Riviera”, as Basil calls his neck of the
woods. A Waldorf Salad is not part of Fawlty Towers'
standard culinary repertoire, nor is a Screwdriver
to be found on the hotel's drinks list…
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10: The Kipper and The Corpse
Chaos reigns as one of the guests with total
disregard for Basil's blood pressure, dies in his
bed. Doubtless it was the kippers (which should
have been thrown out weeks ago) that did for him.
Demented and panic stricken, Basil attempts to
conceal both the body and the extremely fishy
breakfast.(Much of this episode is spent
shuffling, the corpse from room to room, in an
attempt to conceal the death, with hilarious
results).
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11: The Anniversary
Sybil can't believe that Basil has forgotten their
15th wedding anniversary, “not after what happened
the last time he didn't remember,” she tells Polly.
In fact, Basil has arranged a surprise party, with
all of Sybil's friends on the Fawlty Towers
invitation list. Unfortunately Sybil flounces off
to the golf course leaving Basil up to his neck
floundering in guests, lies and mayhem.
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12: Basil the Rat
Manuel insists that his pet rodent is a Siberian
hamster. Basil is convinced that the pet shop has
conned the gullible Spaniard and sold him a rat —
a fine thing to have running round the hotel when
the public health inspector is also on the loose.
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