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Release Date:
19 September 1975 (UK) morePlot:
Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away. full summaryAwards:
4 wins & 2 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(3 articles)
Cleese to make TV return testing gadgets (From digitalspy. 18 September 2008, 1:39 AM, PDT)
Cleese Calls BBC Project A "Total Nightmare" (From Studio Briefing. 28 February 2001)
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Hilarious sitcom moreCast
(Series Cast Summary - 8 of 11) | John Cleese | ... | Basil Fawlty (12 episodes, 1975-1979) |
 | Prunella Scales | ... | Sybil Fawlty (12 episodes, 1975-1979) |
| Andrew Sachs | ... | Manuel (12 episodes, 1975-1979) |
| Connie Booth | ... | Polly Shearman / ... (12 episodes, 1975-1979) |
| Ballard Berkeley | ... | Major Gowen (12 episodes, 1975-1979) |
| Gilly Flower | ... | Miss Abitha Tibbs / ... (12 episodes, 1975-1979) |
| Renee Roberts | ... | Miss Ursula Gatsby / ... (12 episodes, 1975-1979) |
| Brian Hall | ... | Terry (6 episodes, 1979) |
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Runtime:
30 min (12 episodes)Country:
UKColor:
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1.33 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Argentina:Atp | Norway:5 (video rating) | Finland:K-3 (2003) | UK:PG | Australia:PG (DVD rating) | Singapore:PGMOVIEmeter: 
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The building used for the exterior shots, on the grounds of the Wooburn Grange Country Club, was severely damaged by a fire in March of 1991. The building was subsequently demolished and 8 homes were later built on the grounds. moreGoofs:
Continuity: The floor plan on the second level changes from episode to episode. moreQuotes:
Basil Fawlty: [two guests are speaking to Basil in German] Oh, German. I'm sorry, I thought there was something wrong with you. moreSoundtrack:
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Based on an actual hotel Cleese and the MP gang stayed at once, Fawlty Towers is a hilarious British sitcom with great characters and situations. Probably the most famous episode is the one with the Germans, as I hear it referred to the most.
Basil Fawlty (Cleese) is a grumpy hotel manager, with his domineering wife Sybil, the hotel maid Polly (co-creator and Cleese's wife at the time of the show Connie Booth), the Spanish waiter Manuel ("I learned classical Spanish, not this strange dialect he's using"), and the hotel's longest standing resident, the Major. Witty dialogue and hilarious slapstick situations make this a great show.