"Fawlty Towers"
Gourmet Night (1975)

Director:

John Howard Davies

Writers:

John Cleese (written by) and
Connie Booth (written by)

TV Series:

"Fawlty Towers" (1975)

Original Air Date:

17 October 1975 (Season 1, Episode 5)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

The cream of Torquay society turns out for a special gourmet night at Fawlty Towers. Expectations are high but so...

Plot Keywords:

Beating Car With Branch | Gourmet Night | English | Waiter | Hotel

Cast

John Cleese	...	Basil Fawlty
Prunella Scales	...	Sybil Fawlty
Connie Booth	...	Polly Shearman
Andrew Sachs	...	Manuel
André Maranne	...	André
Steve Plytas	...	Kurt
Allan Cuthbertson	...	Colonel Hall
Ann Way	...	Mrs. Hall
Richard Caldicot	...	Mr. Twitchen
Betty Huntley-Wright	...	Mrs. Twitchen
Ballard Berkeley	...	Major Gowen
Gilly Flower	...	Miss Abitha Tibbs
Renee Roberts	...	Miss Ursula Gatsby
Jeffrey Segal	...	Mr. Heath
Elizabeth Benson	...	Mrs. Heath

Certification:

Australia:PG

Trivia:

Anagram: WA RTY TOWELS (missing F but space between A and R in WARTY)

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Basil impersonates the duck, the sound effect used continues when his mouth is closed.

Quotes:

Basil Fawlty: Is there anything else I can get you to eat, *sonny*?
Master Heath: I'd like some bread and salad cream.
Basil Fawlty: To eat? Well, there's the bread and there's the mayonnaise.
Master Heath: I said salad cream, stupid!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Shaun the Sheep: The Visitor (#2.4)" (2007)

Very well done!

Basil tries to improve the status of the hotel by paying for an expensive advert in a classy magazine, much to Sybil's disapproval.

Surely enough he gets some of the most important people in Torquay to visit, he also gets a top chef in make sure the food is all the best standards, so nothing can go wrong, or does it?

The whole episode keeps you on the edge of your seat, wondering what's going to append next and what's going to be done to solve the problems.

You're also wondering how one hotel owner can get himself into this mess and how the same man can get himself out.

It's funny from start to finish and well worth watching, full marks to all involved.