Fawlty Towers
Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom created by BBC Television and shown on BBC2 between 1975 and 1979. Twelve episodes were made. John Cleese and his then-wife Connie Booth wrote the play, which they also appeared in. Fawlty Towers, a fictional hotel in the beach town of Torquay on the "English Riviera," serves as the setting for the series. The plots revolve around the tense, rude, and put-upon hotel owner Basil Fawlty, his bossy wife Sybil, the relatively normal chambermaid Polly, and the hapless Spanish waiter Manuel, and their attempts to run the hotel in the midst of farcical situations and an assortment of demanding and eccentric guests. Fawlty Towers was chosen the best British television series of all time by industry professionals on a list compiled by the British Film Institute in 2000.
Released: 1975-09-19
Genre:
Comedy