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Release Date:
19 September 1975 (UK) more
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Plot:
Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away. full summary
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Awards:
4 wins & 2 nominations more
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Hilarious sitcom more (109 total)

Cast

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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 Gatsby / ... (12 episodes, 1975-1979)
Brian Hall ... Terry (6 episodes, 1979)
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Runtime:
30 min (12 episodes)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Certification:
Argentina:Atp | Norway:5 (video rating) | Finland:K-3 (2003) | UK:PG | Australia:M (Remastered DVD) | Australia:PG (DVD rating) | Singapore:PG

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There are persistent rumors of a missing episode, which existed only in a rough-cut form, about a blackout in the hotel. more
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Boom mic visible: In some episodes, the boom mic becomes visible and the cameraman corrects this by, among other things, zooming in on the scene. more
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Basil Fawlty: [to Sybil, while having dinner] Why don't you have another vat of wine, dear? more
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15 out of 18 people found the following comment useful.
Hilarious sitcom, 22 January 2003
Author: David (doggans) from Middle of Nowhere, CT

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.

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