Fawlty Towers (1975–1979) 8.9
Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away. |
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Fawlty Towers (1975–1979) 8.9
Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away. |
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| John Cleese | ... |
Basil Fawlty
(12 episodes, 1975-1979)
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| Prunella Scales | ... |
Sybil Fawlty
(12 episodes, 1975-1979)
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| Andrew Sachs | ... |
Manuel
(12 episodes, 1975-1979)
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| Connie Booth | ... |
Polly Sherman
(12 episodes, 1975-1979)
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Ballard Berkeley | ... |
Major Gowen
(12 episodes, 1975-1979)
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Gilly Flower | ... |
Miss Agatha Tibbs
(11 episodes, 1975-1979)
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Renee Roberts | ... |
Miss Ursula Gatsby
(11 episodes, 1975-1979)
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Brian Hall | ... |
Terry
(6 episodes, 1979)
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Inept and manic English hotel owner and manager, Basil Fawlty, isn't cut out for his job. He's intolerant, rude and paranoid. All hell frequently breaks loose as Basil tries to run the hotel, constantly under verbal (and sometime physical) attack from his unhelpful wife Sybil, and hindered by the incompetent, but easy target, Manuel; their Spanish waiter. Written by Rob Hartill
This is pure comedy. It is genius. It is hilarity that transcends the boundary of comedy. Fawlty Towers is the kind of comedy that has you on the floor gasping for air in a puddle of your own tears. John Cleese has created one of the defining characters of comedy in Basil Fawlty. Manuel Sachs is superb as Manuel, the confused waiter from Barcelona. Prunella Scales is brilliant as the tyrannical wife. Connie Booth is very good as Polly, the hassled waitress. Put it all together inside a small hotel in Torquay and you get one of the greatest, most alluring comedies ever to grace the screen. The only bad thing about Fawlty Towers is that they didn't make more.
Fawlty Towers will always be tearfully, heart stoppingly, deadly, and disasterously funny.