Fawlty Towers

Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom made by the BBC and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. Only twelve episodes were produced, but the series has had a lasting and powerful influence on later shows.

The show is set in a fictional hotel named Fawlty Towers in the Devon town of Torquay on "The English Riviera." The series was written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, both of whom played main characters, and was broadcast in two series: the first, in 1975, was produced and directed by John Howard Davies, and the second, in 1979, was produced by Douglas Argent and directed by Bob Spiers.

In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, voted for by industry professionals, Fawlty Towers was placed first. It was also voted fifth in the BBC's "Britain's Best Sitcom" poll in 2004.

Fawlty Towers was inspired by the Monty Python team's stay in the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay in May 1970. Cleese and Booth stayed on at the hotel after filming for the Python show had finished. The owner, Donald Sinclair, was very rude, throwing a bus timetable at a guest who asked when the next bus to town would arrive, and placing Eric Idle's suitcase behind a wall in the garden on the suspicion that it contained a bomb (it actually contained a ticking alarm clock). He also criticised the American-born Terry Gilliam's table manners for being too American (he had the fork in "the wrong hand" while eating), possibly inspiring Basil's treatment of an American visitor in the episode "Waldorf Salad."

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Fawlty Towers Episodes

Fawlty Towers Season 1

1. 1- 1 19 Sep 75 A Touch of Class
2. 1- 2 26 Sep 75 The Builders
3. 1- 3 3 Oct 75 The Wedding Party
4. 1- 4 10 Oct 75 The Hotel Inspectors
5. 1- 5 17 Oct 75 Gourmet Night (a.k.a. Gourmet's Paradise)
6. 1- 6 24 Oct 75 The Germans

Fawlty Towers Season 2

7. 2- 1 19 Feb 79 Communication Problems (a.k.a. Theft)
8. 2- 2 26 Feb 79 The Psychiatrist
9. 2- 3 5 Mar 79 Waldorf Salad
10. 2- 4 12 Mar 79 The Kipper and the Corpse (a.k.a. Death)
11. 2- 5 26 Mar 79 The Anniversary
12. 2- 6 25 Oct 79 Basil the Rat

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