Fawlty Towers (1975)
- TheNFScave
- Mar 28, 2025
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Updated: Apr 16, 2025
Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1975 and 1979.
Two series of six episodes each were made. The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a dysfunctional fictional hotel in the English seaside town of Torquay in Devon.
The plots centre on the tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty (Cleese), his bossy wife Sybil (Prunella Scales), the sensible chambermaid Polly (Booth), and the hapless and English-challenged Spanish waiter Manuel (Andrew Sachs).
They show their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests and tradespeople.
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