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Fawlty Towers

  • TV Series
  • 1975–1979
  • TV-PG
  • 30m
IMDb RATING
8.8/10
102K
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Fawlty Towers (1975)
Fawlty Towers
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Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.

  • Stars
    • John Cleese
    • Prunella Scales
    • Andrew Sachs
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • IMDb RATING
    8.8/10
    102K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    1,765
    98
    • Stars
      • John Cleese
      • Prunella Scales
      • Andrew Sachs
    • 203User reviews
    • 29Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Top rated TV #64
    • Won 3 BAFTA Awards
      • 6 wins & 2 nominations total

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    John Cleese
    John Cleese
    • Basil Fawlty
    Prunella Scales
    Prunella Scales
    • Sybil Fawlty
    Andrew Sachs
    Andrew Sachs
    • Manuel
    Connie Booth
    Connie Booth
    • Polly Sherman
    Ballard Berkeley
    Ballard Berkeley
    • Major Gowen
    Gilly Flower
    • Miss Agatha Tibbs
    Renee Roberts
    • Miss Ursula Gatsby
    Brian Hall
    Brian Hall
    • Terry
    Terence Conoley
    • Mr. Johnston…
    Elizabeth Benson
    • Mrs. Heath…
    George Lee
    • Delivery Man…
    Bernard Cribbins
    Bernard Cribbins
    • Mr. Hutchinson
    Michael Gwynn
    Michael Gwynn
    • Lord Melbury
    André Maranne
    André Maranne
    • André
    Geoffrey Palmer
    Geoffrey Palmer
    • Dr. Price
    Nicky Henson
    Nicky Henson
    • Mr. Johnson
    Bruce Boa
    Bruce Boa
    • Mr. Harry Hamilton
    Joan Sanderson
    Joan Sanderson
    • Mrs. Alice Richards
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    • Trivia
      The character Manuel is often criticized as an overtly racist stereotype that would not be allowed in a modern television series. However Andrew Sachs defended the character, saying, "If it's insulting to the Spanish what is Basil to the British?" According to John Cleese, the character of Manuel was not meant to be a joke about stupid foreigners, since Manuel is a very lovely man who really does his best to get everything right. Manuel's problem is his poor English, which is a parody on mingy hotel and restaurant owners, simply hiring cheap people who are desperate for work, without giving them proper training.
    • Goofs
      The layout of the hotel from interior shots would place the windowless kitchen hard against the front left of the building, as seem from the outside (if there were space for it at all). In exterior shots there is a large bow window here.
    • Quotes

      Basil Fawlty: Where's Sybil?

      Manuel: ¿Que?

      Basil Fawlty: Where's Sybil?

      Manuel: Where's... the bill?

      Basil Fawlty: No, not a bill! I own the place!

    • Crazy credits
      The Fawlty Towers hotel sign has its letters missing, or scrambled up to make new words. The sign presents a different error with each episode.
    • Alternate versions
      For German TV-runs the main-theme was changed to "funnier" music.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Pythons (1979)
    • Soundtracks
      Fawlty Towers
      Written by Dennis Wilson
      Performed by Dennis Wilson Quartet
      [series theme tune]

    User reviews203

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    10/10

    This is what comedy is all about!

    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.
    • jdmu7
    • Jul 6, 2006
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    • Release date
      • September 19, 1975 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Das verrückte Hotel - Fawlty Towers
    • Filming locations
      • Wooburn Grange Country Club, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England, UK(Fawlty Towers exterior)
    • Production company
      • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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    • Runtime
      30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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