• Air date: 19 Sep '75 6 episodes
      Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom produced by BBC Television that was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. Twelve episodes were made. The show was written by John Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth, both of whom also starred in the show. The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay, on the "English Riviera". The plots centre around tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty, his bossy wife Sybil, a comparatively normal chambermaid Polly, and hapless Spanish waiter Manuel and their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests. In a list drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, voted by industry professionals, Fawlty Towers was named the best British television series of all time.
  • List of Episodes (6)
    • 1. A Touch of Class

      19 Sep '75
      An confidence trickster comes to stay at the hotel, just after Basil has taken an ad in a posh magazine to upgrade the clientele.
    • 2. The Builders

      26 Sep '75
      The Fawltys take a holiday and leave Polly and Manuel to run the place just as O'Reilly's builders come to redo the lobby.
    • 3. The Wedding Party

      03 Oct '75
      Basil wants 'none of that' going on in his rooms and suspects some guests and Polly of carrying on.
    • 4. The Hotel Inspectors

      10 Oct '75
      Some inspectors are in town and Basil gets paranoid, so he alternately fawns over and offends his guests.
    • 5. Gourmet Night

      17 Oct '75
      To bring the right type of crowd into the hotel Basil establishes a Gourmet Night.
    • 6. The Germans

      24 Oct '75
      Sybil goes into the hospital for toe surgery, leaving Basil to cope with a fire drill single-handed. After a couple of blows on the head, Basil tells some German guests where Germany went wrong in WWII.