Fawlty Towers

Fawlty Towers was a British sitcom made by the BBC and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. It is set in a fictional hotel named Fawlty Towers in the Devon town of Torquay on "the English Riviera". The hotel is owned and run by the eccentric Basil Fawlty and his censorious wife Sybil, helped by the maid Polly, the Spanish porter Manuel who could barely speak English and (in the second series) the chef Terry. Permanent guests were the half-senile Major Gowen and the bewildered old ladies Miss Tibbs and Miss Gatsby. Very few other guests ever stayed long.

Credits

The cast:

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• Basil Fawlty (played by John Cleese)
• Sybil Fawlty (Prunella Scales)
• Polly Sherman (Connie Booth)
• Manuel (Andrew Sachs)
• Major Gowen (Ballard Berkeley)
• Miss Tibbs (Gilly Flower)
• Miss Gatsby (Renee Roberts)
• Terry the Chef (Brian Hall)

The scripts were written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, who were married at the time of the first series, 1975. By 1979 (second series), Cleese and Booth had divorced after ten years of marriage, 1968–78.

Related Topics:
1975 - 1979 - 1968 - 78

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The programmes were produced and directed by John Howard Davies, Douglas Argent and/or Bob Spiers.

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