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.

External links

• Fawlty Towers - Online -- Brand New Fawlty Towers Site!
• BBC Guide to Comedy
• British Sitcom Guide
• Unofficial Guide to Fawlty Towers
• TV Comedy Database entry
• BBC America description
• Gleneagles Hotel owner says 'Certainly Donald was a disciplinarian and he couldn't stand fools'
• Torquay Hotels and Caterers Association home pages
• Fawltysite.net
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• Encyclopedia of Television
• British Film Institute Screen Online