Comedy - Director: John Howard-Davies, Bob Spiers - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: Connie Booth, Andrew Sachs, Prunella Scales, John Cleese more
Advantages: Superb comedy with John Cleese Disadvantages: It's a shame there weren't more series
Fawlty Towers is my favourite comedy and one of favourites in our home and also with most of my friends and family. It originally aired on BBC 1 in the 1970s
It is a comedy made at the height of comedy in the 70s and is about a hotel - "Fawlty Towers" in Torquay. It is probably one of the best known and most loved British comedy and although there were only ever two series they are forever being shown on channels such as UKTV gold - and with there ...
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Advantages: fantastic humour from the god of all moaners Disadvantages: none apart from not enough episodes made
Created by John Cleese and Connie Booth.
Series 1 produced and directed by John Howard Davies.
Series 2 produced by Dougkas Argent, Directed by Bob Spiers.
Starring John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Saches and Connie Booth.
Fawlty towers was a classic comedy, set in a fictional hotel in Torquay, which began in September 1975 until October 1979, creating 12 episodes into 2 series.
The main Characters being the hotel owners Basil Fawlty, ...
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Advantages: Guaranteed to laugh, nice presentation of DVDs Disadvantages: Only 12 episodes
...you can always rely on Fawlty Towers to either be voted the best or at least the second best comedy of all time.
It is a remarkable achievement for a show that only ever had 12 episodes & which was slated by a senior BBC executive for being dull & uninspiring before it went on air.
The first episode in 1975 had just over one million viewers at a time when we only had three TV channels to choose from. By the third episode the viewing figures had ...
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Advantages: Comedy has stood the test of time, Good value for money Disadvantages: Some may already own this on DVD from a previous release
...you will hear them mention Fawlty Towers. This comedy classic may only be 12 episodes long, but what it lacks in length it does not lack in quality. Some people argue that 12 episodes simply aren't enough while others state making any more would ruin the quality of the programme. In my opinion, they did the right thing to stop at 12 episodes, so the programme remained a classic. Personally this is one of my favourite comedy sitcoms ever created. This ...
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Advantages: Every Single Episode It Outstanding Disadvantages: None
Fawlty Towers is an iconic British Television situation comedy first aired in 1975.
In a British Film Institute poll of 2000 it was voted the best television programme in British Television History.
It stars John Cleese (of Monty Python Fame), Prunella Scales (married to Actor Timothy West), Connie Booth (who co wrote it with John Cleese and used to be married to him) and Andrew Sachs (who Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross apologised to, to the max.)
The ...
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Advantages: Excellent compilation of Basil's best Disadvantages: None
Basil Fawlty - even just saying good morning can be funny.....throroughly enjoy his wit and naievity and "I am never wrong" attitude. Certainly knows how to screw up any normal situation and just get in deeper and deeper while trying his best to get out of it.......hilarious! His interaction with his fellow actors is brilliant...always eager to help (or screw up..?) but inevitably ending up in some kind of major disaster or catastrophe.
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If you are a lover of british sitcoms like me then Fawlty Towers is a must have. I think that what makes it so good is that it is written from a personal experiece of John Cleese when he was a member of monty python.
Also the performarces of all actors and actresses involved help to make the comedy come alive especially that of John cleese and Andrew Sachs.
At such an affordable price aswell this truly makes the boxset a bargain.
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This is a classic piece of british tv comedy and it never seems to get old, I guess thats why they call it a classic duh. There is great writing and memorable performances to be found and enjoyed over and over. I think that the whole thing has been beautifully crafted and choreographed. Of course some episodes are better than others but in general I dont think this will disappoint. The look of it may seem dated to some but this does not detract from ...
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Advantages: Funny Disadvantages: They did not make enough episodes
John Cleese (Basil Fawlty)
Prunella Scales (Sybil Fawlty)
Andrew Sachs (Manuel)
Connie Booth (Polly)
This tv series is set in a hotel in Torquay called 'Fawlty Towers'. At the beginning of each episode look at the sign for the hotel and it general reads something else like Watery Fowls.
Basil is always getting the blame when things go wrong. Each episode is a masterpiece.
Such episodes include a man dying in his sleep and they have nowhere ...
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elaborate tradition of farce. Comprising two series made in 1975 and 1979, the total of just 12 episodes were painstakingly constructed by writers John Cleese and Conni...
elaborate tradition of farce. Comprising two series made in 1975 and 1979, the total of just 12 episodes were painstakingly constructed by writers John Cleese and Conni...
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