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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 ... Read review

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, ... Read review

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 ... Read review

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 ... Read review