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Fawlty Towers
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Fawlty Towers is a comedy series created by Connie Booth and John Cleese. The show aired on BBC Two in English, spanning two seasons with a total of 12 episodes. Each episode has a duration of 30 minutes. The series premiered on September 19, 1975, and concluded on October 25, 1979.
The program has ended and holds a vote average of 8.285. It is categorized under the comedy genre. The official website for the series is fawltysite.net.
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TV series · TMDB
★ 8.3Owner Basil Fawlty, his wife Sybil, a chambermaid Polly, and Spanish waiter Manuel attempt to run their hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding guests.
- Aired
- 1975–1979
- Seasons
- 2 · 12 episodes
- Status
- Ended
- Created by
- Connie Booth, John Cleese
- Network
- BBC Two
- Genres
- Comedy
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TV series
- Status
- Ended
- Network
- BBC Two
- Genres
- Comedy
- Runtime
- 30 min
- TVMaze rating
- 8.5/10
Key facts
- Genre
- Sitcom Farce
- Created by
- John Cleese Connie Booth
- Written by
- John Cleese Connie Booth
- Directed by
- John Howard Davies Bob Spiers
- Starring
- John Cleese Prunella Scales Andrew Sachs Connie Booth Ballard Berkeley Brian Hall Renee Roberts Gilly Flower
- Theme music composer
- Dennis Wilson
- Opening theme
- Fawlty Towers
- Ending theme
- Fawlty Towers
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- English
- Producers
- John Howard Davies Douglas Argent
- Editors
- Susan Imrie Bob Rymer Bill Harris
- Running time
- 30–40 minutes
- Production company
- BBC
- Network
- BBC Two
- Release
- 19 September 1975 ( 1975-09-19 ) –, 25 October 1979 ( 1979-10-25 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- television series
- Genre
- sitcom
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- hotel
- Creator
- Connie Booth
- Director
- Bob Spiers
- Screenwriter
- John Cleese
- Production company
- BBC
- Narrative location
- Devon
- Filming location
- Wooburn
- Duration
- 30
- FilmAffinity ID
- 379410
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.fawltysite.net
- Image
- Fawlty Towers west end stage 2024.jpg
Show 10 more facts
- camera setup
- single-camera setup
- set in environment
- hotel
- original broadcaster
- BBC Two
- number of episodes
- 12
- start time
- 1975-09-19
- end time
- 1979-10-25
- number of seasons
- 2
- title
- Fawlty Towers
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
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Encyclopedic overview
Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1975 and 1979. Two series of six episodes each were made. The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a dysfunctional hotel in the English seaside town of Torquay in Devon. The plots centre on the tense, rude and put-upon owner, Basil Fawlty (Cleese), his bossy wife Sybil (Prunella Scales), the sensible chambermaid Polly (Booth), and the hapless and English-challenged Spanish waiter Manuel (Andrew Sachs). They show their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests and tradespeople.
Fawlty Towers was inspired by the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, where Cleese and the rest of the Monty Python group stayed in 1970. The snobby and eccentric owner, Donald Sinclair, was the inspiration for Basil Fawlty. He is not to be confused with the eccentric Yorkshire vet Donald Sinclair who was the inspiration for the character Siegfried Farnon, in the semi-autobiographical books of James Herriot, adapted for television as All Creatures Great and Small.
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