The shrill summons from 'the beast of Torquay' can only mean one thing - the most famous hotel in the history of comedy is once more serving its classic recipe for howls of helpless laughter. So here they are again - snobbish, boorish, disaster-prone Basil Fawlty, his vulgarly genteel wife Sybil, their cackhanded Spanish waiter Manuel and unflappable maid-of-all-work Polly. Together they ensure the funniest, best-loved sit-com of all time, a timeless masterpiece of frantic farce.
Four classic BBC TV episodes:-
Communication Problems
The Hotel Inspectors
Basil the Rat
The Builders
Written By
John Cleese and Connie Booth
First Broadcast
BBC2
19 September 1975
Number of Series
Two:
September - October 1975
February - March & October 1979
Last Broadcast
25 October 1979
AWARDS
BAFTAs for Best Sitcom & Best Light Entertainment Performance
Voted No. 1 in bfi TV 100 poll of all-time top British television programmes.