"the place in a week"",the way he'd handle guests' demands. In the next episode, the idea of him running a hotel was seen as him being a Basil Fawlty. In the 2004 film ""Shrek 2"", John Cleese's character of King Harold references the character by using Fawlty's excuse of ""war wound shrapnel"" with ""Crusade war shrapnel"". Basil Fawlty Basil Fawlty is the main character of the British sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"", played by John Cleese. Basil has become an iconic British comedy character that is widely recognised around the world, despite only 12 half-hour episodes ever having been made. Basil, who"
"Fawlty Towers Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. Just two series of six episodes were made. The show was created and written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, who also starred in the show and were married at the time of the first series, but divorced before recording the second series. The show was ranked first on a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000. The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay on"
"the revised ""Love Never Dies"" and the new ""King Kong"" were also premiered. Cleese also noted he did not believe the London press would give the adaptation fair, unbiased reviews, so he deliberately choose to premier it elsewhere. In 2009, Tiger Aspect Productions produced a two-part documentary for the digital comedy channel Gold, called ""Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened."" The documentary features interviews with all four main cast members, including Connie Booth, who had refused to talk about the series for 30 years. John Cleese confirmed at the 30-year reunion in May 2009 that they will never make another episode of the"
"series. The DVD set was released on 20 October 2009. The reissue, titled ""Fawlty Towers Remastered: Special Edition,"" contains commentary by John Cleese on every episode as well as remastered video and audio. All episodes are occasionally available as streamed video-on-demand via Netflix and Amazon Instant Videos as well. Both series are available for download on iTunes. A ""Fawlty Towers"" game was released on PC in 2000 and featured a number of interactive games, desktop-customizing content and clips from the show. Fawlty Towers Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. Just two series"
"was sold to the Seven Network where it has been repeated numerous times. Two record albums were released by BBC Records. The first album, simply titled ""Fawlty Towers"", was released in 1979 and contained the audio from ""Communication Problems"" (as ""Mrs Richards"") and ""Hotel Inspectors"". The second album, titled ""Second Sitting"", was released in 1981 and contained audio from ""Basil the Rat"" (as ""The Rat"") and ""The Builders"". ""Fawlty Towers"" originally was released by BBC Video in 1984, with three episodes on each of four tapes. Each tape was edited with the credits from all three episodes put at the"
"comedy because they are ""too old and tired"" and expectations would be too high. In a television interview (shown in Australia on Seven Network and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation) on 7 May 2009, Cleese also commented that he and Booth took six weeks to write each episode. In 1977 and 1978 alone, the original TV show was sold to 45 stations in 17 countries and was the BBC's best-selling overseas program for that year. ""Fawlty Towers"" became a huge success in almost all countries in which it aired. Although it initially was a flop in Spain, largely because of the"
"became known as Basil Fawlty was developed in an episode (""No Ill Feeling"") of the third ""Doctor"" series (titled ""Doctor at Large""). In this edition, the main character checks into a small-town hotel, his very presence seemingly winding up the aggressive and incompetent manager (played by Timothy Bateson) with a domineering wife. The show was broadcast on 30 May 1971. Cleese said in 2008 that the first ""Fawlty Towers"" script he and Booth wrote was rejected by the BBC. At a 30th anniversary event honouring the show, Cleese said, Cleese was paid £6,000 for 43 weeks' work and supplemented his"
"a total of 17 episodes, of which 12 were filmed (6 in series one, and 6 in series two). Whitbread, who died following a road traffic accident in 2004, is best remembered as a scriptwriter, though he also acted and directed; he was not a novelist. The publication in the summer of 1977 of a ""Flockton Flyer"" children's novel appears to have been merely the adaptation of 6 storylines intended for filming, including a script with all the hallmarks of a Christmas Special edition. The novel was published by Arrow Books and Look-in Books, the latter being a trading name"
"2013, Hall wrote, produced and performed in the one man stage show ""Raiders of the Temple of Doom's Last Crusade; One Man Performs Three Indiana Jones Movies in One Hour"", for the Melbourne Fringe Festival. The show was then revived for a successful season in the 2014 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. In March 2016, John Cleese cast Hall as Basil Fawlty in Cleese's own stage adaptation of his TV series 'Fawlty Towers'. 'Fawlty Towers Live' opened in Sydney at the Roslyn Packer Theatre in August 2016, and toured Australia, running for 157 performances before finishing in Brisbane on January 22,"
"Sybil Fawlty Sybil Fawlty is a fictional character from the BBC sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"". She is played by Prunella Scales. Her age is listed as 34 years old as seen on her medical chart in the 1975 episode ""The Germans"", thus presumably indicating that she was born in 1941. Scales was 43 years old when ""Fawlty Towers"" began. She is Basil Fawlty's wife, and the only regular character in the series who usually refers to him by his first name (Major Gowen addresses Basil by his first name in ""Communication Problems""). Sybil is a far more effective worker and manager"
"Fáilte Towers Fáilte Towers is a reality TV show broadcast that aired on RTÉ during August 2008 on RTÉ. The concept involved thirteen celebrities running a hotel for sixteen days and nights in order to win money for their designated charities. The show format was not repeated nor was it exported or resold. The name is a play on the BBC sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"" and the word """" meaning 'welcome' in Irish. The hotel used in the series is Bellingham Castle in Castlebellingham, County Louth. The show is presented by Aidan Power and Baz Ashmawy and the judges are Bibi"
"end of the tape. A Laserdisc containing all episodes spliced together as a continuous episode was released in the U.S. on 23 June 1993. It was re-released in 1994, unedited but digitally remastered. It also was re-released in 1998 with a special interview with John Cleese. ""Fawlty Towers – The Complete Series"" was released on DVD on 16 October 2001, available in regions 1, 2 and 4. A ""Collector's Edition"" is available in region 2. Series one of the show was released on UMD Video for PSP. In July 2009, BBC America announced a DVD re-release of the ""Fawlty Towers"""
"Performance"" in 1976, Andrew Sachs was also nominated but lost. In a list drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, voted by industry professionals, ""Fawlty Towers"" was named the best British television series of all time. Four attempted remakes of ""Fawlty Towers"" were started for the American market, with three making it into production. The first, ""Chateau Snavely"" starring Harvey Korman and Betty White, was produced by ABC for a pilot in 1978, but the transfer from coastal hotel to highway motel proved too much and the series never was produced. The second, also by ABC, was ""Amanda's,"""
"they were creating. Later, when Sachs's clothes were treated to give off smoke after he escapes the burning kitchen in ""The Germans"", the corrosive chemicals ate through them and gave Sachs severe burns. Manuel's exaggerated Spanish accent is part of the humour of the show. In fact, Sachs's original language was German; he emigrated to Britain as a child. The character's nationality was switched to Italian (and the name to Paolo) for the Spanish dub of the show, while in Catalonia and France, Manuel is a Mexican. The first episode of ""Fawlty Towers"" was recorded as a pilot on 24"
"Malory Towers series, ""Goodbye Malory Towers"", sees Felicity through the ups and downs of her last term at Malory Towers. It also sees the return of Gwendoline Lacey. The six official books of the series are: Pamela Cox wrote six sequels of the series in 2009 which focus on the adventures of Felicity Rivers, June Johns and Susan Blake: Blyton wrote two other series about life at a boarding school, ""St. Clare's"" and the ""Naughtiest Girl"" series. as well as many other adventure and fantasy stories. Darrell Rivers is the main character of the first six books. She is hot"
"""Fawlty Towers"" in 1979, which already had an enormous reputation on the basis of its initial six episodes in 1975, and it won him his first BAFTA award. Spiers subsequently provided a commentary for all the episodes he directed of ""Fawlty Towers"" when the series was released on DVD. Shortly after he directed the series and the unbroadcast pilot of ""Not the Nine O'Clock News"", Spiers left the staff of the BBC to work as a freelance director. Throughout the 1980s he worked on a number of programmes, of particular note being Channel 4's anthology comedy series ""The Comic Strip"
"upended by bizarre occurrences and bad luck. Whether it is dealing with flatulent dogs, a frozen body in a freezer in the front room, or even stumbling across Shirley Bassey's warehouse, anything seems possible in the Porters' world. The show originally ran from 1991 to 1999. 56 episodes were made over eight series, including six Christmas specials in which the cast performed carols or original theme songs. Andrew Marshall wrote virtually all the episodes except for a few in series seven which were written by Paul Alexander, Simon Braithwaite and Paul Smith. The first three series were released on Region"
"announcer, but she came in and could do it, just like that. I'd love to cast her in a song-and-dance number – I feel so sorry for her always having to wear those terrible blouses"". When ""As Seen On TV"" ended Blake said ""I'm very sad that this is the last time we will all work together but I understand why Vic wanted to stop. Anyway there were only two series of Fawlty Towers and, as far as I'm concerned, this rates with it, so I'm sure it'll be shown lots of times"". ""Patricia Routledge"" starred as Kitty, the self-righteous"
"character of Sybil was used by special permission of John Cleese. Sybil Fawlty Sybil Fawlty is a fictional character from the BBC sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"". She is played by Prunella Scales. Her age is listed as 34 years old as seen on her medical chart in the 1975 episode ""The Germans"", thus presumably indicating that she was born in 1941. Scales was 43 years old when ""Fawlty Towers"" began. She is Basil Fawlty's wife, and the only regular character in the series who usually refers to him by his first name (Major Gowen addresses Basil by his first name in"
"seasons and four TV films (the first five seasons aired on NBC). The series was briefly rerun on TV Land in 2002 and 2003, including the unaired ""Gloria"" pilot. The last episode did air in a marathon along with the final episodes of ""All in the Family"", ""The Jeffersons"" and ""Gloria"". The series is currently shown on Antenna TV as of August 2018. Whereas ""All in the Family"" had been inspired by a British series, ""Till Death Us Do Part"", ""Archie Bunker's Place"" would eventually inspire creator Johnny Speight to produce a sequel to the British series. ""In Sickness and"
"as a single long series of twenty-six episodes between September 1988 and February 1989. The attempts to air the show in America failed (although the series later became popular on PBS), and so series six had only eight episodes commissioned, which aired from September 1989 onwards. On 25 January 1990, Gorden Kaye suffered serious head injuries in a car crash brought on by gale-force winds. This delayed the start of the seventh series, which consisted of ten episodes airing from January 1991 onwards. Series 8 (7 episodes) followed in January 1992, and the ninth and final series of six episodes"
"""It's a show that genuinely feels like this guy made it himself. It’s as if it's 4:30 in the morning he had snuck into the studio to make this show without getting permission. It's bare bones. Lots of technical problems. Just a mess. The whole thing is a big mess. A big beautiful mess."" The series has completed four seasons with six episodes each. The first season premiered on May 16, 2010 in the United States; it concluded on June 20, 2010. The second season premiered on March 18, 2012 in the United States; its season finale aired on April"
"Major Gowen Major Gowen, usually known as the Major, is a fictional character played by Ballard Berkeley in the BBC sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"". Major Gowen is an old, befuddled, slightly senile, retired artillery officer permanently residing in the hotel. He appears in all 12 episodes, along with the other permanent residents Miss Gatsby and Miss Tibbs. He enjoys talking about the world (especially the cricket scores and workers' strikes) and is always on the lookout for the newspaper. He has trouble forgiving Germany for the Second World War. He often appears slightly hard of hearing, which leads to some confusion"
"five or six episodes, but it became such a popular show in all three countries that it was immediately renewed for six more episodes. Its continued success eventually produced a total of six seasons over the span of thirty years. A movie ""Den Siste Fleksnes"" (""The Last Fleksnes"") was made in 1974 as well, between the first and second series. In 2002, Galton and Simpson wrote the script for one brand new ""Fleksnes"" episode, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first episode. When the entire series aired on NRK in Norway in 2002, there were over one million viewers"
"discontinued and are now out of print. On February 9, 2012, it was announced that Lionsgate Home Entertainment had acquired the rights to the series and planned on re-releasing it. Seasons 1 and 2 were re-released on May 1, 2012 and do not contain any extras, subtitles, or other languages besides English. Seasons 3 and 4 were re-released on May 7, 2013. The series debut garnered 7.1 million viewers. ""Felicity"" was nominated for 38 awards during its run from 1998 to 2002 and won several, including an Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Series for Robert Primes and Golden"
"episodes a year were produced instead of 15. Shortly thereafter, as of August 11, 1995, the episodes from the ""first series"" (1968–76) were withdrawn from the repeat schedule, since there were over 200 ""second series"" episodes available for broadcast, and many of the first series episodes had become outdated. The show's final years varied the number of episodes produced per season: season 26 (1995–96) consisted of 20 episodes, season 27 (1997) produced 10 episodes, seasons 28 and 29 (1998–99) both contained 15 episodes, and season 30 (2000) reverted to 10 episodes. The final season, season 31 (2001), consisted of only"
"from 1999 through 2005, including ""The Whole Nine Yards"" and its sequel, ""The Whole Ten Yards"", as well as ""The In-Laws"". Franchise and its subsidiaries filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on August 19, 2004, after losing a multimillion-dollar fraud case in Los Angeles, and is now defunct. Prior to Franchise, Stevens was an owner and president of Royal Oaks Entertainment, which produced and/or distributed seventy pictures over a three-year period including many HBO, Showtime and Sci-Fi Channel world premieres. Prior to Royal Oaks, Stevens' entrée into foreign sales and production company ownership was with Sunset Films International, which amassed a"
"school, and then Cambridge-educated Cleese and the working class, self-educated Mancunian Dawson) were marked, but both worked well together from series 8 onwards until the series ended in 1976. Cleese achieved greater prominence in the United Kingdom as the neurotic hotel manager Basil Fawlty in ""Fawlty Towers"", which he co-wrote with his wife Connie Booth. The series won three BAFTA awards when produced and in 2000, it topped the British Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes. The series also featured Prunella Scales as Basil's acerbic wife Sybil, Andrew Sachs as the much abused Spanish waiter Manuel"
"is composed by Lester Barnes, and additional songs are composed by Lockdown Media. Three series were aired, with 52 episodes each. The fourth series started on 11 October 2014 with another 52 episodes making it 208 in total. On 10 May 2018, Nickelodeon UK announced they had acquired the broadcast rights to all the seasons of the show, and it premiered on 28 May 2018 on Nicktoons in the UK and Ireland with a special ""Horrid Half Term"". On the same day, Novel Entertainment ordered 50 new episodes slated to start airing in 2019. In November 2009, the series produced"
"funny, but I couldn't do it at the time. Making 'Fawlty Towers' work at 90 minutes was a very difficult proposition. You can build up the comedy for 30 minutes, but at that length there has to be a trough and another peak. It doesn't interest me. I don't want to do it. Cleese also may have relented because of the lack of Connie Booth's involvement. She had practically retreated from public life after the show finished (and had been initially unwilling to collaborate on a second series, which explains the four-year gap between productions). The decision by Cleese and"
"bringing the total number to 35 episodes. The announcement was made on May 3, 2009 before the first season even premiered. Due to strong ratings, Fox picked up the back nine episodes of season 2, making a 22-episode season and bringing the total episode count of the show to 44. The series ended on May 19, 2013, with a total of 4 seasons and 88 episodes, and the character of Cleveland returned to ""Family Guy"" in the episode ""He's Bla-ack!"". This is the only animated series created by MacFarlane that does not have him voicing the main character. Seth MacFarlane"
"spanning five seasons, each with thirteen episodes. The series first went into production with a pilot episode, titled ""Sealed with a Kick"". The first season was broadcast between March 3 and July 21, 1997, while season two was aired from February 16 to August 2, 1998; season three was shown from February 17 to August 18, 1999; season four from February 25 to August 2, 2000, and finally, season five between February 19 and June 25, 2001. The series also includes two feature-length television films; the first, ""Is It Fall Yet?"", which aired between seasons four and five, and chronicles"
"Manuel (Fawlty Towers) Manuel is a fictional character from the BBC sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"", played by Andrew Sachs. He reappeared for a small sketch with John Cleese in ""We Are Most Amused"" in November 2008. Manuel himself appeared on the audio adaptations of ""Fawlty Towers"" as a linking narrator, explaining things from his point of view, when the series was released in audio format. The first two episodes released did not feature him at all, as the dialogue was edited and a short burst of piano music would indicate a change of scene. However, when the whole series was re-released,"