"of whether more episodes would be produced, Cleese revealed (in an interview for the complete DVD box set, which was republished in the book ""Fawlty Towers Fully Booked"") that he once had the genesis of a feature-length special – possibly sometime during the mid-1990s. The plot, never fleshed out beyond his initial idea, would have revolved around the chaos that a now-retired Basil typically caused as he and Sybil flew to Barcelona to visit their former employee Manuel and his family. Of the idea, Cleese said: We had an idea for a plot which I loved. Basil was finally invited"
"a ""sweet, sweet man"". Andrew Sachs Andreas Siegfried ""Andrew"" Sachs (7 April 1930 – 23 November 2016) was a British actor. Born in Berlin, Germany, he and his family emigrated to London in 1938, to escape persecution under the Nazis. He made his name on British television and rose to fame in the 1970s for his portrayals of the comical Spanish waiter Manuel in ""Fawlty Towers"". He went on to have a long career in acting and voice-over work for television, film and radio. In his later years, he continued to have success with roles in films such as ""Quartet"","
"Andrew Sachs Andreas Siegfried ""Andrew"" Sachs (7 April 1930 – 23 November 2016) was a British actor. Born in Berlin, Germany, he and his family emigrated to London in 1938, to escape persecution under the Nazis. He made his name on British television and rose to fame in the 1970s for his portrayals of the comical Spanish waiter Manuel in ""Fawlty Towers"". He went on to have a long career in acting and voice-over work for television, film and radio. In his later years, he continued to have success with roles in films such as ""Quartet"", and as Ramsay Clegg"
"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"
"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,"
"as ""The Saint"" (1962) and ""Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)"" (1969). Sachs is best known for portraying Manuel, the Spanish waiter in the sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"" (1975 and 1979), a role for which he was nominated for a BAFTA award. (The award went to co-star John Cleese.) During the shooting of the ""Fawlty Towers"" episode ""The Germans"", Sachs was left with second degree acid burns due to a fire stunt. He was hit with a faulty prop on the set of the show by John Cleese and suffered a severe headache. Sachs recorded four singles in character as Manuel; the first"
"character to allow the girl the chance to make this wish come true. 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"
"large family in Spain, mentioning in ""The Wedding Party"" that he has five brothers and four sisters. During the episode ""Basil the Rat"", Manuel acquires a common rat while under the impression that it is a Siberian hamster, and names it Basil, after his boss. He becomes very emotionally attached to the rat, and even threatens to leave Fawlty Towers altogether if Basil and Sybil dispose of it, to which Basil immediately responds, ""Well, goodbye."" The episode also highlights the fact that Manuel is rather dim even without the language barrier, as he lets the rat out of its cage"
"I was here!"" On Thursday 16 October 2008, Sachs, who famously portrayed Manuel in television comedy ""Fawlty Towers"", was scheduled to be a phone-in guest on Brand's evening radio show. The show was to be pre-recorded due to Brand's work commitments. After being unable to reach Sachs on his home telephone, Brand and his co-host of the week, fellow Radio 2 DJ Jonathan Ross, left Sachs four voice messages. In the first message, Brand joked about ""Fawlty Towers"" and the fact that both he and Sachs had appeared in ""The Bill"", but was interrupted by Ross shouting out ""he fucked"
"to Fawlty Towers for the occasion. Before they arrive, he pretends to have forgotten again in order to maintain the surprise. When Sybil asks him if the date reminds him of anything, he guesses random anniversaries, such as the battle of Agincourt, the battle of Trafalgar and Yom Kippur (none of which actually happened on 17 April). Meanwhile, Basil has allowed Manuel to cook a seafood paella from his mother's famous recipe, something he has wanted to do ever since arriving at the hotel. Their chef, Terry, complains that he is more than capable of making paella himself. While Basil"
"portrayal of the Spanish waiter Manuel, it was successfully resold with the Manuel character's nationality changed to Italian except in Spain's Catalan region where Manuel was Mexican. To show how badly it translated, Clive James picked up a clip containing Manuel's ""¿Qué?"" phrase to show on ""Clive James on Television"" in 1982. The series also briefly was broadcast in Italy in the 1990s on the satellite channel Canal Jimmy, in the original English with Italian subtitles. In Australia, the show originally was broadcast on ABC Television, the first series in 1976 and the second series in 1980. The show then"
"back to the bar to be served at last. Episode-credited cast: Also starring: A Touch of Class (Fawlty Towers) ""A Touch of Class"" is the pilot episode in the first series of the BBC television sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"". The episode introduces Basil Fawlty, the cynical, sharp-tongued owner of Torquay's Fawlty Towers hotel; his henpecking wife Sybil; Manuel, the eager but hapless Spanish waiter; Major Gowen, a semi-senile and often whisky-soaked permanent resident; and Polly Sherman, a maid/waitress who is the only sane and sensible employee of the hotel. The episode opens with Sybil reminding Basil of many chores he must"
"town and that she is the daughter of a hooker, who sold her to Manuel while she was still a minor. Camila is always disrespected by Manuel and her son, Sebastian, who is exactly like his father. Camila seems to be an accessory for Manuel, when he goes to parties and events, and she is not even allowed to study to finish her high school. Emilio also tricks Yorley, a low income woman who works as a maid, and her husband Mario by buying their house at a lower price. Yorley initially thinks Antonia is the real responsible for the"
"version also gives his nationality as Mexican. In scenes in which Manuel appears there are several references to Spain, and to General Franco, who was still alive when the show was broadcast. In ""The Builders"" when Bennion the delivery man says ""No no, where's the real boss?... The... the ""generalissimo""."" Manuel looks at him daftly: ""In Madrid!"" Since the Catalan version was broadcast in 1986, eleven years after Francisco Franco's death, the dubbing of Manuel says ""Dead!"" In ""Basil the Rat"" Basil says to Manuel, ""You have rats in Spain, don't you — or did Franco have them all shot?"""
"A Touch of Class (Fawlty Towers) ""A Touch of Class"" is the pilot episode in the first series of the BBC television sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"". The episode introduces Basil Fawlty, the cynical, sharp-tongued owner of Torquay's Fawlty Towers hotel; his henpecking wife Sybil; Manuel, the eager but hapless Spanish waiter; Major Gowen, a semi-senile and often whisky-soaked permanent resident; and Polly Sherman, a maid/waitress who is the only sane and sensible employee of the hotel. The episode opens with Sybil reminding Basil of many chores he must do: prepare the bill for some guests in a hurry to depart, hang"
"and San Francisco. She worked for a time as a pastry chef in Spain at the Drolma restaurant in Barcelona, but today owns several pastry shops in Mexico City. In 1972, Carmen’s husband Raúl retired from the pharmaceutical business and decided to start a restaurant with a friend named Alfonso Hurtado Morellón to make barbacoa and the Michoacán style carnitas he knew growing up in Cotija The partners found the Azcapotzalco location for sale, but Carmen was against it because it was far from their San Ángel home and it was in an industrial part of the city. However, the"
"of land in the Culiacán Valley as the descendent of Jean Auguste Clouthier, a French-Canadian doctor who made his home there in 1850. He became known to friends and family, and later as a political figure by the nickname “Maquio” which he got during childhood. He spent his early childhood in Culiacan, attending primary school at Colegio Cervantes. In 1942, his parents divorced and he moved with his mother and two brothers to Guadalajara. His mother remarried in Guadalajara, after which Manuel and his brother Marco Antonio were enrolled in the Instituto de Ciencias. Manuel was expelled from the school"
"Gourmet Night ""Gourmet Night"" is the fifth episode in the first series of the BBC TV sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"". Basil Fawlty is having trouble with his Austin 1100 car. Despite Sybil's insistence that he take the car to a garage for repairs, miserly Basil tries to fix the car himself. Meanwhile, Fawlty Towers has a new Greek chef named Kurt who has been found for them by André, Kurt's culinary trainer and a friend of the Fawltys. Basil and Sybil are intending to host a gourmet night at the hotel. After a rude, pampered boy calls the hotel a ""dump"""
"- something he severely struggles with. His much more customer-friendly wife Sybil often has to deal with the fallout of Basil's bad treatment of the guests, to varying success. In the episode ""Communication Problems,"" Manuel said Basil is from Swanage, however it should be noted that Manuel is prone to making mistakes. Basil has staunch right-wing and traditionalist views about most things, for example in ""The Wedding Party"", he shows open disgust towards a young unmarried couple having an active sex life. In ""The Germans"" he appears to blame the failure of the hotel's fire extinguisher on ""bloody Wilson"", referencing"
"(Sp: ""caucho"") had then recently come upriver to Iquitos from Brazil. Eventually his mother let him go with his elder sister Mariana and her husband Lino Vela into the hinterland to learn the booming rubber business. In the small town of Iberia on the Río Tapiche the couple's trading post served rubber tappers, who would bring in their harvest of latex to sell, as well as to buy gear and supplies. Before long young Manuel went further into the bush, by boat with a company of four others under Roque to a remote, makeshift caucho camp by the Río Juruá"
"for some exercise (which leads to the rat ending up loose in the hotel), manages to spell ""Spleep"" from S-L-E-E-P, and pronounces cholesterol as ""costellorol"", even though the two words are identical in English and Spanish (colesterol). Sachs claimed that he only had a few weeks to learn the difficult and complex accent that Manuel is so famous for (in fact, having lived in Germany until he was eight, Sachs initially suggested playing a German waiter), but loved his experiences on the show and still had Manuel's attire. Sachs suffered two serious injuries during ""Fawlty Towers"". In ""The Wedding Party"","
"exists, but André's now is a Chinese and Indian restaurant called Wings. Both Cleese and Booth were keen on every script being perfect, and some episodes took four months and required as many as ten drafts until they were satisfied. The series focuses on the exploits and misadventures of short-fused hotelier Basil Fawlty and his acerbic wife Sybil, as well as their employees: porter and waiter Manuel, maid Polly Sherman, and, in the second series, chef Terry. The episodes typically revolve around Basil's efforts to ""raise the tone"" of his hotel and his increasing frustration at numerous complications and mistakes,"
"the stairs. Sybil believes the renovations will be carried out by workmen from the professional (albeit expensive) Stubbs, but Basil tells Polly that he is actually hiring the cheaper O'Reilly, an Irish ""cowboy"" builder with very little understanding of his trade. Sybil warns Basil not to hire O'Reilly, as they hired him to build a wall a few months ago which still has not been built yet. After the Fawltys depart, Polly goes to her room for a short nap and tells Manuel to wake her as soon as the builders arrive. As Manuel mans the front desk, a delivery"
"Juan Manuel Barrientos Valencia Juan Manuel Barrientos is a Colombian chef, businessman and advocate of peace. Creator and founder of the El Cielo restaurants. At just 33 years old (June 16 of 1983) , Juan Manuel has been named one of the 50 best chefs of Latin America; He was awarded the Revelation Chef Award by Madrid Fusion and his company has been praised and studied by some of the best universities in the world. Juan Manuel has revolutionized traditional Colombian cuisine by combining his innovative cooking practices and his passion for neurosciences. Juan Manuel was recognized by the Colombian"
"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"
"to a birthday party if Butters were unable to go. The titular restaurant in the episode is based on the real-life Casa Bonita, a Mexican-themed ""eatertainment"" restaurant in the Denver suburb of Lakewood, Colorado. Parker and co-creator Matt Stone had both gone to the restaurant as children. They received clearance from Casa Bonita to use their name and likeness, which Parker and co-creator Matt Stone thought was very unusual, making them ""even cooler."" The restaurant inquired as to whether it would be the subject of mockery, to which Parker responded, ""How can we rip on Casa Bonita? That was your"
"he is gone, Basil sneaks out and returns to Fawlty Towers in time to meet (and be rude to) the German guests who have arrived (and whom he promptly rakes over the proverbial coals). When two German guests want to rent a car, he mistranslates their request, ""Wir wollen ein Auto mieten"", as their volunteering to go out to get some meat. Noticing something is wrong, Manuel fetches Polly, who encourages Basil to lie down, but Basil insists on serving the other German guests their lunch while Polly discreetly calls Dr. Finn. Despite his warning of ""don't mention the war"","
"Communication Problems ""Communication Problems"" is the first episode of the second series of BBC sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"" and the seventh episode overall. It is also known as ""Mrs Richards"". On 2 December 2016, the episode was re-aired on BBC One in memory of cast member Andrew Sachs. Mrs Richards, a short-sighted, deaf, and short-tempered old woman (but who ironically accuses others of being blind and deaf), arrives at the hotel and instantly starts arguing with Polly about who is being served first at reception in the lobby. Polly mischievously asks Manuel to assist Mrs Richards and his poor English combined"
"wish them goodbye. When Sybil enters the lobby, the partygoers are bewildered and confused; Basil pretends she is the ""northern woman"" they mentioned previously, before rushing her into the kitchenwhere Manuel and Terry are wrestling furiously amidst the mess they have made arguing over the paellaand locks her in a cupboard. After ushering the guests out, Basil declares ""Piece of cake. Now comes the tricky bit,"" as he returns to the kitchen to explain everything to Sybil. With: The Anniversary (Fawlty Towers) ""The Anniversary"" is the fifth episode of the second series of BBC sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"". As in other"
"called ""La Quinta del Biberón"" (""The Fifth of the Bottle"") the youth of the soldiers were being sent to the front of the Pyrenees, where he passed all sorts of calamities, is froze his hands, and he contracted typhus. He was taken prisoner along with his companions by the army of Francisco Franco, being sent to concentration camp located in the Plaza de Toros San Sebastian, there is a companion to the soldiers noticed the pitiful appearance of Manuel, who is sent to Center of Azpeitia, to recover, which happily succeeded. After the war he returned to Barcelona, where she"
"Sybil (""Did you ever see that film, ""How to Murder Your Wife""? ... Awfully good. I saw it six times."") and to the guests (""May I suggest that you consider moving to a hotel closer to the sea? Or preferably in it.""). Basil's physical outbursts are primarily directed at Manuel, an emotional but largely innocent Spaniard whose confused English vocabulary causes him to make elementary mistakes. At times, Basil beats Manuel with a frying pan and smacks his forehead with a spoon. The violence towards Manuel caused rare negative criticism of the show. Sybil and Polly, on the other hand,"
"Muertas"" (1977). Delfina and María de Jesús González Delfina and María de Jesús González (known as ""Las Poquianchis"") were two sisters from the north-central Mexican state of Guanajuato. From the 1950s until the mid-1960s, the sisters ran ""Rancho El Ángel""', the locus of their largescale prostitution ring and the site of at least ninety-one murders. Guinness World Records called them the ""most prolific murder partnership"". The police picked up a woman named Josefina Gutiérrez, a procuress, on suspicion of kidnapping young girls in the Guanajuato city area, and during questioning she implicated the González sisters. Police officers searched the sisters'"
"""Great, Grand & Famous Hotels"" remarked that ""Fawlty Towers is real to everybody who has ever worked in a hotel, anybody who has ever stayed in one, or anyone who has ever tried, unsuccessfully, to order a Waldorf salad."" Waldorf Salad (Fawlty Towers) ""Waldorf Salad"" is the third episode of the second series of the BBC sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"". Directed by Bob Spiers, it first aired on 5 March 1979. Dinner time is exceptionally busy, and several guests are dissatisfied with the quality of the service and the food. One guest, Mr. Johnston, and his wife complain that her starter"