"the guests, including a horrified Miss Tibbs, as Sybil desperately calls out Basil's name. With: In 1994, ""The Kipper and the Corpse"" was one of two ""Fawlty Towers"" episodes which were adapted for the stage and performed at the Theatre Geo in Hollywood. The other was ""Basil the Rat"". The Kipper and the Corpse ""The Kipper and the Corpse"" is the fourth episode of the second series of the British sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"". It first aired at 9.00pm on 12 March 1979 on BBC2. Distinguishing it from other episodes is its heavy use of black comedy. During the early 1970s,"
"in horror after stumbling across the body in the hotel office. In that episode it is revealed that Tibbs is 79. Miss Tibbs and Miss Gatsby Miss Abitha Tibbs and Miss Ursula Gatsby are fictional characters, played by Gilly Flower and Renee Roberts respectively, in the BBC television sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"". Miss Tibbs and Miss Gatsby are two mostly inseparable and slightly scatty elderly spinsters who are permanent residents of Fawlty Towers (the only other long-term guest being Major Gowen). Basil Fawlty switches from being overly kind to being utterly rude during his various conversations with them, although they rarely"
"Miss Tibbs and Miss Gatsby Miss Abitha Tibbs and Miss Ursula Gatsby are fictional characters, played by Gilly Flower and Renee Roberts respectively, in the BBC television sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"". Miss Tibbs and Miss Gatsby are two mostly inseparable and slightly scatty elderly spinsters who are permanent residents of Fawlty Towers (the only other long-term guest being Major Gowen). Basil Fawlty switches from being overly kind to being utterly rude during his various conversations with them, although they rarely understand his sarcasm. They are depicted as being ""on the edge of their eighties"". The two ladies appear in every episode"
"Gilly Flower Gilly Flower (26 August 1908 – 17 February 2001) was an English actress and model, best remembered as the elderly Miss Abitha Tibbs in the BBC sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"". Gilly Flower played Miss Tibbs in all twelve episodes of the show, which was produced in two six-episode series separated by a three-and-a-half-year interval (September–October 1975 and February–March 1979, apart from the twelfth episode which was not shown until October 1979). A native of London, Gilly Flower had her first film role in 1932 and, with the advent of television in Britain, she found a new outlet for her"
"the parts going to Barbara Flynn and James Bolam. Turner died on 27 December 2014 in Dorchester at the age of 75, and was survived by her husband, Frank Cox. She was also godmother to actor Tom Burke. Bridget Turner Bridget Joanna Turner (22 February 1939 – 27 December 2014) was an English actress, born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. On 8 May 2009 John Cleese stated in an interview that Turner was the original choice in 1974 for the role of Sybil Fawlty in ""Fawlty Towers"". She turned it down and the part was given to Prunella Scales. She played a"
"accordance with to the rites and ceremonies of the Theistic Church. The service was officiated by Charles Voysey, a freethinking Yorkshire vicar who was deposed for publishing heretical sermons and for denying the doctrine of everlasting hell. The church was situated in Swallow Street, Piccadilly, in the District of Westminster, London. Florence's brother and sister, Bernard and Lily, also got married in the same Theistic Church in 1900 and 1903, respectively. On marriage, Florence Conybeare became the 'beneficial owner' of, among other properties, the ""Tregullow Offices"", a small dwelling and former mine office in Scorrier in the County of Cornwall,"
"Prunella Scales Prunella Margaret Scales (née Illingworth; born 22 June 1932), is an English actress best known for her role as Basil Fawlty's wife Sybil in the BBC comedy ""Fawlty Towers"" and her BAFTA award-nominated role as Queen Elizabeth II in ""A Question of Attribution"" (""Screen One"", BBC 1991) by Alan Bennett. Scales was born in Sutton Abinger, Surrey, the daughter of Catherine (née Scales), an actress, and John Richardson Illingworth, a cotton salesman. She attended Moira House Girls School, Eastbourne. She has a younger brother, Tim (""Timmo""). Scales' parents moved their family to Bucks Mill near Bideford in Devon"
"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"
"Germans"". Booth, who had not done television acting in front of an audience before, wanted to keep Polly as a relatively minor character. According to Cleese, they realised Polly would be a ""beacon of sanity"", whose sense of ""instinctive decency"" leads her to save Basil from his foibles. He credits Booth's performance in a scene of ""The Anniversary"", where she argues with Basil over his plan for Polly to impersonate Sybil in order to save his embarrassment, as ""marvellous"". Polly Sherman Polly Sherman is a fictional character in the BBC sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"". Played by Connie Booth, she is Fawlty"
"upon her teachings. Her novels in particular proved an influence on later occult and modern Pagan groups such as Wicca. Fortune was born Violet Mary Firth on 6 December 1890 at her family home on Bryn-y-Bia Road in Llandudno, North Wales. Her background was upper middle-class; the Firths were a wealthy English family who had gained their money through the steel industry in Sheffield, Yorkshire, where they had specialised in the production of guns. Fortune's paternal grandfather John Firth had devised a family motto, ""Deo, non Fortuna"" (""God, not Luck""), to mark out their ""nouveau riche"" status; she would later"
"Lavinia Fenton Lavinia Powlett, Duchess of Bolton (1708 – 24 January 1760), known by her stagename as Lavinia Fenton, was an English actress. She was probably the daughter of a naval lieutenant named Beswick, but she bore the name of her mother's husband, who was a coffee-house owner. She was thought to have been born in Charing Cross, London, and had been a child prostitute, a waitress, and a barmaid before becoming an actress. One of her biographers describes her as having ""a vivacious, lively spirit, and a promising beauty,"" displaying ""some singular turns of wit, which shew'd her of"
"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 runs the titular hotel in Torquay, is a misanthropic, pessimistic and somewhat snobbish man, whose main aspiration is to become a member of more ""respectable"" (richer) social circles. He sees the successful running of the hotel as a means of achieving this dream, yet his job frequently requires him to be pleasant to people he despises"
"Westcombe House, was named after her role as Polly Peachum. Lavinia Fenton Lavinia Powlett, Duchess of Bolton (1708 – 24 January 1760), known by her stagename as Lavinia Fenton, was an English actress. She was probably the daughter of a naval lieutenant named Beswick, but she bore the name of her mother's husband, who was a coffee-house owner. She was thought to have been born in Charing Cross, London, and had been a child prostitute, a waitress, and a barmaid before becoming an actress. One of her biographers describes her as having ""a vivacious, lively spirit, and a promising beauty,"""
"Mary Flaherty (EastEnders) Mary Flaherty is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"", played by Melanie Clark Pullen from 22 September 1997 to 23 February 1999. The character first appeared in a special week of episodes set in Ireland, first broadcast in 1997. Mary is the granddaughter of Maggie Flaherty (Olivia Shanley), Pauline Fowler's (Wendy Richard) long-lost sister. Her father is Conor (Seán Gleeson), but she doesn't get on with him. When the Fowlers go to Ireland to meet their relatives, Mary is a teenager in trouble. Although she has a level head on her shoulders, she is"
"Bridget Turner Bridget Joanna Turner (22 February 1939 – 27 December 2014) was an English actress, born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. On 8 May 2009 John Cleese stated in an interview that Turner was the original choice in 1974 for the role of Sybil Fawlty in ""Fawlty Towers"". She turned it down and the part was given to Prunella Scales. She played a radical English teacher, Judy Threadgold, opposite Alun Armstrong’s woodwork teacher in Alan Plater’s ""Get Lost!"" for Yorkshire Television, shown in 1981. Armstrong was unavailable for a sequel, so it was completely recast and became ""The Beiderbecke Affair"" with"
"Claire Nielson Claire Nielson (née Isbister; born 8 April 1937) is a Scottish actress, primarily known for her television roles. On television, she played the wife of the belligerent American guest, Mr. Hamilton, in the ""Waldorf Salad"" episode of ""Fawlty Towers"", appeared as Jean 'Porridge' Carter, Geoffrey Stock's secretary, in the popular 1960s crime series ""Ghost Squad"" and played the wife of Rikki Fulton's character in many sketches of the Scottish Hogmanay show Scotch and Wry during the 1970s until 1999. Other TV credits include ""Upstairs, Downstairs"", ""Monarch of the Glen"", ""The Brothers"", ""The Two Ronnies"", ""Z-Cars"" and ""Taggart"". She"
"teenage children, Mark Fowler (David Scarboro) and Michelle Fowler (Susan Tully), and Arthur is unemployed. Lou gives them the choice of either giving the child up for adoption, having an abortion or the family moving out of her home, but she is won round when the family organise a holiday for her to Clacton. The baby’s first christening is postponed when he is diagnosed with gastroenteritis and Lou is delighted when he is finally christened Martin Albert Fowler. When Pauline discovers Arthur had an affair with Christine Hewitt (Elizabeth Power), she bans Arthur from seeing Martin, but they reconcile. Arthur"
"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"
"Christine Hewitt Christine Hewitt (often credited as Mrs Hewitt) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"", played by Elizabeth Power. Introduced in 1992 as a lonely divorcée, she becomes besotted with married Arthur Fowler (Bill Treacher) while he tends her garden. She leaves in 1993 once her affair with Arthur is discovered by his wife Pauline (Wendy Richard). Christine is first seen in February 1992, as a client of Arthur Fowler (Bill Treacher) who is hiring himself out as a gardener. After Arthur advertises for a new gardening assistant, he is shocked when Christine arrives in Walford,"
"a call out of the blue asking if I could go up to the BBC at Elstree to meet him. Mrs Hewitt was going to be in five episodes and I thought, 'wonderful'."" Mrs Hewitt made her first appearance on-screen in February 1992, as a lonely divorcee who employed the long running character, Arthur Fowler (Bill Treacher), to tend to her garden—used as a plot device to rebuild Arthur's relationship with his son Mark Fowler (Todd Carty), while they worked together on Christine's garden. Power filmed her scenes for the five episodes and thought that would be the end of"
"Kath Fox Kath Fox (also Kath Shaughnessy) is a fictional character from the BBC medical drama ""Holby City"", played by actress Jan Pearson. She first appeared in the series two episode ""Search for the Hero"", broadcast on 25 November 1999. Kath arrives at Holby City hospital as a Ward Sister. She is characterised as a devout Catholic with high moral values and the over-protective mother of Danny Shaughnessy (Jeremy Edwards). Writers played off her strong faith, often making it centric to various dramatic plots they conjured up for her. Over a four year period she became a tortured character who"
"great joke. We played a caretaker and his wife."" Christine Hewitt Christine Hewitt (often credited as Mrs Hewitt) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"", played by Elizabeth Power. Introduced in 1992 as a lonely divorcée, she becomes besotted with married Arthur Fowler (Bill Treacher) while he tends her garden. She leaves in 1993 once her affair with Arthur is discovered by his wife Pauline (Wendy Richard). Christine is first seen in February 1992, as a client of Arthur Fowler (Bill Treacher) who is hiring himself out as a gardener. After Arthur advertises for a new gardening"
"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"
"actress Yvonne Gilan, best remembered for her portrayal of Mrs Peignoir in Fawlty Towers. The couple went on to have two sons, Adrian and Nicholas. The marriage was dissolved and he remarried in 1978 to Georgina Denison, with whom he had a daughter, Chloe. He died in London from Alzheimer's disease. He was the father of writer, journalist and newspaper columnist A.A. Gill. Michael Gill George Michael Gill (10 December 1923 – 20 October 2005) was an English television producer and television director responsible for creating documentaries for the BBC. Gill was born in Winchester, Hampshire but was brought up"
"Michelle Fairley Michelle Fairley is an actress from Northern Ireland, best known for her roles as Catelyn Stark in the HBO series ""Game of Thrones"", Dr. Ava Hessington in multiple episodes of USA Network series ""Suits"", and as terrorist Margot Al-Harazi, a main antagonist in """". Fairley appeared in a number of British television shows, including ""The Bill"", ""Holby City"" and ""Casualty"". Some of her earlier roles were as Cathy Michaels on ITV1's ""Inspector Morse"" in the episode titled ""The Way Through The Woods"" and as Nancy Phelan in ""Lovejoy"" in the episode 9 of Season 3 titled ""Smoke Your"
"Yvonne Gilan Yvonne Janette Gilan (12 October 1931 – 14 June 2018) was a British actress who is best known for her portrayal of Mme. Peignoir in ""Fawlty Towers"". And minor roles in Both Eastenders and French Feilds. She was married to the television director Michael Gill, and is the mother of the late journalist, Adrian, known as A. A. Gill. In 1964 she wrote a short fantasy film, ""The Peaches"", starring Juliet Harmer, with a small cameo role for her son Adrian as a bespectacled chess player. The film became the British choice for the Cannes Film Festival, and"
"Melanie Clark Pullen Melanie Clark Pullen (born 2 July 1977 in Ireland) is an Irish actress, producer and writer. Born and raised in Ireland, Clark Pullen studied drama at Trinity College, Dublin. Shortly after graduating, in June 1997, she was cast in her most notable role to date, as Mary Flaherty in the BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"". Playing the long-lost relative of Pauline Fowler (Wendy Richard), Clark Pullen remained in the role for 18 months until her departure in early 1999. Since her time in Albert Square, Clark Pullen has appeared in ITV's big-budget costume drama ""Lady Audley's Secret"", starred"
"York, and his wife, Edith. Guy's parents were regular communicants of the Church of England, as were his paternal grandparents; his grandmother, born Ellen Harrington, was the daughter of a prominent merchant, who served as Lord Mayor of York in 1536. Guy's mother's family were recusant Catholics, and his cousin, Richard Cowling, became a Jesuit priest. ""Guy"" was an uncommon name in England, but may have been popular in York on account of a local notable, Sir Guy Fairfax of Steeton. The date of Fawkes's birth is unknown, but he was baptised in the church of St Michael le Belfrey"
"of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to seriously and terminally ill children. Emma Samms Emma Elizabeth Wylie Samuelson MBE (born 28 August 1960), known professionally as Emma Samms, is a British actress and TV host, best known for her role as Holly Sutton on the American daytime soap opera ""General Hospital"" and for replacing Pamela Sue Martin as Fallon Carrington Colby on the prime time soap opera ""Dynasty"". Samms was born in London, England, the daughter of Madeleine U. (née White), a ballet dancer, and Michael E. W. Samuelson, who owned"
"she owns a clowning supplies company. Kristen began learning magic when she was a teenager and used it to earn money to help pay her way through college. Kristen and her husband Kevin Ridgeway are Christians and, under the name Living Illusions, built up a strong reputation as performers specialising in faith based events. These included the Will Graham Celebration with evangelist Billy Graham's grandson in May 2008. As their act has become more successful they expanded into doing larger venues, fairs and festivals with a show under the name of Ridgeway & Johnson geared specifically for that market. In"
"Letchworth, in Hertfordshire, and returned them to him half a century later. Adrian (A. A. Gill) died 10 December 2016 aged 62. Yvonne Gilan Yvonne Janette Gilan (12 October 1931 – 14 June 2018) was a British actress who is best known for her portrayal of Mme. Peignoir in ""Fawlty Towers"". And minor roles in Both Eastenders and French Feilds. She was married to the television director Michael Gill, and is the mother of the late journalist, Adrian, known as A. A. Gill. In 1964 she wrote a short fantasy film, ""The Peaches"", starring Juliet Harmer, with a small cameo"
"Felicity Tree Felicity, Lady Cory-Wright (""née"" Felicity Constance Tree: 7 December 1894 – 15 September 1978) was an English baronetess and high society figure. A daughter of the actors Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Helen Maud Holt, she appeared regularly in news of the time starting from infancy. Born in Chelsea, London, in 1894, Tree was the middle daughter of the actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his wife, the actress Helen Maud Holt. She was the sister of Viola Tree and Iris Tree, and the niece of the author Constance Beerbohm, the caricaturist and parodist Max Beerbohm, and the"
"Raquel Cassidy Raquel Josephine Dominic Cassidy (born 22 January 1968) is an English actress. Born to a Spanish mother and an English father, she was the third child and only daughter born to the couple. Born and brought up in Fleet, Hampshire, she was educated at Farnborough Hill Convent, and then Girton College, Cambridge, where she studied modern languages and then biological anthropology. She later pursued a PhD in biological anthropology, but she abandoned it to pursue a career in acting. Cassidy is best known for her 2013–2015 television role as rehabilitated thief and ladies maid Phyllis Baxter in ""Downton"