Fawlty Towers

Fawlty Towers is a British television comedy that in two series of 6 episodes for the BBC was made in 1975 and 1979. The episodes are in many countries still regularly repeated. In Netherlands, the series was broadcast by the KRO, initially under the title Hotel on stilts, later at the reps under the home-country professional title. On Belgian television got the series the title De zoete inval with it.

The program was elected as the Best British television programmes of the 20th century.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The series is set in a family-run hotel on the English South coast in Swanage and is based on a hotel in Torquay (Devon), where the Monty Python crew stayed a short time.The hotel called Fawlty Towers, to the owner Basil Fawlty (played by John Cleese) and his wife Sybil (Prunella Scales). Fawlty is, not entirely coincidentally, just as pronounced as the English word for ' unsound, defective ': faulty. Further firm figures in the series are the room maid Polly Sherman (Connie Booth), the Spanish Jack of all trades Manuel (Andrew Sachs) and the Cook Terry (Brian Hall, starting from season 2). Also there are some customers who stay permanently: the old ladies Miss Tibbs and Miss Gatsby (Gilly Flower) (Renee Roberts) and the inimitable and somewhat demented Major Gowen (Ballard Berkeley).
 * 2 Characters
 * 3 Origin
 * 4 Production
 * 5 Episodes
 * 5.1 heat 1
 * 5.2 Series 2
 * 6 Anagrams
 * 7 Controversy
 * 8 Trivia
 * Theatre version 9
 * 10 external link

The plots of farce by the frequent common misconceptions have a strong character. In the series covers many stereotypes about hotels and staff discussed. In each episode, the hotel other guests, all of which represent a different character or stereotype, where then the jokes of that episode to run.

Many of the complications revolve around the snobbery of Basil, that persistent tries the clientele of the hotel on a somewhat higher level. He scares not to offend its customers if he sees appropriate. Basil protrudes itself regularly in the nests and in many cases it is Polly who on all sorts of inventive ways her employer the helping hand. ==Characters[ Edit] == ==Origin[ Edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The idea for the television series originated when the members of the comedy group Monty Python during shooting in Devon stayed at the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay. The Pythons describe the hotel post as one of the worst spots where they once resided. Terry Gilliam got from the hotel operator comments on his eating habits, Eric Idle was suspected that he would have a bomb in his bag and alcoholic Graham Chapman did all this time not in a drink at the bar to order. After one night decided to take a different hotel, members of Monty Python, but John Cleese and Connie Booth stayed behind in the Gleneagles because they there material for a comedy sketch in saw. The experiences they gained, then formed the basis for Fawlty Towers. The characters Basil and Sybil Fawlty are based on owners of Gleneagles, Donald and Beatrice Sinclair.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="165" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]
 * Basil Fawlty (John Cleese), owner of the hotel. Basil is xenophobic, snobbish and rude. He looks down on people of the working class, while he was at intellectuals and noblemen licked heels in a changes. Basil with contempt, and mocked his hotel guests regularly. He also hands off; especially Manuel gets regular hits. Basil often does stupid things, which he tries to hide for the customers with all sorts of weird excuses.
 * Sybil Fawlty (Prunella Scales), Basils woman. Sybil seems to fit better in a function of manager than Basil, but is often enough also busier with call a girlfriend or chatting with a guest than with real work. However, they are much more polite than Basil, but not against Basil himself, who has all kinds of horrible nicknames for her. However, he can never win her.
 * Polly Sherman (Connie Booth), a waitress in the hotel. They also often for lack of staff acts as a waiter and sometimes even as a receptionist, although they actually work part-time (she studies Visual Arts). Polly is smarter than Basil and helps him to come up with solutions to the problems where he often (whether or not by his own fault) facing.
 * Manuel (Andrew Sachs), a Spanish waiter. Manuel is a guest worker from Barcelona. He speaks very poor English (responds to many commands simply do with "¿que?"), teaches slow and is clumsy. Basil and Sybil explain this in front of the guests often become legendary with the sentence: "he's from Barcelona". Basil responds often pent up anger on Manuel off by him. Manuels antics gave Sachs the necessary injuries on: in the episode The Wedding Party he accidentally got a hit with a real pan and in The Germans ran he burns to his arms.
 * Terry (Brian Hall), the Cook who makes its appearance in the second season. Terry is quite relaxed and nonchalant in his work, on the sloppy af.
 * Major Gowen (Ballard Berkeley), a fixed hotel guest and a muddled old man. Muddler as he is he throws in conversations, he sometimes takes care of everything together and even for problems (for example, when Basil wants him to keep secret something).
 * Miss Tibbs (Gilly Flower) and Miss Gatsby (Renee Roberts), two fixed hotel guests, who are inseparable. Often they are very nice to Basil (they seem at times almost flirting with him). On the other hand, Basil is sometimes very friendly to them and sometimes all of a sudden very coarse.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Gleneagles Hotel was after a full refurbishment on 18 september 2006 by Prunella Scales reopened. The property is now owned by an American couple.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Cleese and Booth in an episode revenge on Richard Ingrams, a reviewer that the pilot episode of Fawlty Towers afkraakte. Ingrams described the series as "mediocre". Cleese responded by creating a character in the second season, named Mr. Ingrams, who plays with a blow up doll. ==Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The stories were written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, who formed a couple at the time of the first series. Both were very keen on perfection. Sometimes it took four months for a script of an episode got their approval.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Although the series set in Torquay, Devon, there are no recordings made in Devon or southern England. The outdoor shots were filmed in front of the hotel the Wooburn Grange Country Club in Buckinghamshire. At the end of the series there was a nightclub located in this building who, as a reference to the series, the name "Basil 's" bore. The building was destroyed in a fire in March 1991.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The recordings on location found mainly in and around Harrow. ==Episodes<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Heat 1<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"><sup style="line-height:1;">1  during the recording of the fire-in-the-kitchen scene for The Germans ran actor Andrew Sachs severe injuries when the smoking chemicals by his protective sleeves back drongen. Also is this the episode with the classic call Don't mention the war! ("Don't start about the war!"). ===Series 2<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"><sup style="line-height:1;">2 Due to a strike was the last episode included only six months later. ==Anagrams<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During the title role that usually precedes the name board appears to an episode of the hotel in image. The name of the hotel,  Fawlty Towers  is often, as a kind of anagram, on funny way corrupted. In one case, one sees someone, who obviously is responsible for moving the letters, just the image from flights. In the course of time, the hotel was called this vandalism include: Flay Otters (skinned otters), Fatty Owls (fatty owls), Warty Towels (warty towels), Flowery Twats (flowered cunts), Watery Fowls (watery poultry) and Farty Towels (windy towels). ==Controversy<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Fawlty Towers was broadcast by the KRO in Netherlands, initially under the name Hotel on Stilts. The episodes The Germans and The Kipper and the Corpse were omitted; The Germans because of sensitivities around the Second World War and The Kipper and the Corpse because of the dragging around with a corpse. In later iterations of the series could the Dutch public with these episodes meet.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Beatrice Sinclair broke In 2002 her silence. She and her late husband Donald Sinclair were the owners of the Gleneagles Hotel where the series is loosely based. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph revealed Mrs Sinclair that her husband was not at all on Basil Fawlty seemed and that the Spanish waiter of the Gleneagles Hotel was very skilled. Donald Sinclair was at that time believed that the Lords of belonged in a Monty Python not just family hotel and he had had with Mrs Sinclair about that disagreement. ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Theater Version<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">With the exception of the theatre company made In 2012. Theatre! in co-production with Makkadam a Dutch theatre collective theatre version of Fawlty Towers. The show went on 16 July during the Gentse Feesten2012 premiered and was played there until 22 July.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-de_redactie_2-0" len="177" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  The Director of the piece lay in the hands of Fabio Vergara.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-gentse_feesten_3-0" len="180" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]. Hasan M for The main roles were as Basil Fawlty, his wife Sybil, Gerdy Salim as Marc Lauwrys as Manuel and Tina M as Polly.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-de_redactie_2-1" len="177" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  In the performance were the episodes The Hotel Inspectors, Communication Problems and The Germans to the scene translated.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-gentse_feesten_3-1" len="180" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  with this Dutch-language production was only the second country after Belgium Germany where a non-English-language stage adaptation of the series premiered.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-gentse_feesten_3-2" len="180" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  from 12 to 23 december 2012 the piece was taken again, this time in the Antwerp Fakkelteater.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" len="165" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]
 * Fawlty Towers is an often repeated series. In Netherlands is the entire series over time repeated many times by the KRO. Also in 2011, both on Saturday and on Sunday night episodes repeated.
 * In the Kiekeboestrip wrongly connected by Merho seems to be inspired on the hotel clerk very John Cleese.