Fawlty Towers - Series 1

Image Not Available Starring: John Cleese, Prunella Scales Original UK Premiere: 1975 Dvd Release: 10th April, 2006 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 0 Encoding

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Fawlty Towers was a British sitcom made by the BBC & first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. It is set in a fictional hotel named Fawlty Towers in the Devon town of Torquay on the English Riviera. Only twelve episodes were ever broadcast, but the series has had a lasting & powerful influence on later shows. The first, in 1975, was produced & directed by John Howard Davies & the second, in 1979, was produced by Douglas Argent & directed by Bob Spiers. In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, voted for by industry professionals, Fawlty Towers was placed first. It was also voted fifth in the BBCs Britains Best Sitcom poll in 2004, though many commentators considered this to be surprisingly low. // Even before this programme existed, English seaside boarding houses & their proprietors had something of a reputation for firmness & intransigence, possibly stemming from the days when soldiers were billeted in small hotels during wartime or national service.

John Marwood Cleese is a British comedian & actor most well known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python & for playing Basil Fawlty in the sitcom Fawlty Towers. Cleese was educated at Clifton College in Bristol. His talent for comedy emerged as a member of the Cambridge Footlights Revue during the time that he was a law student at Downing College, Cambridge. His familys surname was previously Cheese, but his father Reginald Francis Cheese, an insurance salesman, changed his surname to Cleese upon joining the army in 1915  . He married Connie Booth on February 20, 1968 & they divorced in 1978. He became famous as one of the members of the Monty Python team which created the 1969-74 television series Monty Pythons Flying Circus ; Cleese is particularly remembered for the Cheese Shop, The Ministry of Silly Walks & Dead Parrot sketches. He achieved later success as the awful hotel manager Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, which he also cowrote with then wife Connie Booth. Cleese is noted for his talent for expressing indignation & peevish outrage. Posters Of John Cleese

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