Seasons(2) / Episodes(12)
Plots(1)
Basil Fawlty is a much put-upon, hard-working hotel manager whose life is plagued by dead guests, hotel inspectors and riff-raff. Of course his biggest headache is his 'little nest of vipers' - his nagging wife Sibyl. Together they run their hotel, Fawlty Towers, with a little help from the unflappable Polly, and Manuel, the trainee waiter from Barcelona with marginally more intelligence than a monkey. (BBC)
(more)Reviews of this series by the user novoten (1)
Fawlty Towers (1975)
The funniest taste of the British sitcom scene. John Cleese as a neurotic and simultaneously frustrated hotel owner can exhibit his acting genius without worrying about someone interrupting him with an unexpected "and now for something completely different" and the brilliantly stubborn Manuel and sarcastic Sybil are the best partners in his verbal and facial onslaught. The episodes The Wedding Party, Germans or Psychiatrists are far beyond the boundaries of ordinary evaluation.
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