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Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1975 and 1979. Two series of six episodes each were made. The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a dysfunctional fictional hotel in the English seaside town of Torquay in Devon.
The episode has been noted as having drawn inspiration from Nikolai Gogol's similarly themed The Government Inspector: "it is clear they derived the inspiration for The Hotel Inspectors, an episode of the classic Fawlty Towers, from the work of a 19th century Ukranian [sic] writer" [7] Comparisons were drawn between Basil's fawning to the ...
Fawlty Towers: The Play is a comedy play by John Cleese based on his television sitcom of the same name that he co-wrote with Connie Booth. The play adapted three episodes of the TV series, forming one storyline; " The Hotel Inspectors ", " The Germans " and "Communication Problems".
The London West End stage adaptation of “Fawlty Towers” will be free of racial slurs, creator John Cleese has said. “Fawlty Towers – The Play” is based on the classic 1975 sitcom and is ...
John Cleese and Connie Booth’s classic sitcom has been adapted into a play
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The American film director Martin Scorsese has cited this as his favourite episode of Fawlty Towers. [16] Gold, a channel that regularly broadcasts Fawlty Towers, has argued that while "The Germans" is the most famous episode, the best episode is "Communication Problems". [17]
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