See more ideas about fawlty towers, british comedy and comedy tv. With john cleese, prunella scales, andrew sachs, connie booth. Basil is a much putupon, hardworking hotel manager whose life is plagued by dead guests, hotel inspectors and riffraff. The show was ranked first on a list of the 100 greatest british television programmes drawn up by the british film institute in 2000, and in 2019 it was named the greatest ever british tv sitcom by a panel of comedy experts. Basil and sybil lord chancellors bill is a statement of the legally obvious the lord chancellor, chris grayling, has been strongly criticised in the house of lords for his social action, responsibility and hero. Find out when fawlty towers is on tv, including series 2episode 6.
You could apply the interloper theme to any episode of fawlty towers, if you so chose. Fawlty towers bbc comedy greats by bbc comedy greats. Fawlty towers, the wedding party and the hotel inspectors by les chappell, september 12, 2012 by les chappell. John cleeses favourite episode fawlty towers bbc comedy greats by bbc comedy greats. Basil fawlty beats his car in an episode of fawlty towers, a comedy series that aired on the bbc. Basil and the rest of the staff are in deep trouble when the health inspector turns up and delivers an enormous list of problems with the hotel. Basil the rat series two, episode six first shown 25 october 1979 manuel serenades his new pet hamster on his guitar but things are not quite as they seem. The proprietor of the hotel fawlty towers, he is a cynical and snobbish misanthrope who is desperate to belong to a higher social class. John cleese interview for 2016 specsavers commercial. With sybil away on medical leave, fawlty towers turns chaotic when basil has an unfortunate runin with a mounted moose head. The rat hunt begins in earnest with basil taking the drastic measure of seasoning a veal fillet with rat poison whilst the major fetches his doublebarrelled shotgun.
John cleese talks about inspiration for basil fawlty. John cleeses favourite episode fawlty towers bbc comedy greats by bbc comedy. Basil is convinced that the pet shop has conned the gullible spaniard and sold him a rat a fine thing to have running round the hotel when the public health inspector is also on the loose. Snavely 1978 harvey korman betty white fawlty towers by jay vanzil.
Fawlty towers is a 12 episode british comedy starring john cleese of monty python fame and his thenwife connie booth, which lasted for two seasons. Download to watch offline and even view it on a big screen using chromecast. Fawlty towers is a british television sitcom written by john cleese and connie booth and. Possessing a dry, sarcastic wit, basil has become an iconic british comedy character who remains widely known. The last shot of basil the rat at the reveal is of an obvious puppet in a biscuit tin operated by connie booth. As ever, he grabs the wrong end of the stick and then proceeds to beat himself with it. Watch fawlty towers online stream seasons 12 now stan.
Basil the rat takes centre stage as manuel finally catches his pet. The folks behind fawlty towers may well have saved the best until last, as basil is faced with the prospect of being shut down by the health inspector at the same time as manuels pet rat. Fawlty towers began in september 1975, two months before francisco francos death. Get youtube premium get youtube tv best of youtube music. Watch fawlty towers episodes online season 2 2019 tv.
Please leave a comment and subscribe if you like this. Fawlty towers episode guides fawlty towers the classic. Basil fawlty is the main character of the 1970s british sitcom fawlty towers, played by john cleese. In which an american guest causes a revolt for basil ryan mcgee. One of the guests has died in his sleep, but basil thinks its due to serving him spoiled food. Fawlty towers is a bbc television sitcom that was first broadcast on bbc2 in 1975 and 1979. Fawlty towers stars john cleese as basil fawlty, a miserly hotel proprietor yearning to elevate his own social standing and to attract a more elite clientele.
Fawlty towers scripts were totally razorsharp and perfect. The plots centre on the tense, rude and putupon owner basil fawlty cleese, his bossy wife. Basil fawlty beats his car fawlty towers bbc k one of our very favorite scenes with basili love this scene makes me laugh every time. Andrew cuomo provides an update on the coronavirus outbreak. Georges day, and when a mrs alice richards books into fawlty towers expecting a room with sea view, basils temper begins to boil. John cleese stars as manic hotelier basil fawlty in this classic british sitcom. The interesting thing is that basil fawlty shows a softer however in no way sentimental side of himself, especially in. Manuels loneliness in the permanently grey torquay drives him to acquire a pet rat, resulting in perhaps the greatest scenes of farce fawlty towers ever conjured up.
The show was written by john cleese and connie booth, who both also starred in the show. Fawlty towers basil cracks up full scene by mj jones. John cleese talks about inspiration for basil fawlty by fawlty s vault. His biggest headache is a nest of vipers his nagging wife sibyl prunella scales. Fawlty towers series 2 episode guide british comedy guide.
Unfortunately his efforts to do so often mean he neglects the needs of his average paying customers, much to the irritation of his practical wife, sybil prunella scales. Basil fawlty is a much putupon, hardworking hotel manager whose life is plagued by dead guests, hotel inspectors and riffraff. Basils prudish nature is outraged by what he perceives to be an outbreak of promiscuity at fawlty towers. From the episode basil the rat manuel and basil are distracted by the missing rat under the table when trying to take their guests lunch. Fawlty towers is a british television sitcom written by john cleese and connie booth and broadcast on bbc2 in 1975 and 1979. Fawlty towers, waldorf salad season two, episode three. Whether youre a fan of the classics or if stand up comedy is more up your street then check out our hand picked playlists full of the funniest clips by the best performers. The siberian hamster manuel has been sold looks suspiciously like a rat to everyone except manuel.
Fawlty towers s02e06 basil the rat video dailymotion. Things become even worse when manuels rat gets loose in the hotel. Hotel owner basil fawltys incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away. Fawlty towers basil the rat tv episode 1979 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. They were scheduled to spend two weeks at the gleneagles in. Although it was both produced and directed by the same man in the first season, the second season had the. An attractive australian girl also visits, who goes on to have certain awkward interactions with fawlty as he seeks to catch a nonpaying guest. Fawlty towers series and episode guides tv from radiotimes.
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. Basil fawlty john cleese treated all guests in his establishment as such, viewing them as a. A rat is discovered in the dining room during a publichealth inspection. Manuel insists that his pet rodent is a siberian hamster. Watch fawlty towers online full episodes all seasons. Basil the rat takes centre stage in the hilarious finale of fawlty towers as manuel finally catches his pet rodent in the restaurant. Fawlty towers s02e04 the kipper and the corpse part 1. The real rats appearances in studio shot scenes were prerecorded due to fears it could run into the studio audience. Watch more high quality videos on the new bbc worldwide. Together they run their hotel, fawlty towers, with a little help from the unflappable polly connie booth, and hardly any help at all from manuel andrew sachs, the trainee waiter. Fawlty towers the kipper and the corpse tv episode 1979. The writing team of john cleese and his thenwife connie booth probably put more sweat and brain power into constructing each sublime, chaotic, farcical half hour of fawlty towers than many. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film. Fawlty towerss02e06 basil the rat video dailymotion.
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