Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese
and Connie Booth, broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. Two series of
six episodes each were made. 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 compiled by the Radio
Times.The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a fictional hotel in the
seaside town of Torquay on the English Riviera. The plots centre on
the tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty (Cleese), his bossy
wife Sybil (Prunella Scales), the sensible chambermaid Polly (Booth)
who often is the peacemaker and voice of reason, and the hapless and
English-challenged Spanish waiter Manuel (Andrew Sachs). They show
their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an
array of demanding and eccentric guests and tradespeople.The idea of
the show came from Cleese after he stayed at the Gleneagles Hotel in
Torquay, Devon in 1970 (along with the rest of the Monty Python
troupe), where he encountered the eccentric hotel owner Donald
Sinclair. Stuffy and snobbish, Sinclair treated guests as though they
were a hindrance to his running of the hotel (a waitress who worked
for him stated "it was as if he didn't want the guests to be there").
Sinclair was the inspiration for Cleese's character Basil Fawlty. Fawlty Towers Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter