Fawlty Towers
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two
- 1975 - 1979
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Comedy about a hotel and its owner, a man of infinite rudeness with a rabid dislike of almost all guests. Stars John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Ballard Berkeley and more.
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Fawlty Towers to be released as vinyl LP collection
A complete vinyl LP collection of the audio versions of all twelve Fawlty Towers TV episodes are to be released, with an exclusive frameable print signed by John Cleese. Just 1500 copies have been made.
British Comedy Guide, 16th March 2021Fawlty Towers to be repeated on BBC with racism removed
Fawlty Towers is set to be re-aired on BBC but racist remarks made by characters such as Major Gowen will be omitted from the show.
Nicola Methven, The Mirror, 2nd March 2021Stop deleting our comedy shows
TV is now a battleground for society's culture wars. The new director of the BBC might axe left-wing comedy, but humour exposes what defines, unites and divides us, says the deputy editor of Index on Censorship.
Jemimah Steinfeld, The Independent, 3rd September 2020John Cleese backs Fawlty social distancing campaign
John Cleese is backing a new Basil Fawlty social-distancing campaign with the slogan "2 metres = 1 Basil Fawlty"
The List, 7th August 2020What's the optimum number of series for a sitcom?
We try to pinpoint the TV comedy sweet spot, where 'sharp and consistent' has yet to become 'laboured and cliched'.
Ellen E. Jones, The Guardian, 27th July 2020Why Fawlty Towers is still the best comedy of all time
We are supposed to laugh at, not with, the Basil Fawlty character in Fawlty Towers.
Aidan Smith, The Scotsman, 16th June 2020The Fawlty BBC just won't get the joke
So the thoughtcrimers have finally come for Basil Fawlty, the man whose very existence was designed to poke fun at the thick, the hateful, the bigoted and the wrong, says Camilla Long.
Camilla Long, The Sunday Times, 14th June 2020Even Fawlty Towers is being erased in crazed witch-hunt
We need a massive pushback against the paternalistic culture of woke censorship and cultural control. Defend Fawlty Towers, by all means, but let's also initiate a genuine democratic resistance to the wokeness, identitarianism and middle-class paternalism that are doing so much harm to public life.
Brendan O'Neill, Spiked, 12th June 2020Why can't we see the joke in Fawlty Towers?
If 'Ze Germans' can see the joke in Fawlty Towers, why on earth can't we? UKTV's decision to pull an episode of John Cleese's revered comedy is more idiotic and blinkered than Basil Fawlty himself.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 12th June 2020Fawlty Towers censured by UKTV
An episode of Fawlty Towers has been removed from UKTV's streaming service amidst growing racial-cultural arguments.
British Comedy Guide, 11th June 2020