Fawlty Towers

...British sitcoms since. The makers of such hits as The Young Ones, Nighty Night and Spaced have all stated that they followed the Fawlty Towers example of going out on a high after two series. Ricky Gervais also bowed out after two series (and...

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...shows - Kingdom and House - go head to head on Sunday nights, which is your favourite of the two Footlights alumni? 4 May 2009: John Cleese talks about how he writes - and why Fawlty Towers still makes some people too uncomfortable to laugh

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...in Britain are changing. At the BBC, new compliance guidelines were brought in following the row over obscene phone messages left for Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs by Radio 2 presenters Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand in October 2008.

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...Stalag 13 and the American/British POWs who operated the most elaborate anti-Nazi sabotage operation this side of James Bond. "Fawlty Towers -- The Complete Collection Remastered"(BBC Home Video, $49.98) John ("Monty Python") Cleese...

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...which features the googly-eyed Rowan Atkinson (of "Mr. Bean" fame) mucking about throughout history ($79.98), or the vintage antics of "Fawlty Towers" ($49.98), starring John Cleese, hotel inspectors and dead cats. 'Nuff said....

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...had expected due to the club's financial predicament and Fratton Park's dire leadership which had resembled a missing episode of Fawlty Towers ever since the former owner, Sacha Gaydamak, decided he wanted out and first Sulaiman al-Fahim,...

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BBC; US DVD: 20 Oct 2009; UK DVD: 19 Oct 2009) After re-watching the entirety of the '70s BBC comedy Fawlty Towers on the new Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection Remastered DVD box set, it becomes clear that iconic characters...

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...asses prevail. Generally speaking, I always find a British original superior to an American version, as certainly was the case with "Fawlty Towers" (I think there were at least TWO attempts to duplicate that show by American producers,...

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...for themselves and everybody around them. But after re-watching the entirety of the '70s BBC comedy Fawlty Towers on the new Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection Remastered DVD box set, it becomes clear that iconic characters like...

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"A sinister cabal of superior writers." DVD Review: Fawlty Towers - The Complete Collection Remastered Author: El Bicho - Published: Nov 08, 2009 at 7:04 am 0 comments Written by and starring Monty Python's John Cleese and his wife...

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