Faulty Towers

Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom created by John Cleese and Connie Booth that aired on BBC2 from 1975 and 1979. Basil Fawlty, an inept and hysterical English hotel owner and manager, isn't cut out for the job. He's a tyrant, a jerk, and a paranoid. As Basil tries to run the hotel, he is continually attacked verbally (and sometimes physically) by his unhelpful wife Sybil and hindered by Manuel, their Spanish waiter, who is incompetent yet easy to target.

It was ranked first on a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes compiled by the British Film Institute in 2000, and it was named the greatest ever British TV sitcom by a panel of comedy experts compiled by the Radio Times in 2019. Cleese won the BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance in 1980, and Basil Fawlty came in second place on Channel 4's list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters in 2001.

Detailed Information:

Genre: Sitcom, Farce

Actors: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Connie Booth, Andrew Sachs, Ballard Berkeley
Premiered: September 19, 1975
Network: BBC Two