23 Facts About Fawlty Towers

Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979.

In 1976 and 1980, Fawlty Towers won the British Academy Television Award for Best Scripted Comedy.

In 1980, Cleese received the British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance, and, in a 2001 poll conducted by Channel 4, Basil Fawlty Towers was ranked second on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters.

An early prototype of the character that became known as Basil Fawlty Towers was developed in an episode of the third Doctor series .

Fawlty Towers's desperation is readily apparent as he makes increasingly hopeless manoeuvres and painful faux pas in trying to curry favour with those he perceives as having superior social status.

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Basil Fawlty Towers, played by John Cleese, is a cynical and snobbish misanthrope who is desperate to belong to a higher social class.

Fawlty Towers sees a successful hotel as a means of achieving this, yet his job forces him to be polite to people he despises.

Fawlty Towers's is often verbally abusive but although he towers over her, he often finds himself on the receiving end of her temper, verbally and physically .

Fawlty Towers continues guessing even after Sybil is out of earshot, and mentions other anniversaries, including the Battle of Trafalgar and Yom Kippur, just to enhance the surprise.

Fawlty Towers's often is a more effective manager of the hotel, making sure Basil gets certain jobs done or stays out of the way when she is handling difficult guests.

Fawlty Towers's has a distinctive conversational tone and braying laugh, which Basil compares to "someone machine-gunning a seal".

Fawlty Towers is relentlessly enthusiastic and is proud of what little English he knows.

Fawlty Towers is released just in time to go back on the plane with Sybil.

Fawlty Towers's had practically retreated from public life after the show finished .

Basil Fawlty Towers came top of the Britain's Funniest Comedy Character poll, held by Five on 14 May 2006.

Fawlty Towers described the scene with Basil impersonating Hitler as "so tasteless, it's hilarious".

Three attempted remakes of Fawlty Towers were started for the American market, with two making it into production.

Fawlty Towers visited Australia to promote the adaptation, as well as oversee its success.

Melbourne was chosen to premiere the adaptation due to Fawlty Towers' enduring popularity in Australia, and because it has become a popular international test market for large-scale theatrical productions in recent years, having recently been the city where the revised Love Never Dies and the new King Kong were premiered.

Fawlty Towers became a huge success in almost all countries in which it aired.

Fawlty Towers was originally released by BBC Video in 1984, with three episodes on each of four tapes.

The reissue, titled Fawlty Towers Remastered: Special Edition, contains commentary by John Cleese on every episode as well as remastered video and audio.

Fawlty Towers game was released on PC in 2000 and featured a number of interactive games, desktop-customizing content and clips from the show.