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Starting off TV reactions with the pilot episode of Fawlty Towers! Reaction highlights will be released on YouTube next Wednesday June 4th! 🖤

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FAWLTY TOWERS S1E1 (pilot) "A Touch of Class" - Full Watch Along

Fawlty Towers - Pilot Episode (Season 1, Episode 1: "A Touch of Class") Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1975 and 1979. Two series of six episodes each were made. The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a dysfunctional fictional hotel in the English seaside town of Torquay in Devon. 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), 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.

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Mark Knight

I already know you’ll love it.

Yorkshire Shaft

Slightly different honour but in a way so much funnier as alot applies today. Hopefully a you tube version is soon. Cobi siren will love this for sure but be warned alot would never be allowed in topics now 110%.

Dave Beth

So glad you're watching some quality TV here too! Movies are great but sometimes you need more of an 'appetizer' than a 'main course' type of video to watch. Since you've already watched all the Star Wars movies (mostly anyway), you should watch some of the other Star Wars shows too!

Wally Hartshorn

For anyone in the US who had bought Fawlty Towers on Amazon Prime previously, but now finds that it is no longer available for streaming, you can still watch it. Just "My Stuff", where you can see all of the movies and shows that you have bought. You can watch it from there.

Chris Katsui

Oh wow, Coby you’re digging up the gold now! They only made 12 episodes, but it’s treasure! I can already hear your manic cackling (which we all love btw)! John Cleese and ‘Polly’ were real life husband and wife (and she is American, with a perfect English accent)!

Timothy Hampton

Hi Coby I love your show. Fawlty Towers is a great British comedy.

Nick Christensen

Most of them do get much funnier than that first episode, usually not quite as awkward though a couple of them take the awkwardness to insane heights. Speaking of dinner theater, there is a Faulty Towers The Dining Experience in London I went to where they make it like dining at Faulty Towers. I think I made the guy playing Manuel a little nervous by speaking Spanish at first, which he probably did not speak, but he still entertained us by climbing on the tables and us, etc.. The actor from the actual Faulty Towers I don't think speaks Spanish either, he was born in Germany I believe though moved to England to escape the Nazis as a kid.

Kevin Rodlund

Fawlty Towers was inspired by the Monty Python group's stay at the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay. Cleese and Booth stayed on at the hotel after filming for the Python show had finished. The owner, former Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander Donald Sinclair,[6] was very rude to the guests and had an explosive temper, once throwing a bus timetable at a guest who asked when the next bus to town would arrive and placing Eric Idle's suitcase, which contained a ticking alarm clock, behind a wall in the garden in the fear it contained a bomb. He also denounced Minneapolis-born Monty Python group member Terry Gilliam's table manners as too American (Gilliam had his fork in what Sinclair considered to be the wrong hand while eating). Cleese used the name "Donald Sinclair" for his character in the 2001 film Rat Race. In the episode "The Builders", Fawlty refers to a local hotel or restaurant called "Gleneagles" while talking to Miss Gatsby and Miss Tibbs. Cleese once lived in London's Basil Street.

Yoshio

This is a fav of mine and my family, so glad you're enjoying it! Some of Cleese's best work and unique in that it's created with his wife (she plays Polly the maid). Another of his great works (and it's also relatively modern) is A Fish Called Wanda. (Cleese starred in and did the Screenplay) which was nominated for many top awards and helped the average American learn about his comedy genius as it was a big hit in its day.