Unusually, the episode got a supportive repeat on BBC2 less than three months after first broadcast. It was shown again on BBC1 seven months later. As a result the audience grew - and with it, expectations.
John Cleese has said that because of the long gap between the first and second series — four years, long enough for Cleese and Booth to get divorced — by the time it returned people were already remembering the show being "better than it was".
There were just 12 episodes of the show — two series of six — but a lost 13th episode has long been rumoured. What Holger Holm had watched is anyone's guess, as there are no other studio recordings of the show detailed in the BBC's extensive archives.
Footage of the episode remains conspicuous by its absence. It's thought that a numbering error at the studio used for recording the second series occurred when the Wedding Anniversary episode was put on hold for a week because of industrial action — and this is where rumours of the phantom episode arose.
Cleese and Booth spent two-and-a-half weeks working out each plot before they wrote a single line of dialogue, generally spending the time most sitcom writers used for a whole series on a single episode. The scripts were also twice as long on paper as a typical sitcom's because they were filled with description of the action.
The show's creators made a conscious decision to perform the scripts at speed for people watching at home rather than the studio audience. Quotes Basil Fawlty : Where's Sybil? Crazy credits The Fawlty Towers hotel sign has its letters missing, or scrambled up to make new words.
The sign presents a different error with each episode. Alternate versions For German TV-runs the main-theme was changed to "funnier" music. Connections Featured in The Pythons User reviews Review. Top review. Escalating Frustration. This is probably one of the best situational comedies ever made and in my opinion few other television programs compare to it. It is hard to say what is so good about this little show as the main character is a rude prick, the story lines are rather simplistic, and the characters pretty much cardboard cut outs of class stereotypes this is a British show after all , but each episode is a nearly perfect choreographed dance of escalating frustration with an impeccable touch of absurdity.
From brick walls appearing in doorways to mishaps during fire drills, from guests dying overnight to getting the right food for a gourmet, from class issues to just plain old mayhem this show has got it all.
It is all in a meager 12 episodes, but that is what makes each episode absolutely priceless with hardly a dull moment. A classic in every sense of the word. BroadswordCallinDannyBoy Dec 9, Details Edit. Release date September 19, United Kingdom. United Kingdom. English Spanish. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 30 minutes.
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In fact, he's incapably drunk! A desperate Basil hurtles round to a friend's restaurant in a car that's about as reliable as his chef. His mission is to find a replacement main course — he's out for a duck. Sybil is in hospital for her ingrowing toenail. A psychiatrist arrives to add to his discomfort and the voluptuous Australian girl stands just a bit too close to the light switch.
A Waldorf Salad is not part of Fawlty Towers' standard culinary repertoire, nor is a Screwdriver to be found on the hotel's drinks list…. Chaos reigns as one of the guests with total disregard for Basil's blood pressure, dies in his bed. Doubtless it was the kippers which should have been thrown out weeks ago that did for him. Demented and panic stricken, Basil attempts to conceal both the body and the extremely fishy breakfast.
In fact, Basil has arranged a surprise party, with all of Sybil's friends on the Fawlty Towers invitation list.
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