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Favorite Fawlty Towers Episodes

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The Hotel Inspectors

Creators/Writers: John Cleese and Connie Booth
Director: John Howard Davies
Starring : John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Ballard Berkeley, Gilly Flower, Renee Roberts, Bernard Cribbins, James Cossins, Peter Brett, Geoffrey Morris and Alexander Lewis

Basil Fawlty goes on the alert when he hears there are hotel inspectors in the area.

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The Kipper and the Corpse

Creators/Writers: John Cleese and Connie Booth
Director: Bob Spiers
Starring : John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Brian Hall, Ballard Berkeley, Gilly Flower, Renee Roberts, Geoffrey Palmer, Derek Royle, Richard Davies, Elizabeth Benson, Pamela Buchner, Raymond Mason, Robert McBain, Charles McKeown, Mavis Pugh, Len Marten, Julie La Rousse, Harry Fielder and Joe Santos

When a guest dies at the hotel, Basil and the staff try to remove the body without attracting attention.

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The Psychiatrist

Creators/Writers: John Cleese and Connie Booth
Director: Bob Spiers
Starring : John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Brian Hall, Ballard Berkeley, Gilly Flower, Renee Roberts, Nicky Henson, Basil Henson, Elspet Gray, Luan Peters, Aimée Delamain and Imogen Bickford-Smith

Basil finds one guest he likes and one he dislikes, and gets caught in compromising situations by his wife, Sybil.

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Gourmet Night

Creators/Writers: John Cleese and Connie Booth
Director: John Howard Davies
Starring : John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Ballard Berkeley, Gilly Flower, Renee Roberts, Elizabeth Benson, Allan Cuthbertson, Ann Way, Richard Caldicot, Betty Huntley-Wright, André Maranne, Tony Page,
Steve Plytas, Jeffrey Segal and Michael Dalton

Still hoping to make his way further up the social ladder, Basil attempts to convert Fawlty Towers into a gourmet's paradise with a special event that, of course, doesn't go as planned.

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The Anniversary

Creators/Writers: John Cleese and Connie Booth
Director: Bob Spiers
Starring : John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Brian Hall, Ballard Berkeley, Gilly Flower, Renee Roberts, Una Stubbs, Ken Campbell, Pat Keen, Roger Hume, Denyse Alexander, Robert Arnold and Christine Shaw

Basil is in hot water when Sybil thinks he has forgotten their anniversary; Manuel and Terry argue about who will cook the special dish Basil has approved.

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Waldorf Salad

Creators/Writers: John Cleese and Connie Booth
Director: Bob Spiers
Starring : John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Brian Hall, Ballard Berkeley, Gilly Flower, Renee Roberts, Bruce Boa, Claire Nielson, Norman Bird, Stella Tanner, Terence Conoley, June Ellis, Anthony Dawes, Dorothy Frere and Beatrice Shaw

An American tourist pushes Basil's temper to the limit with his demands but the guest gives as good as he gets.

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Basil the Rat

Creators/Writers: John Cleese and Connie Booth
Director: Bob Spiers
Starring : John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Brian Hall, Ballard Berkeley, Gilly Flower, Renee Roberts, John Quarmby, David Neville, Sabina Franklyn, James Taylor, Melody Lang and Stuart Sherwin

Basil is frantic when Manuel's pet rat escapes in the hotel during a health inspector's visit, leaving the staff to scramble to find the animal first.

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The Builders

Creators/Writers: John Cleese and Connie Booth
Director: John Howard Davies
Starring : John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Brian Hall, Ballard Berkeley, Gilly Flower, Renee Roberts, David Kelly, James Appleby, George Lee, Michael Cronin, Michael Halsey, Barney Dorman and Pat Gorman

Basil and Sybil decide to take a short vacation while their hotel is undergoing renovation, but incompetent builders have Basil scrambling to keep their issues from Sybil.

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Communication Problems

Creators/Writers: John Cleese and Connie Booth
Director: Bob Spiers
Starring : John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Brian Hall, Ballard Berkeley, Gilly Flower, Renee Roberts, Joan Sanderson, Johnny Shannon, Robert Lankesheer, Bill Bradley, George Lee, Mervyn Pascoe and Peter Caton

Basil is distracted by the arrival of a deaf and bad-tempered guest, which makes it difficult for him to conceal his gambling winnings from Sybil.

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The Germans

Creators/Writers: John Cleese and Connie Booth
Director: John Howard Davies
Starring : John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Brian Hall, Ballard Berkeley, Gilly Flower, Renee Roberts, Claire Davenport, John Lawrence, Iris Fry, Willy Bowman, Lisa Bergmayr, Louis Mahoney, Brenda Cowling, Nick Kane, Dan Gillan, Barbara Bermel, Mike Mungarvan and Derek Suthern

While Sybil is in the hospital for a minor operation, Basil conducts a fire drill at the hotel and manages to offend a group of German tourists.

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9.5

The Wedding Party

Creators/Writers: John Cleese and Connie Booth
Director: John Howard Davies
Starring : John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Ballard Berkeley, Gilly Flower, Renee Roberts, Yvonne Gilan, Conrad Phillips, Diana King, Trevor Adams, April Walker, Jay Neill, John Wilder and Kathleen Heath

Basil is outraged by the flirtations of a young couple and the advances of a wealthy French antiques dealer.

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9.5

A Touch of Class

Creators/Writers: John Cleese and Connie Booth
Director: John Howard Davies
Starring : John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Brian Hall, Ballard Berkeley, Gilly Flower, Renee Roberts, Michael Gwynn, Robin Ellis, Martin Wyldeck, Lionel Wheeler, Julie Mellon, David Simeon, Terence Conoley, Pat Symons, Claire Russell, Gary Rich, Annet Peters and Oscar Peck

When Lord Melbury books a room, Basil fawns over him to the exclusion of all the other guests.

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A list of my favorite episodes of 1970s British television comedy series 'Fawlty Towers'.

'Fawlty Towers' was a BBC television sitcom that was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. 12 episodes were made (2 series, each of 6 episodes).

The show was created and written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, who both also starred in the show; they were married at the time of series 1 but divorced before recording series 2.

One of the best loved shows in British popular culture, it was ranked number one in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000.

The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay, on the "English Riviera".

The plots centre on tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty (Cleese), his bossy wife Sybil (Prunella Scales), comparatively normal chambermaid Polly (Booth) who is often the peacemaker and voice of reason and hapless Spanish waiter Manuel (Andrew Sachs), showing their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests.