)Fawlty Towers (aka Flowery Twats, apparently)
Series title card. The "Fawlty Towers" sign changed every episode.
Format Comedy
Created by John Cleese
Connie Booth
Starring John Cleese
Prunella Scales
Andrew Sachs
Connie Booth
Country of origin United Kingdom
No. of episodes 12 (List of episodes)
Production:
Running time 30–35 minutes
Production company(s) BBC
Distributor BBC Worldwide
Broadcast
Original channel BBC2
Original run 19 September 1975 – 25 October 1979
Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom produced by the BBC Television and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. Although only twelve episodes were produced (consisting of two series, with six episodes each), the programme has had a lasting and powerful legacy.
The setting is in a fictional hotel called Fawlty Towers, located in the seaside town of Torquay, in Devon, on the "English Riviera" (which was where the hotel that provided John Cleese with the inspiration for the series was situated). The show was written by Cleese and Connie Booth, both of whom played main characters. The first series, in 1975, was produced and directed by John Howard Davies, and the second, in 1979, was produced by Douglas Argent and directed by Bob Spiers.
Fawlty Towers placed first on a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000 that was voted for by industry professionals.[1] It was also voted fifth in the BBC's "Britain's Best Sitcom" poll in 2004.[2]
