Fawlty Towers Reviews

One morning when I arrived at work back in 1975, the office was buzzing with chatter about a new sitcom which had been on TV the previous evening - I'd not seen it, as I'd been out and hadn't known it was on. For me, TV sitcoms had taken a dive during the 1970s, as I was never into what most people now view as old classics such as Dad's ...  Read the complete review

Apart from Monty Python for which John Cleese will always be remembered as one of that crazy group, for me Fawlty Towers was the best thing that John Cleese appeared in over the years. There have many funny British sitcoms over the years but this one is definately one of my favourites and the worst thing was they only made 12 episodes in ...  Read the complete review

This programme was written about the bad service John Cleese received when staying in a hotel Torquay. Although most of the programmes were shot in a studio. The hotel is still in existance and operating as The Best Western Gleneagles hotel in Torquay. They run many a theme weekend on the back of the programme. The hotel was bought for ...  Read the complete review

I recently wrote a review on Father Ted, calling it the greatest British sitcom ever made... HOW did I forget about the wonderful Fawlty Towers?!?!? As I sit here writing this, The Germans episode is currently playing on G.O.L.D. - could I have happened to stumble upon a more appropriate episode to remind me of the show's ...  Read the complete review

Fawlty Towers has to be one of the best and most original sitcoms ever made from the comedy genius that is John Cleese also co written by Connie Booth who was his wife in real life during the first series and they later divorced which delayed the second series but none the less it was worth the wait. They only made two series and there ...  Read the complete review

Fawlty Towers is another great British comedy. First broadcast int he 1970's on the BBC. Even tho there was only 2 series made and only 12 episodes made (6 in each series) it is seen as one of the best. The show is set in the sea side town of Torquay, in a hotel called Fawlty Towers. The owners of the hotel Basil Fawlty (John Cleese) and ...  Read the complete review

Back in 1970 John Cleese and the Monty Python crew booked a stay in a Torquay hotel named Gleneagles, expecting nothing more a few short uneventful days whilst they did some location filming. Instead they saw the manager assault a guest with a bus timetable, hide Eric Idle's suitcase because he thought it was a bomb, and accused ...  Read the complete review

Fawlty Towers is the brain child of John Cleese who is in many peoples opinions a comic genius and this is maybe his finest hour. In Fawlty Towers Cleese came up with a hilarous show based on Basil Fawlty and wife Sybil who run there own hotel with the assistance of Manuel, Polly and chef Terry who work together and end up making ...  Read the complete review

There are lots of reviews on this site that give you the episode listings so I have only given you a nutshell summary and then an insight into why I love this programme. Nutshell summary ============== This programme is based in the Torquay hotel owned by Basil Fawlty and his wife Sybil. They are helped by a spanish ...  Read the complete review

Fawlty Towers is a truely cassical British Comedy, full of comic moments and entertainment. John Cleese plays a hotel manager Basil Fawlty, who owns a hotel in Torquay with Prunella Scales as his wife Sybil. Other characters which made the show a huge success include workers, Paulie, a young waitress who enjoys winding up Basil, and ...  Read the complete review

There are only two comedy shows that can actually have me literally crying with laughter. One is Only Fools and Horses and the other is Faulty Towers. The videos I have for both shows are extremely worn, due to excess usage. My wife can't understand how I can watch the same program 50 times and still laugh so loudly. Simple both shows ...  Read the complete review

Fawlty Towers is an iconic British Television situation comedy first aired in 1975. In a British Film Institute poll of 2000 it was voted the best television programme in British Television History. It stars John Cleese (of Monty Python Fame), Prunella Scales (married To Actor Timothy West), Connie Booth (who co ...  Read the complete review

107 reviews to date shows the sheer popularity of this classic British sitcom. A Little History... Fawlty Towers aired on BBC2 in 1975 and had only 12 episodes ever made, spread over two series. In this short time the show managed to get such a following that in 2000 it was placed at number 1 of the 100 Greatest ...  Read the complete review

British comedies really don't get much better than this. In fact, comedy as a whole doesn't get better than this. Many would accuse the series of being wholly over-rated but I would disagree. 12 episodes were made, and each one was a comic gem. The scripting, the acting and the characters all entwined to produce one of the finest comedy ...  Read the complete review

I have always been a big fan of old comedies like the young ones and some mothers do have them etc.... I was given the box set of "Faulty towers" a few years back and found it excellent. I was quite surprised that I like it really as I never liked the Monty Python films and as this also starred John Cleese I thought it may be ...  Read the complete review

I know that this might upset some prescious people who think this was a comedy classic but I'm sorry I just never found it that funny, don't get me wrong it is an entertaining comedy show but it was never as good as classics like Porridge, Dads Army or Only Fools and Horses in my opinion. John Cleese stars as Basil Fawlty who ...  Read the complete review

Such a British classic, Fawlty Towers must rank in the top ten television comedies for almost everyone in the land. Supreme writing and magnificent acting transformed an idea into something really special that is still being screened on various channels some thirty odd years after it was made. The basic premise of ...  Read the complete review

This has to be one of the best ever comedy series ever, such a shame there was only twelve episodes ever made but every one such a laugh every time you watch it! great characters from basil the owner, his scatty wife sybil, the crazy waiter manuel, polly the waitress/maid and the nutty major who lives in the hotel! Basil Fawlty the owner ...  Read the complete review

Fawlty Towers is definitely one of the best British sitcoms ever made. It was first broadcast in 1975 and unfortunately only twelve episodes were ever made, I'm so disappointed about this because it really was a great show. I wasn't around when it was first aired on television back in the 1970's but have since seen many of the repeats ...  Read the complete review

Fawlty Towers combined all the ingredients necessary for a top sitcom - it had extremely funny characters, an ideal location or situation for the comedy to take place and finally and often most important a very funny script. I am sure most people know of the programme but for completeness I will say the programme was set in a ...  Read the complete review