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| Fawlty Towers - Series 1 2 [1975] | ![Fawlty Towers - Series 1 2 [1975]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514PDSHCXNL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Actors: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Ballard Berkeley
Studio: 2 Entertain Video
Category: DVD
Buy New: £39.99
Buy New/Used from £39.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  (47 reviews)
Sales Rank: 7295
Format: Pal
Languages: Dutch (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: DVD
Running Time: 374 minutes
Number Of Items: 3
Discs: 3
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.9
EAN: 5014503107222
ASIN: B00005OCTG
Release Date: November 19, 2001
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Often hailed as the greatest ever British sitcom, IFawlty Towers/I is closer to the more elaborate tradition of farce. Comprising two series made in 1975 and 1979, the total of just 12 episodes were painstakingly constructed by writers John Cleese and Connie Booth. Unlike most British farce, however, IFawlty Towers/I deals with the big themes--death, psychology, xenophobia and even sex-o-phobia (Basil's marriage to Sybil is the most sterile ever depicted in a sitcom). Basil's contempt for his guests is, of course, legendary. It takes little from patrons to unleash his sledgehammer sarcasm: "Rosewood, mahogany, teak? Sorry, I was wondering what you'd like your breakfast tray made out of", he sneers at a guest who dares to request breakfast in bed. Like every Englishman, he wants to be king of his own castle and resents having to take in lodgers to maintain the place, especially the open-necked younger generation, whom he regards as sub-human. Mostly, though, IFawlty Towers/I is comedy of exasperation--who can forget the "damn good thrashing" Basil gives his clapped-out car, or the nervous breakdowns he almost suffers trying to make himself understood to Manuel? It's also comedy of embarrassment. The very fear of losing his dignity generally leads Basil into the most spectacularly undignified of predicaments. His inevitable misery is our sheer delight. -- IDavid Stubbs/I pbOn the DVD:/b each six-episode season is given its own disc with a commentary track from John Howard Davies and Bob Spiers, directors of Season 1 and Season 2 respectively. The third disc has all the additional material, the best of which are new interviews with John Cleese, Andrew Sachs and Prunella Scales. Also included are text biographies of all the leads and the guest stars, a short background featurette on Torquay and the hotel owner who is said to have inspired Basil, a very short blooper reel of outtakes and a brief teaser with Cleese in character entitled "Cheap Tatty Review". Much of this extra material was comfortably fitted onto the individually available Season 1 and 2 discs, so it's a bit of a mystery why a third disc was deemed necessary for the box set. --IMark Walker/I
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Brighten up your weekends August 17, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A beautifully scripted timeless classic that you never grow tired of. Fawlty Towers is the sort of series you can pop into your machine on a rainy sunday afternoon and it will instantly brighten up your day. br /br /John Cleese and Connie Booth remain legend writers for this masterpiece alone. br /br /It you're yet to see an episode and are buying this item, you're in for a treat.
the best comedy ever July 22, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
you can watch somethings over and over again but they get boring, fawlty towers however is not one of these, simply put the greatest british comedy ever
Best comedy anywhere January 8, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Sight comedy is usually just slap-stick. Fawlty raises the bar to entirely new levels and does so show after show. There are none better.
My desert island disc July 19, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
What else to say? Absolutely hilarious, if I had a day to live I could spend it just watching the 2 episodes that comprise this greatest of comedic masterworks, still brings me to tears after all these years, just shows that real life is the best inspiration, Cleese having found the inspiration for Basil Fawlty in an actual hotel manager where the Pythons briefly stayed, save for Cleese who stayed to study this fascinating being. Good thing for us he did.
THE MOST AMUSING HOTEL February 19, 2005
8 out of 20 found this review helpful
Cleese at his very best, he is of course the king of the show. Excellent supporting cast and everyone, including the biscuit eater RAT...ehem,...HAMSTER from Manuel.brWhat a curious stairs the hotel has! you go up to nowhere and then you must go down.brAs a vegetarian I dislike some scenes. brIn my catalan language version Manuel is a mexican emigrant from Jalisco and sing mexican songs, and in the spanish version he is an italian from Naples. Really if he would be from Barcelona, as the sitcom situate his origin, he would speak catalan abroad.
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