Fawlty Towers
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two
- 1975 - 1979
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Comedy about a hotel and its owner, a man of infinite rudeness with a rabid dislike of almost all guests. Stars John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Ballard Berkeley and more.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 1 - A Touch Of Class
In his endless strive to improve the quality of Fawlty Towers, Basil places an advert in a high-society magazine, and soon has a Lord Melbury checking in - but all is not quite as it seems.
Notes
This episode was originally filmed as a pilot for the series.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 19th September 1975
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
- Recorded
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- Monday 23rd December 1974, 20:00 at BBC Television Centre (Filmed as a pilot)
Cast & crew
| John Cleese | Basil Fawlty |
| Prunella Scales | Sybil Fawlty |
| Andrew Sachs | Manuel |
| Connie Booth | Polly |
| Ballard Berkeley | Major Gowen |
| Michael Gwynn | Lord Melbury |
| Robin Ellis | Danny Brown |
| Martin Wyldeck | Sir Richard Morris |
| David Simeon | Mr. Mackenzie |
| Terence Conoley | Mr. Wareing |
| Lionel Wheeler | Mr. Watson |
| John Cleese | Writer |
| Connie Booth | Writer |
| John Howard Davies | Director |
| John Howard Davies | Producer |
| Bill Harris | Editor |
| Peter Kindred | Production Designer |
| Dennis Wilson | Composer |
Press
The unexamined sitcom is not worth watching
Sometimes, a sitcom mystery you've wondered about for years suddenly gets resolved. And for Dirty Feed, this one is the motherlode. After all, with the pilot episode of Fawlty Towers, you're talking about something as close as you can get to a sacred text around here.
Tanya Jones, Dirty Feed, 3rd April 2023