The Funniest Fawlty Towers Episodes

Basically speaking, Fawlty Towers was a sitcom from Britain that was aired by the British Broadcasting Corporation and first broadcast in 1975 by BBC2. There was a total of 12 Fawlty Towers episodes since there were 2 series with six episodes each.
This wonderful sitcom was set in Fawlty Towers, a fictional hotel in Torquay that is located near the sea. John Cleese wrote the show with the aid of Connie Booth and they both played the main characters in the program. The first Fawlty Towers series was produced in 1975 by John Howard while the second one came out in 1979 with Douglas Argent as producer and Bob Spiers as the director.

In fact, all the Fawlty Towers episodes were so popular that they ranked first among all the 100 best British programs as produced by recent surveys by the British Film Institute. It also garnered position 5 of Britain's all time best sitcoms.
Fawlty Towers episodes feature John Cleese playing Basil Fawlty- the irascible owner of the Torquay hotel by the same name. Sybil Fawlty plays his domineering and irrevocable wife while the dependable and indispensable maid, Polly is played by Connie Booth. Manuel is from Barcelona and is a waiter as played by the famed Andrew Sachs. In the show, Basil is wont to frequently physically attack Manuel.

Business is never smooth at any of the twelve Fawlty Towers episodes. For instance, in the Kipper and The Corpse, you will certainly pay with your very life in case you fail to use hard currency to clear your hotel bill. Verbal assaults on anyone by Basil are also featured on most of these hilariously comical Fawlty Towers episodes.

In fact, what most Fawlty Towers episodes do is to quell the strikes that were taking place in Britain at the time when Fawlty Towers was aired. This is achieved by constant mentions of these strikes and adding comical and humorous twists to the strikes.

Some Fawlty Towers episodes are simply unforgettable. These include, among many others, Waldorf Salad, The Germans and The Hotel Inspectors. In fact, all the Fawlty Towers episodes won such public acclaim and popularity that they had to be re- aired in the form of repeat showings a couple of times on BBC television and even on such channels as the UK GOLD.
However, you do not need to wait for the next time when these channels shall decide to re- run this wonderful program. A number of DVD box sets have been released into the market with every single Fawlty Towers episodes. This means that in case you have such as box set, you can enjoy it in your living room, pause it and rerun it as many times as you want.
To conclude, Fawlty Towers episodes  were the very best and they could be said to have marked what it is to be essentially British. Pomp and ceremony in every day life, hierarchies and laid back humor with timeless comfort. In fact, these Fawlty Towers episodes may be seen as part of the origin of other more modern British sitcoms.