The essential episodes of Fawlty Towers
Watch these 12 in order and you've got Fawlty Towers — each pick states its reason.
- 01
A confidence trickster comes to stay at the hotel, just after Basil has taken an ad in a posh magazine to upgrade the clientele.
- 02
The Fawltys take a holiday and leave Polly and Manuel to run the place just as O'Reilly's builders come to redo the lobby.
- 03
Basil wants 'none of that' going on in his rooms and suspects some guests and Polly of carrying on.
- 04
Some inspectors are in town and Basil gets paranoid, so he alternately fawns over and offends his guests.
- 05
To bring the right type of crowd into the hotel Basil establishes a Gourmet Night.
- 06
Sybil goes into the hospital for toe surgery, leaving Basil to cope with a fire drill single-handed. After a couple of blows on the head, Basil tells some German guests where Germany went wrong in WWII.
- 07
A selectively deaf woman named Mrs Richards insists that she has had a large amount of money stolen at the hotel, and against Sybil's wishes Basil puts a fiver on Dragonfly.
- 08
A psychiatrist and his wife come to stay and Basil thinks Sybil is telling them all about his life.
- 09
An American and his wife get unsatisfactory service at Fawlty Towers when he orders a Waldorf salad, after the kitchen has closed.
- 10
Unknown to Basil, a guest dies in the night and he tries to serve him breakfast anyway and an obnoxious woman insists on service for her dog.
- 11
Sybil leaves before Basil's surprise anniversary party and Basil spends the evening trying to convince their friends she's ill.
- 12
The health inspector is coming and Basil tells Manuel to get rid of his pet rat, which he later finds out is named Basil.
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