Fawlty Towers

Fawlty Towers was a British sitcom made by the BBC and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. It is set in a fictional hotel named Fawlty Towers in the Devon town of Torquay on "the English Riviera". The hotel is owned and run by the eccentric Basil Fawlty and his censorious wife Sybil, helped by the maid Polly, the Spanish porter Manuel who could barely speak English and (in the second series) the chef Terry. Permanent guests were the half-senile Major Gowen and the bewildered old ladies Miss Tibbs and ...

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• Fawlty Towers - Background and inspiration
• Fawlty Towers - Episode list
• Fawlty Towers - Fawlty Towers influence
• Fawlty Towers - Awards

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Basil is a snobbish, miserly, xenophobic, sexually repressed paranoiac who is desperate to belong to a higher social class, and sees the successful running of the hotel as his means to this end ("turn it into an establishment of class..."), yet he is trapped in a job where he has to be pleasant to people he either despises or yearns to be above socially; people he would much rather snub. He is terrified of his wife's sharp tongue, yet fiercely wishes to stand up to her. Always trying to cover his mistakes and always the penny pincher ...

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Clockwise is a 1986 British comedy film starring John Cleese. It was directed by Christopher Morahan, written by Michael Frayn and produced by Michael Codron. The film was co-produced by Moment Films and Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment. The film centres on the successful but obsessive headmaster of a comprehensive school Brian Stimpson played by Cleese. His school runs 'like clockwork'. On the way to a headmasters' conference at which he is a speaker many misfortunes befall him and his ordered world begins to unwind. A Mo ...

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British Comedy, in film, radio and television, is known for its consistently quirky characters, plots and settings, and has produced some of the most famous and memorable comic actors and characters in the last fifty years. British comedy - Film comedy. British comedy films are legion, but among the most notable are the Ealing comedies, the 1950s satires of the Boulting Brothers, and innumerable popular comedy series including the St Trinian's films, the "Doctor" series, and the long-running Carry On films. ...

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British humour has a reputation for being puzzling to non-British speakers of English. Nonetheless, many UK comedy TV shows which use it as a basis have been internationally popular. British humour - Themes. Some themes which underpin twentieth-century British humour were: Smut and innuendo with sexual and scatological themes, typified by the seaside postcards of Donald McGill, the humour of Benny Hill, the series of Carry On films, and the comi ...

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BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC. BBC Two - History. The channel was scheduled to begin at 7:20 pm on April 20, 1964 and show an evening of light entertainment, starting with the comedy show The Alberts, a performance from Soviet comedian Arkady Raikin, and a production of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, culminating with a fireworks display. However, at around 6:45 pm a huge power failure, originating from Battersea Pow ...

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• BBC Two - On screen identity
• BBC Two - BBC Two today
• BBC Two - Controllers of BBC Two

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This is a list of television-related events in 2000. 1999 in film 2000 in film 2001 in film 1999 in home video 2000 in home video 2001 in home video 1999 in television 2000 in television 2001 in television 2000 in television - Events. January 17 - Robin Givens replaces Mother Love as host of the talk show Forgive or Forget. January - Ta ...

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A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging, usually on a short-term basis and especially for tourists. Hotels often provide a number of additional guest services such as a restaurant, a swimming pool or childcare. Some hotels have conference services and encourage groups to hold conventions and meetings at their location. Hotels differ from motels in that most motels have drive-up, exterior entrances to the rooms, while hotels tend to have interior entrances to the rooms, making them safer and more relaxing to peopl ...

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Vermin is a term given to animals which are considered by humans to be pests or nuisances, most associated with the carrying of disease. Disease-carrying rodents and insects are the usual case but the term can also apply to larger animals, on the basis that they exist out of ecological balance with their environment, consuming excessive resources. Pigeons, which have been widely introduced in urban environments, may be consid ...

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A Waldorf salad is a salad consisting of apple, nuts (especially walnuts), celery, and mayonnaise or a mayonnaise-based dressing. It was first created in 1896 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York by Oscar Tschirky who was the maître d'hôtel. It is traditionally served on lettuce. Dried fruit is often added--usually chopped dates or raisins. Waldorf salad - Cultural references. "Waldorf Salad" is the title of a 1979 episode of Fawlty Towers which concerns a bad-tempered American guest's ...

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A British sitcom is a situation comedy (sitcom) produced in the United Kingdom. Like sitcoms in most other countries, they tend to be based around a family, workplace or other institution where a group of contrasting characters can be brought together. A common factor is the exploration of social mores, often with a healthy dollop of satire or bathos, in contrast to the sometimes uplifting sentiments of many American sitcoms. British comedies are typically produced in series of six episodes each. British sitcom - Charact ...

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A moustache (sometimes spelt mustache in the United States) is an outgrowth of hair above the upper lip. Other common vernacular names are stache, tache, tash and mo. Most men with a normal or strong beard growth must tend it daily, by shaving the hair of the chin and cheeks, to prevent it from soon reverting to a full beard. This necessity has engendered the invention of quite a wide variety of accoutrements designed for the care of a gentleman's moustache, including moustache wax, moustache ...

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Deadpan is a form of comedic delivery in which something humorous is said or done by a person, while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression. One notable trait of Australians (perhaps "inherited" from the British) lies in their use of deadpan humour, in which the joker will make an outrageous or ridiculous statement without giving any explicit signs of joking. Americans visiting Australia have gained themselves a reputation for gullibility and a lack of a sense of humour by not recognising that tales of kangaroos hopping across the Sydney Harbour Bridge and drop bears exemplify ...

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List of British Jews - MPs. British Members of Parliament listed chronologically by first election date (in brackets): Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1837) [1], Conservative Prime Minister (family converted to Anglicanism) Lionel de Rothschild (1847, admitted 1858) [2], Liberal MP, first openly Jewish MP Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid (1860) [3], MP for Reading, first Jewish barrister Frederick David Goldsmid (1865) [4], MP for Honiton Sir Julian G ...

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Listed alphabetically by decade Situation comedy - 1940s. The Aldrich Family (1949–1953) Mary Kay and Johnny (1947–1950) The Morey Amsterdam Show (1948–1950) Pinwright's Progress (1946–1947) That Wonderful Guy (1949–1950) Situation comedy - 1950s. The Adventures of Hiram Holiday (1956–1957) The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ...

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For the purposes of this list, show dialogue and announcer talk, spoken over the theme song, does not count as lyrics. Nor does scat singing and vocalizing which doesn't represent actual words (example: the "ba ba ba ba" vocals in the Rugrats theme). A show may also be listed here if it has lyrics, but they aren't generally used on the show when the theme song is presented (example: M.A.S.H.). ...

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List of comedies - Australia. All Together Now (sitcom) Aunty Jack (satire/sketch comedy) Australia, You're Standing In It (sketch comedy) CNNNN (satire/parody of CNN) Daas Kapital (satire/sketch comedy) The D-Generation (sketch comedy) Double the Fist (satire with sketch elements) Fast Forward (sketch comedy) Frontline (satire/sitcom) Full Frontal (sketch co ...

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List of comedies, List of comedies - Television comedies, List of comedies - Australia, List of comedies - Belgium, List of comedies - Canada, List of comedies - United Kingdom, List of comedies - United States, List of comedies - Theatrical comedies, List of comedies - France, List of comedies - Russia, List of comedies - United Kingdom, List of comedies - United States, List of comedies - Radio comedies, List of comedies - Canada, List of comedies - United Kingdom, List of comedies - USA

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Listed alphabetically by decade Situation comedy - 1940s. The Aldrich Family (1949–1953) Mary Kay and Johnny (1947–1950) The Morey Amsterdam Show (1948–1950) Pinwright's Progress (1946–1947) That Wonderful Guy (1949–1950) Situation comedy - 1950s. The Adventures of Hiram Holiday (1956–1957) The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ...

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Situation comedy, Situation comedy - History, Situation comedy - Characteristics, Situation comedy - Ensemble cast structure, Situation comedy - Plot formulas, Situation comedy - Lifecycle, Situation comedy - How families are portrayed in Sit-coms, Situation comedy - Specific countries of origin, Situation comedy - Australia, Situation comedy - Canada, Situation comedy - Russia, Situation comedy - New Zealand, Situation comedy - United Kingdom, Situation comedy - United States, Situation comedy - List of sitcoms, Situation comedy - 1940s, Situation comedy - 1950s, Situation comedy - 1960s, Situation comedy - 1970s, Situation comedy - 1980s, Situation comedy - 1990s, Situation comedy - 2000s, Situation comedy - Bibliography, Situation comedy - Ratings

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1975 in television - 1940s. Meet the Press (1947-present). Candid Camera (1948-present). Bozo the Clown (1949-present). Come Dancing (UK) (1949-1995). 1975 in television - 1950s. Truth or Consequences (1950-1988). Love of Life (1951-1980). Search for Tomorrow (1951-1986). Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951-present). American Bandstand (1952-1 ...

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