Stuffy and snobbish, Sinclair treated guests as though they were a hindrance to his running of the hotel (a waitress who worked for him stated "it was as if he didn't want the guests to be there").

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Things go wrong as Basil pretends the anniversary date does not remind him of anything though he pretends to have a stab at it by reeling off a list of random anniversaries, starting with the Battle of Agincourt, for which he receives a slap from Sybil, who becomes increasingly frustrated and angry.Cleese said in a July 2023 interview that he his daughter had only "half an idea" for the series, and that the production company had been too hasty in announcing the revival. Polly cannot answer this, which brings on a hilarious scene of Basil trying to mime the name to Polly, from behind Sybil's back.

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Forgotten wedding anniversaries are a retro comedy trope but it’s rarely been done better than here. The original scripts of the series were released in a hardback book by Methuen, titled The Complete Fawlty Towers, in 1988. She has a distinctive conversational tone and braying laugh, which Basil compares to "someone machine-gunning a seal". The second series was transmitted three-and-a-half years later, with the first episode being broadcast on 19 February 1979. Thirdly "Gourmet Night"'s exterior of André's restaurant was at Preston Road ( 51°34′24″N 0°17′40″W / 51.

Cleese was intimately involved in the creation of the stage version from the beginning, including in the casting. In 1980, Cleese received the British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance, and, in a 2001 poll conducted by Channel 4, Basil Fawlty was ranked second on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters.

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Also, it appears he still does care for her and remains loyal to her, and actively resists the flirtations of a French guest in one episode. Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1975 and 1979. Also in the same episode, when Sybil left Basil thinking he forgot their anniversary, he was quite upset. When Basil hears of hotel inspectors roaming Torquay incognito, he realises with horror that guests he has been abusing could easily be among them. The plots centre on the tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty (Cleese), his bossy wife Sybil ( Prunella Scales), the sensible chambermaid Polly (Booth) who often is the peacemaker and voice of reason, and the hapless and English-challenged Spanish waiter Manuel ( Andrew Sachs).Energetic and petite, she prefers a working wardrobe of tight skirt-suits in shiny fabrics and sports a tower of permed hair augmented with hairpieces and wigs necessitating the use of overnight curlers. Photograph: BBC Don't mention the war: John Cleese as Basil Fawlty in the Fawlty Towers episode The Germans.