INFORMATION

About Fawlty Towers

Fawlty Towers is one of the best-known, and most-loved, series from the heavenly days of British comedy – the 1970s.

John Cleese was inspired to write what became Fawlty Towers after he and the rest of the Monty Python team were staying at a hotel in Torquay called the Gleneagles while filming a TV series in the early 1970s. The “wonderfully rude” hotel owner endeared himself to the Monty Python team by throwing Eric Idle's briefcase out of the hotel “in case it contained a bomb,” complaining about Terry Gilliam's table manners, and throwing a bus timetable at another guest after he dared to ask the time of the next bus to town.

There were only 2 seasons made of Fawlty Towers, each carrying 6 episodes.

About the episode

Episode 1, Series 2 : Communication problems.

First shown 19 February 1979
The arrival of the "guest from hell", selectively deaf Mrs. Richards, a rather hot-tempered widow with the power to annoy everyone. When she loses some money she makes everyone's life hell until it turns up. She interferes with Basil's attempts to prevent the money he won on a racehorse from being discovered by Sybil, who disapproves of gambling.