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At first, the series was not universally held in high esteem. The Daily Mirror's review of the show in 1975 had the headline "Long John Short On Jokes". One critic of the show was Richard Ingrams, then television reviewer for The Spectator, who wrote a caustic piece condemning the programme. Cleese got his revenge by naming one of the guests in the second series "Mr Ingrams", who is caught in his room with a blow-up doll. However, many contemporary critics were effusive in their praise for the series. The Sunday Times called it "the funniest sitcom in years". Clive James writing in The Observer said the second episode had him "retching with laughter." Peter Fiddick also championed Fawlty…
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60 of 285 · most liked first"It's starting." Goddamn I thought the series premiere of Widow's Bay was funny. Think Fawlty Towers, only instead of John Cleese it's Matthew Rhys and instead of a hotel it's a cursed Stephen King town with a history of horrific atrocities and The Fog That Stole Men's Souls
neutral · AI labelView post →🏆100 Highest-Rated TV Shows (Based on Aggregated Data). cross-post from: https://lemmy.world/post/32413125 > 👋 Hi everyone! > > 💡 A while ago I came across some [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/1dw9sd4/a_cool_guide_to_the_best_tv_shows_of_all_time/#lightbox) on reddit where someone ranked the top-50 TV shows using aggregated ratings from multiple sources — and I got really inspired. Hats off to the original for the inspiration and idea. > > After hundreds of hours of…
neutral · AI labelView post →Reading Cleese's new book on Fawlty Towers. Some reasonable insights into the making of the series, but *by God* what a small-minded, angry man he is.
neutral · AI labelView post →- he said the show is bound to be a classic and loved. He compared it to Fawlty Towers, which had a very short run but is still loved (he also talked about showing his kids Fawlty Towers and Monty Python) - he would love to do Doctor Who, as an alien of course :D - all the franchises :D
neutral · AI labelView post →‘A perfectly calibrated Swiss watch of cringe’: why Fawlty Towers remains the greatest ever sitcom, 50 years on.
neutral · AI labelView post →OH MY GOD THERE’S A PLAY ************** You don’t understand. I’ve watched this show since I was 6 yo. It’s family. My whole life. Only two seasons. The greatest sitcom ever made. I love it endlessly. Am tearing up. #FawltyTowers fawltytowerswestend.com
positive · AI labelView post →I wrote a little tribute to Fawlty Towers on the occasion of its 50th birthday. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
neutral · AI labelView post →Fawlty Towers actress Prunella Scales dies aged 93. Scales played hotel manager Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife of Basil, in the classic British sitcom.
neutral · AI labelView post →Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only. ABC Movie of the Week Arrested Development The Carol Burnett Show Elizabeth R Fawlty Towers The Goldbergs (Gertrude Berg et al.) I, Claudius Julia (2022–23) Law & Order 1/
neutral · AI labelView post →As an aside, there are two main strands of British comedy. The first, the surrealist one, is very Irish; it all stems from Spike Milligan and the Goon Show. The second, which is very English, is built around the agony of the embarrassing situation that can’t be escaped; Fawlty Towers, The Office.
neutral · AI labelView post →🏆100 Highest-Rated TV Shows (Based on Aggregated Data). 👋 Hi everyone! 💡 A while ago I came across some [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/1dw9sd4/a_cool_guide_to_the_best_tv_shows_of_all_time/#lightbox) on reddit where someone ranked the top-50 TV shows using aggregated ratings from multiple sources — and I got really inspired. Hats off to the original for the inspiration and idea. After hundreds of hours of data transfer, I expanded the idea into a list of 100 must-see…
neutral · AI labelView post →One day late for the Fawlty Towers anniversary but here’s the opening for the pilot episode of Not the Nine O’Clock News, later reused in the series itself
neutral · AI labelView post →Fawlty Towers is a TV sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, originally broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a dysfunctional fictional hotel in the English seaside town of Torquay. The very 1st episode was broadcast on 19 Sept 1975. #FawltyTowers
neutral · AI labelView post →What are some fun charming series like Father Ted?. Also know of Fawlty Towers
neutral · AI labelView post →✨NEW EP✨This week it's a deep-dive in to John Sullivan's quintessential British sitcom, Only Fools & Horses, a show that insanely huge here but never cracked America the way, say, Fawlty Towers or The Office did. No, we don't discuss THAT. LISTEN: longdistancebitweird.podbean.com/e/e32-only-f...
neutral · AI labelView post →OK… Cheers Ever Decreasing Circles Smell Of Reeves & Mortimer Community The Simpsons Absolutely The Day Today Detectorists Silicon Valley Monty Python’s Flying Circus Nope. YOU CAN’T CHOOSE TEN. I’m just getting started… Hang on. Ghosts. Fawlty Towers. Victoria Wood As Seen On TV. Mr Show…
neutral · AI labelView post →Bidding a fond farewell to Prunella Scales today. Recently watched her in Mr Big, the rarely seen 1977 BBC sitcom about a family of incompetent criminals, made between series of Fawlty Towers. She was by far the best thing about it, often the case where Prunella Scales was concerned. RIP
neutral · AI labelView post →Researching old girlie mags and saw the cover blurb of "miles of wiggles" and the phrase stuck in my head and now I want to do a Benny Hill / Fawlty Towers tv show about a goof named Miles who lives in the village of Wiggles, which is full of pretty ladies. BBC2 presents... Miles of Wiggles.
neutral · AI labelView post →Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only— Batman 66 SCTV SNL 75-80 Blackadder 2-4 Speed Racer Breaking Bad Ray Rayner & Friends Monty Python's Flying Circus Pee Wee's Playhouse 120 Minutes Green Acres Fawlty Towers The Mary Tyler Moore Show Abbott & Costello Show (s. 1) All in the Family
neutral · AI labelView post →There's understandably a lot of praise for Fawlty Towers today, but my favourite TV series of Prunella Scales remains After Henry. As I say in this article that I wrote for the show's 30th anniversary, it's PS's thoughtful performance that's key to its success. wearecult.rocks/after-henry-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Don’t mention how Fawlty Towers was quite a problematic show. I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it.
neutral · AI labelView post →What a dark year it has been for the country, living in the shadow of John Cleese's threat of a new series of Fawlty Towers.
neutral · AI labelView post →It works both ways though. Theres no actual show called “Fawlty Towers”, we all made it up to catch out pretentious American comedy snobs who claim to have seen it.
neutral · AI labelView post →I have a half-baked theory that you can divide sitcoms into three broad formulas: The Single Monster (Fawlty Towers, Keeping Up Appearances, The Office); The Unhealthy Dependency (Steptoe and Son, Peep Show, The Likely Lads) and The Ensemble (Friends, Cheers, The Green Wing).
neutral · AI labelView post →The Thick Of It Roseanne Frasier WHTTLikely Lads Young Ones Veep Fawlty Towers Vic and Bob Simpsons 1-8 Fast Show
neutral · AI labelView post →Paul Nicholas is now playing the Major in the Fawlty Towers stage show. Time, eh?
neutral · AI labelView post →*Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only* no order MST3K Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul (one universe) Twilight Zone Rockford Files Pushing Daisies Golden Girls Muppet Show Columbo Psych Monk M*A*S*H Justified Fawlty Towers Barney Miller Red Dwarf hon. mention: Batman TAS, Gunsmoke
neutral · AI labelView post →New Turing test. Challenge ChatGPT to make a third series of Fawlty Towers.
neutral · AI labelView post →If that new third series of Fawlty Towers gets made. I have to say, even the idea of it is putting me off the original.
negative · AI labelView post →Top 15 TV shows: The Singing Detective Seinfeld I’m Alan Partridge Brideshead Revisted A Ghost Story For Christmas (‘71-78) The Day Today Fawlty Towers The Larry Sanders Show Talking Heads 7 Up Knowing Me, Knowing You A Very Peculiar Practice The League of Gentlemen Gravity Falls Better Call Sall
neutral · AI labelView post →Someone should do a bootleg version of John Cleese’s new stage show of Fawlty Towers but also serve dinner through it, and not pay him. That would be really funny.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm sure the Bagpuss film is as likely to happen as the new Carry On, the Mr Benn movie and the new series of Fawlty Towers.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fawlty Towers. A third season would have ruined the perfection of merely two series
neutral · AI labelView post →Born 22 June 1932, actress Prunella Scales. She played her most famous role, Sybil Fawlty in the sitcom Fawlty Towers, over 2 series in 1975 and 1979, and Queen Elizabeth II in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution, for which she was nominated for a British Academy Award. #PrunellaScales
neutral · AI labelView post →Sorry, gotta redo this. Mistakes were made. The Avengers Fawlty Towers The Goldbergs (G. Berg) Green Acres Julia (Goldfarb series) Law & Order (the Orbach years) Mapp & Lucia (Scales/McEwan) MST3K Perry Mason (HBO, s. 1) SCTV Probably stopping now. (Don't necessarily bet on that.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Fawlty Towers is a damn near perfect show.
positive · AI labelView post →Amanda's was an American sitcom based on Fawlty Towers that aired on ABC (1983). The series starred Bea Arthur as Amanda Cartwright, who owns a seaside hotel called "Amanda's by the Sea" and was Arthur's first return to series television since her sitcom Maude ended in 1978.
neutral · AI labelView post →I *always* get Ken Burns and Ken Campbell mixed up, for some reason. Both are good Kens, but from entirely different planets. I would actually very much like to watch a deep dive documentary on Prohibition directed by the guy who played Roger in series 2 of Fawlty Towers.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm sorry Tom, but that's just not credible. It's like saying Fawlty Towers ran for just two series.
neutral · AI labelView post →Favourite 10 TV comedies, in no particular order. Miranda Spaced Peep Show Dirk Gently (Stephen Mangan) Absolutely Fabulous Harry Enfield & Friends The Young Ones Blackadder Fawlty Towers Jeeves and Wooster
neutral · AI labelView post →Can’t work out an order but, alphabetically: Detectorists Ever Decreasing Circles Father Ted The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Fawlty Towers The Larry Sanders Show Seinfeld Soap Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? The Young Ones (Had OFAH finished in 1991, and Simpsons in 1997…)
neutral · AI labelView post →25 Oct 1979, BBC2, at around 9.30pm: the moment when I knew there could be no third series of Fawlty Towers.
neutral · AI labelView post →A priceless moment from Fawlty Towers. Do you have a favourite moment from this Classic British TV Show?
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched The Red Green Show, Fawlty Towers, AbFab and Are You Being Served a LOT in my pre-teens/early teens, as well as Star Trek TOS in reruns. I think that shaped me.
neutral · AI labelView post →Every episode, the studio is about to implode & Brolin ties himself in knots trying to fix it, only for the problems to fix themselves, like a reverse FAWLTY TOWERS. The show has a parade of wacky guest stars a la COLUMBO. Ehrenrich is the only other regular. Mostly he philosophizes with Brolin.
neutral · AI labelView post →OTD in 1976. Are You Being Served?, Warship and Play for Today are on BBC1. There's another chance to see Fawlty Towers on BBC2 with the Graham Greene anthology series Shades of Greene continuing on ITV.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Mirror TV Guide previews the likes of The Duchess of Duke Street and The Muppet Show (and is already bemoaning the fact that Fawlty Towers isn't as funny the third time around). Daily Mirror (4th September 1976)
neutral · AI labelView post →Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only. Star Trek Battlestar Galactica ‘78 Babylon 5 The Avengers Blackadder Upstart Crow Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Batman: The Animated Series Miami Vice Community The Venture Bros. Fawlty Towers The Prisoner Magnum, P.I. The Wild Wild West
neutral · AI labelView post →rest in peace Prunella Scales. probably loved her in Great Canal Journeys tv series with the utterly wonderful Timothy West even more than i did Fawlty Towers, which i never thought possible. what a beautiful couple they made, now reunited wherever they may be…
positive · AI labelView post →I wonder if U.K. Gold could possibly do some sort of advert for that Fawlty Towers stage play? AND THEN SHOW IT IN EVERY COMMERCIAL BREAK.
neutral · AI labelView post →In a way I admire John Cleese’s consistency. Fawlty Towers was quite a problematic show.
negative · AI labelView post →Roger that. Living in Buffalo, NY, I got to see SCTV & FAWLTY TOWERS on the Toronto stations before they migrated south. SNL was the hip sketch show. SCTV was the smart sketch show.
neutral · AI labelView post →The first episode of Fawlty Towers debuted Sep 19th, 1975, nearly 50 years ago. There were only 12 episodes. A televised performance of the sold-out West End play that combines three of the best-loved episodes (Mrs Richards, The Germans, and The Food Inspectors) airs on the 19th.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fave 10 British TV series? The League of Gentleman Inside No.9 Red Dwarf Fawlty Towers The Prisoner Monty Python’s Flying Circus The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Doctor Who Blackadder Only Fools and Horses
neutral · AI labelView post →John Cleese is such a prick. Was never as good as Milligan or Sellers on the Goon Show, and was a complete wash in Monty Python. Dickhead Fawlty Towers wasn’t even that funny.
negative · AI labelView post →In the UK we all thought of Basil Fawlty from the comedy TV series Fawlty Towers. "Don't menttion the war!"
neutral · AI labelView post →Obscure Fawlty Towers fact of the day. The headline on the newspaper that Basil reads in series two episode The Anniversary references a TV technician's strike on March 8 1979 that robbed the nation of a chance to see Black Lace performing on A Song for Europe live from the Albert Hall.
neutral · AI labelView post →Remembering Phil Silvers on his birthday 🎂 📷 Yale Joel, 1955 In 2003 the Radio Times called The Phil Silvers Show the Best Sitcom Ever. Seinfeld was in second spot, & #3 was Fawlty Towers. theguardian.com/media/2003/s... "Sgt Bilko is sitcom's high-water mark." - Mark Lewisohn
neutral · AI labelView post →Timothy West: Acclaimed stage and screen actor dies aged 90. > Timothy West, one of Britain's most distinguished and versatile actors, has died at the age of 90, his family have announced. > >He was known for roles on stage and screen including in TV sitcoms Not Going Out and Bedtime, dramas such as Bleak House and Gentleman Jack, and soaps Coronation Street and EastEnders. > >A statement released by his children said the actor died "peacefully in his sleep" and was "with his friends and family…
neutral · AI labelView post →Share a TV show you love set primarily in the workplace. 📺 My choice: Fawlty Towers
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