Fawlty Towers - The Complete Series

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Actor: Connie Booth, Fawlty Towers, John Cleese, Prunella Scales
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 500 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-10-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner

DVD Reviews of Fawlty Towers - The Complete Series

DVD Review: Good Stuff
Summary: 5 Stars

After borrowing the set of discs several times we finally broke down and purchased a set of our own. Several of the episodes are laugh out loud funny.

DVD Review: Timesless Classic British Comedy
Summary: 5 Stars

Fawlty Towers is definitely in the top 5 British comedies ever made. It's based loosely on a real hotel manager in a hotel that John Cleese and the rest of the Monty Python team stayed at in the very real town of Torquay in South East England. It's extremely funny and you'll never tire of it. Classic scenes such as "The Germans", "Waldorf salad" and "Mr Fawlty, I know nothing" will have you howling out loud even if it is over 30 years old. With all 12 episodes, this DVD is worth every cent.

DVD Review: Fawlty Towers, The Complete Series
Summary: 5 Stars

Beautifully packaged in perfect order and arrived in promised time. This will give me hours of laughs and I will not hesitate to shop with Amazon again. Thank you

DVD Review: Great DVD
Summary: 5 Stars

Bought this for my boyfriend who loves Fawlty Towers. It is the complete series and was great to watch. My boyfriend enjoyed it and so did I.

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Description of Fawlty Towers - The Complete Series

Inspired by a hotel John Cleese once stayed in when he was filming "Monty Python." This complete set of Fawlty Towers episodes includes special new commentary by John Cleese. Please see individual volumes for episode descriptions.

Basil Fawlty, as created and performed by John Cleese, is the rudest, most boorish, most hilariously obnoxious man on the face of the planet. What a natural for a TV sitcom! His screen wife, Sybil (Prunella Scales), put it best in the episode "The Psychiatrist": "You're either crawling all over them, licking their boots, or spitting poison at them like some Benzedrine puff adder." He mockingly replies, "Just trying to enjoy myself, dear." With his gangly frame and contortionist abilities, Cleese brilliantly punctuates Basil's outrageous faux pas with absurd gymnastics and turns Three Stooges-style pokes and kicks into a slapstick ballet. Scales's Sybil is the genial but obliviously chatty voice of reason and Andrew Sachs mangles the English language as the Spanish bellhop Manuel, whose struggles with simple directions results in comic lunacy reminiscent of Robert Benigni. After a six-episode run in 1975, Cleese and cowriter and costar Connie Booth (who plays Polly, the maid all too often pulled into Basil's ridiculous plans) reunited the cast in 1979 for another six episodes without missing a punch line. The four-volume collection contains all 12 shows, interspersed with interview segments featuring Cleese discussing the genesis of the series and anecdotes about the individual episodes. Remember to watch the opening credits of each show to spot the creative misspellings on the hotel sign (my favorite: "Fatty Owls"). --Sean Axmaker

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