Fawlty Towers - The Complete Collection (Remastered) [DVD] [1975]

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Fawlty Towers - The Complete Collection (Remastered) [DVD] [1975]

Fawlty Towers - The Complete Collection (Remastered) [DVD] [1975]

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In ‘Waldorf Salad’, some newly-arrived American guests’ request for transatlantic cuisine does not go down well with Basil in the kitchen. All twelve episodes of John Cleese and Connie Booth's highly successful comedy series, set in a Torquay hotel. The Germans' sees Basil failing to cope with a fire drill and the arrival of some German guests while Sybil is in hospital - 'Don't mention the war - I did once, but I think I got away with it!

Excellent Fawlty Towers Collection which shows all the 12 original episodes as well as some other extra's. Communication Problems' sees Basil (Cleese) forced to deal with a deaf guest while attempting to conceal his gambling win from Sybil. You'd think at some point, he'd stop putting any faith in Manuel's ability to understand him, or stop trying to hide certain things from Sybil, but he never does, resulting in the various predicaments all feeling alike. 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.

Comedy about a hotel and its owner, a man of infinite rudeness with a rabid dislike of almost all guests. Many of these extras are holdovers from the previous DVD set, which "Fawlty Towers" fans will already be familiar with: the audio commentaries on all episodes by John Howard Davies (Season One) and Bob Spiers (Season Two), Interviews with John Cleese (52:49), Andrew Sachs (24:57) and Prunella Scales (7:49), "Torquay Tourist Office" (11:38), the Cheap Tatty Review (0:58), Outtakes (1:33), and "Helpful Staff"/"Guest Registry", which lead to amusingly outdated narrated filmographies. Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers.

This Special Edition marks the 30th anniversary of one of the greatest situation comedies British television has ever seen. These both take the form of a still photograph with lists of their other TV/film credits with a spoken bio about the person. 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.Also included are text biographies of all the leads and the guest stars, a short background featurette on Torquay and the hotel owner who is said to have inspired Basil, a very short blooper reel of out-takes and a brief teaser with Cleese in character entitled Cheap Tatty Review. Gourmet Night’ sees the Fawltys attempt to throw a cultural evening fail when their chef hits the bottle. There's some particularly good writing in the last three episodes, "The Kipper and the Corpse", "The Anniversary" and "Basil the Rat", which are larger in scale than the rest of the series.

Communication Problems' sees Basil (Cleese) forced to deal with a deaf guest while attempting to conceal his gambling win from Sybil (Prunella Scales). The third disc has all the additional material, the best of which are new interviews with John Cleese, Andrew Sachs and Prunella Scales.The snobbish, manic Basil, his over-coiffeured, domineering wife Sybil, the hopeless but ever-hopeful waiter Manuel, the calm and capable Polly, and of course the steady stream of abused guests — all live again in the pages of “The Complete Fawlty Towers”.

Each of the series discs also has the option of a commentary by the director (series one: John Howard Davies, series two: Bob Spiers).These two are both interviewed by the same young guy who didn't strike me as being a typical Fawlty fan, if he is then I apologise in advance. All things considered, I'd still chalk up the series' shortcomings to its reputation as much as its few flaws, so modern viewers should just take whatever praise they've heard for the show with a grain of salt and things will probably be fine.



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