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It was while filming for Monty Python's Flying Circus in 1971 that John Cleese and the rest of the team chanced to stay at the Torquay hotel which would inspire him to create Fawlty Towers.

The Pythons only stayed a night, but John Cleese (who found the manager "wonderfully rude") kept the manager and his domineering wife in mind, and wrote them into an episode of "Doctor in Charge".

Episodes:

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Keywords:

Comedy, Sitcom

Cast (unconfirmed):

John Cleese	.... Basil Fawlty
Connie Booth	.... Polly Shearman
Ballard Berkeley	.... Major Gowen
Andrew Sachs	.... Manuel
Gilly Flower	.... Miss Abitha Tibbs
Prunella Scales	.... Sybil Fawlty
Renee Roberts	.... Miss Ursula Gatsby
Brian Hall	.... Terry
Elizabeth Benson	.... Mrs. Heath, Mrs. White
Richard Caldicot	.... Mr. Twitchen
Michael C. Gwynne	.... Lord Melbury
Robin Ellis	.... Danny Brown
Allan Cuthbertson	.... Col. Hall
Peter Brett	.... Brian
Betty Huntley-Wright	.... Mrs. Twitchen
James Cossins	.... Mr. Walt
André Maranne	.... André
Martin Wyldeck	.... Sir Richard Morris
Tony Page	.... Master Heath
Bernard Cribbins	.... Mr. Hutchinson

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