Fawlty Towers – The Complete Collection [7 CD Set]

Description

Running Time 6hrs 25mins

John Cleese’s special introductions to each episode are included in this collection of all 12 TV soundtrack
episodes.

THE BOOK
Welcome to Fawlty Towers, where attentive hotelier Basil Fawlty and his charming wife Sybil will attend to your every need – in your worst nightmare.
With hapless waiter Manuel and long-suffering waitress Polly on hand to help, anything could happen during your stay – and probably will.
Every episode of both TV series is included in this soundtrack collection: A Touch of Class; The Builders;
The Wedding Party; The Hotel Inspectors; Gourmet Night; The Germans; Communication Problems; The Psychiatrist;
Waldorf Salad; The Kipper and the Corpse; The Anniversary; Basil the Rat.
Co-starring with John Cleese as Basil are Prunella Scales (Sybil), Andrew Sachs (Manuel), Connie Booth (Polly) with a supporting cast including Ballard Berkeley, Bernard Cribbins, Joan Sanderson, Geoffrey Palmer, Nicky Henson
and Ken Campbell.
Also included are special introductions to each episode by John Cleese.

THE AUTHOR
John Marwood Cleese was born in 1939 in Weston-Super-Mare. He studied Law at Cambridge University and has enjoyed a successful career in comedy, theatre, film and television.
He first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s, he co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python’s
Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life.
In the mid-1970s, Cleese and his first wife, Connie Booth, co-wrote and starred in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers. Later, he co-starred with Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis and former Python colleague Michael Palin in A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures.
He has appeared in many other films, including the James Bond films, Harry Potter and Shrek and has guest-starred in numerous TV shows.