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Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection

By: John Cleese, Connie Booth
Narrated by: John Cleese, Connie Booth, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, full cast
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Publisher's Summary

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.

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

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) and Connie Booth (Polly), with a supporting cast including Ballard Berkeley, Bernard Cribbins, Joan Sanderson, Geoffrey Palmer, Nicky Henson and Ken Campbell.

©2015 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2015 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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Loved every second of it.

It helps if you’ve watched the actual show -because you can visualise the actual actors… I’m also really pleased that they had John Cleese commenting at the start of each show-about what we were about to watch/listen to, and they had Andrew Sachs -the actor that played “Manuel’, provide the parts in the episode about things you couldn’t hear -but needed to know for it to make sense. Well done for allowing people to relive these shows over and over again without actually watching them.

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hilarious!

Loved it, funniest thing I've heard for years. Had to listen twice, laughed so much

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Edited versions slightly annoying.

Being a connoisseur of the show and knowing the scripts backwards, it was annoying that quite a bit was edited out from some episodes. Still the number one British comedy.

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LOVE these episodes.

Love this TV series, so glad they turned it into audio! I can picture what's happening in my head and still have a good laugh. The Cleese intros are quite interesting too, learned a lot about the making and behind the scenes of the series and that episodes have a message for society. Manuel is also perfect for narration. Have listened over and over and overt and they're still great!

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Does not translate well

I am a long fan of Fawlty Towers and know most of the episodes, but even still it was difficult to follow the audio version.

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