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Fawlty Towers - The Complete Series |  | Actors: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Connie Booth, Andrew Sachs
Studio: BBC Warner
Category: DVD
List Price: $59.98
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Seller: tennisflix
Rating:  422 reviews
Sales Rank: 4375
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 3
Running Time: 500 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 0.7
MPN: WARDE1575D
ISBN: 079076041X
UPC: 794051157522
EAN: 9780790760414
ASIN: B00005LC1H
Theatrical Release Date: 1975
Release Date: October 16, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Editorial Reviews:
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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Python February 17, 2010
Brian D. Rauch (NJ)
You like Monty Python you'll love this. Short and sweet, only a single season.
FAWLTY TOWERS - COMPLETE SERIES February 15, 2010
Rosemary Clarke (London Canada)
Service was excellent - I believe there were no shipping charges. Price was most reasonable and the videos are all good quality. I would definitely buy from this supplier again.
Hilarious comedy February 13, 2010
L. Delventhal
It's too bad these shows are not on DVDs. But we remembered and enjoyed the television series so much, we decided to buy old technology just to have the shows available in our home. We laughed till we cried!
Best Comedy EVER February 7, 2010
M. Al-Maadeed (Doha, QATAR/Austin, TX)
I'm not someone who would watch anything twice, but somehow I've watched this three times (and counting) and also bought it for friends because everybody should own this great classic.
It's just wrong to go on living without seeing this.
Another Can't Go Wrong February 1, 2010
E. McCormack (Long Island,NY)
Fawlty Towers - If you are a John Cleese fan - you won't stop laughing....Basel
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