RSSThe Major Reasons Fawlty Towers Was In Torquay
September 8th, 2010 by admin | Filed under How to copy DVD movies.
Most people out there know what Fawlty Towers is right?? One of the best British sitcoms if not the best starring John Cleese se as the hilarious Basil Fawlty, Prunella Scales as Sybil Fawlty and of course who could forget Andrew Sachs as Manuel! One of the biggest questions that people have for Cleese and Booth (polly) is why did they set the thing in Torquay??
Experience
With programmes like this you will find the writing to be brilliant and this is because they come from personal experiences. Well Cleese did just this and he based the character on a hotel owner he had seen when staying at a hotel in Torquay when he was filing with the people from Monty Python.
In May 1970 the team booked to stay in the Gleneagles hotel and when filming on location Cleese became interested in the Hotel owner and the behaviour he had towards his guests. There was a quote from John Cleese and it is “the most marvellously rude man I’ve ever met”. One of the things Cleese saw was the owner throwing a timetable at a guest asking about bus times and another was him taking Eric Idles briefcase out into the garden because he though a bomb was in it. (There was a ticking alarm clock in it). once the pythons had left the hotel Cleese and Booth both stayed behind bit longer to further research this person, this is the real life Basil Fawlty.
of course when it comes to going to Torquay there is no way you would visit a place like this, there is no hotel this bad of course. It is worth thinking about one of those spa breaks or Torquay holidays when it comes to this as it is something that people enjoy. Is it too early to think about Christmas hotels Torquay?
Have a great time when you are there!
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