The BEST Episodes of Fawlty Towers

Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.

#1 - Basil the Rat

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired Oct 25, 1979

The health inspector is coming and Basil tells Manuel to get rid of his pet rat, which he later finds out is named Basil.

8.32

761 votes

Directors: Bob Spiers

Writers: Connie Booth, John Cleese

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#2 - The Hotel Inspectors

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired Oct 10, 1975

Some inspectors are in town and Basil gets paranoid, so he alternately fawns over and offends his guests.

8.22

1,114 votes

Directors: John Howard Davies

Writers: Connie Booth, John Cleese

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#3 - The Germans

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired Oct 24, 1975

Sybil goes into the hospital for toe surgery, leaving Basil to cope with a fire drill single-handed. After a couple of blows on the head, Basil tells some German guests where Germany went wrong in WWII.

8.12

1,200 votes

Directors: John Howard Davies

Writers: Connie Booth, John Cleese

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#4 - Gourmet Night

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired Oct 17, 1975

To bring the right type of crowd into the hotel Basil establishes a Gourmet Night.

8.10

937 votes

Directors: John Howard Davies

Writers: Connie Booth, John Cleese

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#5 - The Psychiatrist

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired Feb 26, 1979

A psychiatrist and his wife come to stay and Basil thinks Sybil is telling them all about his life.

7.99

841 votes

Directors: Bob Spiers

Writers: Connie Booth, John Cleese

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#6 - The Kipper and the Corpse

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired Mar 12, 1979

Unknown to Basil, a guest dies in the night and he tries to serve him breakfast anyway and an obnoxious woman insists on service for her dog.

7.98

912 votes

Directors: Bob Spiers

Writers: Connie Booth, John Cleese

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#7 - Communication Problems

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired Feb 19, 1979

A selectively deaf woman named Mrs Richards insists that she has had a large amount of money stolen at the hotel, and against Sybil's wishes Basil puts a fiver on Dragonfly.

7.94

861 votes

Directors: Bob Spiers

Writers: Connie Booth, John Cleese

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#8 - Waldorf Salad

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired Mar 5, 1979

An American and his wife get unsatisfactory service at Fawlty Towers when he orders a Waldorf salad, after the kitchen has closed.

7.91

842 votes

Directors: Bob Spiers

Writers: Connie Booth, John Cleese

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#9 - The Builders

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired Sep 26, 1975

The Fawltys take a holiday and leave Polly and Manuel to run the place just as O'Reilly's builders come to redo the lobby.

7.90

1,431 votes

Directors: John Howard Davies

Writers: Connie Booth, John Cleese

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#10 - A Touch of Class

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired Sep 19, 1975

A confidence trickster comes to stay at the hotel, just after Basil has taken an ad in a posh magazine to upgrade the clientele.

7.80

2,193 votes

Directors: John Howard Davies

Writers: Connie Booth, John Cleese

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#11 - The Wedding Party

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired Oct 3, 1975

Basil wants 'none of that' going on in his rooms and suspects some guests and Polly of carrying on.

7.76

1,234 votes

Directors: John Howard Davies

Writers: Connie Booth, John Cleese

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#12 - The Anniversary

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired Mar 26, 1979

Sybil leaves before Basil's surprise anniversary party and Basil spends the evening trying to convince their friends she's ill.

7.57

692 votes

Directors: Bob Spiers

Writers: Connie Booth, John Cleese

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