The BEST Episodes of Fawlty Towers
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Nov 4, 2019
Network: BBC Two
Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.
#1 - The Germans
Season 1 - Episode 6
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.
8.53 
#2 - Basil the Rat
Season 2 - Episode 6
The health inspector is coming and Basil tells Manuel to get rid of his pet rat, which he later finds out is named Basil.
8.52 
#3 - The Psychiatrist
Season 2 - Episode 2
A psychiatrist and his wife come to stay and Basil thinks Sybil is telling them all about his life.
8.38 
#4 - Communication Problems
Season 2 - Episode 1
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.
8.33 
#5 - The Hotel Inspectors
Season 1 - Episode 4
Some inspectors are in town and Basil gets paranoid, so he alternately fawns over and offends his guests.
8.24 
#6 - The Kipper and the Corpse
Season 2 - Episode 4
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.
8.21 
#7 - Gourmet Night
Season 1 - Episode 5
To bring the right type of crowd into the hotel Basil establishes a Gourmet Night.
8.12 
#8 - A Touch of Class
Season 1 - Episode 1
A confidence trickster comes to stay at the hotel, just after Basil has taken an ad in a posh magazine to upgrade the clientele.
8.12 
#9 - The Builders
Season 1 - Episode 2
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.
8.11 
#10 - Waldorf Salad
Season 2 - Episode 3
An American and his wife get unsatisfactory service at Fawlty Towers when he orders a Waldorf salad, after the kitchen has closed.
8.11 
#11 - The Wedding Party
Season 1 - Episode 3
Basil wants 'none of that' going on in his rooms and suspects some guests and Polly of carrying on.
8.10 
#12 - The Anniversary
Season 2 - Episode 5
Sybil leaves before Basil's surprise anniversary party and Basil spends the evening trying to convince their friends she's ill.
7.95