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Happy Birthday Fawlty Towers Sept 19th 2005

It’s been 30 years since the classic comedy Fawlty Towers was first broadcast on television.

The antics of Basil Fawlty, his wife Sybil, hapless Spanish waiter Manuel and the ever-sensible Polly grabbed the imagination when it first went out on BBC Two on 19th September 1975. Subsequent re-runs of Fawlty Towers have confirmed its position as one of the finest British sit-coms.

And while it continues to be in many people’s top 10 lists, the origins of Torquay’s hotelier from hell have also become stuff of television legend.