Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection Remastered NOW AVAILABLE

[DainBramaged]

Coming to Special Edition DVD for the first time, it’s the complete Fawlty Towers collection with all-new commentary from John Cleese! Hot off the runaway success of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, John Cleese embarked on his now-legendary sitcom, Fawlty Towers, creating one of the most memorable and best loved characters in all of British comedy, Basil Fawlty. Basil Fawlty is a much put-upon, hard-working hotel manager whose life is plagued by dead guests, hotel inspectors, and riff-raff. Of course his biggest headache is his “little nest of vipers,” his nagging wife Sibyl. Together they run their hotel, Fawlty Towers, with a little help from the unflappable Polly and the trainee waiter from Barcelona with marginally more intelligence than a monkey, Manuel.
-Exclusive commentary by John Cleese
-2009 extended interviews, including exclusive interview with Connie Booth
-Accompanying booklet
-Interviews with John Cleese, Prunella Scales, and Andrew Sachs
-Series 1 director's commentary by John Howard Davies
-Series 2 director's commentary by Bob Spiers
-Artist profiles
-Outtakes
-Torquay Tourist Guide (short documentary film)
-Cheap Tatty Review

http://www.amazon.com/Fawlty-Towers-Complete-Collection-Remastered/dp/B002LFPAUC/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1257391929&sr=8-2

[Orsino]

1. That show is often painful to watch. Very well done.

And "The Germans" is awesome: "Yes, you did--you invaded Poland!" :rofl:

[DainBramaged]

2. I remember watching it on channel 13 PBS from NY in the 70's

and later had it on VHS, but as with all VHS over time, they either get attacked by fungus (they LOVE the lubricant on the back of the tape) or they just went bad from magnetic print through or jamming from temperature extremes over the years. I had to throw out HUNDREDS of tapes a few years ago because of fungus, some from the late 70's I had recorded on an original JVC one speed machine.

[dysfunctional press]

3. i always love it on amazon when you can get the new ones for less than the used ones.

:crazy:

[MilesColtrane]

4. One of the few perfect TV series.

Much of which was owed to the fact that Cleese produced just 12 perfect episodes.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

5. Yep. Eva Prawns. Waldorf Salad. Garden gnomes.

It was painful to watch Basil get tangled up in his own machinations every week. There are a lot of Basil Fawltys in the hospitality industry.

To this day, I do an absolutely perfect Prunella Scales' telephone patter "Oh I KNOOOWWW it" when I am kidding my husband about agreeing with him about something.

[MilesColtrane]

6. Do you ever get mad at him and call him an "aging, brilliantined stick-insect"?

[Tikki]

7. Fawlty Towers is my comfort....

...everything.

The place I go when I'm feeling low.

I love Fawlty Towers and will save up and get
the new set to accompany the set I have now.

Pass them on to my grandchildren.

Tikki

[myrna minx]

8. Que?

;-)

[gmoney]

9. "There is too much butter on... those... trays."

Great series, yes... hoping someone does a big fat discount on the new remastered set. :) Anyone seen it for less than $34.49?

[eppur_se_muova]

10. Gourmet Night -- "No riff-raff" in the advert.

:rofl:

And this was the same episode in which he thrashed his balky car with a switch (more like a whole tree) ...

[FawltyRyan]

11. Fawlty Towers fun stuff!

Hey, wanted to make sure you knew about BBC Video’s Fawlty Towers Remastered ‘lookalike contest’ where you can win a SIGNED DVD from John Cleese, with winners being selected by the man himself! If you’re game, head over to http://tr.im/fawltycontest before 11/15 to get in on this bloody awesome opportunity!

[trof]

12. Farty Towels

:rofl: