Fawlty Towers (July 2012)

Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and  Connie Booth, originally broadcast on BBC Television in 1975 and 1979. Two series of six episodes each were made. The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a dysfunctional fictional hotel in the English seaside town of Torquay in Devon. The plots centre on the tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty his bossy wife Sybil, the sensible chambermaid Polly and the hapless and English-challenged Spanish waiter Manuel. They show their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests and tradespeople.