Or Farty Towels/Fatty Owls depending on the episode. Torquay’s
tourist industry prepared to take a dive as John Cleese’s comic
creation Basil Fawlty welcomed the first guests to his hotel.
The idea for the series came from a set of training videos ex-Python
Cleese had produced to show various industries how NOT to succeed
in business. Only 12 episodes were ever filmed, but almost all are
now regarded as classics - the most famous being "The Hotel Inspector"
and "The Germans".
