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The Fawlty Goose-Step

Duration: 01:03

Fawlty Towers is a sitcom that first broadcast in 1975, written by John Cleese and Connie Booth. It is set in the fictional hotel Fawlty Towers in Torquay, run by the skinflint, snobbish Basil Fawlty. Here, Basil inappropriately entertains his German guests.

Available since: Thu 9 Sep 2010

Basil Fawlty: John Cleese

Polly: Connie Booth

German guest: Willy Bowman

German guest: Nick Kane

German guest: Lisa Bergmayr

German guest: Dan Gillan

Makeup Artist: Jean Speak

Production Designer: Peter Kindred

Writer: John Cleese

Writer: Connie Booth

Production Assistant: Tony Guyan

Producer: John Howard Davies

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Fawlty Towers Series 1, The Germans

6/6 A party of Germans and a fire drill turn Fawlty Towers upside down.

First broadcast: 24 Oct 1975

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