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A television critic, Richard Ingrams, wrote a caustic condemning review about 'Fawlty Towers'. John Cleese took revenge by naming one of the guests in the second series "Mr. Ingrams", who is caught in his room with a blow-up sex doll.
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Because the BBC thought it would be a flop, for writing, performing and filming Fawlty Towers, John Cleese and Connie Booth were paid a mere £6000. Each season took nearly one year to shoot. Today Fawlty Towers is the most critically revered BBC sitcom of all time.
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The Fawlty Towers' character Manuel, who is Spanish in the show, is Italian in the Spanish dub of the show, and Mexican in both the Catalonian and the French versions.
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When the show "Fawlty Towers" was originally aired in Spain is was a flop because of its portrayal of Spanish waiter Manuel. However, when his nationality was changed to Italian, the show became a hit.
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Hen filming Fawlty Towers, John Cleese accidentally grabbed the wrong frying pan and hit Andrew Sachs so hard he had a headache for weeks. Cleese apologized with bottles of Sachs' favourite perry. (xpost r/videos)
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In a memo dated May 29, 1974, regarding the making of Fawlty Towers, Ian Main, a script editor in the BBC said “I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title… A collection of clichés and stock characters which I can’t see being anything but a disaster.”
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In 2013, the BBC began censoring the classic Fawlty Towers episode "The Germans" for very, very silly reasons.
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Connie Booth, who co-wrote Fawlty Towers with her (ex-) husband John Cleese while also playing Polly the waitress, is American born not English.
