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[mart]

Originally Posted by captnjack

I had forgotten the village idiot sketch and the car thrashing is a classic. I think there were lest than a dozen Fawlty Towers episodes made. And wasn't the maid John Cleese real life wife?

There was actually 12 episodes made of Faulty Towers and yes your right John Cleese was married to Connie Booth. Who played the maid Pollly Sherman, they married in 1968 and divorced in 1978.

One of my favourite episodes is "Waldorf salad". It's in three parts.

Part one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bYWVwrbk5U

Part two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSnul3ySiGk

Part three
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGWmxddz4GM

[grande351]

Thanks Mart! No one could do a "meltdown" like Basil Fawlty! I didn't know the bit about Cleese being married to Connie Booth at the time. I remember on the show when Basil was looking at Polly's sketchbook and answered the phone "Fawlty *******"! They never would have gotten away with that on US tv.
Andrew Sachs was great as Manuel too. According to IMDB, he was actually injured once while filming the show and sued the BBC!

[captnjack]

Originally Posted by grande351

Thanks Mart! No one could do a "meltdown" like Basil Fawlty! I didn't know the bit about Cleese being married to Connie Booth at the time. I remember on the show when Basil was looking at Polly's sketchbook and answered the phone "Fawlty *******"! They never would have gotten away with that on US tv.
Andrew Sachs was great as Manuel too. According to IMDB, he was actually injured once while filming the show and sued the BBC!

I don't remember the Fawlty ******* line it has been quite a while since I have seen any of the episodes. Seems like someone was always slapping Manual on the back of the head.

[mart]

Originally Posted by captnjack

I don't remember the Fawlty ******* line it has been quite a while since I have seen any of the episodes. Seems like someone was always slapping Manual on the back of the head.

Yes he did say *******, well he was looking at Polly's pokies through a thin jumper at the time lol. Bit risque at the time for the BBC though lol. The episode was "the psychiatrist". It's on Youtube in five parts.

[Texasdrake]

if you have a netflix account you can watch the Monty Python shows and all of Fawlty Towers on instant on your PC and if you have a Xbox 360 then you can view the shows on your T.V. which what I was doing.

[captnjack]

I don't have either one TexasDrake.

[mart]

Originally Posted by Texasdrake

if you have a netflix account you can watch the Monty Python shows and all of Fawlty Towers on instant on your PC and if you have a Xbox 360 then you can view the shows on your T.V. which what I was doing.

Well i've never heard of Netflix before, sounds interesting. I have all the faulty Towers episodes on dvd and quite a few of Monty Python on video. Which one day i'll get around to copying on to dvd lol. But thanks for the tip anyway Texasdrake.

[DWM222]

Here is a video I found amusing



http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/272...th-mandy-moore

[captnjack]

Originally Posted by mart

There was actually 12 episodes made of Faulty Towers and yes your right John Cleese was married to Connie Booth. Who played the maid Pollly Sherman, they married in 1968 and divorced in 1978.

One of my favourite episodes is "Waldorf salad". It's in three parts.

Part one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bYWVwrbk5U

Part two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSnul3ySiGk

Part three
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGWmxddz4GM

Yeah that's a good episode! I never understood why the show only lasted for just one season.
There is a good one in which Basil is betting on the horses! Need to see if I can find it.