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2.1 Fawlty Towers Explained
All British Comedy Explained… to Abigoliah Schamaun, by Tom Salinsky
2.1: Fawlty Towers. Released 19 February 2026.
Still casting an enormously long shadow over the British sitcom landscape, John Cleese and Connie Booth’s even dozen of frenetic farces have been delighting audiences since their first transmission in the late 1970s. We watched “The Hotel Inspectors” from the first series and “The Kipper and the Corpse” from the second series. If you want to watch them, episodes pop up on iPlayer from time to time, as well as on YouTube.
Next time we will be watching evergreen classic The Good…
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