Season 1
Don’t mention the war!
Synopsis
Fawlty Towers (1975), Season 1 — six episodes of BBC farce to watch online on iFILM. John Cleese and Connie Booth wrote every one, and set them inside the worst-run hotel on England's south coast.
Basil Fawlty wants the right sort of guest. He gets a con man posing as a lord, an Irish builder who turns the lobby into rubble, a guest he is convinced is a hotel inspector, and a party of German tourists in the finale — the scene that gave British comedy one of its most quoted exchanges. He flatters the wrong people, insults the right ones, and digs each episode's hole deeper by the minute. Manuel is confused. Polly covers. Sybil disapproves.
Six episodes in 1975. Cleese and Booth wrote them so tightly that the series entered the canon before the second run even aired. Stream Fawlty Towers Season 1 online on iFILM.
6 episodes
S1·E1A Touch of Class
A confidence trickster comes to stay at the hotel, just after Basil has taken an ad in a posh magazine to upgrade the clientele.
S1·E2The Builders
The Fawltys take a holiday and leave Polly and Manuel to run the place just as O'Reilly's builders come to redo the lobby.
S1·E3The Wedding Party
Basil wants 'none of that' going on in his rooms and suspects some guests and Polly of carrying on.
S1·E4The Hotel Inspectors
Some inspectors are in town and Basil gets paranoid, so he alternately fawns over and offends his guests.
S1·E5Gourmet Night
To bring the right type of crowd into the hotel Basil establishes a Gourmet Night.
S1·E6The Germans
Sybil goes into the hospital for toe surgery, leaving Basil to cope with a fire drill single-handed. After a couple of blows on the head, Basil tells some German guests where Germany went wrong in WWII.
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