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\u2207   Fawlty Towers<\/h3>\n

Basi<\/strong>l (the owner of the small hotel in Devon which gave name to the TV series) has communication problems with Manuel<\/strong> (his mistreated employee from Barcelona)  \u2193<\/p>\n

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Fawlty Towers<\/strong><\/em> is a British sitcom produced by BBC Television and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. Twelve episodes were made (two series, each of six episodes). The show was written by John Cleese<\/a> and his then wife Connie Booth<\/a>, both of whom also starred in the show. <\/address>\n
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The series is set in Fawlty Towers<\/em>, a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay, on the \u00abEnglish Riviera\u00bb. The plots centre around rude and deranged manager Basil Fawlty<\/strong> (Cleese), his bossy wife Sybil<\/strong> (Prunella Scales<\/a>), a comparatively normal chambermaid Polly<\/strong> (Booth), and hapless Spanish waiter Manuel<\/strong> (Andrew Sachs<\/a>) and their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests<\/address>\n<\/div>\n

You might like to learn that this series was never shown on Spanish TV. Our Embassy in London lodged a formal complaint because they found it offensive to Spaniards [something that was NEVER intended by Cleese or his crew]<\/p>\n

Still more interesting to remember that later Fawlty Towers<\/strong> was actually broadcast on TV in Catalunya, where the waiter (Manuel) did NOT come form Barcelona any more. He came from Mexico on Catalan television!!!   Don’t ask what Mexico Embassy did then . . .<\/div>\n
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\u2666 The Young Ones\"\"<\/a><\/h3>\n

A short sketch with the crazy and sometimes surreal comedic adventures of four very different students in Thatcher’s Britain, living off the government doing nothing more than having a good time and breaking stuff. The four flatmates were:<\/p>\n

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  • Rick<\/strong> (Rik Mayall<\/a>): The hypocritical, Cliff Richard-loving lefty activist<\/a> who was convinced that he was a Marxist rebel, a poetic genius, the voice of an entire generation and the most well-liked and attractive member of the household; he was spectacularly wrong on all counts<\/a>;<\/li>\n
  • Vyvyan<\/strong> (Adrian Edmondson): The psychotic but strangely child-like punk<\/a> who couldn’t go an entire episode without destroying something \u2014 or, usually, several<\/em>somethings;<\/li>\n
  • Neil<\/strong> (Nigel Planer): The whining, put-upon and suicidal hippy<\/a> who acted as the dogsbody<\/a> for the entire house and is convinced (accurately) that no one likes him and everyone is out to get him;<\/li>\n
  • Mike<\/strong> (Christopher Ryan): The Charmer<\/a> of the flat; a smooth, flash and mysterious con-artist who tried it on with every girl he came across, still waiting for it to actually work;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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    \u25ca  CAR 54 WHERE ARE YOU?<\/h4>\n

    In this popular American sitcom, Frederick Hubbard \u00abFred\u00bb Gwynne played the role of an Irish American cop: Francis Muldoon, a shy bachelor who lived with his mother and two younger sisters. He would later impersonate Herman Munster in the successful TV series.<\/p>\n

    \u2190  \u00abToday I am a man\u00bb <\/strong><\/p>\n

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    \u25ca  Get Smart<\/a>        \u21d4<\/h3>\n

    An American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks<\/a> with Buck Henry<\/a>, the show starred Don Adams<\/a> (as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86), Barbara Feldon<\/a> (as Agent 99), and Edward Platt<\/a> (as Chief).<\/p>\n