Episode of Fawlty Towers…..

For me, and they’ve been many, this is the greatest comedy series in history.
What was your favourite episode. Mine was the Gourmet evening where the new chef turns out to be a drunk and gay and takes a fancy to Manuel. Poor Basil has to go off to another chef to get the duck, the main course for the evening. On the way Basil’s car won’t start. So he gets v angry and starts to thrash the car with a large branch!!
The choice was Duck á la orange, duck with cherries or duck surprise. One of the guests asks what is duck surprise? ( surprise in a French accent). Basis retorts Duck without the oranges or cherries. Just brilliant comedy.
 
“Well may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel window. Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of Wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains?”
“You can see the sea. It’s over there between the land and the sky”!
Joan Sanderson as the delightfully played selectively deaf guest “Mrs. Richards”.
 
So so many l couldnt pick one But we were priviliged to see so many brilliant comedy series on BBC television.
Now l watchh very little as humour has changed dramatically
 
kendalfoxsshadow said:
So so many l couldnt pick one But we were priviliged to see so many brilliant comedy series on BBC television.
Now l watchh very little as humour has changed dramatically
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Don't fall for that belief that it was agolden age of humour. There were dozens of appalling comedy series that your mind has blanked out.
There was a belief at the time that Jim Davidson was a comedian.
 
hackneyfox said:
Don't fall for that belief that it was agolden age of humour. There were dozens of appalling comedy series that your mind has blanked out.
There was a belief at the time that Jim Davidson was a comedian.
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I saw Jim Davidson at Baileys in 1979 & then in Torquay on me jollies in 1995

Both exactly the same show

Nick, Nick, Chalky
 
All from a stay at a hotel in Torquay, with an eccentric bloke who thought he ran the show; when his wife had set up the hotel herself.
The rest of the Python crew left, but thankfully Cleese hung around and took notes.
 
hackneyfox said:
Don't fall for that belief that it was agolden age of humour. There were dozens of appalling comedy series that your mind has blanked out.
There was a belief at the time that Jim Davidson was a comedian.
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Jim Davidson is a brilliant comedian which is why he still sells out theatre's even after 50 years in the biz.Let me guess you like Nish Kumar and Russell Howard
 
Mr Hutchinson…”Now Listen, there’s a documentary on BBC 2 this evening about “Squawking Bird” the leader of the Blackfoot Indians in the late 1860’s. Now this starts at 8.45 and goes on for approximately three-quarters of an hour”
Basil Fawlty…”I’m sorry,are you talking to me?”
“Indeed I am,yes,now is it possible for me to reserve the BBC 2 channel for the duration of this televisual feast?”
Basil… “Why don’t you talk properly?”
(Mr.Hutchinson is a “salesman in the spoon trade” rather than the hotel inspector Basil has mistaken him for)
 
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I love Fawlty Towers, and am enjoying watching my kids also loving it. The slapstick. The ridiculousness. The impotent rage. Top quality.


I know nuuuuurthing.

I learn it from a booooook.
 
hammondsdodgyankle said:
The Major had some interesting views on cricket!
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Charters and Caldicott were two upper class English gents desperately trying to find out the latest “Test score” while travelling on a train across Europe in the film The Lady Vanishes (1938) a murder mystery thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
 
borebage53 said:
Charters and Caldicott were two upper class English gents desperately trying to find out the latest “Test score” while travelling on a train across Europe in the film The Lady Vanishes (1938) a murder mystery thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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And Night Train to Munich, among others
 
borebage53 said:
“Well may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel window. Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of Wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains?”
“You can see the sea. It’s over there between the land and the sky”!
Joan Sanderson as the delightfully played selectively deaf guest “Mrs. Richards”.
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Still repeated in our household today…
 
hackneyfox said:
Don't fall for that belief that it was agolden age of humour. There were dozens of appalling comedy series that your mind has blanked out.
There was a belief at the time that Jim Davidson was a comedian.
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Having said that the same was said of lenny henry (although Trevor mcdonut was funny)
 
The ‘Two Ronnies’ is rerun on some channels, and after thinking at the time how hilarious it was…. most of it is cringingly awful now
 
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