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Fawlty Towers 30th Anniversary

The Public Broadcasting System, or PBS, will celebrate one of the most well-known and popular comedy shows of our time. The 30th anniversary of Fawlty Towers, with an exclusive retrospective TV special, will feature behind-the-scenes interviews and funny recollections by cast and crew. Additionally, a companion blog will be launched to bring Fawlty Towers` worldwide fans together for an Internet reunion and digital celebratory toast!

Fawlty Towers Revisited, which will premiere in early December, is an 80-minute scrapbook filled with behind-the-scenes recollections and making-of insights from the Fawlty Towers cast and crew, and it includes more than 40 minutes of choice clips from the show`s 12 episodes.

Fawlty Towers was first broadcast on September 19th, 1975, on England`s BBC 2. Ironically, while there were only two seasons and 12 episodes, the show`s clever writing, frenetic pace and unforgettable characters have kept it a Top 5 pick for the world`s best television comedy for three decades. This timeless collection of a dozen 30-minute farces has been shown in more than 60 countries, and it is a Digital Age testament to the show`s perennial popularity that a Google search on the show will note some 830,000 results.

Hosted by Andrew Sachs, who played `Manuel`, the devoted, but bumbling waiter from Barcelona, and John Howard Davies, producer and director of Fawlty Towers` first season, Fawlty Towers Revisited features recent interviews with co-creators, writers, lead cast members and former husband and wife, John Cleese and Connie Booth. Cleese played `Basil Fawlty`, the inn`s boorish, ill-tempered, class-conscious proprietor, and Booth portrayed `Polly Sherman`, the chambermaid and tireless middle woman who worked diligently to lessen the fallout from Basil`s numerous missteps and Manuel?s blunders.