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The new Fawlty Towers play is a triumph. But it got me wondering whether the original TV show would ever get made by the BBC today. And if it did, would it go something like this?
Donald Sinclair and his wife Beatrice were the proprietors of the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay. Cleese and the other Monty Python stars stayed there in 1970.
Fifty years since it was first recorded at BBC Television Centre in 1974, the “greatest British sitcom of all time” (Radio Times) Fawlty Towers, has been adapted for the West End stage by comedy legend John Cleese and will premiere at London’s Apollo Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue on Wednesday 15 May.