Where was Fawlty Towers filmed?
1975 TV show, directed by John Howard Davies and Bob Spiers.
- Torquay
The story is set in Torquay, so the filming stayed close to the setting.
Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed
- Set in
- Torquay; Devon
- Filmed in
- Torquay
About Fawlty Towers
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- First aired
- 1975
- Directors
- John Howard DaviesBob Spiers
- Cast
- John CleesePrunella ScalesAndrew SachsConnie BoothBrian HallBallard BerkeleyGilly FlowerRenee Roberts
- Genre
- Sitcom
The story
The series focuses on the exploits and misadventures of short-fused hotelier Basil Fawlty and his acerbic wife Sybil, as well as their employees: waiter Manuel, Polly Sherman, and, in the second series, chef Terry.
The innuendo of the bedroom farce is sometimes present (often to the disgust of the socially conservative Basil) but it is his eccentricity, not his lust, that drives the plots.
The guests at the hotel typically are comic foils to Basil's anger and outbursts.
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