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Summary: The Most Rewatchable DVD Set Ever...
Review: Fawlty Towers is without doubt the best British farce ever. Nothing comes close for the oddest of situations (moving a corpse from room to room, hiding rats from health inspectors) and it is the most quotable comedy of all time. John Cleese is a genius as the manic hotel proprietor, Basil Fawlty, here he mixes ascerbic delivery with Ministry of Silly Walks style body comedy. The three disc set (4 episodes on each) has commentaries and instant access to your fave episode. WOW! Never has the repeat function on your player been put to more use. Wonderful. Sell the tapes, BUY NOW!
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Summary: The Best TV Series of ALL TIME
Review: Folks, this is amazing. I have waited for this series to come to DVD for about 5 years now! Finally, it has come to this beloved format. Now I can watch Manuel in clear crisp picture!!
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Summary: If you like Monty Python, you'll love this
Review: Fawlty Towers, is a beautifuly mastered comedy TV series. John Cleese is Hilarious as Mr. Fawlty. Just like Monty Python, it's sure to leave your sides in pain.
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Summary: THIS IS ONE GIANT LEAP FOR THE BBC - FINALLY
Review: At last - The world's funniest sitcom has made it's way to DVD. It's about bloody time. I hope the transfer is as good as the BlackAdder DVD box. As most BBC brit-com collectors are interested to know - what will follow this set? It lists everything that is available still in VHS format which leads me to believe since they are still in print - the DVD's are on the way. Anyone who has never seen Fawlty Towers, young or old, would have to be comedically impaired not to laugh the whole episode through. The set-ups were brilliant and director styles of Cleese and Booth are unparallel to anything close to it's time - a TV milestone.
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Summary: Forget your MBA, Forget The Art of War this is how it is
Review: This is worth every penny. Buy it.
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Summary: Appallingly Unfunny!
Review: I had always heard this was one of the absolute classics of British TV sit-comedy. In an interview with the League of Gentlemen recently one of them calls it "the best thing ever done." So I sat down a couple of nights ago to watch some episodes, for the very first time, with high expectations.What a letdown! There is a certain distinctive style of British TV comedy (maybe this series was the archetype), in which all the characters scream at all the other characters, in every scene--- or for occasional variety, one character screams at all the other characters! It isn't funny. [The first season of BLACKADDER had this problem, but the later seasons do not, making it, along with RED DWARF and RISING DAMP, among the best of the best.] Since Basil Fawlty is in essentially every scene of FAWLTY TOWERS, he needs to be a character that makes some kind of sense... but instead he's an incoherent grab-bag of inconsistent elements. For example, he often says witty or clever things, and yet he is depicted as utterly mindless, incapable of drawing even the simplest correct conclusion about any situation, or deciding on any viable course of action. The supporting characters are all one-note, but that's the way supporting characters are supposed to be. It all hinges on Basil, and Basil is a hollow reed. He isn't funny to look at, funny to listen to, or funny in his interactions with other characters and with the world around him. I laughed a few times while watching the tape, but where I expected some comedy classic, I just saw a bunch of senseless, unmotivated and often very unfunny antics. If you don't detect the slightest difference between the Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, and Abbott and Costello, you may well find this a "classic of comedy." Otherwise, it is going to be a viewing experience somewhat more painful than it is amusing .
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Summary: Unfound Hilariousness
Review: What can I say? Fawlty Towers is one of the funniest British comedies out there, only behind Monty Python. No one really knows about it though. If your a true Fawlty Towers fan like me, you must get this collection. You can't beat the price. John Cleese plays a hotel owner named Basil Fawlty and is hilarious in all of the episodes. He is not the only funny one, many other of the characters are hilarious also including his Spanish busboy named Manwell. All in all, if you like British comedy, this is your series.
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Summary: THIS IS JOHN CLEESE AT HIS BEST
Review: I OWN THE VHS BBC VERSION.I CANT WAIT TILL THIS COMES OUT IN DVD. I HAVE BEEN A BIG FAN OF THE BBC SERIES FOR A LONG TIME. ITS HYSTERICAL. THIS IS BRITISH HUMOR AT ITS VERY VERY BEST. JOHN CLEESE TIMING IS PERFECT. AS WELL AS THE REST OF THE CAST.IF YOUR A JOHN CLEESE FAN.YOUR GONNA LOVE THIS BBC SERIES. -10 STARS!!!
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Summary: Best Television Series Ever Done on Both Sides of the Pond!
Review: I am a huge "Honeymooners" fan. Love "The Andy Griffith Show," "I Love Lucy," "The Odd Couple," and "Columbo." Yet, I still believe Fawlty Towers was the best thing ever done on television. Too bad there were only 12 episodes completed. I must have seen each episode several dozen times and I still cant's stop laughing each time I see Basil do his goosestep and Hitler imitation, Basil whacking his dead car with a nearby tree branch, Manuel panicking when he is told that the chef put basil (the herb, not his pet rat) in the ratatouie (pardon the spelling), Sybil's absurdly comic laugh and "I know, I know," and Basil's put down of a nurse "Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!" and "My God, you're ugly, aren't you!" Even if you are (were) not a fan of the Monty Python series (I was), you will love "Fawlty Towers." Even if you have seen these episodes many times on PBS or on the BBC America channel, you will want to own this series so you can watch it again and again. Even if you have this series on tape, as I do, you will want to own it on DVD. I just hope the transfer is done well. Unfortunately, there have been too many bad transfers done on DVD (a reminder of the old laser disc days). A recent reminder are the classice Basil Rathbone as "Sherlock Holmes" series. I love the "Sherlock Holmes" movies with Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. However, the DVD of this series was an abomination. Let us pray that this same situation does not befall my beloved "Fawlty Towers." "Fawlty Towers" is a must for anyone who, every now and then, just needs a great laugh. Enjoy it!
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Summary: Monty Python move over for Fawlty Towers
Review: I have had the VHS complete set of Fawlty Towers for 6 years now, even though I don't own a VCR! I had originally made Super Beta copies of the entire series when they broadcast it on MTV (of all places) in 1991. When my Beta VCR wore out I bought the VHS edition of Fawlty Towers thinking I was going to change over to VHS. I never did. I kept the VHS copy of Fawlty Towers all these years because it was the only video copy I had, I loved the series too much to let it go. I am a serious Monty Python fan (I own the entire 12 sets of Monty Python on DVD) but I have always admired the work of John Cleese after he left Monty Python and now we finally have the entire Fawlty Towers series coming out on DVD. There were not that many shows made but the scripts, timing, punch lines, over comedic acting and pace are the BEST comedy that ever came from England. I would compare it to Your Show of Shows by Sid Caesar, not Monty Python. . . the only dissapointing thing is you will have to wait until October 2001 for it ot come out on DVD.
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