Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.

John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs
Comedy series
30 minute episodes
1975-1979
BBC

Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away. Basil runs his hotel while constantly under verbal attack from his unhelpful wife Sybil, and is only helped by his intelligent and attractive maid to help him out of the various situations he gets into.