Fawlty Towers · S1 · E2
The Builders
The Fawltys take a holiday and leave Polly and Manuel to run the place just as O'Reilly's builders come to redo the lobby.
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The Fawltys take a holiday and leave Polly and Manuel to run the place just as O'Reilly's builders come to redo the lobby.
Season 1
1A Touch of Class
30 minSep 19, 1975★ 8.2
A confidence trickster comes to stay at the hotel, just after Basil has taken an ad in a posh magazine to upgrade the clientele.
2The Builders
28 minSep 26, 1975★ 8.2Now viewing
The Fawltys take a holiday and leave Polly and Manuel to run the place just as O'Reilly's builders come to redo the lobby.
3The Wedding Party
33 minOct 3, 1975★ 8.2
Basil wants 'none of that' going on in his rooms and suspects some guests and Polly of carrying on.
4The Hotel Inspectors
29 minOct 10, 1975★ 8.7
Some inspectors are in town and Basil gets paranoid, so he alternately fawns over and offends his guests.
5Gourmet Night
29 minOct 17, 1975★ 8.3
To bring the right type of crowd into the hotel Basil establishes a Gourmet Night.
6The Germans
31 minOct 24, 1975★ 8.7
Sybil goes into the hospital for toe surgery, leaving Basil to cope with a fire drill single-handed. After a couple of blows on the head, Basil tells some German guests where Germany went wrong in WWII.
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