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Cleese also may have been reluctant because of Connie Booth's unwillingness to be involved. She had practically retreated from public life after the show finished (and had been initially unwilling to collaborate on a second series, which explains the four-year gap between productions).
Fawlty Towers: 10 things you never knew about the classic British sitcom". BT.com . Retrieved 26 May 2019.
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The Lennon Tapes, John Lennon and Yoko Ono in conversation with Andy Peebles, 6 December 1980, BBC Publications, 1981 McCann, Graham (2007). Fawlty Towers: the story of the sitcom. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-0-340-89811-6. OCLC 175646271. Holm, Lars Holger (2004). Fawlty Towers: A Worshipper's Companion. London: Leo Publishing. ISBN 91-973661-8-8. The first album, simply titled Fawlty Towers, was released in 1979 and contained the audio from "Communication Problems" (as "Mrs Richards") and "Hotel Inspectors". The second album, titled Second Sitting, was released in 1981 and contained audio from "Basil the Rat" (as "The Rat") and "The Builders". Both of these first two albums reached the Top 30 of the UK Albums Chart. Jicha, Tom (1999). "Larroquette Series Really Is A Pain", Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida), March 15, 1999. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
On the subject of whether more episodes would be produced, Cleese said (in an interview for the complete DVD box set, which was republished in the book Fawlty Towers Fully Booked) that he once had the genesis of a feature-length special—possibly sometime during the mid-1990s. The plot, never fleshed out beyond his initial idea, would have revolved around the chaos that a now-retired Basil typically caused as he and Sybil flew to Barcelona to visit their former employee Manuel and his family. Of the idea, Cleese said: John Allemang, the television critic for The Globe and Mail, summed up his opinion of Payne in the title of his review dated March 17: 'TV comedy inflicts Payne and suffering.' [1] " Fawlty Towers it's not", he asserted, explaining that '"Payne"'s basic structure and its less 'dangerous' comedic tone belie any serious comparison of the American series to its British predecessor: John Cleese: 'I WON'T allow the BBC to screen the new Fawlty Towers' - GB News World Exclusive". www.youtube.com. GB News on Youtube . Retrieved 9 February 2023.
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Payne - UNCLE ROYAL AND AUNT CONNIE". Archive.is. Archived from the original on June 30, 2012 . Retrieved June 14, 2014. a b Terrace, Vincent (1985). Encyclopedia of Television Series, Pilots and Specials: 1974–1984. VNR AG. p.141. ISBN 0-918432-61-8. In Australia, the show originally was broadcast on ABC Television, the first series in 1976 and the second series in 1980. The show then was sold to the Seven Network where it has been repeated numerous times. In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, voted for by industry professionals, Fawlty Towers was placed first. It was also voted fifth in the " Britain's Best Sitcom" poll in 2004, [55] and second only to Frasier in The Ultimate Sitcom poll of comedy writers in January 2006. Basil Fawlty came top of the Britain's Funniest Comedy Character poll, held by Five on 14 May 2006. In 1997, " The Germans" was ranked No. 12 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. [56] Named in Empire magazine's 2016 list of the greatest TV shows of all time, the entry states, The 'uncancellable' John Cleese on Polanski, Putin and the coming apocalypse". South China Morning Post. 1 July 2023 . Retrieved 24 August 2023.
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