Yes Virginia, there IS a Fawlty Towers.

[trof]

LONDON (Reuters) -
John Cleese was prompted to write the classic 1970s series with his then wife Connie Booth after staying with the cast of Monty Python's Flying Circus at the Gleneagles Hotel in the western English resort of Torquay.

Cleese called hotelier Donald Sinclair "the most wonderfully rude man I have ever met" after they were berated for their table manners and had a timetable thrown at them when they asked the time of the next bus to town.

The hotel that inspired the cult British television comedy series Fawlty Towers is relaunching after a makeover -- but guests will be spared rants by the rudest hotelier of all time.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-09-18T115724Z_01_L17706598_RTRUKOC_0_US-LEISURE-FAWLTY.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-L3-Oddly+Enough+NewsNews-3

[lildreamer316]

1. I need to find repeats on somewhere.

I have *all* the cable channels; surely it's on somewhere in my lineup.
Thanks for the article, now I'm mentally adding that to my itenerary for my dream trip.

[asthmaticeog]

2. Get the DVD set.

It's totally worth it.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=4484347&st=fawlty&lp=4&type=product&cp=1&id=300474