"Fawlty Towers" (Vintage Beeb)

John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Connie Booth and Andrew Sachs star in two BBC TV episodes, "Mrs Richards" and "Hotel Inspectors". Mrs Richards (Joan Richardson) is a little hard of hearing. She is also a very demanding guest: 'the room is cold, the bath is too small, the view is invisible and the radio doesn't work'. Things pick up for Basil, though, after he secretly wins on the horses, but then Mrs Richards discovers she's lost some money. In "Hotel Inspectors", Sybil drops a bombshell: there are some hotel inspectors in town. It's time for some courtesy, especially when the irritating Mr Hutchison (Bernard Cribbins) reveals he has a wide experience of hotels..."Vintage Beeb": classic albums first available as BBC LPs, now on CD for the first time ever. This recording was previously released on LP in 1979.

John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, writer, and film producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s, he co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, and The Meaning of Life. In the mid-1970s, Cleese and his first wife, Connie Booth, co-wrote and starred in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers. Later, he co-starred with Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis, and former Python colleague Michael Palin in A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures. He also starred in Clockwise, and has appeared in many other films, including two James Bond films, two Harry Potter films, and the last three Shrek films.