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Fawlty Towers: Too Much Of A One-Man Show

Fawlty Towers was announced in The Stage on Thursday 24 August 1975, amidst a cluster of ex-Python production news. I suspect the Chapman project mentioned was Out Of The Trees, which he co-wrote with Douglas Adams. It’s likely that the Palin show became Ripping Yarns. With Q6, Briers in the Barry Took adapted One-Upmanship, and…

April 11, 2022
Wooburn Grange Country Club

You’ll recognise the Wooburn Grange Country Club, famous as it is for being the building used as Fawlty Towers. Unfortutantely, the building burned down in 1991, and was replaced with a load of houses. The club was located in Bourne’s End in Buckinghamshire.

February 27, 2022
Angry Sitcom Characters

Let’s start with Rik again, this time playing Rick in The Young Ones. Here’s a character consumed by the impotent rage of youth, wanting to change the world, thwarted by his spots. Basil Fawlty is angry at everything, taking it out on everyone, but this anger is fueled by the reality of his failing business.…

November 12, 2019

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Proctology: A Bottom Examination

For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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Re-Casting Keanu

Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…