The Gleneagles Hotel did not feature in the show but was the inspiration for Fawlty Towers The hotel that inspired Fawlty Towers is to be knocked down and replaced with retirement flats. John Cleese ...

The comedy, famed for the angry rants and rude manner of hotel owner Basil Fawlty, was inspired by the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, Devon. John Cleese, who played Basil and co-created the show, stayed ...

As is across-the-pond tradition, Fawlty Towers aired for only 12 episodes, but it’s one of the most legendary and influential comedies in BBC history, topping the British Film Institute’s list of the ...

The Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay and its 'marvelously rude' former owner Donald Sinclair inspired John Cleese to write the classic sitcom Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by ...

Fawlty Towers may have disappeared forever - but new flats built on the site of the former Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay have been named in a touching tribute to Andrew Sachs, the actor who played the ...

The real-life hotel that inspired John Cleese to write Fawlty Towers will be demolished. Developers have been given permission to convert the site of the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, Devon into a ...

TORQUAY, England -- The Gleneagles Hotel staged a gala reopening Monday, boasting of its reputation as Fawlty Towers, England's most frightful hotel. "We decided Hotel Gleneagles is always going to be ...