

The hotel from hell returns — and this time, Basil's actually invited.
30 years after Fawlty Towers (1975) ended, Stephen Fry narrates a documentary about the making of this classic sitcom.
Acting
Cleese and Booth calmly discussing their divorce while reminiscing.
Production
The hotel exterior was actually a random building in Torquay.
Director
Lindsay Jex
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The documentary reveals John Cleese's ex-wife Connie Booth co-wrote every episode but stopped acting entirely after their split — she became a psychotherapist instead.
The real Gleneagles Hotel that inspired Fawlty Towers burned down in 1991; its owner Donald Sinclair was so notoriously rude that Cleese based Basil entirely on him after the Pythons stayed there in 1970.