Fawlty Towers

1970s BBC television sitcom
TVSeries television_series Q212731
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Fawlty Towers

Summary

Fawlty Towers is a television series[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of television_series entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,057 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Fawlty Towers is the creator of John Cleese[3].
  • Fawlty Towers is the creator of Connie Booth[4].
  • Fawlty Towers's image is recorded as Fawlty Towers west end stage 2024.jpg[5].
  • Fawlty Towers's instance of is recorded as television series[6].
  • Fawlty Towers's director is recorded as John Howard Davies[7].
  • Fawlty Towers's director is recorded as Bob Spiers[8].
  • Fawlty Towers's screenwriter is recorded as John Cleese[9].
  • Fawlty Towers's composer is recorded as Dennis Wilson[10].
  • Fawlty Towers's genre is recorded as sitcom[11].
  • Fawlty Towers's cast member is recorded as John Cleese[12].
  • Fawlty Towers's cast member is recorded as Prunella Scales[13].
  • Fawlty Towers's cast member is recorded as Andrew Sachs[14].
  • Fawlty Towers's cast member is recorded as Connie Booth[15].
  • Fawlty Towers's cast member is recorded as Brian Hall[16].
  • Fawlty Towers's cast member is recorded as Ballard Berkeley[17].
  • Fawlty Towers's cast member is recorded as Gilly Flower[18].
  • Fawlty Towers's cast member is recorded as Renee Roberts[19].
  • Fawlty Towers's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 174183322[20].
  • Fawlty Towers's GND ID is recorded as 4382564-3[21].
  • Fawlty Towers's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n81074908[22].
  • Fawlty Towers's production company is recorded as British Broadcasting Corporation[23].
  • Fawlty Towers's IMDb ID is recorded as tt0072500[24].
  • Fawlty Towers's original language of film or TV show is recorded as English[25].
  • Fawlty Towers's distribution format is recorded as video on demand[26].
  • Fawlty Towers's color is recorded as color[27].

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Authorship and Creation

Directors include John Howard Davies[7] and Bob Spiers[8]. Fawlty Towers's screenwriter is recorded as John Cleese[9]. Cast members include John Cleese[12], Prunella Scales[13], Andrew Sachs[14], Connie Booth[15], Brian Hall[16], and Ballard Berkeley[17]. Created works include John Cleese[3], an actor[28], b. 1939[29], of United Kingdom[30], awarded the Primetime Emmy Award[31] and Connie Booth[4], a television actor[32], b. 1940[33], of United States[34].

Publication

Fawlty Towers's original language of film or TV show is recorded as English[25]. Its genre is recorded as sitcom[11].

Subject and Themes

Fawlty Towers's main subject is recorded as hotel[35].

Why It Matters

Fawlty Towers ranks in the top 2% of television_series entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,057 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . IMDb. wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . BBC Genome. wikidata.org.
  5. [9] . wikidata.org.
  6. [10] . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] . wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.
  26. [35] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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