Fawlty Towers

In around 1970, the Monty Python cast was filming in the English Riviera resort town, Torquay. While there, they booked into The Gleneagles Hotel and met the owner, Donald Sinclair, who would later become the inspiration for John Cleese's character, Basil Fawlty, in the hit BBC show. At the time, Sinclair held no admiration for his famous guests: berating American Terry Gilliam, for not having "British" table manners; placing Eric Idle's bag behind a wall in the garden on suspicion that it contained a bomb, when it was actually a ticking alarm clock; and throwing a timetable at a guest who dared ask what time the bus into town would arrive.
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