Please allow me to introduce myself. I am the owner of Faulty Towers. And may I welcome your war, you

war, you all, you all.

And hope that your stay will be a happy one.

Now, would you like to eat first or would you like a drink before, savour?

Christmas will be tied up with piano wire.

Sorry, sorry.

May I say how pleased we are to have some Europeans here now that we are on the continent. Didn't vote for it myself, quite honestly, but now that we're in, I'm determined

to make it work, so I'd like to welcome you all to Britain. We're all friends now, eh? All in

the market together. All differences for cotton.

And no need at all to mention the war. So that was Torquay Hotelia Basil Fulte, as played by

John Cleese in Fulte Towers. And the episode that we were citing there was the Germans, which was first

broadcast on the 24th of October 1975.

And I'm actually so exhausted from doing that that I just need to catch my breath.

Tom, have a rest.

I'm going to have a breath.

But just to say, I mean, Fult Towers consistently voted the greatest British sitcom of all time,

but it's also a brilliant window under the state of the nation in the mid-1970s coming out just as Harold Wilson is starting his second stint as Prime Minister between 1974 and

976. And in that episode and in all the other episodes, it captures the mood of the times,

doesn't it, Dominic? So the hotel is kind of very shabby. The management style of Basil is less than suboptimal. He's obsessed

with class. He's always kind of fawning around his betters and kind of kicking, well,

actually kind of clipping around the earhole, those who are employed by him, most notably

his ludicrous Leonet Spanish waiter, Manuel.

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