4 years only 12 episodes
Am I reading the IMDB board right?it was on for four years and there was only 12 episodes?
shareYep, you are correct. One series of 6 episodes in 1975 then another series of 6 episodes in 1979.
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John Cleese talks about this in an interview on the DVD set.
I imagine it's too late now to do a further six episodes...but you never know!
Quality always beats quantity.
No cash here!! Here, no cash!!! Cash, no!!!! Robbo? No Cash!
Quality always beats quantity.
I'm not too particular about what shape my currency is in, but I want to have more than I have now.
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so you'll be cool with confederacy money? Lira? farthings? half crowns? if we were in Little House country you'd get paid in bushels of apples and chickens.
you cool with that?
quality! not quantity!
Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.
As long as the apples aren't rotten and the chickens didn't come home to roost, I'll accept more of whatever the coin of the realm happens to be. . . .
. . . Provided that doesn't lead to hyperinflation. [SCENE: German workers of the 1920s taking their millions of marks in salary home in wheelbarrows, just enough to buy some milk and a loaf of bread.]
Oh, crap. The Germans. Don't mention the war.
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"Here is the ice you ordered, Mr. Ismay." – Titanic Captain E.J. Smith
There's a good primer with some background on the show's production here —
http://brianhassett.com/2010/04/fawlty-towers-a-primer/
Are you American?
This was what always befuddled us in America, to think of a show making six episodes in '75 and then four years later making six more episodes.
You can look at any yank show and see how much characters and sets changed in four years.
Likewise, you can see how a show is changed up and altered so much in just two years in the states, whereas the episodes of Fawlty seem to all run straight together.
With only four cast regulars, Booth being his ex by the second set and Scales considerably diminished in the second set, often showing up at the end or something, all they really needed to get was Sachs and they were done.
Check out some of the other 'britcoms' like Are You Being Served? (65 episodes over ten years) and Keeping Up Appearances to see how things just don't seem to change in the UK.
The best hint in AYBS is Wendy Richards' hem going down, as well as greying hair on the guys.
In KUA, I have to pinpoint which episode is which based on Hyacinth's outfit.
Yes, but look at it from this perspective;
Absolutely priceless episodes = 12.
Fillers = 0.
You can't palm off a second-rater on me. You gotta remember I was in the pink!
crap due to writers strikes= jack.
amount of award winning worthy episodes= 12.
i'd rather have 12 awesome/near awesome episodes than 200someod episodes of crap. [how many episodes does TBBT have???]
srsly. 9 years of head banging against wall/shoot me now crap versus 4 years and 12 episodes of awesomeness... awesomeness please.
Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.
i'd rather have 12 awesome/near awesome episodes than 200someod episodes of crap.
Well, if those are the only two choices, then I agree. Still, it's hard to believe that Cleese/Booth couldn't have squeezed a few more episodes out of their collective minds. I remember seeing a skit in which Rowan Atkinson and Stephen Fry were chiding Cleese on how few episodes were made.
This laziness is something that seemed to infect most of the Pythons. I'm reading Michael Palin's diaries. In early 1975, with Holy Grail being released, they had a meeting to plan their future. They decided to reconvene and start writing their next movie in the Fall of 1976, 18 months later. Their agents were understandably upset that they would wait that long and risk losing the public's interest, but with the exception of Gilliam, who complained about their "lifestyles", they thought it was a completely reasonable schedule. share
The writers and producers of many classic British sitcoms were more concerned about quality over quantity. It's why they're held in such high regard decades on. They never outstayed their welcome. The Yanks tend to milk their sitcoms for all their worth, no wonder so many of them lose steam so quickly.
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even though i've been watching this my whole life i still i don't know which the first or last episode is, there really isn't any introduction or closing, i also can't separate the first season of episodes from the other, it's like this series ran for a very short while and became considered as one of, and sometimes claimed as the, funniest tv series of all time, and you just drop in and out for a while on their everyday hotel situation. it's weird setting that they sleep in separate beds, that was standard on television up to around sometimes in the 1960's, and it looks odd since this is in the late 1970's, they say that old rule was part of censorship, notice there is also a complete lack of profanity and almost entirely of adult humour, i remember cleese said in an interview or somewhere that he preferred to avoid it because it would only be embarrassing for family viewing. i know one paper in my country referring to this as being voted the funniest sit com or something ever, and it airs regularly in my country until i pretty much know it by heart, i don't know if bbc still airs it but i know there's been a lot of buzz in recent years about bbc cutting in it to avoid some sensitive words and such things considered unacceptable today.
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your playful charm had me caught,
but as im stuck can get so harsh,
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reveal burns a bit to wet with lips,
ages ago drawn to your charm,
steadily increased power as i lost.