‘A perfectly calibrated Swiss watch of cringe’: why Fawlty Towers remains the greatest ever sitcom, 50 years on (https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep/19/fawlty-towers-greatest-ever-sitcom-50-years-on)

It's the 50th anniversary (https://startsat60.com/media/fawlty-towers-marks-50-years) of the comedy (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125219/http://www.jumptheshark.com/f/fawltytowers.htm) that's so foundational for TV as a medium, it's the Beatles for the small screen.


Overnight News Digest: Fawlty Towers is 50! (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/19/2344462/-Overnight-News-Digest-Fawlty-Towers-is-50)

Torquay hoteliers on 50 years of Fawlty Towers, and why Basil wouldn’t survive in world of online reviews (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/19/devon-hoteliers-50-years-fawlty-towers-bbc-sitcom)

All 12 'legendary' Fawlty Towers episodes ranked 50 years after its release (https://metro.co.uk/2025/09/19/12-legendary-fawlty-towers-episodes-ranked-50-years-release-24206953/)

50 years in the making, it’s… ‘Fawlty Towers: Fawlts & All — My Favourite Moments’ by John Cleese (https://tellyspotting.kera.org/2025/04/27/50-years-in-the-making-its-fawlty-towers-fawlts-all-my-favourite-moments-by-john-cleese/)

50 years since Fawlty Towers was first aired on TV (https://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/leisure/national/25478908.50-years-since-fawlty-towers-first-aired-tv/)

‘Don’t Mention the War’: From Torquay to TV Legend, Fawlty Towers Turns 50 (https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/fawlty-towers-turns-50-5HjdDGF_2/)


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