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Welcome to a web site dedicated to providing original quality Desktop Themes for you to download and enjoy. With over 30 TV comedy themes to choose from be sure you visit the rest of the website before leaving - click on Frames or No Frames to access the main menu. This web page is my tribute to the classic BBC TV comedy, Fawlty Towers.

Fawlty Towers is the classic BBC TV comedy based on the comings and goings of a seaside hotel and features the manic, blustering hotelier Basil Fawlty. The origins of Fawlty Towers are well known: in 1972 the Monty Python team stayed at the Gleneagles Hotel in the Torbay area (dubbed the English Rivera here in Britain) on a location shoot. This gave them a somewhat jaundiced view of Britain's hotel industry, particularly when the proprietor threw Eric Idle's briefcase into the street for fear that it might contain a bomb! The real life Basil Fawlty (one Donald Sinclair) also took exception to the way Terry Gilham used his knife and fork. All the Python cast relocated to a more agreeable hotel but John Cleese remained to observe this bizarre character. The following year John Cleese wrote six scripts for Doctor in the House sequel Doctor at Large setting one of them (No ill feelings) in just such a seedy hotel. Two years later he wrote the first six episodes of Fawlty Towers with his then wife, Connie Booth. The rest as they say is history......

John Cleese co-wrote and starred as Basil Fawlty the infamous hotelier with lunatic tendencies. Prunella Scales played the part of his long suffering, over-coiffereured, wife Sybil. Canadian born Connie Booth excelled as the pert maid Polly - apparently the only sane person on the set. Spanish Waiter Manuel, ably portrayed by Andrew Sachs, darted about incompetently, much bullied by his employer and scorned for his inadequate grasp of English. Manuel's usual response to an order was an uncomprehending "Que!", whereupon Fawlty would offer by way of an apology to his guests an excuse "you will have to forgive him, he's from Barcelona". Amazingly only 12 episodes of Fawlty Towers were ever made. Available on four BBC Videos, these classic episodes are a timeless reminder of Cleese's comic genius and a must for all comedy fans everywhere.

The Fawlty Towers Directory

Here are a couple of links I have found relating to this show. If you come across any more please let me know so that I can add them to the list for subsequent visitors to explore.

Visit the Fawlty Towers website at the Comedyzone at the BBC.

Visit the Fawlty Towers Multimedia page right here at GeoCities.

Visit the Unofficial Official Fawlty Towers website.

Visit Laura's Fawlty Towers web page.

Visit the Fawlty Towers Trivia Quiz web page.

buy Fawlty Towers Videos on-line (3 episodes per video).....

......or get the boxed set

Click to go to Blackstar.co.uk

Click here to order Fawlty Towers Videos in US (NTSC) VHS Format

buy Fawlty Towers Posters on-line from allwall.com....

 

Buy this poster at allwall.com

The Fawlty Towers Desktop Theme is based on the classic BBC TV comedy featuring the talent of John Cleese as Basil Fawlty. The Theme features themed start-up and shutdown screens, a choice of two desktop wallpaper (8bit and 24 bit colour), animated cursor set and new desktop icons. Also included are new windows sounds taken from Fawlty Towers episodes. As if that was not enough, we have included a full feature screensaver made using Screen Saver Deluxe. Instructions are provided in a Readme file and the whole theme is available in a convenient zip file to download.

If you don't have a copy of Microsoft Plus! help is at hand in the form of Desktop Themes, a shareware desktop theme manager published by Jonathan Potter at Left Side Software. Click on to get your copy.

The following thumbnails will give you an idea of the screens used in this theme.

Click here to download the Fawlty Towers Desktop Theme Version 1.0 (1.32Mb)

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