John Cleese can now boast that his little sitcom about a seaside hotel is a cultural lightning rod on the level of “Gone with the Wind.” Titled “The Germans,” the episode builds to a goose-stepping ...

The BBC has aired an edited version of the controversial Fawlty Towers episode The Germans, with racist language removed. The episode of the 70s sitcom – co-written by and starring John Cleese – sees ...

A famous episode of Torquay-inspired comedy Faulty Towers will be available again on UKTV after it was pulled because of "racial slurs". The Germans, which was made in 1975, was taken off the BBC ...

'I yearn for a return to what seemed to be a happier, friendlier, calmer, more ironic culture': John Cleese, photographed in London last week - Rii Schroer for The Telegraph When I was growing up in ...

The London West End stage adaptation of “Fawlty Towers” will be free of racial slurs, creator John Cleese has said. “Fawlty Towers – The Play” is based on the classic 1975 sitcom and is written by ...