Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Robbing 13 Fawlty Towers Episodes

Apparently, and strangely, there was a thirteenth episode of Fawlty Towers that was never aired. That's according to a new book, Fawlty Towers: A Worshipper's Companion, which includes the script for aforementioned episode called 'The Robbers'. In an interview at Fawlty Towers Revisited, the book's author Lars Holger Holm stated that rarely had he seen 'John Cleese and his crew reach such continuous heights of sublime entertainment'. He goes on to say that episode 'represents the ultimate solution to the problem of how to carry this tormented universe to a happy end'. Now I'm not one to get obsessive about stuff but Fawlty Towers was something very special. It kills, or at least quite annoys, me to know that this episode exists and I haven't seen it. If I never get to see it, I hope it's a hoax. I would very seriously begrudge the entire world the pleasure of seeing it, if I couldn't.