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Fawlty Towers: Hotel that Inspired John Cleese Series to Be Demolished - canceled + renewed TV shows - TV Series Finale
![TIL John Cleese based the character of Basil Fawlty on Donald Sinclair, an eccentric hotel owner who'd accommodated Monty Python. Sinclair threw Eric Idle's briefcase out of a window because he mistook TIL John Cleese based the character of Basil Fawlty on Donald Sinclair, an eccentric hotel owner who'd accommodated Monty Python. Sinclair threw Eric Idle's briefcase out of a window because he mistook](https://external-preview.redd.it/gDA3gtSBpdV1VG0xCuLCuXO_UlnuNX4nGu_N4W5d-ME.jpg?auto=webp&s=3fd22e4fc46d252c14b04485bb53fe77f7872f6e)
TIL John Cleese based the character of Basil Fawlty on Donald Sinclair, an eccentric hotel owner who'd accommodated Monty Python. Sinclair threw Eric Idle's briefcase out of a window because he mistook
![Remember that hysterical Fawlty Towers scene where, during a fire drill, Basil locks Manuel in a burning kitchen? TIL that he actually DID catch fire, and still bears the scars. : r/todayilearned Remember that hysterical Fawlty Towers scene where, during a fire drill, Basil locks Manuel in a burning kitchen? TIL that he actually DID catch fire, and still bears the scars. : r/todayilearned](https://external-preview.redd.it/SKn-bud71onkY5i6SfVcD5cENybJ0obhWYsRfaaddzo.jpg?auto=webp&s=b6d75a8ad7545d35b13ef58375d48842a2857b69)