Gourmet Night (a.k.a. Gourmet's Paradise) - S1-E5
Factual error: Just before the 'thrashing' scene, the road Basil wants to drive along is called Mentmore Close. In Britain, streets called "Close" are usually dead ends to traffic.
Ssiscool
13th Dec 2025
Fawlty Towers (1975)
8th Dec 2003
Fawlty Towers (1975)
The Germans - S1-E6
Visible crew/equipment: When Basil runs from the restaurant and into the office, as the door opens to the hallway you can see a monitor in the office, showing what we can see. The director must be watching the action from in there.
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Suggested correction: Most places like this are likely to have CCTV and the office would be the optimum place for the manager to watch on the monitor.
18th Aug 2013
Fawlty Towers (1975)
The Builders - S1-E2
Revealing mistake: When Basil smashes Manuel against the wall where the dining room is meant to be, we can see it is made out of cardboard. Notice how it begins to fall off, even though it is meant to be sealed and covered in wallpaper. (00:16:05)
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Suggested correction: Perhaps this was due to O'Reilly's shoddy workmanship?
You could say that but Fawlty towers had wobbly sets all the time. I would say this would be covered under "mistakes".
Where is the 'codswallop' as you so euphemistically put it? To me it looks like O'Reilly cut corners by shoddily placing a sheet of plasterboard in the doorway without attaching it well then shoddily wallpapering over it. Hence the reason for it falling out.
2nd Sep 2004
Fawlty Towers (1975)
The Kipper and the Corpse (a.k.a. Death) - S2-E4
Corrected entry: In the scene where Sybil is talking on the phone in the lobby about the short elderly gentleman guest and has tall redhead bimbo, just before the old man and his bimbo come in you can see the bimbo come past the corner of the office wall early, then stop, then start walking again on cue.
11th Jan 2005
Fawlty Towers (1975)
The Kipper and the Corpse (a.k.a. Death) - S2-E4
Corrected entry: The short elderly gentleman and the tall redhead bimbo are leaving the bar. After 15-20 seconds Basil is shown leaving the bar too. But Basil comes through the lobby before them.