Coming to Special Edition DVD for the first time, it's the complete Fawlty Towers collection with all-new commentary from John Cleese! Hot off the runaway success of Monty Python's Flying Circus, John Cleese embarked on his now-legendary sitcom, Fawlty Towers, creating one of the most memorable and best loved characters in all of British comedy, Basil Fawlty.
Basil Fawlty is a much put-upon, hard-working hotel manager whose life is plagued by dead guests, hotel inspectors, and riff-raff. Of course his biggest headache is his "little nest of vipers," his nagging wife Sibyl. Together they run their hotel, Fawlty Towers, with a little help from the unflappable Polly and the trainee waiter from Barcelona with marginally more intelligence than a monkey, Manuel.
It's been over three weeks since we
broke the news that BBC Video would revisit the classic John Cleese britcom on
October 20th, and now distributor Warner Home Video has formally announced
Fawlty Towers - The Complete Collection: Remastered for that release date. With that announcement, of course, comes a few new details. For starters, here's a first (small) look at the package art:
As you can see the cost is $49.98 SRP. For that price you get 3 discs, with all 12 remastered episodes running 360 minutes, plus bonus material that includes Audio Commentary, a Featurette, Interviews and Outtakes. Some of these extras are brand-new (as it mentions at the bottom of the box), including John Cleese's commentaries and interviews with him and his former wife, Connie Booth (who co-wrote the show) as well as with other cast members. Video is full frame, audio is English Stereo, and there are English subtitles as well.
This is coming out on the same day at the BBC's remastered Black Adder DVDs, which was announced yesterday. You can view a brief video of clips for both shows here (QuickTime required).
