Seasons & episodes
S1 · E1A Touch of Class 1975-09-19 · 30 min
A confidence trickster comes to stay at the hotel, just after Basil has taken an ad in a posh magazine to upgrade the clientele.
S1 · E2The Builders 1975-09-26 · 28 min
The Fawltys take a holiday and leave Polly and Manuel to run the place just as O'Reilly's builders come to redo the lobby.
S1 · E3The Wedding Party 1975-10-03 · 33 min
Basil wants 'none of that' going on in his rooms and suspects some guests and Polly of carrying on.
S1 · E4The Hotel Inspectors 1975-10-10 · 29 min
Some inspectors are in town and Basil gets paranoid, so he alternately fawns over and offends his guests.
S1 · E5Gourmet Night 1975-10-17 · 29 min
To bring the right type of crowd into the hotel Basil establishes a Gourmet Night.
S1 · E6The Germans 1975-10-24 · 31 min
Sybil goes into the hospital for toe surgery, leaving Basil to cope with a fire drill single-handed. After a couple of blows on the head, Basil tells some German guests where Germany went wrong in WWII.