Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English, Spanish
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1998
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305076480
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #585,274 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

In "The Builders," John Cleese proves there are no limits to what lengths Basil Fawlty will go to save a few quid. Enlisting a resistant Polly in his plot, he quietly fires the respectable carpenters hired by his wife, Sybil, and brings in a cheap crew with a history of disaster. Sure enough, they wind up walling up the entrance to the dining room, sending an insanely outraged Basil into a frenzy as he tries to correct the blunder before Sybil returns. Davis Kelly (Waking Ned Devine) costars as the genial but incompetent O'Reilly. Basil smells hanky-panky in the air in "The Wedding Party" when he signs in an unmarried couple and soon sees foreplay in every innocent kiss and embrace. Meanwhile, a sexy French antique dealer sends Basil into red-faced vexations with her flirtations and Manuel's birthday results in a drunken binge and a morning-after hangover that only adds to the bellhop's usual incompetence at the morning breakfast service. Basil's prudish hypocrisy gets a workout in "The Psychiatrist" when a handsome young chap sneaks a girl into his room. Compounding Basil's strange behavior is the discovery that another guest is a psychiatrist, sending Basil into a tizzy as he is sure the man is analyzing his every utterance. As his attempts to catch the adulterers in the act turns into a bedroom farce, Basil finds himself caught in a position both compromising and absurd--his duck walking climax has to be seen to be believed. --Sean Axmaker

From the back cover

Check in to Fawlty Towers--the Merriment and Madness are on the House! John Cleese stars as Basil Fawlty, the sharp-tongued, short-tempered owner of Fawlty Towers, a hotel plagued by crisis, chaos, and bizarre characters. Includes exclusive interviews with John Cleese as he reminisces about his career and shares hilarious anecdotes on the making of each of these classic episodes. The Builders. The hotel needs some lobby repairs. Naturally, Basil goes with the lowest bidder for the job and soon discovers firsthand just why this crew comes so cheap. The Wedding Party. Flabbergasted by what he believes is an outbreak of loose morals at Fawlty Towers, Basil proceeds to leap to wrong conclusions and gets caught in a compromising situation with Manuel, the waiter. The Psychiatrist. A visiting psychiatrist just may get enough material for a second Ph.D when he encounters Basil, who's stopping at nothing to prove a debonair guest is smuggling women up to his room.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More And More Laughs..., August 27, 2000

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Bjorn Clasen (Rolléngergronn, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Europe) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fawlty Towers, Vol. 2 - Builders/Wedding Party/Psychiatrist [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The first episode on this tape is »The Builders« which provides the average level of »Fawlty Towers« craziness & chaos climax. As usual, it is Basil Fawlty's lies who mainly cause all the trouble. Where would we be without him...

»The Wedding Party« as a story is maybe the funniest episode of »Fawlty Towers«. Just think of what situations Basil's 1920s view on sexuality, combined with his snobbish paranoia, can produce...

And »The Psychiatrist« is the episode of all »Fawlty Towers« episodes that produces the best laughs! In the beginning, it's a bit light - but the more Basil's hormones and personality in general burst out on the screen, beware! You might get a laughter stroke!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Television genius, June 22, 2004

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Rocco Dormarunno (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fawlty Towers, Vol. 2 - Builders/Wedding Party/Psychiatrist [VHS] (VHS Tape)

John Cleese once remarked that he did as much with "Fawlty Towers" in 12 episodes than Lucille Ball did in several years of "I Love Lucy". When I first heard that, I thought Cleese was being as crass as Basil Fawlty. But you know something? He came darn close.

Fawlty Towers, Volume Two, contains the episodes "Builders", "Wedding Party", and "Psychiatrist". My God, what a triple play. If comedy is the pleasure we take in watching other people's sufferings, then John Cleese wrote nothing but perfect comic scripts. "Builders" centers on Basil's constant efforts to save money which, of course, leads to constant frustration with the bumblers he winds up hiring. "Wedding Party" and "Psychiatrist" are perfect examples of Basil's inability to avoid the temptation of interfering in his patrons' affairs. And I use "affairs" quite literally.

Volume 2 of the "Fawlty Towers" series is a laugh riot. I recommend it, along with the other volumes in this series!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars CLASSIC FAWLTY TOWERS LOVED IT, October 9, 1999

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This review is from: Fawlty Towers, Vol. 2 - Builders/Wedding Party/Psychiatrist [VHS] (VHS Tape)

CLASSIC FAWLTY TOWERS LOVED IT WOULD LIKE TO SEE MOR