Struth! | Fawlty Towers rejected by BBC

By David Ellis
Updated December 4 2017 - 11:31am, first published 10:52am

Weird as it sounds, one of the world’s greatest TV comedy series, Fawlty Towers, almost never made it to air, after BBC executives who read the script for the first episode gave it an emphatic thumbs down.

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