Wednesday's Quote of the Day
"It's a collection of clichés and stock characters which I can't see as being anything other than a disaster" - 1974 letter from a ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ script editor, panning Fawlty Towers.
But the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ changed its tune, and the show went out the following year. "It just shows you people have no idea what they're doing," says John Cleese, who wrote the hotel-set sitcom with his then wife Connie Booth.