Churchill to develop ‘Fawlty Towers’
Churchill Living has secured planning for a new development of retirement apartments at Fawlty Towers.The Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay was where John Cleese and the Monty Python team stayed in 1973 while filming ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’ and it unwittingly became the inspiration for the hit sitcom Fawlty Towers.Cleese’s character - neurotic hotel owner Basil