The real-life couple who inspired Fawlty Towers: How guesthouse owners Donald Sinclair and his wife were behind the creation of Basil and Sybil Fawlty and the other hotel staff who inspired waiter Manuel and long-suffering maid Polly
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Donald Sinclair and his wife Beatrice were the proprietors of the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay. Cleese and the other Monty Python stars stayed there in 1970.

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Basil Fawlty is told by the German ambassador that he CAN mention the war as he says the embassy LOVES the controversial goose-stepping scene at Fawlty Towers!

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