Video: John Cleese: BBC rejected first episode of Fawlty Towers - Times Online

Video: John Cleese: BBC rejected first episode of Fawlty Towers - Times Online: "John Cleese has said that the BBC originally dismissed Fawlty Towers as dire, as the cast of the popular sitcom were reunited for the 30th anniversary of the show.

As the staff members of the eponymous Torquay hotel came together for the first time since the programme was filmed Cleese said that producers did not think that the programme would appeal to viewers."