September 19, 1975 –
The British sitcom Fawlty Towers, created by John Cleese, and starring John Cleese, Connie Booth, Prunella Scales, and Andrew Sachs, first aired on BBC2 on this date.
John Cleese says in his DVD commentary that Prunella Scales was so unlike the character she played, the harpy Sybil Fawlty, that they had trouble getting the tenderhearted Scales to hit Basil or any other character who incurred Sybil’s displeasure hard enough to make it look realistic and were constantly having to do retakes of her scenes.
The Haus of Dcaligari 