I've seen every single one of these episodes too many times to count. Doesn't matter a bit. This is timeless inventive, stuff. The kind of thing that you feel obligated to introduce to the unitiated and invite friends overt o watch and rewatch. The fact that the character of Basil Fawlty is based on a real person makes the show all the more rich. Like Seinfeld and other programs that expertly replicate human pettiness and folly Fawlty Towers is so cathartic that watching it leaves a viewer both lighter and enlightened.
There's a ton of new material on here and the series has never looked better. You get a new set of exclusive commentaries by John Cleese, brand new 2009 extended interviews, including exclusive interview with Connie Booth, John Cleese, Prunella Scales, and Andrew Sachs and Series One and Two directors commentaries with John Howard Davies and Bob Spiers as well as outtakes and other assorted ephemera.
Things I would like to see soon from BBC? The Goodies, a new release of Red Dwarf and The Vicar of Dibley.
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