Basil Fawlty, struggling to run his business, despite the help of his Booth's character, chambermaid Polly, his wife and the hapless Spanish waiter, Manuel, played by Andrew Sachs. Basil is shown ...

Manuel is Fawlty Towers' waiter ... but any attempt at having him do something useful is thwarted due to Basil's only rudimentary grasp of 'classical' Spanish, rather than the contemporary dialect ...

Fawlty Towers had a central thread of the master-servant relationship between Basil Fawlty, the hotel owner and the Spanish waiter-cum-porter, Manuel. Their comedy depended on the plot, which ...