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Potential film adaptation

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With only 12 episodes made of Fawlty Towers, the BBC were keen to prolong the show. But both Cleese and Booth had felt that series 2 had been far better than series 1 and trying to make a third series that would be even better was near impossible.

However, according to John Cleese in the extras section of the Fawlty Towers special 3 disc DVD, and in the book Fawlty Towers Fully Booked, a plot had been developed for a 90 minute feature-length film in which the hotel would be removed and utilizing the characters in a broader, more ambitious landscape. Cleese says: