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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 305440" data-attributes="member: 23"><p>I did just this last night and was glad of the chance to see the "sequel" series.</p><p></p><p>With the premise how about hospitality (Rustless seems to have opened up his home to be a hotel) <em>His Lordship Entertains </em>feels like a precursor to Fawlty Towers in a number of ways.</p><p></p><p>For a start, the character templates are similar. The wacky owner (Rustless/Basil). The bellboy with a poor grasp on English (Dithers/Manuel). The graceful female assistant who holds everything together (Miss Bates/Polly). The angry unhygienic chef (Cook/Terry). Even some of the residents seem similar, such as the two old hens who sit in the lobby too engaged in gossip to notice the antics going on around them. Of course, Rustless - in addition to being the Basil of the show - also incorporates the upper class twit elements of <em>Fawlty Towers' </em>Major.</p><p></p><p>In the case of story, this episode feels very similar to <em>The Hotel Inspectors </em>episode of Fawlty Towers, with Rustless and co. forewarned that a food inspector is coming and going all out focussing his energies on the wrong people in a bid to impress.</p><p></p><p>While it was fine without the sketches, I'm on the fence as to whether this was an improvement or not.</p><p></p><p>It's great to see the entire main cast from <em>Hark At Barker </em>present and correct, from Rustless to Effie. It did seem to me that Miss Bates and Badger were featured a little less in this series than <em>Hark At Barker,</em> which is a shame. Perhaps it was intended to be more of an ensemble, which might explain some alterations to characters. Most notably, Dithers now speaks more legibly than his previous mutterings, so David Jason is now getting actual punchlines. It's not an improvement.</p><p></p><p>I'm assuming the series was shot live, and that came across in a wonderful little incident that seemed unplanned early in the episode. Miss Bates turned to walk away from the front desk, but found her skirt was caught in one of the metal shields adorning the front of the desk. I suspect this gave us a few seconds of ad libs which gave Ronnie Barker and Josephine Tewson the chance to show what pros they are. Barker's quick retort "Kindly leave my insignia alone" was wonderful.</p><p></p><p>Here's the entire remaining episode, with the little technical hitch from around 2:20...</p><p style="text-align: center">[MEDIA=youtube]j8MBIkkYvN4:215[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 305440, member: 23"] I did just this last night and was glad of the chance to see the "sequel" series. With the premise how about hospitality (Rustless seems to have opened up his home to be a hotel) [I]His Lordship Entertains [/I]feels like a precursor to Fawlty Towers in a number of ways. For a start, the character templates are similar. The wacky owner (Rustless/Basil). The bellboy with a poor grasp on English (Dithers/Manuel). The graceful female assistant who holds everything together (Miss Bates/Polly). The angry unhygienic chef (Cook/Terry). Even some of the residents seem similar, such as the two old hens who sit in the lobby too engaged in gossip to notice the antics going on around them. Of course, Rustless - in addition to being the Basil of the show - also incorporates the upper class twit elements of [I]Fawlty Towers' [/I]Major. In the case of story, this episode feels very similar to [I]The Hotel Inspectors [/I]episode of Fawlty Towers, with Rustless and co. forewarned that a food inspector is coming and going all out focussing his energies on the wrong people in a bid to impress. While it was fine without the sketches, I'm on the fence as to whether this was an improvement or not. It's great to see the entire main cast from [I]Hark At Barker [/I]present and correct, from Rustless to Effie. It did seem to me that Miss Bates and Badger were featured a little less in this series than [I]Hark At Barker,[/I] which is a shame. Perhaps it was intended to be more of an ensemble, which might explain some alterations to characters. Most notably, Dithers now speaks more legibly than his previous mutterings, so David Jason is now getting actual punchlines. It's not an improvement. I'm assuming the series was shot live, and that came across in a wonderful little incident that seemed unplanned early in the episode. Miss Bates turned to walk away from the front desk, but found her skirt was caught in one of the metal shields adorning the front of the desk. I suspect this gave us a few seconds of ad libs which gave Ronnie Barker and Josephine Tewson the chance to show what pros they are. Barker's quick retort "Kindly leave my insignia alone" was wonderful. Here's the entire remaining episode, with the little technical hitch from around 2:20... [CENTER][MEDIA=youtube]j8MBIkkYvN4:215[/MEDIA][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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