Bob Spiers

Comedy on the shenanigans of Edina and Patsy The two aging, boozing trend-setters-across-the-decades terrorize family, friends and co-workers.

Basil Fawlty is an inept and manic English hotel owner and manager who isn't cut out for his job. He's intolerant, rude and paranoid. Chaos frequently breaks loose as Basil tries to run the hotel. He is constantly under verbal (and sometime physical) attack from his unhelpful wife Sybil, and hindered by the incompetent, but easy target, Manuel, the Spanish waiter. Fortunately he has an intelligent and attractive maid to help him out of the various...

A variety of sketches featuring British comedians and actors Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie where they explore a seeminly inexhaustible list of subjects with a delicious turn of phrase and elaborate wordplay.

Eddy's ex-husbands have discovered that she has been deceiving both of them into paying her alimony, and cut off all support. Eddy is forced to cut her expenses, but Saffron despairs when her mother's attempts at frugal living take her food shopping in Harrods, and getting rid of the driver proves to be a false economy.

Saffy has plans for New Year's Eve - a quiet night in with Gran, her dad Justin and his boyfriend Oliver. But this won't do for Eddy, who has made a resolution to have more fun and plans to see in the New Year at a club in an underground car park. All plans are halted, however, by the arrival of Patsy's long lost sister Jackie.

Basil Fawlty is the sharp-tongued, short-fused owner of Fawlty Towers, a hotel plagued by crisis, chaos and bizarre characters. This set collects all 12 episodes of the British comedy, and also includes interviews with the writer and star, John Cleese.