6 episodesFirst aired 19 September 1975
E1Sept 197530m
A confidence trickster comes to stay at the hotel, just after Basil has taken an ad in a posh magazine to upgrade the clientele.
E2Sept 197528m
The Fawltys take a holiday and leave Polly and Manuel to run the place just as O'Reilly's builders come to redo the lobby.
E3Oct 197533m
Basil wants 'none of that' going on in his rooms and suspects some guests and Polly of carrying on.
E4Oct 197529m
Some inspectors are in town and Basil gets paranoid, so he alternately fawns over and offends his guests.
E5Oct 197529m
To bring the right type of crowd into the hotel Basil establishes a Gourmet Night.
E6Oct 197531m
Sybil goes into the hospital for toe surgery, leaving Basil to cope with a fire drill single-handed. After a couple of blows on the head, Basil tells some German guests where Germany went wrong in WWII.