WEBThe series is set in Fawlty Towers, a fictional hotel in the English seaside town of Torquay in Devon. The plots centre on the tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty (Cleese), his bossy wife Sybil ( Prunella Scales ), the sensible chambermaid Polly (Booth) who often is the peacemaker and voice of reason, and the hapless and English ...