{"id":368,"date":"2026-03-20T07:02:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.britishtvcuts.net\/?page_id=368"},"modified":"2026-03-20T07:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:05:06","slug":"fawlty-towers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtvcuts.net\/index.php\/fawlty-towers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fawlty Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 data-wp-context---core-fit-text=\"core\/fit-text::{&quot;fontSize&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-wp-init---core-fit-text=\"core\/fit-text::callbacks.init\" data-wp-interactive data-wp-style--font-size=\"core\/fit-text::context.fontSize\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-fit-text\">The Kipper and the corpse<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fawlty Towers episode &#8220;The Kipper and the corpse&#8221; is cut around 4 minutes into the episode on some commercial releases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Basil&#8217;s line &#8220;We can manage that can we dear?&#8221;, Basil turns to speak to the hotel guest from reception, the following line is cut:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basil: &#8220;<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-accent-color\">Is it your legs?<\/mark>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The guest replies &#8220;I&#8217;m Sorry?&#8221;.<br><br>The reason for this is not clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All TV broadcasts are uncut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2009 update<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The BBC have released a new remastered DVD collection of Fawlty Towers, this new collection contains the missing scene above and is no longer cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtvcuts.net\/\">Home<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kipper and the corpse The Fawlty Towers episode &#8220;The Kipper and the corpse&#8221; is cut around 4 minutes into the episode on some commercial releases. After Basil&#8217;s line &#8220;We can manage that can we dear?&#8221;, Basil turns to speak to the hotel guest from reception, the following line is cut: Basil: &#8220;Is it your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-368","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtvcuts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtvcuts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtvcuts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtvcuts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtvcuts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtvcuts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtvcuts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtvcuts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}