The BBC is re-running Fawlty Towers to cheer Britain up - but with racist outbursts from cantankerous Major Gowan removed. The classic comedy, which runs to 12 episodes, airs from Monday in its Festival of Funny.
Last year writer and star John Cleese, who plays Basil Fawlty, branded Beeb bosses “gutless” for temporarily removing the episode with the Major’s racist remarks from the UKTV streaming platform.
Arguing the remarks were fine in context, he said: “The major was an old fossil. We were not supporting his views, we were making fun of them. “If people are too stupid to see that, what can one say?” But in 2013, he agreed to the words being cut from a BBC2 pre-watershed repeat.
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