When the first episode, A Touch of Class, aired on 19th September 1975, it seemed as if Main may have been right. Many critics hated it or ignored it, although Philip Purser reviewing for The Sunday Telegraph had the foresight to deem it “genuinely original”. However, the audience steadily grew and reluctantly Cleese and Booth (who were soon to separate) returned with six more scripts in 1979. Famously, only 12 episodes of Fawlty Towers were made, but they are 12 of the most sublimely crafted half hours of comedy ever seen on British TV.