Cleese, John and Connie Booth.

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Description

Fawlty Towers ("The Psychiatrist"), shooting script, Prunella Scales's copy,
ink on paper

her lines ("Sybil") highlighted in yellow marker, her cues underlined in red or blue ink, some final revisions to the script in ink and pencil, 84 pages, folio, [c.1979], pink paper, punch holes in upper left corner, fastened with a split-pin paper fastener, incomplete, lacking the first three pages and final section of the episode

[with:] autograph notes by Prunella Scales and her husband Timothy West donating the script for fund-raising purposes, 2010

Catalogue Note

"Oh ... and one word of advice. If you're going to grope a girl have the gallantry to stay in the room with her while you're doing it..." (Sybil to Basil)

Prunella Scales's original shooting script for one of Britain's best-loved sitcoms. This episode sees Sybil's memorable flirtation with the bejewelled Mr Johnson and Basil's desperate attempts to hide any neuroses from a psychiatrist staying at the hotel.

This lot is being sold to support the New Vic Theatre, Staffordshire, in memory of founding director Peter Cheeseman.