'A warring couple running a hotel in a sitcom? Pru didn't know what to make of it and almost turned John Cleese down': TIMOTHY WEST recalls how the double act that made his wife Prunella Scales a star came very close to ending before it had even begun

TIMOTHY WEST: When I told Pru that I'd soon be attempting to write something about Sybil and Fawlty Towers, she issued me with one simple instruction.

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