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Fawlty Towers influenced Blackadder
Added by Media Influence Map · 6 October 2026
The evidence
Richard Curtis has said Blackadder was "written out of fear" of Fawlty Towers: he and Rowan Atkinson knew any modern sitcom they wrote would be rubbish beside it, so they set theirs in the past.
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