Sybil goes into the hospital for toe surgery, leaving Basil to cope with a fire drill single-handed. After a couple of blows on the head, Basil tells some German guests…

To bring the right type of crowd into the hotel Basil establishes a Gourmet Night.

Some inspectors are in town and Basil gets paranoid, so he alternately fawns over and offends his guests.

Basil wants ‘none of that’ going on in his rooms and suspects some guests and Polly of carrying on.

The Fawltys take a holiday and leave Polly and Manuel to run the place just as O’Reilly’s builders come to redo the lobby.

An confidence trickster comes to stay at the hotel, just after Basil has taken an ad in a posh magazine to upgrade the clientele.