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[singlepic=11,320,240,,right] A recent online poll has declared Fawlty Towers the most iconic comedy show of all time.

The show, which starred John Cleese as on-the-edge hotel owner Basil Fawlty, Prunella Scales as his wife Sybil, Connie Booth as waitress Polly and Andrew Sachs as Spanish waiter Manuel, received almost a third of the 3,000 votes cast in the recent poll by MSN Entertainment.

The poll was organised by MSN in order to coincide with the Bafta TV Awards, to be held in London on Sunday.

“We wanted to give voters a chance to honour the cream of British television favourites,” said the website’s entertainment editor Mike Lok.

The word “iconic” has some interesting connotations, however, laughing directly in the face of the bottle-out BBC poll a few years ago that saw Only Fools and Horses beat Blackadder and Fawlty Towers.