Miss Tibbs & Miss Gatsby
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Miss Gatsby and Miss Tibbs were fictional characters (played by Gilly Flower and Renee Roberts respectively) in the BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers.
Miss Ursula Gatsby (Roberts) and Miss Abitha Tibbs (Flower) are two mostly inseparable and slightly scatty elderly spinsters who are permanent residents of Fawlty Towers. (The only other long-term guest is Major Gowen.) They seem to take a fancy to Basil, though he switches from being overly kind to being utterly rude during his various conversations with them, and they rarely understand his sarcasm.
The two ladies seldom have main roles in the plot, and are usually only background characters to add to the atmosphere. They appear in every single episode of the series, however they were uncredited in A Touch of Class (the pilot). Miss Tibbs played a large role in the episode The Kipper and the Corpse, where she was startled by the corpse of Mr. Leeman, whom Basil, Manuel and Polly were desperately trying to get rid of. In that episode it was revealed that Tibbs was 79.
| Fawlty Towers |
| Characters: |
| Basil Fawlty | Sybil Fawlty | Manuel | Polly Sherman Major Gowen | Terry the Chef | Miss Tibbs & Miss Gatsby Audrey | Notable guests |
| Episodes: |
| A Touch of Class | The Builders | The Wedding Party | The Hotel Inspectors | Gourmet Night | The Germans Communication Problems | The Psychiatrist | Waldorf Salad | The Kipper and the Corpse | The Anniversary | Basil the Rat The "thirteenth episode" rumour |
| Cast and crew: |
| John Cleese | Connie Booth | Prunella Scales | Andrew Sachs Ballard Berkeley | Gilly Flower | Renee Roberts | Brian Hall John Howard Davies | Bob Spiers |
| See also: |
| Donald Sinclair | Wooburn Grange Country Club | Torquay | The hotel | Don't Mention the War (song) |
