Basil the Rat has seen, and not altogether certain that he did see it. Sybil ends the series with the line "I'm afraid it's started to rain again," in an attempt to distract Carnegie as Manuel drags Basil, who has fainted off-screen, out of the dining room. With: In 1994, "Basil The Rat" was one of two "Fawlty Towers" episodes that were adapted for the stage and performed at the Theatre Geo in Hollywood. The other was "The Kipper and the Corpse". Basil the Rat "Basil the Rat" is the sixth and final episode of the second series of the BBC sitcom "Fawlty
Kipper too close to the fire, and then, imagine his surprise the next morning when …". For instance Thomas Nashe wrote in 1599 about a fisherman from Lothingland in the Great Yarmouth area who discovered smoking herring by accident. Another story of the accidental invention of kipper is set in 1843, with John Woodger of Seahouses in Northumberland, when fish for processing was left overnight in a room with a smoking stove. These stories and others are known to be untrue because the word "kipper" long predates this. Smoking and salting of fish—in particular of spawning salmon and herring which are