Basil Henson credited as playing...
Dr. Abbott
- [the doctors ask how often the Fawltys can get away for a holiday, but Basil, paranoid over one of them being a psychiatrist, thinks their inquiry is about his sex life]
- Dr. Abbott: How often can you and your wife manage it? You don't mind my asking?
- Basil Fawlty: [like a deer in headlights] Not at all. Not at all. About average, since you asked.
- Mrs. Abbott: Average?
- Basil Fawlty: Mm-hm.
- Dr. Abbott: What would be average?
- Basil Fawlty: Well, you tell me. Ha-ha.
- Mrs. Abbott: Well, um... couple of times a year?
- Basil Fawlty: What?
- Dr. Abbott: Once a year? Well, we knew it must be difficult. My wife couldn't see how you could manage it at all.
- Basil Fawlty: [affronted] Well, as you've asked, two or three times a week, actually.
- Dr. Abbott: A week?
- Basil Fawlty: Yes. Pretty normal, isn't it? We're quite normal down here in Torquay, you know.
- Sybil Fawlty: Thank you, Mr. Abbott. Oh, Dr. Abbott, sorry.
- Basil Fawlty: Doctor?
- Dr. Abbott: Yes?
- Basil Fawlty: I'm terribly sorry, we hadn't been told. We hadn't been told you were a doctor.
- Dr. Abbott: Oh.
- Basil Fawlty: How do you do, Doctor? Very nice to have you with us, Doctor.
- Dr. Abbott: Thank you.
- Sybil Fawlty: You're in room five, Doctor.
- Basil Fawlty: And Mrs. Abbott, how do you do?
- Dr. Abbott: Dr. Abbott, actually.
- Basil Fawlty: I'm sorry?
- Dr. Abbott: Dr. Abbott.
- Mrs. Abbott: Two doctors.
- Basil Fawlty: You're two doctors?
- Mrs. Abbott: Yes.
- Basil Fawlty: Well, how did you become two doctors? It's most unusual. I mean, did you take the exam twice, or...
- Dr. Abbott: No. My wife's a doctor.
- Mrs. Abbott: I'm a doctor.
- Basil Fawlty: You're a doctor, too. So you're three doctors!
- Dr. Abbott: No, I'm just... I'm just one doctor. My wife is another doctor.