What was the first American Fawlty Towers remake pilot called?

The first American Fawlty Towers remake pilot was called Chateau Snavely.

ABC produced Chateau Snavely as a pilot in 1978, making it the first serious attempt to adapt the British sitcom for the American market. Harvey Korman and Betty White were cast in the leading roles, corresponding broadly to Basil and Sybil Fawlty. The remake changed the setting from a seaside hotel to a highway motel.

That change proved difficult because much of Fawlty Towers’ comedy depends on the tightly contained world of a British hotel, its staff and its guests. Chateau Snavely was not ordered as a series, so the pilot remains a curious footnote in the programme’s adaptation history.

It is easy to confuse the title with Amanda’s or Payne, the two later American versions. Amanda’s starred Bea Arthur and switched the gender balance of the central hotel-management characters. Payne starred John Larroquette and aired in 1999. Neither was the first pilot; that distinction belongs to Chateau Snavely.