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Jeeves and Wooster

  • TV-PG
  • 1990–1993
  • 4 seasons
  • Comedy
  • 8.1

Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.

Episodes

6 episodes
  1. 1Jeeves Saves the Cow Creamer

    Apr 14, 1991

    Aunt Dahlia sends Bertie to sneer at an 18th century cow creamer in order to reduce the price for Uncle Tom. But when he makes a mess of the job rival silver collector Sir Watkin Bassett gets hold of it. So Bertie goes off to Totleigh Towers where everyone either wants Bertie to steal the cow creamer, or threatens to beat him to a jelly if he does. Stiffy Byng, Stinker Pinker, and Aunt Dahlia being of the former category, and the amateur dictator Roderick Spode and Sir Watkin Bassett being of the latter.

  2. 2A Plan for Gussie

    Apr 21, 1991

    In order to help overcome his fear of Roderick Spode and Sir Watkin Bassett, Gussie Fink-Nottle writes down a notebook full of scornful thoughts about each of them. When he misplaces the notebook it falls into all the wrong peoples' hands, and desirable engagements are broken and undesirable ones formed like never before.

  3. 3Pearls Mean Tears

    Apr 28, 1991

    Bertie is called to Westcombe-on-Sea by Aunt Agatha, delaying a vacation in the south of France. There he meets a girl by the name of Aline Hemmingway whom she wishes him to marry. She and her brother leave pearls as security for £100 loan from Bertie. But when both the Hemmingways' pearls and Aunt Agatha's pearls disappear, trouble arises. Meanwhile, Bertie runs into Biffy Biffen, who has lost his fiancé in the most remarkable manner. Unfortunately, he is unable to remember her last name - in fact he is unable to remember almost anything.

  4. 4Jeeves in the Country

    May 5, 1991

    When Bertie takes up the trombone, he moves to the country due to complaints from other tennants. The combination of these two events cause Jeeves to give his notice, who is immediately snapped up by Chuffy Chuffnell who owns the village to which Bertie has moved. He also owns Chuffnell Hall, but wishes to sell it to the American, Stoker, so that he can afford to marry said American's daughter, Pauline, to whom Bertie was once engaged himself.

  5. 5Kidnapped!

    May 12, 1991

    After being turned down for the nomination of chairman of the dining committee at The Drones, Bertie runs into Pauline Stoker, who is in London to buy her wedding dress and is being followed by a strange fellow with a ginger beard. She asks Bertie to be a bodyguard. Meanwhile, her father is unable to turn Chuffnell Hall into a hotel, so he looks into turning it into a sanitarium run by none other than Sir Roderick Glossop. This is all bad news for Bertie's image, and his only hope is... the boys from The Drones dressed up as Minstrels?

  6. 6Jeeves the Matchmaker

    May 19, 1991

    Bertie begins to think that having a child might be nice. Of course the first step, Jeeves reminds him, is getting married. Once again thoughts turn towards Bobbie Wickham. Meanwhile, fellow Drones' are in love: Tuppy with a dog lover in the country (and not with Cousin Angela as he should be), and Bingo (as usual) with a waitress named Mabel. Ensuing events involve a rather nasty rugby match, tossing pots through greenhouses, public speaking in front of young ladies, and plans to soften Bingo's uncle to the thought of his nephew marrying someone in a lower social strata.

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Series cast

Hugh LaurieBertie Wooster23 episodes
Stephen FryJeeves23 episodes
Robert DawsTuppy Glossop8 episodes
Richard DixonOofy Prosser8 episodes
John WoodnuttSir Watkyn6 episodes
Michael RipperDrones Porter6 episodes
Mary WimbushAunt Agatha6 episodes
John TurnerSpode6 episodes
Francesca FolanFlorence5 episodes
Elizabeth HeeryMadeline5 episodes
Richard BraineRupert Steggles4 episodes
Martin ClunesBarmy4 episodes
Ralph MichaelUncle Tom4 episodes
Simon TrevesStinker4 episodes
Adam BlackwoodBarmy Fotheringay Phipps4 episodes
Richard GarnettGussie Fink Nottle4 episodes
Roger BrierleySir Roderick Glossop3 episodes
Geoffrey TooneBittlesham3 episodes

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