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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. 1Bertie Sets Sail

    Mar 29, 1992

    In order to escape the wrath of Honoria Glossop and Aunt Agatha, Jeeves and Bertie board an oceanliner heading for New York. Unfortunately, Bertie is landed with the task of looking after Wilmot Malvern, a lad long cooped up with his mother Lady Malvern. He turns out to be a limpet of the worst sort with the knack for clinging to Woosters. On the ship Bertie also runs into Tuppy, who's off to America to become an importer of cars to Britain. Once in New York, the mother's boy breaks loose onto the nightclub scene with disasterous results, and Tuppy meets with similar lack of success when he realises he'll have to buy more than one car at a time and that the steering wheel's on the wrong side.

  2. 2The Full House

    Apr 5, 1992

    The aunt of Bertie's poet friend, Rocky, wants him to go out and live the New York nightlife and write her weekly letters so that she might experience it vicariously. Rocky, however, can't stand anything but his cabin in the wilderness of Long Island, so Jeeves agrees to undergo the rigours and report back to Rocky. Another friend, Bicky, loves New York, but his uncle thinks he should be in Colorado. Jeeves suggests a bit of deception on his part as well, which works fine until relatives of both friends show up in New York, both believing that Bertie's flat belongs to their respective nephews. Solutions involve a lot of running about acting silly and quite a bit of handshaking as well.

  3. 3Introduction on Broadway

    Apr 12, 1992

    Cyril Bassington-Bassington arrives in New York under specific instructions from Aunt Agatha for Bertie to keep him out of theatrical circles - which of course Cyril rips up before Bertie can read them. So he lands a part in a Broadway musical called Ask Dad! and Bertie tours the USA with the show. Meanwhile, Bertie's struggling artist friend, Corky, needs help convincing his uncle that the girl he wants to marry is suitable. Unfortunately Jeeves' solution may be too good.

  4. 4Right Ho, Jeeves

    Apr 19, 1992

    After a wild night with Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright, Gussie ends up in stir for wading about Trafalgar fountain looking for newts. For purely simple and logical reasons Bertie goes to Devirill Hall pretending to be Gussie in order to win the aunts' approval of his marriage to Madeline Basset, and Gussie must go under the name Bertie Wooster to woo Catsmeat's fiancé, Gertrude Winkworth.

  5. 5Hot Off the Press

    Apr 26, 1992

    Sir Watkin Bassett is writing his memoirs, which could prove scandalous to everyone in his life, so various members of society, such as Madeline Bassett, and Lady Florence Craye - to whom Bertie has recently become engaged - all want Bertie to steal them. Stiffy Byng is producing the village entertainment for Totleigh-on-the-Wold involving a double-act between Gussie and Spode, and a song by her betrothed, Stinker Pinker.

  6. 6Comrade Bingo

    May 3, 1992

    Bingo wears a false beard and pretends to be a Bolshevik to impress his latest love, and Aunt Dahlia gets Bertie to become an art thief in order to convince a writer to print her story in Milady's Boudoir.

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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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