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Jeeves and Wooster was a television series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories, and produced by Granada Television for the UK's ITV network from 1990 to 1993. It ran for four seasons, and starred Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster (a jovial but empty-headed young gentleman) and Stephen Fry as Jeeves (his improbably well-informed and talented valet). The series was produced by Brian Eastman. All four series are available on DVD.

Characters

Actors' names are given with the seasons in which they appeared.

• Bertie Wooster — Hugh Laurie (1,2,3,4)
• Jeeves — Stephen Fry (1,2,3,4)

Recurring characters

• Aunt Agatha — Mary Wimbush (1,2,3); Elizabeth Spriggs (4)
• Madeline Bassett — Francesca Folan (1); Diana Blackburn (2); Elizabeth Morton (3,4)
• Sir Watkyn Bassett — John Woodnutt (1,2,3,4)
• Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng — Charlotte Attenborough (2,4); Amanda Harris (3)
• Lady Florence Craye — Fiona Gillies (3); Francesca Folan (4)
• Aunt Dahlia — Brenda Bruce (1); Vivian Pickles (2); Patricia Lawrence (3); Jean Heywood (4)
• Gussie Fink-Nottle — Richard Garnett (1,2); Richard Braine (3,4)
• Honoria Glossop — Elizabeth Kettle (1,2,4)
• Sir Roderick Glossop — Roger Brierley (1,2); Philip Locke (4)
• Tuppy Glossop — Robert Dawes (1,2,3,4)
• Bingo Little — Michael Sidbury (1,2); Pip Torrens (3)
• Constable Oates — Campbell Morrison (2); Stewart Harwood (3); Sidney Livingstone (4)
• Stinker Pinker — Simon Treves (2,3,4)
• Roderick Spode — John Turner (2,3,4)

Minor characters

• Anatole — John Barrard (1)
• Rosie M. Banks — Anastasia Hille (4)
• Cyril Bassington-Bassington — Nicholas Hewetson (3)
• Cora Bellinger — Constance Novis (1)
• Bicky Bickersteth — Julian Frith (3)
• Biffy Biffen — Philip Shelley (2)
• Rev. Beefy Bingham — Owen Brenman (1)
• Lord Bittlesham — Geoffrey Toone (2,3)
• Mr. Blumenfield — Billy J. Mitchell (1,3)
• Sydney Blumenfield — Anatol Yusef (1,3)
• Daphne Braithwaite — Justine Glenton (1)
• Brinkley — Fred Evans (2,4)
• George Caffyn — David Crean (3)
• Freddie Chalk-Marshall — John Duval (1)
• Darcy "Stilton" Cheesewright — Nicholas Palliser (4)
• Chuffy Chuffnell — Matthew Solon (2)
• Seabury Chuffnell — Edward Holmes (2)
• Myrtle Chuffnell — Fidelis Morgan (2)
• Professor Cluj — Michael Poole (1)
• Aneta Cluj — Zulema Dene (1)
• Corky Corcoran — Greg Charles (3)
• Blair Eggleston — Otto Jarman (4)
• Boko Fittleworth — Richard Stirling (1)
• Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps — Adam Blackwood (1); Martin Clunes (2)
• Lady Glossop — Jane Downs (1,2)
• Oswald Glossop — Alistair Haley (1)
• Aline Hemmingway — Rebecca Saire (2)
• Sidney Hemmingway — Graham Seed (2)
• Porkie Jupp — Paul Kynman (4)
• Liftman — Ricco Ross (3)
• Lady Malvern — Moyra Fraser (3)
• Wilmot Malvern — Ronan Vilbert (3)
• Gwladys Pendlebury — Deirdre Strath (4)
• Lucius Pim — Marcus D'Amico (4)
• Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright — John Elmes (3)
• Oofy Prosser — Richard Dixon (1,2)
• Prysock — John Cassady (3)
• Lord Rainsby — Jason Calder (1)
• Ms. Rockmetteller — Heather Canning (3)
• Enoch Simpson — Davis Blake Kelly (1)
• Muriel Singer — Dena Davis (3)
• Slingsby — Harry Ditson (4)
• Myrtle Snap — Veronica Clifford (4)
• Rupert Steggles — Richard Braine (1)
• Dwight Stoker — James Holland (2)
• Pauline Stoker — Sharon Holm (2); Kymberley Huffman (3)
• Emerald Stoker — Emma Hewitt (4)
• J. Washburn Stoker — Manning Redwood (2); Don Fellows (3)
• Rocky Todd — John Fitzgerald-Jay (3)
• Angela Travers — Amanda Elwes (1)
• Tom Travers — Ralph Michael (1,4)
• Jas Waterbury — David Healy (4)
• Trixie Waterbury — Serretta Wilson (4)
• Lady Wickham — Rosemary Martin (1)
• Lord Wickhammersley — Jack Watling (1)
• Lady Wickhammersley — Richenda Carey (1)
• Bobbie Wickham — Nina Botting (1); Niamk Cusak (2)
• Sir Cuthbert Wickham — Brian Haines (1)
• Freddie Widgeon — Charles Millham (1); John Duval (2)
• Maud Wilberforce — Paula Jacobs (1)
• Dame Daphne Winkworth — Rosalind Knight (3)
• Gertrude Winkworth — Chloe Annett (3)
• Uncle George Wooster — Nicholas Selby (1)
• Claude Wooster — Hugo E. Blick (1); Jeremy Brook (4)
• Eustace Wooster — Ian Jeffs (1); Joss Brook (4)
• Alexander Worple — Bill Bailey (3)

Episode list

Season 1 (directed by Robert Young)

Episode #	Episode Title	Adapted From
1	"Jeeves Takes Charge"	"Jeeves Takes Charge" "The Pride of the Woosters is Wounded" "Introducing Claude and Eustace" "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch" "The Hero's Reward"
2	"Tuppy and the Terrier"	"Jeeves & The Yuletide Spirit" "Episode of the Dog Macintosh" "Jeeves and the Song of Songs"
3	"The Purity of the Turf"	"Indian Summer of an Uncle" "The Purity of the Turf"
4	"The Hunger Strike"	"Right Ho, Jeeves"
5	"Brinkley Manor"	"Right Ho, Jeeves"

Season 2 (directed by Simon Langton)

Episode #	Episode Title	Adapted From
1	"Jeeves Saves the Cow-Creamer"	"The Code of the Woosters"
2	"A Plan for Gussie"	"The Code of the Woosters"
3	"Pearls Mean Tears"	"Aunt Agatha Speaks Her Mind" "Pearls Mean Tears" "The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy"
4	"Jeeves in the Country"	"Thank you, Jeeves"
5	"Kidnapped!"	"Thank you, Jeeves"
6	"Jeeves the Matchmaker"	"Bertie Changes his Mind" "Jeeves and the Kid Clementina" "The Ordeal of Young Tuppy" "Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum" "No Wedding Bells for Bingo"

Season 3 (directed by Ferdinand Fairfax)

Episode #	Episode Title	Adapted From
1	"Bertie Sets Sail"	"Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest"
2	"The Full House"	"Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg" "The Aunt and the Sluggard"
3	"Introduction on Broadway"	"The Artistic Career of Corky" "A Letter of Introduction" "Startling Dressiness of a Lift Attendant"
4	"Right Ho, Jeeves"	"The Mating Season"
5	"Hot Off the Press"	"Jeeves Takes Charge" "The Mating Season"
6	"Comrade Bingo"	"Comrade Bingo" "Jeeves Makes an Omelette"

Season 4 (directed by Ferdinand Fairfax)

Episode #	Episode Title	Adapted From
1	"Return to New York"	"The Spot of Art" "The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace" "Fixing It for Freddie"
2	"The Once and Future Ex"	"Joy in the Morning"
3	"Bridegroom Wanted!"	"Jeeves and the Greasy Bird" "Bingo and the Little Woman" plus a good deal of Clive Exton's artistic licence
4	"The Delayed Arrival"	"Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit"
5	"Trouble at Totleigh Towers"	"Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves"
6	"The Ties That Bind"	"Much Obliged, Jeeves" plus a good deal of Clive Exton's artistic licence

Locations

• The interior and exterior of Totleigh Towers was filmed at Highclere Castle.
• The exterior of Brinkley Court was filmed at Squerryes Court.
• The interior of Brinkley Court was filmed at Wrotham Park.
• The interior and exterior of Chuffnell Hall (Episodes 4 & 5, Series 2) was also filmed at Wrotham Park.
• The interior and exterior of Deverill Hall (Episode 4, Series 3) was filmed at Englefield House.
• The interior and exterior of Fothergill Hall (Episode 6, Series 3) was filmed at Dorney Court.
• Senate House, the central library and administration building for the University of London, was used for exterior shots of Stuyvesant Towers, Wooster's residence in New York City during season 3.

Quotes

• Bertie! It's men like you that make people with the future of the human race at heart despair! - Bertie's Aunt Agatha.
• Oh no! No, no no no! Modern Dutch! - Bertie sneering at a cow creamer in a Brompton St. Antique shop.
• "I thought you had guts!" "I do, and I don't want Roderick Spode fooling around with them!" - Bertie disparaging Gussie Fink Nottle's fear of Roderick Spode.

External links

• [Hat-Sharpening]: An episode guide to the series, including information about which episodes were adapted from which Wodehouse stories
• [The Russian Wodehouse Society]: Episode guides, screenshots and quotes from the four series
• [British Film Institute Screen Online]

 

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