Box set: Jeeves & Wooster The Complete Collection

Jeeves And Wooster: Season 1

A&E Video (1990)

Comedy

/ Color / 250 mins

5037115091932

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#857

8.7

Plot

Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy television series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories. It 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 stories are set in England and the United States in the pre-World War II 20th century (there are aspects of the Edwardian era, 1920s, and 1930s). Wooster is a well-to-do bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are aided in all manner of societal adventures by the indispensable "gentleman's personal gentleman," Jeeves. Wodehouse drew the themes of his plots, which concern the entangled love lifes of the major characters, from classical New Comedy.

Cast

	Stephen Fry	Jeeves
	Hugh Laurie	Bertie Wooster
	Robert Daws	Tuppy Glossop
	John Turner	Roderick Spode
	Michael Siberry	Bingo
	Richard Dixon	Oofy Prosser
	John Woodnutt	Sir Watkyn Bassett
	Richard Garnett	Gussie Fink-Nottle
	Adam Blackwood	Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps
	Mary Wimbush	Aunt Agatha
	Brenda Bruce	Aunt Dahlia
	Amanda Elwes	Aunt Angela

Crew

Director

Robert Young
Simon Langton

Producer

Brian Eastman

Writer

P.G. Wodehouse

Trailer

Episodes

Disc 01

Jeeves Takes Charge

60 mins 22/04/1990

Aunt Agatha wants Bertie to marry Honoria Glossop so that she will mold his character and infuse much needed strong blood in the Wooster line. But old chum Bingo Little is in love with her, so Bertie hatches a scheme to set things straight. Luckily, Jeeves has arrived to save Bertie from his own schemes (and hangovers).

Director: Robert Young

Writer: P.G. Wodehouse / Clive Exton

Guest starring: Mary Wimbush, Michael Siberry, Elizabeth Kettle, Roger Brierley, Jane Downs, Alistair Haley, John Woodnutt, Ian Jeffs, Hugo E. Blick, Adam Blackwood, Justine Glenton, Robert Daws, Richard Stirling, Richard Dixon

Tuppy and the Terrier

60 mins 29/04/1990

After a round of golf with Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps, Bertie find trouble in the form of Bobbie Wickham, first involving hot-water bottle piercing, then by giving away Aunt Agatha's dog to a broadway producer. Meanwhile Tuppy's become infatuated with an Opera singer and Jeeves hatches a plan involving a little concert in which Bertie must sing.

Director: Robert Young

Writer: P.G. Wodehouse / Clive Exton

Guest starring: Mary Wimbush, Brenda Bruce, Robert Daws, Nina Botting, Adam Blackwood, Rosemary Martin, Brian Haines, Constance Novis, Owen Brenman, Sydney Blumenfield

The Purity of the Turf

60 mins 06/05/1990

Uncle George has become engaged to a young waitress and Aunt Agatha wants Bertie to offer her a hundred pounds to end the scandalous engagement, but Jeeves has other plans. Then it's off to Twing Hall where Lady Wickhammersley has banned gambling due to an unfortunately incident in which Lord Wickhammersley lost the East Wing with a bad hand. So Bertie, Bingo, and Jeeves start gambling on events in the village fair, such as the Boys and Girls Mixed Animal Potato Race and the Mothers Sack Race.

Director: Robert Young

Writer: P.G. Wodehouse / Clive Exton

Guest starring: Mary Wimbush, Michael Siberry, Richard Stirling, Richard Dixon, Nicholas Selby, Paula Jacobs, Richard Braine, Charles Millham, Jack Watling, Richenda Carey, Helena Michell, Jack May

Disc 02

The Hunger Strike

60 mins 13/05/1990

Part 1 of 2. Brought to Brinkley Court by Aunt Dahlia to give prizes at the Market Snodsbury Grammar School, Bertie comes up with a scheme to both help Gussie Fink-Nottle's new romance with Madeline Basset as well as get himself out of the prize-giving.

Director: Robert Young

Writer: P.G. Wodehouse / Clive Exton

Guest starring: Richard Dixon, Brenda Bruce, Adam Blackwood, Robert Daws, Ralph Michael, Amanda Elwes, Richard Garnett, Francesca Folan, John Barrard, Michael Ripper

Brinkley Manor

60 mins 20/05/1990

Part 2 of 2. To get Gussie to propose to Madeline Jeeves slips a little something into his orange juice before he presents prizes at the grammar school. Unfortunately, so does Bertie. Things go downhill from there when Bertie rings the fire bell.

Director: Robert Young

Writer: P.G. Wodehouse / Clive Exton

Guest starring: Richard Dixon, Brenda Bruce, Adam Blackwood, Robert Daws, Ralph Michael, Amanda Elwes, Richard Garnett, Francesca Folan, John Barrard, Peter Hughes, Neil Hallett, Henry Power, Declan Traynor

Edition Details

Series	Jeeves and Wooster
Packaging	Custom Case
No. of Disks/Tapes	2

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