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Jeeves and Wooster is a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 comedy
Comedy

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 television series adapted by Clive Exton
Clive Exton

Clive Exton was a United Kingdom television and film scriptwriter, sometime playwright, and former actor. Best known for his scripts of Agatha Christie?s Agatha Christie's Poirot, P....
 from P.G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Order of the British Empire was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read....
's Jeeves
Jeeves

Reginald Jeeves is a fictional character in the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, being the "gentleman's personal gentleman" of Bertie Wooster ....
 stories. The series was produced by Picture Partnership Productions
Carnival Films

Carnival Films is a British television production company, founded by Brian Eastman in 1978 as Picture Partnership Productions Limited. The company swiftly built up a strong reputation as an independent production company....
 for Granada Television
Granada Television

Granada Television is the United Kingdom ITV contractor for North West England. It previously held the "North of England" weekday franchise, which also covered most of Yorkshire, from 1954 until 1968 when its broadcast area was divided into two franchises....
 and screened on the ITV
ITV

ITV is a public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television network of British television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC....
 network from 1990
1990 in television

The year 1990 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1990.For the American TV schedule, see: 1990-91 United States network television schedule....
 to 1993
1993 in television

The year 1993 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1993.For the American TV schedule, see: 1993-94 United States network television schedule....
. It starred Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie

James Hugh Calum Laurie, Order of the British Empire is an English actor, comedian, writer and musician. He first reached fame as one half of the Fry and Laurie double act, along with his friend and comedy partner, Stephen Fry, and then as a cast member of Blackadder....
 as Bertie Wooster
Bertie Wooster

Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of United Kingdom author P. G. Wodehouse. A British gentleman, member of the "idle rich" and the Drones Club, he appears alongside his valet, Jeeves, whose genius manages to extricate Bertie or one of his friends from numerous awkward situations....
, a jovial but empty-headed young gentleman, and Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry is an England actor, comedian, author and television presenter. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster....
 as Jeeves
Jeeves

Reginald Jeeves is a fictional character in the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, being the "gentleman's personal gentleman" of Bertie Wooster ....
, his improbably well-informed and talented valet
Valet

Valet and Varlet are terms for male Domestic workers who serve as personal attendants to their employer. In the Middle Ages, the valet de chambre to a ruler was a prestigious appointment for young courtiers, though in England, unlike France, these court roles later came to be called "Groom of the Chamber"....
. The stories are set in England
England

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 and the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 in pre-World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 20th century (there are aspects of the Edwardian era
Edwardian period

The Edwardian period or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom is the period covering the reign of Edward VII of the United Kingdom, 1901 to 1910....
, 1920s and 1930s).

Wooster is a well-to-do bachelor
Bachelor

A bachelor is a man above the age of majority who has never been marriage .The term is sometimes restricted to men who do not have and are not actively seeking a spouse or other personal partner....
, a minor aristocrat and a member of the idle rich.






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Jeeves and Wooster is a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 comedy
Comedy

Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western culture origins are found in Ancient Greece....
 television series adapted by Clive Exton
Clive Exton

Clive Exton was a United Kingdom television and film scriptwriter, sometime playwright, and former actor. Best known for his scripts of Agatha Christie?s Agatha Christie's Poirot, P....
 from P.G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Order of the British Empire was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read....
's Jeeves
Jeeves

Reginald Jeeves is a fictional character in the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, being the "gentleman's personal gentleman" of Bertie Wooster ....
 stories. The series was produced by Picture Partnership Productions
Carnival Films

Carnival Films is a British television production company, founded by Brian Eastman in 1978 as Picture Partnership Productions Limited. The company swiftly built up a strong reputation as an independent production company....
 for Granada Television
Granada Television

Granada Television is the United Kingdom ITV contractor for North West England. It previously held the "North of England" weekday franchise, which also covered most of Yorkshire, from 1954 until 1968 when its broadcast area was divided into two franchises....
 and screened on the ITV
ITV

ITV is a public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television network of British television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC....
 network from 1990
1990 in television

The year 1990 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1990.For the American TV schedule, see: 1990-91 United States network television schedule....
 to 1993
1993 in television

The year 1993 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1993.For the American TV schedule, see: 1993-94 United States network television schedule....
. It starred Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie

James Hugh Calum Laurie, Order of the British Empire is an English actor, comedian, writer and musician. He first reached fame as one half of the Fry and Laurie double act, along with his friend and comedy partner, Stephen Fry, and then as a cast member of Blackadder....
 as Bertie Wooster
Bertie Wooster

Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of United Kingdom author P. G. Wodehouse. A British gentleman, member of the "idle rich" and the Drones Club, he appears alongside his valet, Jeeves, whose genius manages to extricate Bertie or one of his friends from numerous awkward situations....
, a jovial but empty-headed young gentleman, and Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry is an England actor, comedian, author and television presenter. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster....
 as Jeeves
Jeeves

Reginald Jeeves is a fictional character in the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, being the "gentleman's personal gentleman" of Bertie Wooster ....
, his improbably well-informed and talented valet
Valet

Valet and Varlet are terms for male Domestic workers who serve as personal attendants to their employer. In the Middle Ages, the valet de chambre to a ruler was a prestigious appointment for young courtiers, though in England, unlike France, these court roles later came to be called "Groom of the Chamber"....
. The stories are set in England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 and the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 in pre-World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 20th century (there are aspects of the Edwardian era
Edwardian period

The Edwardian period or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom is the period covering the reign of Edward VII of the United Kingdom, 1901 to 1910....
, 1920s and 1930s).

Wooster is a well-to-do bachelor
Bachelor

A bachelor is a man above the age of majority who has never been marriage .The term is sometimes restricted to men who do not have and are not actively seeking a spouse or other personal partner....
, a minor aristocrat and a 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 from classical New Comedy which concern the entangled love lifes of the major characters.

Four series were produced with 23 episode
Episode

An episode is a part of a dramatic work such as a Serial television program or Radio programming program. An episode is a part of a sequence of a body of work, akin to a chapter of a book....
s in total. The programmes were produced by Brian Eastman and are all available on DVD
DVD

DVD, also known as "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc,"is a popular optical disc data storage device media format. Its main uses are video and data storage....
.

The theme music was composed by Anne Dudley
Anne Dudley

Anne Dudley is an Academy Award-winning English people orchestra composer and pop musician, and was the BBC Concert Orchestra's composer in Association between January 2002 and January 2005....
.

Characters

Actors' names are given with the series in which they appeared.
  • Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster
    Bertie Wooster

    Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of United Kingdom author P. G. Wodehouse. A British gentleman, member of the "idle rich" and the Drones Club, he appears alongside his valet, Jeeves, whose genius manages to extricate Bertie or one of his friends from numerous awkward situations....
     — Hugh Laurie
    Hugh Laurie

    James Hugh Calum Laurie, Order of the British Empire is an English actor, comedian, writer and musician. He first reached fame as one half of the Fry and Laurie double act, along with his friend and comedy partner, Stephen Fry, and then as a cast member of Blackadder....
  • Reginald Jeeves — Stephen Fry
    Stephen Fry

    Stephen John Fry is an England actor, comedian, author and television presenter. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster....


Recurring characters

Series 1 Series 2 Series 3 Series 4
Aunt Agatha
Aunt Agatha

Agatha Gregson, n?e Wooster, later Lady Worplesdon, is a recurring fictional character from the Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G....
 Mary Wimbush
Mary Wimbush

Mary Wimbush was an England actor, whose career spanned sixty years from the 1940s to the 2000s. Active across film, television, theatre and radio, she was perhaps best known for her role as the character of Julia Pargetter in BBC Radio 4's popular soap opera The Archers, a part she played from 1992 until her death....
 Elizabeth Spriggs
Elizabeth Spriggs

Elizabeth Spriggs was an Olivier Award-winning and BAFTA Award-nominated England character actor. She was born in Buxton....
Madeline Bassett
Madeline Bassett

Madeline Bassett is a recurring character in the Jeeves stories by English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being one of the young women to whom Bertie Wooster periodically finds himself threateningly engaged....
 Francesca Folan Diana Blackburn Elizabeth Morton
Sir Watkyn Bassett John Woodnutt
John Woodnutt

John Woodnutt was a United Kingdom actor.He was born in London, and at the age of 18 made his acting debut at the Oxford Playhouse.He had many television and film roles, including that of Henry VII of England in the first episode of The Six Wives of Henry VIII ; Sir Watkyn Bassett in the television version of Jeeves and Wooster...
Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng  Charlotte Attenborough Amanda Harris Charlotte Attenborough
Lady Florence Craye
Florence Craye

Lady Florence Craye is a fictional character who appears in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories and novels. Lady Florence, the daughter of Lord Worplesdon and elder sister to Edwin Craye, a nasty little runtish type of lad, is the sometime fiancee of Bertie Wooster....
  Fiona Gillies
Fiona Gillies

Fiona Gillies is a British actress who has appeared on television and the stage.She first appeared in the 1988 version of The Hound of the Baskervilles as Beryl Stapleton....
 Francesca Folan
Aunt Dahlia
Aunt Dahlia

Dahlia Travers is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being best known as Bertie Wooster's bonhomous, red-faced Aunt Dahlia....
 Travers		 Brenda Bruce
Brenda Bruce

Brenda Bruce was a United Kingdom actress of film, stage and television....
 Vivian Pickles
Vivian Pickles

Vivian Pickles , is an England actress.Her first nationally prominent role was on the BBC when, as a child actor, age 12, she played Alice in a film of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland that was broadcast live from Alexandra Palace in London....
 Patricia Lawrence
Patricia Lawrence

Patricia Lawrence was a United Kingdom actress.She may have been best-known for playing the formidable Sister Ulrica, a Netherlands prisoner of war in the BBC television drama Tenko ....
 Jean Heywood
Jean Heywood

Jean Heywood is a notable United Kingdom actress, appearing in films and television programmes such as Billy Elliot, The Bill, Casualty and the 1977 BBC made-for-TV film Our Day Out....
Augustus "Gussie" Fink-Nottle Richard Garnett Richard Braine
Richard Braine

Richard Braine is a British television actor.One of his most recognisable roles was that of Gussie Fink-Nottle in the ITV television third and fourth series Jeeves and Wooster based on the P....
Honoria Glossop
Honoria Glossop

Honoria Glossop is a particularly formidable female from the Jeeves stories by P. G. Wodehouse. She is of a rather muscular, sporty temperament, and as such remains unattached....
 Elizabeth Kettle
Elizabeth Kettle

Elizabeth Kettle, sometimes known as Liz Kettle, is an English character actress most famously known for her role as Honoria Glossop in the TV series Jeeves and Wooster and a recurring role as a WPC in Inspector Morse....
  Elizabeth Kettle
Sir Roderick Glossop Roger Brierley
Roger Brierley

Roger Brierley was a British chartered accountant-cum-actor.Though never a major star, he appeared in many television productions over a forty year period....
  Philip Locke
Philip Locke

Philip Locke was an England actor.He is possibly best known for his role as villainous SPECTRE underling Vargas in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball ....
Tuppy Glossop
Tuppy Glossop

Hildebrande "Tuppy" Glossop is a fictional character appearing in some of P. G. Wodehouse Jeeves books. He is a member of the Drones Club and a good friend of Bertie Wooster....
 Robert Daws
Robert Daws

Robert Daws,born 1 May 1959, is an England actor. He is most notable for a variety of roles he has played in television dramas.Daws played Tuppy Glossop in the early 1990s version of Jeeves and Wooster, and has also appeared in a number of one-off dramas including the 1997 BBC drama, The Missing Postman....
Bingo Little
Bingo Little

Richard P. "Bingo" Little is a recurring fictional character from the Drones Club and the Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a friend of Jeeves's master Bertie Wooster and a member of the Drones Club....
 Michael Siberry
Michael Siberry

Michael Siberry is a Australian Theatre and screen actor. He most recently starred as King Arthur in the National Tour of Monty Python's Spamalot....
 Pip Torrens
Pip Torrens

Pip Torrens is a British actor. He was born in 1960 at Bromley, Kent, England. His television appearances include Consenting Adults , two episodes of Doctor Who , Green Wing, The Government Inspector , The Last Detective and DI Torrens for a few episodes in The Bill in 2001....
Constable Oates  Campbell Morrison
Campbell Morrison

Campbell Morrison was a Scottish actor.He appeared in the soap operas Eldorado and EastEnders , and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in the early eighties....
 Stewart Harwood Sidney Livingstone
The Rev. Harold "Stinker" Pinker  Simon Treves
Simon Treves

Frederick Simon Treves, known as Simon Treves, is an England actor, theatre director and writer probably best known for playing Harold 'Stinker' Pinker in three series of ITV's Jeeves and Wooster....
Roderick Spode
Roderick Spode

Roderick Spode, 7th Earl of Sidcup, often known as Spode or Lord Sidcup, is a recurring fictional character from the Jeeves novels of British comic writer P....
  John Turner
John Turner (actor)

John Turner is a British television actor.One of his most recognisable roles was that of Roderick Spode in the ITV television series Jeeves and Wooster based on the P....


Other characters

  • Anatole
    Anatole

    Anatole, a fictional character in the works of P. G. Wodehouse, is a highly skilled yet temperamental France chef employed first by Mr and Mrs Bingo Little and later by Dahlia Travers, Bertie Wooster's aunt and chatelaine of Brinkley Court....
     — John Barrard (1)
  • Rosie M. Banks
    Rosie M. Banks

    Rosie M. Banks is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves and Drones Club stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a romance novelist and the wife of Bingo Little....
     — Anastasia Hille (4)
  • Cyril Bassington-Bassington — Nicholas Hewetson (3)
  • Cora Bellinger — Constance Novis (1)
  • Bicky Bickersteth — Julian Firth
    Julian Firth

    Julian Firth is a British actor, best known for his roles as troubled inmate Davis in the cinematic version of the film Scum and as Brother Jerome in the long running television series Cadfael....
     (3)
  • Biffy Biffen — Philip Shelley (2)
  • Rev. Beefy Bingham — Owen Brenman
    Owen Brenman

    Owen Brenman is an United Kingdom actor best known for his role as Nick Swainey in the multi-award-winning BBC sitcom One Foot In The Grave, which ran for ten years and was written by David Renwick....
     (1)
  • Lord Bittlesham — Geoffrey Toone
    Geoffrey Toone

    Geoffrey Toone was an Ireland character actor.Most of Toone's film roles after the 1930s were in supporting parts, usually as authority figures, though he did play the lead character in the Hammer Films production The Terror of the Tongs in 1961....
     (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
    Minor characters in the Jeeves stories

    The following is an incomplete compendium of the fictional characters featured in the Jeeves stories of P. G. Wodehouse, in alphabetical order by surname....
     — Nicholas Palliser (4)
  • Chuffy Chuffnell
    Chuffy Chuffnell

    Marmaduke, 5th Baron "Chuffy" Chuffnell, appears in a number of books by the United Kingdom comic novelist P. G. Wodehouse. He is another friend of Bertie Wooster , and one of the impoverished gentry....
     — Matthew Solon (2)
  • Seabury Chuffnell — Edward Holmes (2)
  • Myrtle Chuffnell — Fidelis Morgan
    Fidelis Morgan

    Fidelis Morgan is a United Kingdom actress and writer.Her stage plays include adaptations of famous novels, Pamela and Patrick Hamilton's Hangover Square were acclaimed on the London stage....
     (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
    Richard Stirling

    Richard Stirling is an Ireland cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He played for the Irish Under-19s team at the Under-19 World Cup in 2006....
     (1)
  • Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps
    Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps

    In the stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, Cyril "Barmy" Fotheringay-Phipps is a member of the Drones Club along with fellow club members Tuppy Glossop, Gussie Fink-Nottle, and others....
     — Adam Blackwood (1); Martin Clunes
    Martin Clunes

    Alexander Martin Clunes is a BAFTA Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards award-winning England actor and comedian....
     (2)
  • Lady Glossop
    Lady Glossop

    Lady Delia Glossop is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the wife of well known nerve specialist Sir Roderick Glossop, mother to Oswald and Honoria Glossop, and an acquaintance of Bertie's fearsome Aunt Agatha Gregson....
     — Jane Downs (1,2)
  • Oswald Glossop — Alistair Haley (1)
  • Aline Hemmingway — Rebecca Saire
    Rebecca Saire

    Rebecca Saire is a British actor....
     (2)
  • Sidney Hemmingway — Graham Seed
    Graham Seed

    Graham Seed is an England actor.He trained at RADA and is best known for playing Nigel Pargetter in the BBC radio series The Archers. Seed is probably unique among UK soap opera actors, having appeared in The Archers, Brookside, Coronation Street and Crossroads ....
     (2)
  • Porkie Jupp — Paul Kynman (4)
  • Liftman — Ricco Ross
    Ricco Ross

    Ricco Ross is an United States actor. He played Private Frost in Aliens , and also appeared in the films Mission: Impossible and Fierce Creatures....
     (3)
  • Lady Malvern — Moyra Fraser
    Moyra Fraser

    Moyra Fraser is an Australian-born United Kingdom actor who is best known for playing Penny in the long-running sitcom As Time Goes By ....
     (3)
  • Wilmot Malvern — Ronan Vibert
    Ronan Vibert

    Ronan Vibert is a Wales actor, known for his appearances on British television.Vibert was born in Cardiff, the son of Dilys and David Vibert, both artists....
     (3)
  • Gwladys Pendlebury — Deirdre Strath (4)
  • Lucius Pim — Marcus D'Amico
    Marcus D'Amico

    Marcus D'Amico is an actor best known for his role as Michael "Mouse" Tolliver in the original Tales of the City miniseries in 1993. D'Amico was born in Germany to an United States father and a English people mother, and was raised in the United Kingdom....
     (4)
  • Claude Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright
    Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright

    Claude Cattermole "Catsmeat" Potter-Pirbright is a recurring fictional character from the Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a member of the Drones Club and a longtime school friend of Jeeves's master Bertie Wooster....
     — John Elmes (3)
  • Oofy Prosser
    Oofy Prosser

    Alexander Charles "Oofy" Prosser is a recurring fictional character from the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the millionaire member of the Drones Club and a friend of Jeeves's master Bertie Wooster....
     — Richard Dixon
    Richard Dixon

    Richard Travers Dixon was a Great Britain sailor who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.He was a crew member of the British boat Heroine, which won the gold medal in the 7 metre class....
     (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
    Veronica Clifford

    Veronica Clifford is a Scotland character actor. Educated at St Joseph's Convent Boarding School, Girvan, Ayrshire and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she appeared in a number of minor roles in some television movie....
     (4)
  • Rupert Steggles — Richard Braine
    Richard Braine

    Richard Braine is a British television actor.One of his most recognisable roles was that of Gussie Fink-Nottle in the ITV television third and fourth series Jeeves and Wooster based on the P....
     (1)
  • Dwight Stoker — James Holland (actor) (2)
  • Pauline Stoker — Sharon Holm (2); Kymberley Huffman (3)
  • Emerald Stoker — Emma Hewitt (4)
  • J. Washburn Stoker — Manning Redwood (2); Don Fellows
    Don Fellows

    Don Fellows was an United States actor, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, who spent the bulk of his career acting in England, mostly in television....
     (3)
  • Rocky Todd — John Fitzgerald-Jay (3)
  • Angela Travers — Amanda Elwes (1)
  • Tom Travers
    Tom Travers

    In P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories, Tom Travers is the husband of Dahlia Travers and the uncle of Bertie Wooster. Travers, known to Bertie as Uncle Tom, reluctantly funded his wife's rarely-profitable magazine Milady's Boudoir, which he always called "Madame's Nightshirt"....
     — Ralph Michael
    Ralph Michael

    Ralph Michael was an England actor. He was born in London.His film appearances include: A Night to Remember , Children of the Damned, Khartoum , Grand Prix , The Assassination Bureau, and Empire of the Sun ....
     (1,4)
  • Jas Waterbury — David Healy
    David Healy (actor)

    David Healy was an American-born actor who starred in many United Kingdom and United States television shows. His credits include Voice acting for the Supermarionation series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and Joe 90, as well as parts in The Troubleshooters, Randall and Hopkirk and Dallas ....
     (4)
  • Trixie Waterbury — Serretta Wilson (4)
  • Lady Wickham — Rosemary Martin
    Rosemary Martin

    'Rosemary Martin' was an England actress, equally well remembered for her sitcom roles as for her parts in drama series .Other notable TV credits include: Z-Cars, Crown Court , Bill Brand, Coronation Street, Pennies From Heaven , The Sweeney, Maggie: It's Me, Life Begins at Forty, Thomas & Sarah, Berger...
     (1)
  • Lord Wickhammersley — Jack Watling
    Jack Watling

    Jack Watling was a United Kingdom actor....
     (1)
  • Lady Wickhammersley — Richenda Carey
    Richenda Carey

    Richenda Carey is an English people theatre, television and film Actor, who is mostly known for her roles in Monarch of the Glen, Crush and most recently, Separate Lies and Criminal Justice ....
     (1)
  • Bobbie Wickham
    Bobbie Wickham

    Roberta "Bobbie" Wickham is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves and Mr Mulliner stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a troublesome redheaded girl, enamoured of practical jokes which often result in general pandemonium....
     — Nina Botting (1); Niamh Cusack
    Niamh Cusack

    Niamh Cusack is an Ireland actress. The daughter of late Irish actor Cyril Cusack, she is sister to Sin?ad Cusack and Sorcha Cusack, and half sister to Catherine Cusack....
     (2)
  • Sir Cuthbert Wickham — Brian Haines (1)
  • Freddie Widgeon
    Freddie Widgeon

    Freddie Widgeon is a recurring fictional character from the Drones Club stories of English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a friend of Bingo Little and Jeeves' master Bertie Wooster....
     — Charles Millham (1); John Duval (2)
  • Maud Wilberforce — Paula Jacobs (1)
  • Dame Daphne Winkworth — Rosalind Knight
    Rosalind Knight

    Rosalind Knight is a United Kingdom actress. She has a good theatrical pedigree, being the daughter of Esmond Knight and Frances Clare and the stepdaughter of Nora Swinburne....
     (3)
  • Gertrude Winkworth — Chloλ Annett
    Chloλ Annett

    Chlo? Victoria Annett is an England actor, born in London on 25 July 1971....
     (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
    Bill Bailey

    Mark Bailey , Stage name as Bill Bailey, is an England stand-up comedian, musician and actor, known for his appearances on Have I Got News for You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI and Black Books....
     (3)
  • Lord Worplesden — Frederick Treves
    Frederick Treves (actor)

    Frederick William Treves British Empire Medal is an England character actor with an extensive repertoire. He specialises in avuncular military and titled types....
     (4)
  • Ted Tucker
    Ted Tucker

    Ted Tucker is a professional cartoonist and renowned caricature artist. He has been a frequent contributor to More Fund Comics,an inker on Buzzboy , and artist/writer/publisher of his own comic, Lunar Donut....
     — James Patten


Episodes


Locations

  • Totleigh Towers
    Totleigh Towers

    Totleigh Towers is a recurring fictional location, a country house in the Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the seat of widower Sir Watkyn Bassett and his daughter Madeline Bassett....
     was filmed at Highclere Castle
    Highclere Castle

    Highclere Castle is a Victorian architecture country house in high Elizabethan style, with park designed by Capability Brown. The 24 square kilometre estate in Hampshire is south of Newbury, Berkshire, Berkshire, England....
    , Berks.
  • Exterior shots of Brinkley Court
    Brinkley Court

    Brinkley Court is a recurring fictional location, a country house in the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the seat of Tom Travers and Dahlia Travers....
     were filmed at Barnsley Park
    Barnsley, Gloucestershire

    Barnsley is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold of Gloucestershire, England, north-east of Cirencester. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 162....
    , Glos. in series 1 and Hall Barn
    Beaconsfield

    Beaconsfield is a market town and civil parish operating as a town council within South Bucks district in Buckinghamshire, England. It lies northwest of London, and east of the county town of Aylesbury....
    , Bucks. in series 4.
  • All interior shots of Brinkley Court
    Brinkley Court

    Brinkley Court is a recurring fictional location, a country house in the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the seat of Tom Travers and Dahlia Travers....
     were filmed at Wrotham Park, Herts.
  • Interior and exterior shots of Chuffnell Hall
    Chuffy Chuffnell

    Marmaduke, 5th Baron "Chuffy" Chuffnell, appears in a number of books by the United Kingdom comic novelist P. G. Wodehouse. He is another friend of Bertie Wooster , and one of the impoverished gentry....
    , in series 2, were also filmed at Wrotham Park.
  • Shots of Chuffnell Regis, Devon, were filmed in Fowey
    Fowey

    Fowey is a small town, civil parish and cargo port at the mouth of the River Fowey in south Cornwall, England, UK. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,273....
    , Cornwall.
  • Ditteridge Hall ("Jeeves Takes Charge") was filmed at Englefield House
    Englefield, Berkshire

    Englefield is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England, mostly within the bounds of the private walled estate of Englefield House.The village is situated in the Districts of England of West Berkshire, close to Reading, Berkshire....
    , Berks.
  • Twing Hall ("The Purity of the Turf") was filmed at Stanway House
    Stanway, Gloucestershire

    Stanway is a small crossroads village in the England county of Gloucestershire.It is part of the Tewkesbury area. The village is dominated by Stanway House, a Jacobean architecture manor house which has been a popular location as a film set....
    , Glos.
  • The "Victoria Hotel" and the "Hotel Riviera" in Westcombe-on-Sea ("Pearls Mean Tears") were filmed in Sidmouth
    Sidmouth

    Sidmouth is a small town on the English Channel coast in Devon, South West England England. The town lies at the mouth of the River Sid in the East Devon district, approximately south east of Exeter....
    , Devon.
  • Chuffy's Aunt's House ("Kidnapped!") was filmed at Clandon Park
    Clandon Park

    Clandon Park is an 18th century Palladian mansion in West Clandon just outside Guildford, Surrey, in the United Kingdom. It has been a National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty property since 1956....
    , Surrey.
  • Deverill Hall
    Deverill Hall

    Deverill Hall is a recurring fictional location in the Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the country seat of Dame Daphne Winkworth, a formidable old harridan, friend of Aunt Agatha Gregson and therefore no friend of Bertie Wooster, Jeeves's master....
     ("Right Ho, Jeeves") was filmed at Joyce Grove
    Nettlebed

    Nettlebed is a village in Oxfordshire, England. It has a population of around 700. It is about north-west of Henley-on-Thames and a simialr distance south-east of Wallingford on the A4130, in the Chiltern Hills....
    , Oxon.
  • Fothergill Hall ("Comrade Bingo") was filmed at Dorney Court
    Dorney Court

    Dorney Court is an early Tudor style architecture manor house, dating from around 1982, located in the village of Dorney, Buckinghamshire. It is owned and lived in by the Palmers....
    , Bucks.
  • Lord Worplesdon's
    Lord Worplesdon

    Percival "Percy" Craye, later Earl of Worplesdon, is a recurring fictional character from the Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G....
     New York residence ("The Once and Future Ex") was filmed at Gaddesden Place
    Gaddesden Place

    Gaddesden Place, near Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire, England, was designed by architect James Wyatt and built between 1768 and 1773, and was the home of the noted Hertfordshire Halsey Baronets....
    , Herts.
  • Exterior shots of Stuyvesant Towers, Wooster's residence in New York City
    New York City

    The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
     in series 3 and 4, were filmed at Senate House
    Senate House (University of London)

    Senate House is the administrative centre of the University of London, situated in the heart of Bloomsbury, London between the School of Oriental and African Studies to the north, with the British Museum to the south....
     in Bloomsbury
    Bloomsbury

    Bloomsbury may refer to:* Bloomsbury, an area in central London.* the Bloomsbury Group, an English literary group active around from around 1905 to the start of World War II....
    , the central library and administration building for the University of London
    University of London

    Based primarily in London, England, United Kingdom, the University of London is a federal mega university made up of 31 affiliates: 19 separate university institutions, and 12 research institutes....
    .


Trivia

  • Bertie Wooster's car is an early 1930s Aston Martin
    Aston Martin

    Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars, based in Gaydon, Warwickshire. The company name is derived from the name of one of the company's founders, Lionel Martin, and from the Aston Hill hillclimbing near Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire...
    .
  • Chuffy Chufnell drives a Lagonda
    Lagonda

    Lagonda was a United Kingdom car manufacturer, founded as a company in 1906 in Staines, Middlesex by the American Wilbur Gunn . He named the company after a river near his home town of Springfield, Ohio....
     in series 2.
  • Because the lead actors Fry (6'5") and Laurie (6'3") are particularly tall, the supporting players were cast with this in mind and are almost all uniformly tall themselves.
  • An element of the TV show not present in the books is Wooster's (Hugh Laurie's) skill at piano playing. Several memorable scenes in the TV show feature Laurie playing a humorous piano song and, occasionally, Jeeves joining in for a duet.
  • Vivian Pickles
    Vivian Pickles

    Vivian Pickles , is an England actress.Her first nationally prominent role was on the BBC when, as a child actor, age 12, she played Alice in a film of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland that was broadcast live from Alexandra Palace in London....
     also plays Aunt Dahlia in the BBC Radio 4
    BBC Radio 4

    BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history....
     series What-ho, Jeeves!
  • The theme music by Anne Dudley
    Anne Dudley

    Anne Dudley is an Academy Award-winning English people orchestra composer and pop musician, and was the BBC Concert Orchestra's composer in Association between January 2002 and January 2005....
     was also used in the movie Mickey Blue Eyes
    Mickey Blue Eyes

    Mickey Blue Eyes is a 1999 in film directed by Kelly Makin. Hugh Grant stars as Michael Felgate, an English auctioner living in New York City who becomes entangled in his soon-to-be father in-law's mafia connections....
     starring Hugh Grant
    Hugh Grant

    Hugh John Mungo Grant is a British people actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary C?sar. His movies have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide....


External links

  • : An episode guide to the series, including information about which episodes were adapted from which Wodehouse stories
  • : Episode guides, screenshots and quotes from the four series