Genre | Comedy |
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Running time | 30 or 45 minutes |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Language(s) | English |
Home station | BBC Radio 4 |
Starring | Michael Hordern Richard Briers |
Written by | Chris Miller and Richard Usborne, adapted from the works of P. G. Wodehouse |
Produced by | David Hatch Peter Titheridge Simon Brett |
Original release | 5 June 1973 – 7 January 1981 |
No. of episodes | 54 |
What Ho! Jeeves (sometimes written What Ho, Jeeves!) is a series of radio dramas based on some of the Jeeves short stories and novels written by P. G. Wodehouse, starring Michael Hordern as the titular Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster.
The stories were adapted for radio by Chris Miller, except the last two novels featured in the series, which were dramatised by Richard Usborne. [1] The series was first broadcast from 1973 to 1981 on BBC Radio 4. [2]
The novels were adapted into several episodes. Each episode is approximately 30 minutes long, except for the episodes adapted from Thank You, Jeeves and The Mating Season, which are each about 45 minutes long. [1]
"The Ordeal of Young Tuppy" and Joy in the Morning episodes were produced by Simon Brett. The Thank You, Jeeves and The Mating Season episodes were produced by Peter Titheridge. The episodes adapted from The Inimitable Jeeves, The Code of the Woosters, Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, and Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves were produced by David Hatch.
Six of the dramatized books are included in the audio collection Jeeves & Wooster: The Collected Radio Dramas, published by BBC Books in 2013. [3] Some episodes occasionally air on BBC Radio 4 Extra. [4]
The series features eight multipart adaptations. [2] [16] A standalone episode adapted from the short story, "The Ordeal of Young Tuppy" (1930), was also aired, and first broadcast on 27 December 1976. [17]
Adapted from The Inimitable Jeeves (1923). The cast included Ronald Fraser as Mortimer Little, [18] Maurice Denham as the Rev. Heppenstall, Jonathan Lynn and David Jason as Claude and Eustace, [19] and Edwin Apps as Steggles. [20]
Episode | Title | First broadcast |
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1 | Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum | 5 June 1973 |
2 | Pearls Mean Tears | 14 June 1973 |
3 | Honoria Glossop | 21 June 1973 |
4 | The Startling Dressiness of a Lift Attendant | 28 June 1973 |
5 | Comrade Bingo | 5 July 1973 |
6 | The Great Sermon Handicap | 12 July 1973 |
7 | The Purity of the Turf | 17 July 1973 |
8 | The Metropolitan Touch | 24 July 1973 |
9 | The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace | 31 July 1973 |
10 | Bingo and the Little Woman | 7 August 1973 |
Adapted from Right Ho, Jeeves (1934). The cast included John Graham as Uncle Tom and Anatole, and Jennie Goossens as Angela. [21]
Episode | Title | First broadcast |
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1 | Jeeves Loses His Grip | 14 August 1973 |
2 | Aunt Dahlia | 21 August 1973 |
3 | Anatole Is Insulted | 30 August 1973 |
4 | Getting Gussie Going | 4 September 1973 |
5 | The Roasting of Tuppy Glossop | 11 September 1973 |
6 | Gussie Presents the Prizes | 20 September 1973 |
7 | An Awful Doom | 25 September 1973 |
8 | Jeeves Finds the Key | 4 October 1973 |
Adapted from The Code of the Woosters (1938). The cast included Douglas Blackwell as Harold Pinker and Tony McEwan as PC Oates. [15]
Episode | Title | First broadcast |
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1 | The Silver Cow Creamer | 9 October 1973 |
2 | The Small Leather-Covered Notebook | 16 October 1973 |
3 | The Plot Thickens | 23 October 1973 |
4 | Spode's Fangs Are Drawn | 30 October 1973 |
5 | Strange Behaviour of a Curate | 6 November 1973 |
6 | The Course of True Love | 13 November 1973 |
7 | A Wrongful Arrest | 20 November 1973 |
Adapted from Thank You, Jeeves (1934). The cast included Clive Francis as Lord Chuffnell, Connie Booth as Pauline Stoker, Jo Manning-Wilson as Seabury, [22] Blain Fairman as J. Washburn Stoker, John Dunbar as Sergeant Voules, John Bull as Constable Dobson, [23] and Alaric Cotter as Brinkley. [24]
Episode | Title | First broadcast |
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1 | Chuffnell Regis | 2 July 1975 |
2 | Sinister Behaviour of a Yacht Owner | 9 July 1975 |
3 | The Butter Situation | 16 July 1975 |
4 | Jeeves Finds the Way | 23 July 1975 |
Adapted from The Mating Season (1949). The cast included James Villiers as Esmond Haddock, Jo Kendall as Corky Pirbright, Kenneth Fortescue as Catsmeat Pirbright, Miriam Margoyles as Dame Daphne Winkworth and Hilda Gudgeon, John Dunbar as Silversmith, and Antony Higginson as the Rev. Sydney Pirbright and Constable Dobbs. [25]
Episode | Title | First broadcast |
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1 | Deverill Hall | 30 July 1975 |
2 | The Great Web | 6 August 1975 |
3 | Amorousness of a Newt Fancier | 13 August 1975 |
4 | The Village Concert | 20 August 1975 |
5 | Reunited Hearts | 27 August 1975 |
Adapted from Joy in the Morning (1946). The cast included Peter Woodthorpe as Lord Worplesdon, Jonathan Cecil as Boko Fittleworth, Denise Bryer as Edwin the Boy Scout, [26] Rosalind Adams as Nobby Hopwood, and Michael Kilgarriff as Stilton Cheesewright. [27]
Episode | Title | First broadcast |
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1 | Florence Craye | 9 January 1978 |
2 | Steeple Bumpleigh | 16 January 1978 |
3 | Tribulations of an Uncle By Marriage | 23 January 1978 |
4 | Sundry Happenings in a Garden | 1 February 1978 |
5 | Schemes and Ruses | 8 February 1978 |
6 | Fancy Dress | 13 February 1978 |
7 | Jeeves Sails Into Action | 22 February 1978 |
Adapted from Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954). The cast included James Villiers as Stilton Cheesewright, Jonathan Cecil as Percy Gorringe, Norman Bird as L. G. Trotter, Diana King as Mrs Trotter, Ann Davies as Daphne Dolores Morehead, Liza Goddard as Lady Florence Crayne and David Tate as Stebbings. [28]
Episode | Title | First broadcast |
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1 | The New Moustache | 21 May 1979 |
2 | Ephraim Gadsby, Jailbird | 28 May 1979 |
3 | Dark Doings at Brinkley | 4 June 1979 |
4 | Bedrooms, Burglars and Broken Troths | 11 June 1979 |
5 | A Man's Best Friend Is His Cosh | 18 June 1979 |
6 | Jeeves, Mastermind | 25 June 1979 |
Adapted from Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963). The cast included Douglas Blackwell as the Rev. Harold Pinker, Ann Davies as Emerald Stoker, [29] Ronald Fraser as Major Plank, Percy Edwards as the dog Bartholomew. [30] and Graham Faulkner as Constable Oates. [31]
Episode | Title | First broadcast |
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1 | The Menace of Totleigh Towers | 3 December 1980 |
2 | Upstairs, Downstairs and Bumps in the Night | 10 December 1980 |
3 | Bartholomew, Blackmail and Barefaced Lies | 17 December 1980 |
4 | Spode Is Unsuccessful | 24 December 1980 |
5 | Black Eyes and Bloody Noses | 2 January 1981 |
6 | Game, Set and Match to Jeeves | 7 January 1981 |
Jeeves is a fictional character in a series of comedic short stories and novels by English author P. G. Wodehouse. Jeeves is the highly competent valet of a wealthy and idle young Londoner named Bertie Wooster. First appearing in print in 1915, Jeeves continued to feature in Wodehouse's work until his last completed novel Aunts Aren't Gentlemen in 1974, a span of 60 years.
Agatha Gregson, née Wooster, later Lady Worplesdon, is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories of the British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being best known as Bertie Wooster's Aunt Agatha. Haughty and overbearing, Aunt Agatha wants Bertie to marry a wife she finds suitable, though she never manages to get Bertie married, thanks to Jeeves's interference.
Bertram Wilberforce Wooster is a fictional character in the comedic Jeeves stories created by British author P. G. Wodehouse. An amiable English gentleman and one of the "idle rich", Bertie appears alongside his valet, Jeeves, whose intelligence manages to save Bertie or one of his friends from numerous awkward situations. Bertie Wooster and Jeeves have been described as "one of the great comic double-acts of all time".
Augustus "Gussie" Fink-Nottle is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a lifelong friend of Jeeves's master Bertie Wooster and a country member of the Drones Club. He wears horn-rimmed spectacles and studies newts.
Dahlia Travers is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories of English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being best known as Bertie Wooster's bonhomous, red-faced Aunt Dahlia. She is much beloved by her nephew, in contrast with her sister, Bertie's Aunt Agatha.
Madeline Bassett is a fictional character in the Jeeves stories by English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being an excessively sentimental and fanciful young woman to whom Bertie Wooster intermittently, and reluctantly, finds himself engaged.
Right Ho, Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, the second full-length novel featuring the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, after Thank You, Jeeves. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 5 October 1934 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 15 October 1934 by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, under the title Brinkley Manor. It had also been sold to the Saturday Evening Post, in which it appeared in serial form from 23 December 1933 to 27 January 1934, and in England in the Grand Magazine from April to September 1934. Wodehouse had already started planning this sequel while working on Thank You, Jeeves.
Richard P. "Bingo" Little is a recurring fictional character in the comedic Jeeves and Drones Club stories of English writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a friend of Jeeves's master Bertie Wooster and a member of the Drones Club.
Honoria Glossop is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories by English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. Athletic as well as scholarly, she is a formidable young lady and one of the women whom Bertie Wooster becomes reluctantly engaged to.
Sir Roderick Glossop is a recurring fictional character in the comic novels and short stories of P. G. Wodehouse. Sometimes referred to as a "nerve specialist" or a "loony doctor", he is a prominent practitioner of psychiatry in Wodehouse's works, appearing in several Jeeves stories and in one Blandings Castle story.
Hildebrand "Tuppy" Glossop is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories by humorist P. G. Wodehouse. Tuppy is a member of the Drones Club, a friend of Bertie Wooster, and the fiancé of Angela Travers, Bertie's cousin.
Very Good, Jeeves is a collection of eleven short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, all featuring Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. It was first published in the United States on 20 June 1930 by Doubleday, Doran, New York, and in the United Kingdom on 4 July 1930 by Herbert Jenkins, London. The stories had all previously appeared in Strand Magazine in the UK and in Liberty or Cosmopolitan magazines in the US between 1926 and 1930.
Thank You, Jeeves is a Jeeves comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 16 March 1934 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 23 April 1934 by Little, Brown and Company, New York.
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"Scoring off Jeeves" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, that features a young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in The Strand Magazine in London in February 1922, and then in Cosmopolitan in New York in March 1922. The story was also included in the 1923 collection The Inimitable Jeeves as two separate chapters, "The Pride of the Woosters Is Wounded" and "The Hero's Reward".
"Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in The Strand Magazine in London in March 1922, and then in Cosmopolitan in New York in April 1922. The story was also included in the 1923 collection The Inimitable Jeeves as two separate chapters, "Introducing Claude and Eustace" and "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch".
"Bingo and the Little Woman" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in The Strand Magazine in London in November 1922, and then in Cosmopolitan in New York in December 1922. The story was also included in the collection The Inimitable Jeeves as two separate stories, "Bingo and the Little Woman" and "All's Well".
"The Ordeal of Young Tuppy" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in April 1930, and in Cosmopolitan in the United States that same month, both as "Tuppy Changes His Mind". The story was also included as the eleventh story in the 1930 collection Very Good, Jeeves.