Jeeves and Wooster (1990)

Genre

comedy drama, drama television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

4 seasons, 23 episodes

Rated

TV-PG

Rating

8.1 of 10 from 126 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This series follows Bertie Wooster, a well-meaning but hapless young gentleman, and his supremely clever valet Jeeves. Together they navigate the social mishaps of Bertie and his friends, with Jeeves always finding a way to get them out of trouble.

lightheartedwhimsicalcleveramusinggentlenostalgicbreezywitty

What happens

Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy television series adapted by Clive Exton from P. G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 22 April 1990 to 20 June 1993, with the last series nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series. Set in the UK and the US in an unspecified period between the late 1920s and the 1930s, the series starred Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, an affable young gentleman and member of the idle rich, and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his highly intelligent and competent valet. Bertie and his friends, who are mainly members of the Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable Jeeves. When Fry and Laurie began the series, they were already a popular comedic double act for their regular appearances on Channel 4's Saturday Live and their own show A Bit of Fry & Laurie (BBC, 1987–95). In the television documentary Fry and Laurie Reunited (2010), the actors, reminiscing about their involvement in the series, revealed that they were initially reluctant to play the parts of Jeeves and Wooster, but eventually decided to do so because the series was going to be made with or without them, and they felt no one else would do the parts justice. The series was a collaboration between Brian Eastman of Picture Partnership Productions and Granada Television. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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