Clive Exton (1930 - 2007) wrote all of the scripts for this series (23 episodes, 1990 - 1993). He also wrote 20 scripts for Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989 - 2000) and 10 scripts for Rosemary and Thyme (22 episodes, 2003 - 2007). He had a prolific output both in the UK and during ten years in Hollywood and wrote or contributed to scripts for many movies including 10 Rillington Place, The Awakening and The Bounty. He dramatized works by Jean Cocteau, Daphne du Maurier, Graham Greene, Ruth Rendell and H G Wells among others.
Exton was one of the best writers working from the late 70's through the 90's. My personal feeling is that in the scenario writing too much quality has been lost since around 2000 when Exton, Brian Eastman and John Hawkesworth passed on. It's a real loss.
I think you mean 'forgo' Sir! 'Forego' would convey, albeit imperfectly, the similitude of consuming the first two courses ahead of the meat. Whereas your terminology is intended to denote their avoidance altogether.
Really? I much preferred both the previous Madeline and the previous Gussie. They were a bit hopeless but relatively nuanced and still quite sympathetic characters.These two, on the other hand, are are just a pair of cartoon characters, too irritating for words with her vacant looks and ridiculous squeaking, and his breathless whining. I suppose it's down to personal taste, isn't it?
This is entertainment! No bad language True Art of Acting This is the style net works should strive for.Clearly to cleaver for this day and age Hollywood have no talent left.
+Mysterious Squirrel totally, the opening theme alone is enough to make you feel in a good mood, imagine sitting down to this on a Sunday evening. Bliss.
I also think it's brilliant, and brilliantly re-wrought for different moods. Only trouble is, when I go to bed, I have it going round my head, and when I wake it's still there, without a break. Rather makes me wonder what it's done to the old noggin in the interim... Well, not to worry.
This actress is absolute spiffing brilliant playing Madeline Basset. Wide-eyed, soppy, with a high pitched lisp. Absolutely embodies what Wodehouse described
"I'm undoubted that your cool head and thespian powers will see you through the day, sir". Frye to Laurie. The English wheeze meets the French farce! Best episode Jeeves 0304.
"You can't go around London asking people to pretend to be Gussie Fink-Nottle. Well you CAN I suppose - but what a hell of a life".......no-one but NO-ONE could have written that but the genius P G Wodehouse!!!
Reminded me of the bit in "Shaft" (the novel, I've never seen the movie) where Shaft wants to find out where the Mafia's headquarters is so he goes around town shouting "where the heck is the Mafia's headquarters!?" in every Italian bar and restaurant - and it works.
The storyline is always so well thought out. Every episode, every time, season after season. I especially love the way Fry and Laurie play off each other like a well tuned instrument. The only other team I can recall that brought me so much enjoyment was Lewis and Martin. It's magical. 😀😂🤣😃😄😉
Regarding Jeeves and Wooster-the brilliant writing belongs to the author of the books-P.G. Wodehouse. Most of the dialog is straight out of the books without much editing. The brilliance of this series is being able to bring it believably into life with excellent acting, direction and real scenery and sets.
Plum added so much joy to all our lives. All we can do to thank him is to pass it on so he is appreciatively and lovingly remembered. I did this in giving his books to my son❤️
I love how the judges on this show always say everything is the most heinous crime they've ever heard of, right before handing down some trivial fine and letting him go!
I agree, Toni. Wodehouse was brilliant. Having said that, I must say that I think that many of his other, let's say non-Jeeves stories, are not of the Jeeves/Wooster standard.
This is the best Madeline in the series! Exactly as the book describes her. She is a scream!!! The new Gussie with that lisp is actually pretty funny too. And the actor playing Catsmeat is hysterical! This is altogether one of the funniest episodes in the series!
Fink-Nottle is nothing if not a brilliant change artist in these episodes full of delightful jocularity with the underlying theme of some duration of newts.
14:00 the director's brilliant use of the close-up and a bit of 'fish-eye lens' brings on fits laughter for me every time; when Bertie tries to tell his joke at the dinner table. Brace yourself! LOL
The little bit of slapstick with the treacle and paper was sheer genius. Very well acted; worthy of Chaplin or Lloyd. You knew exactly what was to come but revelled in the comedic predictably of the thing. Well done Mr Laurie.
the actress playing Madeline Bassett is perfect.....exactly as the books describe her...."pretty in a droopy soupy way "...lol. love her lisp....brilliant! I like the new gussie too.
Her name is Elizabeth Morton and by the way, she's been married to actor Peter Davison since 2003. He's most famous for "All Creatures Great and Small."
PG Wodehouse, genius writing combining the finest of English humour,( belly laughing silliness) with well developed characters and stunning backdrops, brilliantly brought to life by a skillful production and superb performances, esp the talented Hugh and Stephen, a perfect pairing. The best of British TV, sublime and unsurpassed , greatly enjoyed by young and old alike. A true gem in the panthenon of British drama.
Superb script. Terrific acting, timing, from top to the character actors. Great cinematography. Fantastic wardrobe. Think of the expense 30 years ago. Today?
Yes, but I don't like it as well. Not as well done as this one. Sad because I actually like the Blandings books the best of Wodehouse's works. Of course it might make a difference that this series was my introduction to Wodehouse so I saw it before I read the books, whereas I had read all the Blandings stories before I tried to watch the series...
You made an excellent choice for learning proper English. It doesn't get any more proper than Jeeves's speech. Most of the characters speak very good, educated British English, including Bertie, but he talks too fast to follow half the time.
I have watched too many murder mysteries set in this era... so I keep expecting that someone is about to be murdered... I can't help it and it is somewhat distracting.
Andrew Carson That’s a point, makes more sense to be fair. Though Jeeves I think would still clear Bertie’s name. (Talking of Jeeves I need to get rid of Santa Jeeves profile photo 😂)
Lynx South I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. I feel it's an attempted put down but I can't quite see how you think it works, Maybe you'd care to explain? Also the 'decade' bit is a tad confusing. Do you mean a decade after Barrymore *said* it? if so, then no, it would be a lot longer than a decade, as he died in 1942.
No, no attempted put-down at all. I found it interesting that you used that quotation here in Jeeves and Wooster comments and then Stephen Fry used it many years later (and I'd just rewatched that QI episode a few days before). A time-lapsed coincidence. I simply liked it occurring in two Stephen Fry contexts. My apologies for not being clearer.
This isn’t the books. In fact it often ostentatiously separates itself from the books (or a particular book as the case may be) and adds, deletes, or outright changes particular details/events from the books. If I may take the liberty, sir, I must say that I find BOTH to be quite entertaining. Rather than being offended, I am impressed. Rarely are the print and cinematic versions so individually enjoyable when digested side by side. I laugh out loud when I watch this AND when I read (or rather listen to the reading of) the original!
There are some stagecraft things here which are worth pointing-out. The catch of the ball was probably not done on the first take. Similarly, the catch of the macadamia or peanut probably not either. I'd say the crew were somewhat challenged here (albeit with intermittent fits of laughter.)
"You know, Jeeves, if someone were to come to me and ask if I'd be willing to join a society whose aim will be the suppression of Aunts, or will be willing to see to it that they are kept on a short chain and not permitted to roam at will scattering desolation on all sides, I'd reply, "Wilbraham, if his name was Wilbraham that is, Wilbraham, put me down as a Foundation Member!"
Currently on my eleventh book out of the 15. Superb. I remember this series from years ago and visualise fry and Laurier in the roles whilst reading. Credit to the performances.
yes I thought it a bit of a shame they changed the basset girl again. I really liked the first casting of her but they change her around every time it seems. This incarnation seems so cartoony.
I prefered the old 'Fink-Nottle'; he was more, newt-like. This one was running the book on the village sports-day in the first series- I can't remember his name.
I'm afraid I we aren't eye-to-eye here - I think it's "common sense" that the audience takes pleasure in "reconnecting" again with the action AND the actors. That's - btw - the explanation why "King of Queens" (a US series from the 90ies) flopped dramatically when they decided to replace Leah Remini (one of the lead actors) with someone else. It just doesn't work i. e. minimizes the delight substantially - and the viewers don't forgive that easily . PS: Perhaps you may reconsider your tone - I think it's slightly offending.
I have to agree with alison webster - actors just aren't always available for new series, that's just the way it is in television. Imagine how difficult it must be for the producers. Also, the TV audience when the original was aired probably didn't think as much of it as we might, because of the longer interval between series, whereas we tend to watch them all one after another (well, I do, anyway...), so we notice changes easily. To be honest, I sometimes like the new actors' interpretations of the characters better than the originals. As long as Fry and Laurie are there, I'm not really fussed about the others. The more confusing thing is how they suddenly returned to England from New York without so much as a "by your leave"...
Especially when they reuse actors who played different parts! The gussie character in this episode played a different character in series 1 episode with original gussie! 2 episodes later they switch, also honoria, barmy and Madeline are different actors!
Sure, this Gussie might not be as good as the original. But every actor and actress, including him, has comic genius so that even non-joke lines and simple facial expressions are hilarious :D
Hey... fun to see Hugh Laurie. So funny to see him clean-shaven, acting "proper", and hearing him with a British accent (which is his native tongue). Talk about the anti-thesis of "House MD".
***** I suppose that's true... but then again, we Mid-Westerners don't have an accent either. We're the only Americans WITHOUT an accent....especially compared to Southern American accents, Boston accents, Bronx accents, etc. It's all a matter of perspective.
EngLady80 I respectfully disagree. Midwesterners do have an accent. As a born and raised New Yorker who has spent a considerable amount of time in the Midwest, there are a few different "twangs" that I've encountered. I grew up with British parents who made their children speak "the Queens English" & have regular elocution classes. God forbid we should have a NY accent...
mydogsioux I said that "tongue-in-cheek". I've been told before that Midwesterners DO have an accent... much like our Scandinavian ancestors. But RARELY does anyone think that their own "native" speech is an "accent". It's just "normal".
Don't know how many of you have read The Mating Season, on which this episode is based..but two characters are sorely missed..the owner of Deverill Hall Esmond Haddock and Catsmeat's sister Corky..Esmond and Corky play the third couple in the novel..
"All the 'little Deverills' eh?" And when Gussie's singing, she stares at the ear trumpet as if there must be something wrong with it! Thanks again for posting these; I dozed through most of them first time round but I'm now seeing episodes I missed back when they were run on TV.
My girlfriend and i read all of the PG Woodhouse books and loved them , so we were both pleasantly surprised to find these videos. They are soo true to the books.
In the 1990-1993 television series 'Jeeves and Wooster', Madeline Bassett was portrayed by Francesca Folan in series 1, by Diana Blackburn in series 2, and by Elizabeth Morton in series 3 and 4. In the 1973-1981 radio drama series 'What Ho! Jeeves', Madeline was voiced by Aimi MacDonald ('Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves'). Now there, in the lovely Aimi MacDonald, is the perfect Madeline Bassett. If she were suddenly to say "Today I danced on the lawn before breakfast, and then I went round the garden saying good morning to the flowers" I wouldn't be the least bit surprised. Her excitable, squeaky voice has been likened to "a choir of frantic mice".
Expected Jeeves qua Scotland Yard to say "alduce me to interlow myself".... there's a distinct Pythonesque flavour to this interpretation of Wodehouse, which I as a devotee of both Wodehouse and MPFC had never considered before.
Clive Exton (1930 - 2007) wrote all of the scripts for this series (23 episodes, 1990 - 1993). He also wrote 20 scripts for Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989 - 2000) and 10 scripts for Rosemary and Thyme (22 episodes, 2003 - 2007). He had a prolific output both in the UK and during ten years in Hollywood and wrote or contributed to scripts for many movies including 10 Rillington Place, The Awakening and The Bounty. He dramatized works by Jean Cocteau, Daphne du Maurier, Graham Greene, Ruth Rendell and H G Wells among others.
I have enjoyed a lot of ruth rendell books and I look forward to finding some dramatizations of them. thanks for that info.
Russell Grenning Thank you for the information, very interesting. So much talent. 10 Rillington Place was so chilling, a superb production.
A wonderful talent.
@@mtm00 Indeed a prodigious talent!
Exton was one of the best writers working from the late 70's through the 90's. My personal feeling is that in the scenario writing too much quality has been lost since around 2000 when Exton, Brian Eastman and John Hawkesworth passed on. It's a real loss.
The scenery, the cars, the clothing... what gifts added to the best Jeeves and Wooster duo ever. We were spoiled!!
"You have to forego the fish and soup?"
"Consider it forewent!"
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I think you mean 'forgo' Sir! 'Forego' would convey, albeit imperfectly, the similitude of consuming the first two courses ahead of the meat. Whereas your terminology is intended to denote their avoidance altogether.
when i feel depressed i know this silliness will cheer me up
The site, you give, ask by a credit card information. No thanks
janet ginger 35:35 or so is just pure discomfort, lol
Madeline's voice and dotty expression in the opening scene are just hilarious. Just a few lines but those plummy high notes are exquisite!
She absolutely perfect.
This is the best casting of Madeline Bassett in the series no doubt
Really? I much preferred both the previous Madeline and the previous Gussie. They were a bit hopeless but relatively nuanced and still quite sympathetic characters.These two, on the other hand, are are just a pair of cartoon characters, too irritating for words with her vacant looks and ridiculous squeaking, and his breathless whining. I suppose it's down to personal taste, isn't it?
This was and still is one of the best remedies for any glum mood.
I love the whole concept of uppercalass twits
I am a fan of Jeeves and Wooster from Russia. This is the best thing ever. Best
Bless you there
@@Geoplanetjane bless you too❤️
I was at first disappointed to see a new Gussie, but this guy did a pretty great job. And I think this Madeline is the truest to Wodehouse's yet.
The new Gussie's actor actually played the antagonist Steggles in one of the first season's episodes funnily enough
my word you're right@@sevenatenine2441
100% right about this Madeline being the closest to how Woodhouse actually wrote her
This is entertainment!
No bad language
True Art of Acting
This is the style net works should strive for.Clearly to cleaver for this day and age Hollywood have no talent left.
Lotsa bad language, if YOU could just understand...Lol
Clever, not cleaver.
The music score alone is brilliant. Every scene has it's own little theme.
+Mysterious Squirrel totally, the opening theme alone is enough to make you feel in a good mood, imagine sitting down to this on a Sunday evening. Bliss.
I love the theme so much I have it as my telephone ring tone :D
I also think it's brilliant, and brilliantly re-wrought for different moods. Only trouble is, when I go to bed, I have it going round my head, and when I wake it's still there, without a break. Rather makes me wonder what it's done to the old noggin in the interim... Well, not to worry.
@@evilmoif can't believe I never thought of that - I should do the same right away! :D
@@thunder8bunny 😁
"It must be really fulfilling to have that many newts..."
😂 my favorite line in an episode packed w great ones
As a breeder of crested newts in my youth I have to agree😂
I like how Jeeves brilliant plan for this episode was to grab Bertie and make their escape
This actress is absolute spiffing brilliant playing Madeline Basset. Wide-eyed, soppy, with a high pitched lisp. Absolutely embodies what Wodehouse described
"I'm undoubted that your cool head and thespian powers will see you through the day, sir". Frye to Laurie. The English wheeze meets the French farce! Best episode Jeeves 0304.
I was in stitches when Bertie runs for his life still hanging onto that photograph
"You can't go around London asking people to pretend to be Gussie Fink-Nottle. Well you CAN I suppose - but what a hell of a life".......no-one but NO-ONE could have written that but the genius P G Wodehouse!!!
Reminded me of the bit in "Shaft" (the novel, I've never seen the movie) where Shaft wants to find out where the Mafia's headquarters is so he goes around town shouting "where the heck is the Mafia's headquarters!?" in every Italian bar and restaurant - and it works.
Such fun watching this series
@@3DMegadoodoo Um, don't quite see the equivalence.Interesting, but irrelevant.
"...pulled his ears back and refused to cooperate." P.G. Wodehouse endlessly delivers superb dialogue.
The storyline is always so well thought out. Every episode, every time, season after season. I especially love the way Fry and Laurie play off each other like a well tuned instrument. The only other team I can recall that brought me so much enjoyment was Lewis and Martin. It's magical. 😀😂🤣😃😄😉
Regarding Jeeves and Wooster-the brilliant writing belongs to the author of the books-P.G. Wodehouse. Most of the dialog is straight out of the books without much editing. The brilliance of this series is being able to bring it believably into life with excellent acting, direction and real scenery and sets.
@@kevinmelton7954 It rings strangely nostalgic of a time that never really existed
These shows have two parts: the part before Bertie dives under a table or behind a sofa, and the other part.
When I first saw Hugh Laurie in "House" I had a hard time connecting him with Wooster just proves what a talented actor he is
The only other actors who achieve this are Dustin Hoffman and Anthony Hopkins.
And a tremendously talented jazz musician as well
@@Geoplanetjane And for women, Geraldine Page
I think this might be my favorite episode!
Plum added so much joy to all our lives. All we can do to thank him is to pass it on so he is appreciatively and lovingly remembered. I did this in giving his books to my son❤️
I adore this series with comedic actors Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. They work so well with one another.
"Gussie Fink-Nottle is a criminal lunatic" 😂
I love how the judges on this show always say everything is the most heinous crime they've ever heard of, right before handing down some trivial fine and letting him go!
+Aethgeir The sheer joy of Wodehouse - he can do the same thing over and over and it is ALWAYS BRILLIANT! There is none like him.
Some things don't change.
I agree, Toni. Wodehouse was brilliant. Having said that, I must say that I think that many of his other, let's say non-Jeeves stories, are not of the Jeeves/Wooster standard.
This is the best Madeline in the series! Exactly as the book describes her. She is a scream!!! The new Gussie with that lisp is actually pretty funny too. And the actor playing Catsmeat is hysterical! This is altogether one of the funniest episodes in the series!
Gussie was Steggles the gambler in an earlier episode, but I love him here too. And I love Madeline in this episode
I thought so too. I wasn't sure.
Fink-Nottle is nothing if not a brilliant change artist in these episodes full of delightful jocularity with the underlying theme of some duration of newts.
Gertrude Winkworth!! Amazing ability to raise an eyebrow. Stunning. If I was ,thirty years younger ... I'd be 33.
14:00 the director's brilliant use of the close-up and a bit of 'fish-eye lens' brings on fits laughter for me every time; when Bertie tries to tell his joke at the dinner table. Brace yourself! LOL
Jeeves rarely disagrees directly, espec. with aunts and older gentlemen-just finds a way around the disagreeable. Would we were all so wise.
The little bit of slapstick with the treacle and paper was sheer genius. Very well acted; worthy of Chaplin or Lloyd. You knew exactly what was to come but revelled in the comedic predictably of the thing. Well done Mr Laurie.
I watch these again and again. So much to see in their expressions and interplay, the deadpan humour (thanks PLUM!) and the sets and clothes.
A very cultured silliness and God help me but I love it.
Ah, Fry and Laurie. They go together like Jeeves and Wooster. Soupy twist!
Madeline: "Someday, another girl will come into your life, and you'll be happy." (Jeeves: Yeah, after I chase her out again.)
Or : Jeeves : "Pfff, everyone knows I am the one he wants" ;)
Jeeves: Not if I have anything to say about it
the actress playing Madeline Bassett is perfect.....exactly as the books describe her...."pretty in a droopy soupy way "...lol. love her lisp....brilliant! I like the new gussie too.
Fish Face was pretty good also
can't understand what she''s saying--thought it was the audio, but it is, after all, her dear little lisp.
Ever seen any Marilyn Monroe movies, reminds me of the Madeline Bassett character
Didn't she play roles in the backadder series like Queen Elizabeth?
Her name is Elizabeth Morton and by the way, she's been married to actor Peter Davison since 2003. He's most famous for "All Creatures Great and Small."
I love how the parlourmaids are always in love with the postman or the constable.
Propinquity.
Surely you mean porpentine ! haha!
49:00 Stephen Fry's really showing off his acting skills as well as voical range here. It's nice to hear, that Jeeves can also act.
PG Wodehouse, genius writing combining the finest of English humour,( belly laughing silliness) with well developed characters and stunning backdrops, brilliantly brought to life by a skillful production and superb performances, esp the talented Hugh and Stephen, a perfect pairing. The best of British TV, sublime and unsurpassed , greatly enjoyed by young and old alike. A true gem in the panthenon of British drama.
charm laughton As is this comment! :)
Sorry to quibble, but it's a pity about the video format. Still a gem, though...
Brilliantly observed comment.... apart from the spelling of "pantheon"!
Panthenon: the day when you find yourself stuck between Paris and Athens.
*chez moi* - here's your hat...
Jeeves as the Scotland Yard reminded me of General Melcett from Blackadder 4
As they are the same person its hardly surprising!
@@lordeden2732 ha ha. I know that. I was simply referring to the choice of characterization, like how he revisited his own role in Blackadder 4.
Superb script. Terrific acting, timing, from top to the character actors. Great cinematography. Fantastic wardrobe. Think of the expense 30 years ago. Today?
Delightful, innocent and beautifully played.
This series never grows old! I learnt to speak proper English just by watching this show in my childhood. I wonder if there is a series on Blandings?
Yes, but I don't like it as well. Not as well done as this one. Sad because I actually like the Blandings books the best of Wodehouse's works. Of course it might make a difference that this series was my introduction to Wodehouse so I saw it before I read the books, whereas I had read all the Blandings stories before I tried to watch the series...
You made an excellent choice for learning proper English. It doesn't get any more proper than Jeeves's speech. Most of the characters speak very good, educated British English, including Bertie, but he talks too fast to follow half the time.
Love how they solved that ethical dilemma. Just let Jeeves do it.
I have watched too many murder mysteries set in this era... so I keep expecting that someone is about to be murdered... I can't help it and it is somewhat distracting.
Admiral Bob, Gussie being murdered, Wooster being accused and Jeeves clearing Wooster’s name.
@@aspenl.1104 I suspect Aunt Agatha as the perpetrator so as to force him into matrimony with Honoria Glossop. Or a newt.
Andrew Carson That’s a point, makes more sense to be fair. Though Jeeves I think would still clear Bertie’s name. (Talking of Jeeves I need to get rid of Santa Jeeves profile photo 😂)
@@superangiepangie they dance the elusive fandango of my imagination.
@@superangiepangie All Agatha Christie mysteries, Dorothy Sayers And a couple more
_Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock_ .
John Barrymore
Who knew John Barrymore was a Wodehouse character.
+kha sab Quoted about a decade later by Stephen Fry at the conclusion of an episode of QI.
Lynx South
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. I feel it's an attempted put down but I can't quite see how you think it works, Maybe you'd care to explain?
Also the 'decade' bit is a tad confusing. Do you mean a decade after Barrymore *said* it? if so, then no, it would be a lot longer than a decade, as he died in 1942.
No, no attempted put-down at all. I found it interesting that you used that quotation here in Jeeves and Wooster comments and then Stephen Fry used it many years later (and I'd just rewatched that QI episode a few days before). A time-lapsed coincidence. I simply liked it occurring in two Stephen Fry contexts.
My apologies for not being clearer.
Lynx South Oh ok then. Sorry for the paranoia, you get attacked so often in you tube comments you end up on the defensive all the time :)
That scene in the courtroom, where Madeline walks in... pure gold.
This is one of the most hilarious, laugh out loud (a lot) episodes! I love everything about it: all the actors are perfect, and Laurie is outstanding.
Elizabeth's Madeline is brilliant!
This isn’t the books. In fact it often ostentatiously separates itself from the books (or a particular book as the case may be) and adds, deletes, or outright changes particular details/events from the books. If I may take the liberty, sir, I must say that I find BOTH to be quite entertaining. Rather than being offended, I am impressed. Rarely are the print and cinematic versions so individually enjoyable when digested side by side. I laugh out loud when I watch this AND when I read (or rather listen to the reading of) the original!
There are some stagecraft things here which are worth pointing-out.
The catch of the ball was probably not done on the first take.
Similarly, the catch of the macadamia or peanut probably not either.
I'd say the crew were somewhat challenged here (albeit with intermittent fits of laughter.)
madeline's voice could damage diamonds.
Yeah! And how about those eyes?! AAAHHHGGG! (GOOD actress.)
4 real !
You should be a Comedy writer. You do have a Funny Bone, Whatto.
"You know, Jeeves, if someone were to come to me and ask if I'd be willing to join a society whose aim will be the suppression of Aunts, or will be willing to see to it that they are kept on a short chain and not permitted to roam at will scattering desolation on all sides, I'd reply, "Wilbraham, if his name was Wilbraham that is, Wilbraham, put me down as a Foundation Member!"
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I’m so
Madeleine: "How sad life is!"
Bertie (soto voce): "You betcha!"
“Gussy Fink-Nottle is a criminal lunatic!” 😂😅🤣
I found that adjustable iron in the Popular Mechanics archive. It's been invented several times, it's never been any good.
I love the character of his Aunt. She is one of my favorites on the show.
Oh! The shame of it. Love her acting.
yes the scripts, the acting, but what of the musical accompaniment! rather good i say!
Currently on my eleventh book out of the 15. Superb. I remember this series from years ago and visualise fry and Laurier in the roles whilst reading. Credit to the performances.
the books are a revelation if you have only seen the series, great as it was.
One of the best series...incomparable!
"Gussie Fink-Nottle is a criminal lunatic"..one of the finest lines ever written
".... may I borrow your mustache?"
Jeeves is the devil. Miraculous knowledge and such deceptiveness. Wicked.
December 2022 and watching it again.😂
Thèy'd never have caught Bertie if the boat had been sound, Hugh Laurie rowed at Cambridge!
I liked the actor who previously played "Gussie" better
Right. And his partner has also been replaced with another actress..Luckily we still have John Smedginworth and Cecil Balding in the main roles :))
yes I thought it a bit of a shame they changed the basset girl again. I really liked the first casting of her but they change her around every time it seems. This incarnation seems so cartoony.
Don't care, they all act well!
Here here!!!
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Thank you from Manhattan ©2024
I prefer this Madeline but the previous Gussie.
"Bertie Wooster's, 1928 Aston Martin 1½-litre International!!!! I love love love that car!"
I would like to see a mashup of Jeeves & Wooster meeting Poirot and Miss Marple LOL
what a mashup that would be!!!!!! LOL
Absolutely delightful British humour. So fresh and real and. Pompously outrageously ridiculous ❤.. Always glad when CZcams brings it..
Thank goodness we are back in the Mother Country. Back to civilization.
indeed
'what's her mother like?' 'same as Daphne, light-middle weight with a touch of Wallace Beery around the jaw lines'!
I prefered the old 'Fink-Nottle'; he was more, newt-like. This one was running the book on the village sports-day in the first series- I can't remember his name.
Oh yes Steggalls - well spotted!
N1H1L9 that's because he WAS the same person! He was in the previous series as a lesser character
Rachel R-J erm they do say that if u read again he says this one was in the first series I can’t remember his name
Richard Braine I believe
Possibly the funniest one of all, Bertie under fire!
Brilliant.
limbs and livers and brains and hearts
The constant recasting of actors is dizzying!
...not only that but highly disturbing and definitely cutting the pleasure substantiallly.
I know! It's very confusing!!
I'm afraid I we aren't eye-to-eye here - I think it's "common sense" that the audience takes pleasure in "reconnecting" again with the action AND the actors. That's - btw - the explanation why "King of Queens" (a US series from the 90ies) flopped dramatically when they decided to replace Leah Remini (one of the lead actors) with someone else. It just doesn't work i. e. minimizes the delight substantially - and the viewers don't forgive that easily . PS: Perhaps you may reconsider your tone - I think it's slightly offending.
I have to agree with alison webster - actors just aren't always available for new series, that's just the way it is in television. Imagine how difficult it must be for the producers. Also, the TV audience when the original was aired probably didn't think as much of it as we might, because of the longer interval between series, whereas we tend to watch them all one after another (well, I do, anyway...), so we notice changes easily. To be honest, I sometimes like the new actors' interpretations of the characters better than the originals. As long as Fry and Laurie are there, I'm not really fussed about the others. The more confusing thing is how they suddenly returned to England from New York without so much as a "by your leave"...
Especially when they reuse actors who played different parts! The gussie character in this episode played a different character in series 1 episode with original gussie! 2 episodes later they switch, also honoria, barmy and Madeline are different actors!
Possibly the best episode of the best comedy of all time,,,,
back in the good old day when the worst thing Scotland Yard had to deal with was those using illegal golf clubs.
Sure, this Gussie might not be as good as the original. But every actor and actress, including him, has comic genius so that even non-joke lines and simple facial expressions are hilarious :D
Radagast yeah I like this Gussie actually
OMG I am crying with laughter watching this.
An absolute brilliant episode!
Hey... fun to see Hugh Laurie. So funny to see him clean-shaven, acting "proper", and hearing him with a British accent (which is his native tongue). Talk about the anti-thesis of "House MD".
***** I suppose that's true... but then again, we Mid-Westerners don't have an accent either. We're the only Americans WITHOUT an accent....especially compared to Southern American accents, Boston accents, Bronx accents, etc. It's all a matter of perspective.
EngLady80 I respectfully disagree. Midwesterners do have an accent. As a born and raised New Yorker who has spent a considerable amount of time in the Midwest, there are a few different "twangs" that I've encountered. I grew up with British parents who made their children speak "the Queens English" & have regular elocution classes. God forbid we should have a NY accent...
mydogsioux I said that "tongue-in-cheek". I've been told before that Midwesterners DO have an accent... much like our Scandinavian ancestors. But RARELY does anyone think that their own "native" speech is an "accent". It's just "normal".
EngLady80 Everybody has an accent.
kha sab not me.
Don't know how many of you have read The Mating Season, on which this episode is based..but two characters are sorely missed..the owner of Deverill Hall Esmond Haddock and Catsmeat's sister Corky..Esmond and Corky play the third couple in the novel..
Ah, Esmond Haddock, beset by fearsome aunts on every side. And Corky (Cora), the Hollywood starlet. Why leave them out?
"What a wheeze, Jeeves."
Boy, that raised eyebrow at 14:43!!!!! Speaks volumes!!!!
"All the 'little Deverills' eh?"
And when Gussie's singing, she stares at the ear trumpet as if there must be something wrong with it!
Thanks again for posting these; I dozed through most of them first time round but I'm now seeing episodes I missed back when they were run on TV.
The actress who plays Madeline is fantastic.
this show proves the existence of SOME kind of divine silliness. whatever that means, zanies
My girlfriend and i read all of the PG Woodhouse books and loved them , so we were both pleasantly surprised to find these videos. They are soo true to the books.
Pure brilliance.
About time this nonsense we call entertainment now was extinguished. Bring back non woke Wooster! ❤️
Do people like you ever think about anything else?
When the politics of the world get a bit too much to cope with, an episode of Jeeves and Wooster makes for a perfect balm.
In the 1990-1993 television series 'Jeeves and Wooster', Madeline Bassett was portrayed by Francesca Folan in series 1, by Diana Blackburn in series 2, and by Elizabeth Morton in series 3 and 4.
In the 1973-1981 radio drama series 'What Ho! Jeeves', Madeline was voiced by Aimi MacDonald ('Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves').
Now there, in the lovely Aimi MacDonald, is the perfect Madeline Bassett. If she were suddenly to say "Today I danced on the lawn before breakfast, and then I went round the garden saying good morning to the flowers" I wouldn't be the least bit surprised. Her excitable, squeaky voice has been likened to "a choir of frantic mice".
Expected Jeeves qua Scotland Yard to say "alduce me to interlow myself".... there's a distinct Pythonesque flavour to this interpretation of Wodehouse, which I as a devotee of both Wodehouse and MPFC had never considered before.
This is such an entertaining tv series!👍👍👍👍
The Drone club , where the idle rich waste their days. LOL
Gosh, Madeline has regenerated again. She'll run out soon :(
P G Wodehouse genius.
bertie has some weird friends
LOL And all the old aunts trying to get everyone married off before they're ancient at 25.
What a wheeze!. I've just discovered it and highly enjoy it. Top marks.
The Suppression of Aunts Society 😂😂