Bertie is also acquainted with Lord Emsworth, another of Wodehouse's best-known characters, and mentions having visited Blandings Castle.

Holloway appeared for the first time in a major British television series in the BBC's 1967 adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse's Blandings Castle stories, playing Beach, the butler, to Ralph Richardson's Lord Emsworth.

In the 1960s Richardson played Lord Emsworth on BBC television in dramatisations of P. G. Wodehouse's Blandings Castle stories, with his real-life wife Meriel Forbes playing his domineering sister Connie, and his friend Stanley Holloway as his butler Beach.

* Impostors are a common theme in the Blandings Castle series of novels and short stories.

* P. G. Wodehouse – Blandings Castle and Elsewhere ( short stories )

* Sudeley is regarded by many as the model for Blandings Castle in the novels by P. G. Wodehouse.

The series of stories which take place at the castle, in its environs and involving its denizens have come to be known as the " Blandings books ", or indeed, in a phrase used by Wodehouse in his preface to the 1969 reprint of the first book, " the Blandings Castle Saga ".< ref >

* " Blandings Castle " ( 1967 ) at the BBC Comedy Guide

Longing for nothing more than to potter peacefully in the idyllic gardens of Blandings Castle, he must frequently face the unpleasant reality of his domineering sisters and familial duties.

* " Blandings Castle " ( 1967 ) at the BBC Comedy Guide

The Uncle Fred stories comprise one short and four novels, two of which are set at Blandings Castle:

In Uncle Fred in the Springtime, when we next meet him, he cons slow-minded Lord Bosham of his wallet just for the sake of it, and heads merrily down to Blandings Castle in the guise of Sir Roderick Glossop, with Pongo taking the role of his nephew and secretary, Basil.

With completed new stories appearing over a span of 60 years, he is in fact the longest-running of Wodehouse's characters, topping Jeeves and Wooster ( 1915-1974, or 59 years ) and the denizens of Blandings Castle ( 1915-1969, or 54 years ).

Lord Emsworth and Others contains one story set at Blandings Castle, three golf stories narrated by the Oldest Member, one story featuring Drones Club member Freddie Widgeon, one tale narrated by Mr Mulliner, and three Ukridge stories.

# " The Crime Wave at Blandings " ( Blandings Castle )

* Five in Blandings Castle and Elsewhere ( 1935 )

Wodehouse " Blandings Castle " stories ; the family drove or rather were driven in a Hispano-Suiza ( H6 ), rather than, say, a Rolls-Royce.

* Alaric, Duke of Dunstable, a character in a number of P. G. Wodehouse's ' Blandings Castle ' novels

* Heavy Weather ( 1933 )-a Blandings Castle novel

* Sebastian Beach, from the Blandings Castle stories by P. G. Wodehouse, of intimidating majesty but nonetheless a good soul who frequently co-conspires with the clever Gally Threepwood.

* " Monkey Business " ( short story ), a story by P. G. Wodehouse in the collection Blandings Castle and Elsewhere

* Niagara ' Aggie ' Threepwood, a character from the Blandings Castle stories of P. G. Wodehouse

Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth, or Lord Emsworth, is a recurring fictional character in the Blandings stories by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse.

In later youth, he became a member of the riotous Pelican Club, and a good friend of Galahad Threepwood, in whose stead he is occasionally called to Blandings, to help Gally's brother Lord Emsworth out of a jam.

The Crime Wave at Blandings, which was published on June 25, 1937 by Doubleday, Doran, New York, is a very different collection, sharing only three of its seven titles with the UK book.

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House ( 1948 ) is an American comedy film directed by H. C. Potter and starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy.

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It is widely believed that Shifnal was the origin of P. G. Wodehouse's fictional town Market Blandings.

Joe is also captain of the works team at Blandings Cosmetics and Sandra and Beryl go to watch a match-Joe scores an own-goal and his team loses 7-0.

Sebastian Beach is a fictional character in the Blandings stories by P. G. Wodehouse.

He is the butler at Blandings Castle, seat of Lord Emsworth and his family, where he serves for over eighteen years.

Ever grateful for Ronnie's reliable racing tips, he is at one point persuaded to assist Ronnie in keeping Empress of Blandings in a cottage in the woods.

His strength of character is sorely tested, when called upon by Ronnie Fish to help in his schemes involving the Empress, in Summer Lightning and Heavy Weather ; he later does indeed resign, after shooting Rupert Baxter with an air gun ; however, Emsworth cannot do without his butler, and he assures his faithful servant of continued employment, in " The Crime Wave at Blandings ".

In the later short " Sticky Wicket at Blandings ", his position at the castle is again threatened, when Lady Constance decides he has become rather slow and wheezy in his old age, and considers replacing him with a younger, smarter butler.

Rupert Baxter is a fictional character in the Blandings stories by P. G. Wodehouse.

He sees himself as a man destined to bring order to Blandings, and is proud of his position as de facto ruler of one of England's largest houses.

It is this pride which brings him back time and again to Blandings, despite the better pay and working conditions available to him in the household of Mr J. Horace Jevons, his employer before and after his reigns at Blandings, a man who treats him with the respect, and even obsequiousness, he demands ; Mr Jevons ' financial advice also allows Baxter to treble his savings.

However, when several members of the Blandings household shoot him in the hind parts with young George's air gun, he is cured of his longing, despite Emsworth's offer of a return to his old post, and decides to leave Blandings permanently to work for Mr. Jevons.

He works for Dunstable helping to compile the Dunstable family history, but is poorly treated by the Duke, who suspects him of going on " toots ", and hits him in the face with a well-thrown egg when he hears him singing on the lawn outside his rooms, and also has him help steal Emsworth's prize pig Empress of Blandings, a task which sorely tries Baxter's nerve ; he is later slipped a Mickey Finn by Uncle Fred.

He is last mentioned in Galahad at Blandings as being in the employ of an American millionaire in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

It is a mixed bag of stories, mostly featuring appearances from several of Wodehouse's recurring characters, including two Drones Club stories ( the first about Bingo Little and another about Freddie Widgeon ), five Oldest Member golf stories, one Blandings Castle, one independent, and one Ukridge story.