In that story the family name is Mannering-Phipps, not Wooster, and the story has never been included in collections of Jeeves and Wooster materials, however the incidents described in " Extricating Young Gussie " are referred to in later stories.

In the story " Bertie Changes His Mind " he mentions a sister who has three daughters, referred to by Jeeves as Mrs Scholfield ( although in the later novel Thank You, Jeeves he states that he has no sisters during a conversation with Lord " Chuffy " Chuffnell ).

Bertie has several friends who keep popping into his life, mostly for Jeeves ' help.

" This has led to problems as he is regularly volunteered for troublesome tasks — he muses in Jeeves in the Offing that " whenever there is dirty work to be undertaken at the crossroads, the cry that goes around my little circle is always ' Let Wooster do it.

The tune has been recycled into numbers in By Jeeves and The Likes of Us.

In his absence he has allowed Jeeves to offer his services to William " Bill " Rowcester, the impoverished 9th Earl of Rowcester, whose stately home, Rowcester Abbey, is an encumbrance for which the Earl is seeking a buyer.

In his absence, Jeeves has offered his services to William Egerton Bamfylde Ossingham Belfry, the Earl of Rowcester, who is in poor fortune.

The tale ends with Jeeves handing in his notice, as Bertie Wooster has been expelled from the school for cheating.

The village has been used as the backdrop for a number of television programmes including Jeeves and Wooster and eight episodes of Midsomer Murders.

He has since appeared in films and television shows such as An Evening With Gary Lineker, Staggered ( starred and directed ), Hunting Venus, The Booze Cruise, Saving Grace, and Jeeves and Wooster.

Teoma was acquired by Ask Jeeves on September 11, 2001, and has powered ask. com and other international Ask Jeeves sites ( such as ask. co. uk, ask. jp ) and Ask Jeeves Spain since then.

In Bertie's absence, Jeeves has been advising Bertie's old school friend, Gussie Fink-Nottle, who is in love with Madeline Bassett.

The song is also performed by English actor Hugh Laurie in the pilot episode of " Jeeves and Wooster " ( 1990 ), which has his character ( Wooster ) singing / playing the song on the piano while Jeeves watches.

The story ends with Jeeves revealing to Bertie that he has also destroyed the nineteen pages that he had written about him, their relevance rendered nil by Jeeves ' expressed presumption ( confirmed by Bertie ) that he may remain permanently in Bertie's service.

Bingley has been renamed from Brinkley ( the name under which he was introduced in Thank You, Jeeves ) apparently because of the confusion of setting this story at Brinkley Court.

Forty years after the original stage adaptation, André Previn's musical adaptation of The Good Companions premièred on 11 July 1974, followed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn's initially unsuccessful collaboration, Jeeves, on 22 April 1975, which has since enjoyed considerable success.

The cast recording has an interesting format, taking a track between every song where Bertie and Jeeves discuss the plot.

For television, the building has featured in Jeeves and Wooster ( the exterior of Wooster's Manhattan apartment building ), Dr Who and The Day of the Triffids amongst other programmes.

He acquiesces and leaves the room, immediately encountering Jeeves, who informs him that someone has been putting black polish on a pair of his brown shoes, and that they are ruined.

While he muses on the four problems ( returning the porringer ; freeing Ginger from his honorable obligation to Florence ; helping Dahlia extract Tuppy's due from Runkle ; and reconciling Madeline to Spode to avoid marrying her himself ), Jeeves takes matters in hand.

In the book Much Obliged, Jeeves, Angela and Tuppy haven't married after being two years engaged due to a lack of funds on Tuppy's part.

As the comic double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie, and took the role of Jeeves ( with Laurie playing Wooster ) in Jeeves and Wooster.

Bertie speaks with pride of this achievement on several occasions ; however, in Right Ho, Jeeves, the character of Gussie Fink-Nottle, while intoxicated, publicly accuses Bertie of having achieved the award through cheating.

Although Bertie himself is, as Jeeves puts it, " mentally negligible ", his descriptive style employs a considerable facility with English.

The Lovecraftian menaces are driven off by Jeeves with the assistance of Mina Murray, Allan Quatermain, Carnacki, and Orlando, but not before Gussie Fink-Nottle's brain is surgically removed ( a condition that, in the end, causes no real difference in his behavior ).

He first became known as one half of the Fry and Laurie double act, along with his friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry, whom he joined in the cast of Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster from 1987 to 1999.

In 1965, Price became popular with television audiences for his performance, described by The Times as " an outstanding success " as Jeeves opposite Ian Carmichael as Bertie Wooster in The World of Wooster based on the novels and short stories of P. G.

Prior to filming, Fry and Laurie were already a successful double act with TV series A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster.

It starred Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a " distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness ", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet.

When, in Right Ho, Jeeves, he first sees Madeline Bassett, he falls in love with her ; too shy to tell her he convinces Bertie to break the news for him.

The scene in Right Ho, Jeeves in which Gussie, thoroughly inebriated due to Jeeves and later Bertie Wooster lacing his orange juice with gin, as well as his massive drink of whisky, gives a speech at the Market Snodsbury Grammar School is often cited as among the finest vignettes of English comic literature.

Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.

Wodehouse adapted the story from a play, Come On, Jeeves, that he had written with his lifelong friend and collaborator Guy Bolton.

Unlike most Jeeves and Wooster stories, which only occasional refer to events in the real world, Ring for Jeeves is explicitly set in post-World War II England, where social changes have forced some of those who were formerly members of the idle rich to dispense with their servants and seek employment.

Though initial attempts to acquire the pendant serve only to alienate the Earl's fiancée, Jill Wyvern, and the sale of the house, which would have yielded deposit enough to recompense the Captain, are thwarted by the tactlessness of Sir Roderick ; Jeeves comes up with a successful plan, which exploits Mrs Spottsworth's fascination in the supernatural.

Jeeves steps in while announcing the engagement, with the suggestion that Mrs Spottsworth ship the house, brick by brick, to America and in doing so secures the sale.

Wodehouse's character Bertie Wooster, who lives in a flat there along with his valet Jeeves, not far from the Drones Club.

In the Granada Television series Jeeves and Wooster, Bertie is depicted as being a very capable pianist and singer, making use of actor / musician Hugh Laurie's musical talents.

Jeeves is acquainted with Mr. Mortimer Little, Bingo's uncle, who lives in Pounceby Gardens, because he has " an understanding " with Mr. Little's cook, a Miss Watson.

Add the intrigues of Miss Stiffy Byng to win her fiancé the Reverend Stinker Pinker a vicarage, the rivalry of collectors Sir Watkyn Bassett and Bertie's Uncle Tom over an objet d ' art, and the irresistible culinary attractions of American Emerald Stoker, and you have trouble of the sort only Jeeves can mend.

Treves also guested in many continuing dramas, such as Rosemary & Thyme, Monarch of the Glen, The Bill, The New Adventures of Black Beauty, Silent Witness, Kavanagh QC, Jeeves and Wooster, Inspector Morse, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Lovejoy, Yes, Prime Minister, Bergerac, Midsomer Murders, Follyfoot, Miss Marple, Minder, Z-Cars, The Avengers, Doomwatch and in the Doctor Who story Meglos.