Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy television programme adapted by Clive Exton from P. G.

The theme ( called " Jeeves and Wooster ") is an original piece of music in the jazz / swing style written by composer Anne Dudley for the programme.

He had many television and film roles, including that of Henry VII in the first episode of The Six Wives of Henry VIII ( 1970 ); Sir Watkyn Bassett in the television version of Jeeves and Wooster ( 1990 to 1993 ); and Merlin and Mogdred in the children's adventure game programme Knightmare ( 1987 – 1990 ).

On these occasions he usually lets his right-hand man Jeeves do the dirty work, but he also hires the Beagle Boys to do his dirty work for him from time to time.

The octagon in the garden also featured in Jeeves and the Impending Doom.

He had previously hinted that the individual concerned was also well known to the police, much to the discomfort of Bertie Wooster and the amusement of Jeeves.

He also founded Ask Jeeves, now Ask. Com, an Internet search engine which is now part of IAC.

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.

Laurie also performs a part of the song in the first episode of the British comedy television series Jeeves and Wooster, playing the role of Bertie Wooster, duetting with Reginald Jeeves, played by Stephen Fry.

* Fifi-The sexy French maid that lives with and " serves " the Colonel ( and secretly also Jeeves ).

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.

Pacey was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical, and By Jeeves also received nominations for Outstanding New Production and Best Costume Designer.

Freddie is also mentioned briefly in the fourth chapter of the Jeeves novel, The Code of the Woosters, in which Bertie Wooster refers to both Freddie and Blandings.

In the television series Jeeves and Wooster, Florence was also the niece of Sir Watkyn Bassett, although this wasn't the case in the original stories.

" Swordfish " is also used as a name in the P. G. Wodehouse novel How Right You Are, Jeeves.

After Mabel leaves, Bingo reveals that he met her at a Subscription dance in Camberwell, at which he also saw Jeeves " swinging a dashed efficient shoe ".

Bingo angrily accuses Jeeves of having had inside information, which he readily admits, being a friend of Heppenstall's butler, to whom the note was dictated ; also, Bingo thinks that preaching another man's sermon ought not to be permitted.

He played the Senior Tutor in Porterhouse Blue, appeared regularly as Sir Watkyn Bassett in the Jeeves and Wooster series alongside Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie and also appeared briefly in the comedy sketch show Paul Merton: The Series in the early 1990s.

He also contributed, under the nom de plume M. K. Jeeves, two episodes to the first season of Terry Nation's Survivors for the BBC.

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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.

Several critics noted that the authors failed to develop the title character, Jeeves not even having a solo song and unanimous condemnation of a long-winded and unfunny show.

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

Fourteen of the chapters in The Inimitable Jeeves were derived by splitting seven previously-published short stories ; these original titles are given in parentheses.

Audiobooks of many of the Jeeves stories and novels have been recorded by British actors, including Simon Callow, Jonathan Cecil, Martin Jarvis, Frederick Davidson, and Alexander Spencer.

The show was specially recorded and released on VHS and DVD where British actor Martin Jarvis took over from Richard Kline as Jeeves.

* " The Love That Purifies " ( Very Good, Jeeves, 1930 )

The melody of " Female Of The Species " appeared earlier than its Jeeves incarnation, with lyrics written and sung by Tim Rice as " The Ballad Of Robert And Peter " in 1973 ( for private recording purposes ).

The film was written by Fields, using the alias Mahatma Kane Jeeves ( derived from the Broadway drawing-room comedy cliche, " My hat, my cane, Jeeves!

In Jeeves and Wooster, a Granada Television series based on the canon, which aired in the early 1990s, she was played by Mary Wimbush for the first three series and by Elizabeth Spriggs in the fourth.

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 ).

Another aunt by marriage, Aunt Emily, Claude and Eustace's mother, is mentioned in The Inimitable Jeeves.

When Jeeves expresses disapproval of a particular article of Bertie's clothing or grooming, be it a brightly-coloured cummerbund, a check suit, purple socks, white mess jacket, various hats or even a moustache, it is certain that it will be disposed of by the end of the story, sometimes after a period of coolness between the two.

In one particular instance, Jeeves goes to the extent of breaking a vase he disliked which had been purchased by Bertie.

In the fictional biography Jeeves: A Gentleman's Personal Gentleman by Northcote Parkinson, Bertie comes into the title of Lord Yaxley upon the death of his uncle George Wooster, marries Bobbie Wickham and makes Jeeves the landlord of the Angler's Rest pub, which is on the Yaxley estate.

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 ).

His work in radio includes playing Bertie Wooster in a series of adaptations of the Jeeves novels by P. G.

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.

He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet (" gentleman's personal gentleman "), Jeeves.

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.

She escaped the wrath of the critical community in London when her role of Aunt Dahlia was removed from Andrew Lloyd Webber's flop musical Jeeves ( 1975 ) before opening night.

Agatha Gregson, née Wooster, later Lady Worplesdon, is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being best known as Aunt Agatha, Bertie Wooster's least favourite aunt, and a counterpoint to her sister, Bertie's Aunt Dahlia.

( Interestingly, though, in the short story Jeeves Takes Charge, Lady Florence Craye tells Bertie that his Aunt Agatha " called you a spineless invertebrate and advised me strongly not to marry you ".

Augustus " Gussie " Fink-Nottle (' Spink-Bottle ' to Bertie's Aunt Dahlia ) is a fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a lifelong friend of Jeeves's master Bertie Wooster and a possible member of the Drones Club.

Dahlia Travers ( née Wooster ) is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being best known as Bertie Wooster's bonhomous, red-faced Aunt Dahlia.

* In the television series Jeeves and Wooster, Bertie's Aunt Agatha owns a Westie called McIntosh.

Jeeves ensures Bertie's absence for a few hours, and during that time swiftly ensures that Angela and Tuppy are reconciled, that Gussie and Madeline are engaged, that Anatole withdraws his resignation, and that Uncle Tom writes Aunt Dahlia a check for 500 pounds.

In the 1971 PG Wodehouse novel Much Obliged, Jeeves, Bertie Wooster tells his Aunt Dahlia that at Oxford his friendship with Ginger Winship was comparable to that of Damon and Pythias.

She employed chef extraordinaire Anatole until Aunt Dahlia stole him from her with the help of Jeeves ( in " Clustering Round Young Bingo "), and is thus unlikely to write further for Mrs Travers.

* " The Aunt and the Sluggard " ( Jeeves and Wooster )

* " Aunt Agatha Speaks Her Mind " and " Pearls Mean Tears " (" Aunt Agatha Takes the Count ") ( The Inimitable Jeeves, 1923 )

* " The Aunt and the Sluggard " ( Carry on, Jeeves, 1925 )

The plot is as follows: With Jeeves on vacation, Bertie is a guest at his Aunt Dahlia's spacious residence, Brinkley Court.

The eighth Jeeves novel, Jeeves in the Offing chronicles another visit by Bertie Wooster to his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court, and marks the beginning of a friendship between Bertie and Sir Roderick Glossop, who in previous novels shared a great dislike for one another.

He later becomes a friend of Bertie in the novel Jeeves in the Offing when he impersonates a butler named ' Swordfish ' to hide his identity from Adela Cream as Bertie's Aunt Dahlia had brought him on to investigate the sanity of Mrs. Cream's son, Wilbur Cream.

Carnacki features most prominently in a short story " What Ho, Gods of the Abyss " and concerns a visit by Jeeves and Bertie Wooster ( by P. G. Wodehouse ) to Wooster's Aunt Dahlia wherein they encounter an Elder Thing, along with a Mi-go and a Cthulhu cult.

Jeeves has ruined Tuppy's relationships with the opera singer Cora Bellinger and the dog lover Miss Dalgleish in order to keep Tuppy with Angela, usually upon the request of Angela's mother ( Bertie's Aunt Dahlia ).