The Delayed Arrival
| "The Delayed Arrival" | |
|---|---|
| Jeeves and Wooster episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 4 |
| Directed by | Ferdinand Fairfax |
| Original air date | 6 June 1993 |
"The Delayed Arrival" is the fourth episode of the fourth series of the 1990s British comedy television series Jeeves and Wooster. It is also called "Arrested in a Night Club". It first aired in the UK on 6 June 1993 on ITV.[1]
In the US, it was aired as the third episode of the third series of Jeeves and Wooster on Masterpiece Theatre, on 24 October 1993. "Jeeves Saves the Cow-Creamer" aired as the fourth episode of the fourth series instead.[2]
Background[edit]
Adapted from Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit.[2]
Cast[edit]
- Bertie Wooster – Hugh Laurie
- Jeeves – Stephen Fry
- Aunt Dahlia – Jean Heywood
- Florence Craye – Francesca Folan
- Stilton Cheesewright – Nicholas Palliser
- Percy Gorringe – Walter James
- Uncle Tom – Ralph Michael
- Mrs Trotter – Sylvia Kay
- Mr Trotter – John Rapley
- Magistrate – Peter Howell
- Mr Burwash – James Ottaway
- Seppings – Ian Collier
- Oofy Prosser – Richard Dixon
- Police – Jon Croft, Peter Diamond, Jim Barclay[2][3]
Plot[edit]
Aunt Dahlia's magazine is in deep money trouble again so she wants to sell it to a Mr Trotter. To make it more saleable, she plans on paying a thousand pounds to a famous novelist for a story, which means she has to pawn her pearl necklace. Meanwhile, Lady Florence Craye has an on-off engagement with the homicidal Darcy "Stilton" Cheesewright, with Bertie being the cause of the break-ups. An expert is brought in to value the pearls, which have been replaced with fakes, and there is a race on to sell the magazine and get the real ones back in time. Aunt Dahlia wants help from Jeeves to find a pearl necklace she has pawned. Jeeves appears in drag in this episode to impersonate the novelist Daphne Dolores Morehead.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Jeeves and Wooster Series 4, Episode 4". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^ a b c Taves, Brian (2006). P.G. Wodehouse and Hollywood: Screenwriting, Satires and Adaptations. London: McFarland & Company. pp. 193–197. ISBN 978-0-7864-2288-3.
- ^ "Arrested in a Night Club (1993)". BFI. British Film Institute. 2019. Archived from the original on 7 January 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
