Full Episode Jeeves and Wooster S02E6 :Wooster with a Wife

[@clark9992]

I like the way Jevves gets the vapours at the sight of Bingo's tie with horseshoes on it.

[@marytolhurst5165]

Jeeves' eyebrows are almost characters in their own right.

[@laurahoward5426]

P.G.WODEHOUSE is so difficult to dramatize, and to catch Fry and Laurie at the exact right time in their careers.....awesome....I could watch 1000 episodes

[@stephenchristian6231]

Indeed madam!

[@bobbyhanly3466]

Wodehouse is like Yorkie chocolate, Laura. Not for girls. You are taking a big risk and should try to wean off. I hear Rosie M Banks is much more suitable.

[@stephenchristian6231]

@@bobbyhanly3466 Steady on ole chap! A gals got to have a say!

[@garrymartin6474]

Absolutely superb, I never tire of them

[@cathygould]

👍🏽👏🏾😄❣️❣️😘

[@ross6753]

I had totally forgotten how gorgeous that opening music and cartoon was. A real work of art

[@adorable6385]

Here Here

[@ross6753]

@@adorable6385 right? Those little musicians make your shoulders go right away 😆

[@wordsculpt]

@@adorable6385 It's "hear, hear"...they're telling you to "listen, listen up".

[@cruisepaige]

I find it nerve jangling and fast forward.

[@ross6753]

@@cruisepaige really? Goes to show how tastes can differ.

[@stevemiller7949]

I can only concur with the charming way so many people have praised Fry and Laurie in this series. I re-watch it often. It's lovely to be a member of the fan club.🙂🙂💯💯❤️❤️

[@newgabe09]

oh the bally ballyness!!.. And I just realised how utterly wonderful it is that there's no damned laughter track in any of these genius episodes!

[@marytolhurst5165]

I loved that bally line too! Haha.

[@kevharper1378]

And just to think What ho, that the principal Rugger pitch in Queensland goes by the name of Bally,more !

[@marvinc9994]

"there's no damned laughter track" In the UK, we don't need to be _told_ when something's funny or witty!

[@newgabe09]

@@marvinc9994 oh no we don't🙄 😝😏

[@marvinc9994]

@@newgabe09 Thanks for spotting that. I missed out the bally _don't_ : what a complete ass! Corrected now ;-)

[@filmex1013]

Jeeves and Wooster kept me employed for a few years as Set Decorating Buyer....Hooray for Jeeves.!!

[@SF-ru3lp]

Congrats on your work - brilliant! G Ire

[@filmex1013]

@@SF-ru3lp Thank you.A Happy Easter.

[@gabriellag2611]

What a fun job that must've been, accessorizing the era!

[@filmex1013]

It was.!!..I think few people realise that Totleigh Towers which appears in most episodes is a location Highclere Castle now world famous as Downton Abbey...@@gabriellag2611

[@lucyvandervort6191]

That's so cool!!! What pieces do you recognize in watching the episodes?

[@lanctermann7261]

The characters are so terribly British. I love it.

[@misty7447]

That's Stephen Fry as Jeeves? Wonderful!!

[@mjrussell414]

I loved this show so much when I was a teenager that I read all the books I could get my hands on. And when I discovered my local library didn’t have much P.G. Wodehouse, I found copies in bookshops and donated them so other people could enjoy them too.

[@4WDIESEL1]

very kind of you.

[@lechat8533]

@Marilyn Russell Wow! What a gem you are :))) Great move. Sharing is caring! Dear Marilyn, Merry Christmas and all the best in the New Year 2023🍀

[@mailtorajrao]

Brilliant!

[@stephenchristian6231]

First class chap I'd say!

[@andrewm4564]

Thank you for donating your books. Many of Wodehouse's recorded books can be found on KZbin.

[@Qwijebo]

I grew up watching this series, and reading the books, even have myself a copy signed pip pip

[@maureenmckenna5220]

Can not imagine anyone else in these roles, and the supporting cast has to be recognized as superb. What a complete delight.

[@bobbyhanly3466]

Hugh Laurie as Bertie is about as perfect as it gets.

[@jamesmatthews291]

"One picks these things up as one passes through life, my dear"! 😂

[@cathygould]

O Joy, Heaven😄❣️❣️ I've read Jeeves & Wooster all my life, been listening to audiobooks now my eyes are bad, but THIS 😄 Huge fan of Britcoms, saw 1st US broadcast of Monty Python on Dallas PBS, have watched Everything I could find on Frye &/or Laurie. Never knew about These, such a gift👍🏽👏🏾✌🏾🤟🏽❣️ The casting is so obvious and perfect. A million heartfelt thanks for posting these treasures😃 I'm trapped in a nursinghome 2 years now, and it's Bleak. These will brighten things exquisitely😄😘

[@jayanthisrinivasan9055]

I agree. These are masterpieces.

[@barbaraburton8914]

I am so sorry about your captivity!!! I'm from Florida so I understand. I promised myself that I was still in Florida when I got old I would move. I was and I did. In NC now.

[@carolclark1406]

Hello from Australia sorry you're stuck in a nursing home the world is a brighter place wherever you are with Bertie and Wooster cheers Carol

[@telemachus53]

This programme has the best opening sequence I know. The music is fantastic and the drummer - well, whoever drew him should get an award.

[@rpmhart]

Agreed! The music IS fantastic. You might want to read the Wikipedia article on Anne Dudley, the composer. She has won an Oscar and has worked with about everybody in the music world including Sting, McCartney, Tom Jones, Cher, Annie Lennox, Elton John...the list is staggering.

[@granthurlburt4062]

Absolutely. I can listen to and enjoy every time. All to often the music for a series gets tedious. I love this as a piece of music and one that seems among the best of its time. The animation with it is also just terrific and interesting to watch every time. Thanks to @rmphart, I shall look up Anne Dudley.

[@cruisepaige]

Bertie is so pure and kind. I just love his character.

[@nickwyatt9498]

Clementina: Do you think Patrick would be sick if I gave him some ice cream? Bertie: Yes. (Clementina promptly gives dog ice cream)

[@samuelfawell9159]

It’s wonderfully that the episode where Bertie wants to get married is one of the few where no one tries to marry him off

[@beth9603]

" the bally ballyness of it all makes it seem so.. so bally *bally* "

[@jerrygundecker743]

Laurie and Fry were right no one else could have done it better

[@malbarlow4991]

i so agree like jeremy brett as holmes and both watsons1

[@xmfclick]

Well, on Radio 4 Extra the BBC sometimes repeat Jeeves & Wooster as performed by Michael Hordern and a young Richard Briers. This is also excellent, with the added bonus of letting me build the pictures in my head (although the Fry & Laurie version has rather spoiled that feature).

[@graemeandrew8747]

Funny thing, always thought cannon and ball could have played the roles of Jeeves and Wooster. No only joking!

[@michaelroberts7374]

​@@graemeandrew8747 little and large had the talent.

[@monteceitomoocher]

Bought up on the Ian Carmichael and Dennis Price version of the sixties but this is far and away the best rendition, both actors were made for their parts.

[@medicwebber3037]

The faces Jeeves makes when Wooster starts talking about wanting a child!!! lol Priceless!

[@rosejacob3146]

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[@rosejacob3146]

Jenn nnnnnn nnnnnnnnnnnnn

[@dominicross96]

@@rosejacob3146 What the fuck? Are you ok?

[@elaynek4592]

Jeeves face ANYTIME he talks 😂😂

[@peterfreeman6677]

@@dominicross96 Whatever she's on, I don't think I want to try it.

[@MsWill813]

"This is no time for thoughts." That should be Berties motto.

[@kevinjackson1275]

Taina Williams The Wooster Brain has shifted into gear 😉

[@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131]

Bertie "Brains" Wooster...🤪

[@MsWill813]

@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131 ;D

[@petergreen5337]

HAHAHA brilliant

[@SubTroppo]

Given that most people would rather die than think, Bertie is spot on.

[@reighneedaze5876]

Everything about this is top class.Acting,writing,production and direction.

[@claireevans4567]

…also the music, and the acting with children and animals?

[@silver-fd3cv]

And the fashions of both the men and women, the cars, the colors, the fabrics of the drapes and upholsteries, etc...

[@billycaldwell6531]

Theme music and graphic also!

[@user-vb5hh6qm8g]

Согласна!!

[@ciroalb3]

let's add costumes. Bertie's suits are wonderful

[@brigidconroy2111]

I am new to this series Oh my Laurie and Fry are so perfect together

[@ericpmoss]

"Am I wrong in thinking that all little girls are hard-bitten thugs of the worst description?" Makes a good uncle.

[@lauralake7430]

Hes not wrong. Have you met little girls?

[@Fuliginosus]

I love how when Jeeves passes Bertie a telegram he first puts it on a silver tray.

[@barbaraburton8914]

Absolutely the done thing!! 😂

[@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods]

But...he *didn't put it back* !!!

[@abigailloach8152]

"I shall be better directly. It's just... Mr Little's tie sir. It has little horseshoes on it. It's sometimes difficult just to shrug these things off, sir."

[@harpharpharpharp1971]

***** Indeed Sir? Who would have guessed it?

[@hansdhollosy9796]

horse shoes, sir? Belong on effen horses.

[@Konrad_Wallenrod]

+JuliusAndersson that is quite unusual, Sir!

[@Konrad_Wallenrod]

+Abigail Loach I can feel his pain!

[@terrorfire8505]

@JuliusAndersson no not really?

[@Roses-lilac]

Fry and Laurie were and still are the ultimate Jeeves and Wooster.

[@yggdrasil9039]

Very hard to capture Wodehouse's comic genius, but this is about the closest you can get.

[@debbiewilck3076]

I love that dog. Years ago my brother went to a shelter to get his kids a dog. I asked what he came home with and he said, Some kind of hound. I pictured a beagle or basset hound. I laughed out loud when I met the beautiful creature, an Irish wolf hound, three feet tall!

[@virnamisra1657]

Nnooww. There There......wioof woof

[@Savyra]

What I enjoyed so much about the books was this kind of description: 'Jeeves shimmered into the room.' You can see him doing just that, as if he's moving on rails, at 2:18. So well done.

[@HooDatDonDar]

They try to do that sometimes in the show. Earlier, when Sir Roderick Glossop, thinks he hears a cat, and calls for Jeeves, Jeeves just pops into the picture, with no warning. Think they were trying to suggest the shimmer effect.

[@Rat-Salad]

“Typical Tuppy fodder” always gets me 😂

[@maryblushes7189]

Poor Bertie, never understands when a lady is taking advantage of him.😂

[@carnalea2424]

I burst out laughing when the 'hard-bitten thugs' made certain 'signs' in the direction of the headmistress when she was nodding off.

[@joyhartnett2624]

Jeeves says at one point that he had promised himself "a quiet evening with an improving book." LOL! Love this!

[@meeeka]

I can't wait to call my daughter's classmates "hard bitten thugs." Best description ever!

[@andywalls2197]

michelle stein-evers frankl N non

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

Yes, yesterday's Hard Bitten Thugs, today's Mean Girls...

[@nelsonwhaley6348]

This is one of the greatest series ever produced on TV. Superb acting which got on with it to great effect.

[@linmonash1244]

Yes.

[@guywhocantgrowabeard]

hugh laurie is a freaking master of his craft! ❤️❤️

[@linmonash1244]

These are addictive. Been catching up on old favourites. Worryingly, finding myself saying things like 'What Ho!' and pondering how many times Jeeves smacked his skull on those low beams.. The title music is a work of mastery. Did Hugh have a hand in that? { So bizarre for us all to be grey and wrinkled now - seems but a blink ago! 😵‍💫} 👋👋👋

[@cathygould]

👍🏽👏🏾✌🏾🤟🏽😄😄😄❣️❣️❣️❣️😘

[@stephenmcdonald7908]

Totally agree with you " old thing "

[@margo3367]

Doesn’t it though.

[@linmonash1244]

@@stephenmcdonald7908 😊

[@linmonash1244]

@@margo3367 😊

[@The1GeeDub]

The way Jeeves recoils in absolute horror when Bertie suggests marrying Bobby Whickham....brilliant

[@marktully7755]

like he choked up a plum pit

[@voraciousreader3341]

Niamh Cusack is absolutely darling in this episode! And Patrick…..well! A beautiful specimen indeed!

[@V8_screw_electric_cars]

I am not entirely unlike Wooster, save for the fact that I lack valet, friends or an aston martin, I am however too unemployed.

[@riace4]

me too! let's start a club

[@zoemarieking]

Technically Mr Wooster is not unemployed- the official UK definition is those 16 or over who are available to start work in the next fortnight and have been actively seeking work in the last 4 weeks. I guess Mr Wooster would be classed as NEET- not in education, employment or training.

[@theobaldlolworth4717]

self-employed, I like to call that

[@alanrichards6927]

However, I too am unemployed.

[@0IDaveCouch]

Bertie is one of the idle rich.

[@peterblanchard6942]

'...monk-like existence ...' Priceless hahaha

[@christophekeating21]

"Perhaps another small whiskey and soda might be called for"

[@virnamisra1657]

And what became of the Irish.. ..

[@medicwebber3037]

"... chosen riches instead of honest worth...". What a great compliment to Jeeves, Wooster made. :-)

[@sumananand4233]

Funny how most of Bertie's problems wouldn't exist if his answer were a simple "NO".

[@rickbunte3147]

+Suman Anand Yes indeed. Well said.

[@blueberry1874]

his social standing is what puts food on his table

[@LoneKharnivore]

That would be impolite.

[@JazzyB833]

Code of the Woosters prevents him from turning down a toothsome fillet :)

[@qinwang6250]

A gentleman never says NO to a request.

[@TheDawnling]

"Certainly, as in, "string"..." we type these because the lines are WONDERFUL

[@Hugofreddie]

The casting on this series was inspired . Jeeves is awesome

[@kevinmccarthy8746]

WOW, Incredibly beautiful, that time ago. ENGLAND! My England, my Avalon of old. Your prodigal son the USA love and esteem you.

[@jamiemcmillan6742]

Jeeves recoils in disgust at the sight of that tie! Hilarious.

[@medicwebber3037]

+Jamie McMillan The shock! The PAIN that tie caused!! lol That was great!

[@jamiemcmillan6742]

+Medic Webber He looked like he was going to faint!

[@djs9415]

Please note that Jeeves is a veddy veddy propah gentleman's valet.So when Bertram showed terrible lapses of bad taste in sartorial matters Jeeves is not going to stand for it.After all he has his own standing in the butlers' club up with which to keep.

[@rachelgarber1423]

Jamie McMillan He does have definite opinions about gentlemen's haberdashery doesn't he. White dinner jackets worn in Cannes, plus fours for golf...

[@MrVorpalsword]

Hang on, and I know its a bit after the event but wasn't he shocked at seeing the tie because he thought Mabel was going to give it to him? - she was, as they say, two timing them. (or was I half asleep)

[@TheQqsscc]

At 6:37, Bingo takes Bertie to show-off his latest love interest Mabel. She works at the 'Aerated Bread Co'. The tea-room/bakery/restaurant actually existed as a large chain. These tearooms provided the first public places where women could eat, alone or with women friends. And the loaves of bread we see were the first to introduce carbon dioxide gas instead of fermentation claiming perfect cleanliness & automation.

[@thethingonlycatscansee963]

Thank you for this. It is always wonderful to collect snippets of history along the way!

[@Muck006]

There is a brilliant miniseries about "Victorian bakers" where they talk about it and make some bread like that (which actually tasted horrible). Just look for "victorian bakers" here on youtube and hope they havent deleted it yet.

[@terrymoore7293]

My mother as a young teenager worked as a waitress at the LIONS tea rooms in London, they were a large chain at the time in the 20s 30s and 40s and where still around when i was a boy, cream teas, Yummie.

[@pamelaspooner8335]

terry moore actually, Lyons. I remember having an evening meal with my parents at the Lyons Corner House near Trafalgar Square in the 1950’s. It had both tables and a ‘diner’ type horse shoe shaped counter where one waitress waited on many people at once- unusual, I think, for the UK at that time.

[@resnonverba137]

@@withgoddess1119 So were some of the visitors apparently...

[@sevensilverpetals1601]

"would you like me to put it on another table, Sir..." & "Marriage is, I believe, the preliminary step for those willing to undergo it's rigors.."! - Oh Jeeves! Stephen Fry portrays Jeeves exquisitely from his vastly funny displays of verbal wit to his silent expressions, which say everything! Masterful!

[@charlesramos4294]

A really funny episode! I especially love “Patrick” the Irish wolfhound!

[@tomgardner8825]

jeeves has done a marvelous job keeping Bertie single- and happy.

[@vardellsfolly5200]

Patrick was adorable. Rest in peace, you hairy joy!

[@shubhangapandey4351]

... they say to him "What Ho!" and he says "What Ho!"...

[@lopinderp8621]

Very inspiring indeed!

[@goudagirl6095]

Read EVERY PG Wodehouse story, watched EVERY Jeeves & Wooster episode. And still I want MORE! Absolutely brilliant stuff.

[@bjackins1879]

You might want to check out Hugh Laurie's novel The Gunseller. Not Wodehouse, but one can tell Laurie learned a lot from him and is paying tribute. Loved it.

[@praying4you]

Only God is awesome. HE desrvesour awe, reverence😊❤

[@pattysherwood7091]

The bland conversation at the dining table about the village rugby games causing the death of seven players and two spectators is very funny. Also, the reading of the books by Rosie M. Banks. This is a fun episode

[@LoneKharnivore]

It was five hundred years earlier.

[@charlesramos4294]

Patty Sherwood In The Wodehouse books, Bingo goes on to marry Rosie M. Banks!

[@peterfreeman6677]

@@charlesramos4294 Indeed, Bingo settles down very happily and becomes a father - at which point he more or less fades out of the storylines.

[@laurahoward5426]

Yes!!......." and TWO spectators'....😂😂

[@sarahh6812]

"How many words are on a page?" "About 20 or 30" 😂

[@maryoleary5044]

Lots of lovely doggies in this series ❤

[@bobbyhanly3466]

The man was right. Like Yorkie chocolate and Rugby League Wodehouse is not for girls.

[@elizabethbryson7068]

I look forward to scenes at the Drone Club. Reminds me of fraternity houses of my youth. Lots of fun there.

[@jacky3580]

The ‘newt dance’ killed me!

[@annskinner8467]

Jeeves and Wooster: A good deed in a naughty world ❤❤❤❤

[@robertamcmunn3642]

I love this show and it amazes me how they can do so many with the same basic story line.

[@wolfganghendery8298]

"Ha. Errrrm. Ladies. good morning. That is to say, what ho! pppppfffff..." Great opening to a speech.

[@adriaanboogaard8571]

Bertie is always fun but what makes it most fun is Jeeves always knows best and more. 😁

[@patmanchester8045]

My favorite line for the series is "Slack jawed aristocracy"Jeeves says it in his disapproval of aristocrats marrying each other . He felt there was too much inbreeding causing this malady

[@busking6292]

Stephen Fry was born to play Jeeves,the only other contenders I can think of are Charles Dance,John Cleese or Nigel Hawthorne

[@kathryntanner9796]

Read a lot of P.G.Wodehouse as a young person. How did this show miss me? Patrick's face when Bertie was in the tree! This show is genius!

[@carolleenkelmann3829]

I never get tired of watching these episodes. Must have seen them at least four times over the years.

[@granny13ad33]

I'm in love . . . . How many times have we heard this from those fellows? They are an unending college fraternity, Too much money, Too much time on hand and way too much pomposity. Delightful!

[@peterfreeman6677]

Actually, most of them have too little money. In this unspecified period after the First World War, these young men in spats (just too young to have been conscripted) all seem to be dependent on rich uncles for an allowance on which they are meant to live, and which many of them promptly place on Greased Lightning or Ballyrush in the 2:30 at Cheltenham, on the assurance from some acquaintance or other that this horse absolutely cannot lose ... It is never made clear, but it must be assumed that the absence of so many fathers (and the resulting dependence on uncles for financial support) is because they died during the war. Bertie's own parents are both dead, but he (unlike so many of his friends) inherited a large amount of money when he came of age.

[@lanctermann7261]

Delightful indeed!

[@vawncorrigan7330]

I think this might be one of the very best episodes, it has everything!

[@daisycoombs1656]

Bertie: Bingo wants to marry a waitress. Bingo: *snorts into soup*

[@chromatosechannel]

J: ..by an odd coincidence, sir, it is the same young person in whom Mr. Little has been so interested. W: What, Mable? J: Yes, sir. W: Good Lord, Jeeves.. ..... .. ...... ... ..... Well, poor old Bingo. Bertie knows how good Jeeves is at getting what he wants. lol

[@swagattttt]

jetlagsyndrome Hahaha so true

[@simkwakia]

P.G.Wodehouse is a genius. Speefing top class, what?!

[@andrewsarek229]

"I was intending to spend the evening with an improving book" "Can't you spend an evening with an improving dog?"

[@ericminch]

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

[@lauralake7430]

An improving PUB

[@valor101arise]

Reproving.... not improving 😂

[@romascott6567]

I have a number of Audio Books of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster and Jeeves has a touch dryer tone when addressing Bertie. Absolutely marvelous!!

[@singingway]

45:48 appreciating Laurie's stunned mackerel look

[@-yeme-]

irish wolf hounds are so nice dogs theyre really friendly and gentle with ppl

[@vtecpreludevtec]

yeme Patrick🐕

[@lowesonia8551]

The decor takes me back to when i was a little girl. Delightful. Years since seeing this series. More recently Fry. Dawson. Hitchens. Since Christopher's death. First time of seeing young Fry. Time has changed the World so much.

[@johncarroll772]

Hitchens is sorely missed.

[@germaher3541]

"Barbara tossed her auburn curls rebelliously. Her dark eyes flashed. Her father might be only a mill-hand but she had the pride of the Ormskirks, that same pride that had prompted her grandfather, old Stanley Ormskirk, to stand firm when threatened with eviction from his humble cottage by Lord Ramchester for refusing to doff his cap."

[@vejayanandch3454]

A tribute to Actor Jeremy Brett on 12th September. Though fictional Character Sherlock Homes remained today, the real one has left us twenty three years ago. But he lives in our heart. Still I amaze why I feel to see him on screen again and again have no answer. Such a craving to watch his movies never felt with any before. He remains forever. Vejayanandch

[@baskervillebee5748]

My Fair Lady Jeremy Brett: On The Street Where You Live He looks about 18. 😍

[@DandyLion662a]

"This is no time for thought Jeeves."

[@robertsckemp]

The school pianist was a superb bit of casting.

[@NiallMor]

"It's the bally balliness of it all, makes it seem so bally bally."

[@gardenlover9663]

Of course, Jeeves and Wooster are the best characters, and Hugh and Stephen are perfection. But I also love Tuppy Glossop. Robert Daws is hilarious. I enjoy the episodes with him as a guest star the most.

[@patmanchester8045]

I named a parrot Gussy Finknoddle, the nerd who likes neuts.

[@g-r-a-e-m-e-]

Stephen Fry is I think quite clumsy yet carries off the handling of bottles, glasses, trays etc to perfection

[@jlex1049]

He's the grace of a great bear.

[@catherinemelnyk]

"Marriage is the preliminary step..." How refreshingly old-fashioned.

[@Nemo7The7Pirate7]

that character had an amazing talent of reading books outloud.

[@sampuatisamuel9785]

He did have an ulterior mtorive...

[@barbaraburton8914]

A skill I do not have even though an avid reader. 😢

[@kayesharples7074]

Brilliant series...watchable again and again...

[@pingpong5000]

There is not one bad thing that can be said about this program, it is timeless and charming. Shame TV has lost the ability to make programs of this calibre.

[@HooDatDonDar]

Rosie M. Banks is a combination of two popular female novelists of the time, Ethel M. Dell and Ruby M. Ayres.first name Rosie=ruby. Last name dell=banks (dells, or valleys, and river banks are both features of the countryside). And of course, there is the co-incidence of them both having the middle initial “M”. Bingo later marries this authouress. Bertie feels it is his duty to read one of her books, to see what is going on. He gives the reader a summary of the romantic plot, and comments: [quote from memory] “I was appalled. Of course, I had always known in a general way that Mrs. Bingo wrote the world’s worst tripe, but I had not thought even she capable of producing such stupendous bilge as this.”

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You lucky, lucky people. Here, as told to Bertie by a female fan, is the story of MERVYN KEENE, CLUBMAN -By Rosie M. Banks “He was young and rich and handsome, an officer in the Coldstream Guards and the idol of all who knew him. Everybody envied him.” “I don’t wonder, the lucky stiff.” “But he was not really to be envied. There was a tragedy in his life. He loved Cynthia Grey, the most beautiful girl in London, but just as he was about to speak his love, he found that she was engaged to Sir Hector Mauleverer, the explorer.” “Dangerous devils, these explorers. You want to watch them like hawks. In these circs, of course, he would have refrained from speaking his love? Kept it under his hat, I suppose, what? ” “Yes, he spoke no word of love. But he went on worshipping her, outwardly gay and cheerful, inwardly gnawed by a ceaseless pain. And then one night her brother Lionel, a wild young man who had unfortunately got into bad company, came to his rooms and told him that he had committed a very serious crime and was going to be arrested, and he asked Mervyn to save him by taking the blame himself. And, of course, Mervyn said he would.” “The silly ass! Why?” “For Cynthia’s sake. To save her brother from imprisonment and shame.” “But it meant going to chokey himself. I suppose he overlooked that?” “No. Mervyn fully realized what must happen. But he confessed to the crime and went to prison. When he came out, grey and broken, he found that Cynthia had married Sir Hector, and he went out to the South Sea Islands and became a beachcomber. And time passed. And then one day Cynthia and her husband arrived at the island on their travels and stayed at Government House, and Mervyn saw her drive by, and she was just as beautiful as ever, and their eyes met, but she didn’t recognize him, because of course he had a beard and his face was changed because he had been living the pace that kills, trying to forget.” I remembered a good one I had read somewhere about the pace that kills nowadays being the slow, casual walk across a busy street, but I felt that this was not the moment to spring it. “He found out that she was leaving next morning, and he had nothing to remember her by, so he broke into Government House in the night and took from her dressing-table the rose she had been wearing in her hair. And Cynthia found him taking it, and, of course, she was very upset when she recognized him. “ Oh, she recognized him this time? He’d shaved, had he?’’ “ No, he still wore his beard, but she knew him when he spoke her name, and there was a very powerful scene in which he told her how he had always loved her and had come to steal her rose, and she told him that her brother had died and confessed on his death-bed that it was he who had been guilty of the crime for which Mervyn had gone to prison. And then Sir Hector came in.” “Good situation. Strong.” “And, of course, he thought Mervyn was a burglar, and he shot him, and Mervyn died with the rose in has hand. And, of course, the sound of the shot roused the house, and the Governor came running in and said: ‘Is anything missing?’ And Cynthia in a low, almost inaudible voice said : ‘Only a rose,’ That is the story of Mervyn Keene, Clubman.”

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Bertie’s actual review. “I had always known in a sort of vague, general way that Mrs Bingo wrote the world’s worst tripe - Bingo generally changes the subject nervously if anyone mentions the little woman’s output - but I had never supposed her capable of bilge like this,”

[@cuthbertjolly4859]

Jeeves´s reaction to Bingo´s necktie 8:47 was hilarious.

[@gailhowes9398]

I just adore these splendid videos, thank you so much for downloading them ❣️

[@kevinbyrne4538]

3:53 -- Bertie can't even make a cup of tea, yet he wants to raise a child.

[@harryjfw4669]

Why would he need to make a cup of tea when he has Jeeves?

[@shurik8550]

Harry JFW, so could Jeeves make the child 🌚

[@vickimiller5496]

Not make a child but raise a child as Mr. French did in Family Affair

[@tomgreene6579]

He would not be the first!

[@peterfreeman6677]

Oh I say, that's not fair. Bertie can make a cup of tea, we see him doing it in another episode. True, he needs to consult a large how-to book before he can start, and he manages to burn himself in the process, but I have to say that he is capable of mastering the intricacies of tea-making, just about. Almost, anyway.

[@mfjdv2020]

Patrick is adorable

[@harpharpharpharp1971]

I believe he also speaks well of you Sir. (or Madam)

[@briangriffiths4833]

Uyeee Love this ...still..decades after.¡¡¡¡!!! .classy entertainment fun & clever.,beautifully directed in English countryside...script + Hugh Laurie &Steven Fry..perfect harmony in role & chemistry..

[@shugaroony]

Haha poor Bertie, he really does get himself into some scrapes - mind you he doesn't have bring it on himself! And Jeeves being horrified by that tie. Brilliant! :D

[@JR6593]

"Did your proposal meet the sympathetic ears, sir?" Just how many ways can they find to ask questions?! Don't get me wrong. I enjoy them.

[@scottlang7271]

26:30 -"Perhaps, Mr. Wooster - a story about hard work, study and healthy living?" All of which are foreign concepts to young Bertie Wooster :D

[@ums4491]

I like the character Jeeves...so cool...has all the time in the world! Look at his each calculated action at 4.40 while he readies the suitcases...he seems to be having 40 hrs in a day!

[@monsignorerasmus.6441]

Among the many hilarious Things in this episode, is Berties synopsis of the play.

[@johnharvey2850]

When reading Wodehouse, it's Fry and Laurie I hear..

[@Canalcoholic]

It’s only Fry’s readings of ‘The Jeeves Collection’ and ‘The Blandings Collection’ on Audible which have introduced me to Wodehouse, so I am discovering these videos and devouring the entire canon retrospectively. But better late than never, eh what?

[@patriciajrs46]

Leave it to Wooster to have a rubber duckie!!! Some people never grow up.

[@briang530]

It's 6am...why can I not stop watching?

[@peterfreeman6677]

Addictive, isn't it?