8.0Season 4 • Episode 6
LatestThe Ganymede Club book has turned up missing, and Jeeves must return it at all costs. Madeline Bassett's wedding doesn't proceed as smoothly as planned.
Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring 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. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.
Acting
Laurie and Fry's chemistry is telepathic; they finish each other's... everything.
Writing
Wodehouse's prose translated to razor-sharp banter that never ages.
Costume
1930s tailoring so exquisite you'll weep into your off-the-rack sweater.
Creator
Clive Exton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry were already comedy partners when cast; their real-life friendship made every raised eyebrow hit harder.
The series helped spark a 1990s Wodehouse revival, proving interwar British aristocracy was somehow peak comfort viewing for a post-Cold War world.
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