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Jeeves And
Wooster History Twenty-three
years after the BBC laid The World Of Wooster to
rest, Granada TV revived P G Wodehouse's comic
stories with spectacular success, casting, in a
stroke of genius, comedy double-act Hugh Laurie and
Stephen Fry in the roles, respectively, of
gentleman and gentleman's gentleman. (For a fuller
explanation of Wodehouse's characters and stories
see that chronologically earlier BBC series, which
had starred Ian Carmichael and Dennis
Price). Although there
was some doubt among members of the Wodehouse
Society about their appropriateness for the parts,
Fry and Laurie were simply perfect in the roles of
unsurpassable valet Jeeves and bally ass Wooster,
living in a 1920s-30s world of Hooray Henries and
splendidly indomitable aunts. Both were major fans
of the original books, and Fry had even written
Wodehouse a letter, before the master's death in
1975, which elicited a signed photograph that
remains much treasured. Shot on film,
production values were high throughout the 23
episodes and all of them were very funny. The
scripts were dramatised from the Wodehouse
originals by Clive Exton (who also adapted Agatha
Christie's Poirot books for ITV), six of them being
set in New York City. Jeeves And
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