Return to New York (Jeeves and Wooster)

"**Return to New York**"
"Return to New York"
Jeeves and Wooster episode
Episode no.	Season 4; Episode 1
Directed by	Ferdinand Fairfax
Original air date	16 May 1993
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"Return to New York " is the first episode of the fourth series of the 1990s British comedy television series Jeeves and Wooster. It first aired in the UK on 16 May 1993 (1993-05-16) on ITV.^[1]

In the US, it was aired as the first episode of the third series of Jeeves and Wooster on Masterpiece Theatre, on 10 October 1993. "Pearls Mean Tears" aired as the first episode of the fourth series instead.^[2]

Background

Adapted from "The Spot of Art" (collected in Very Good, Jeeves), "The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace" (collected in The Inimitable Jeeves), and "Fixing it for Freddie" (collected in Carry On, Jeeves).^[2]

Cast

Bertie Wooster – Hugh Laurie
Jeeves – Stephen Fry
Aunt Agatha – Elizabeth Spriggs
Tuppy Glossop – Robert Daws
Eustace Wooster – Joss Brook
Claude Wooster – Jeremy Brook
Gwladys Pendlebury – Deirdre Strath
Elizabeth Vickers – Briony Glassco
Lucius Pim – Marcus D'Amico
Slingsby – Harry Ditson
Mrs Slingsby – Marcia Layton
Liftman Coneybear – Joseph Mydell
May Prysock – Devon Scott^[2]^[3]

Plot

Aunt Agatha wants to pack her wayward nephews Claude and Eustace Wooster off to Africa but both have fallen in love with a singer at a nightclub Bertie took them to the night before, and sneak back from the docks to Bertie's place to pursue her. Bertie wants to marry the portrait painter Gwladys Pendlebury. Aunt Agatha dislikes her portrait painting by Gwladys Pendlebury. Her portrait painting is used by the soup manufacturer Slingsby's Superb Soup as "Granny's Favorite" SLINGSBY'S Olde Englyshe Cock-a-Leekie Soup. Bertie's efforts to help Tuppy end in a disaster and Aunt Agatha ends up as a laughing stock, and looking for the cause, blames Bertie.

References

^ "Jeeves and Wooster Series 4, Episode 1". 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. 192–196. ISBN 978-0-7864-2288-3.
^ "Return to New York (1993)". BFI. British Film Institute. 2019. Archived from the original on 8 January 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2019.