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Jeeves and Wooster

★ 8.4 14K votes 1990–1993 4 seasons · 23 episodes Ended ITV1
British TVThe British television sensibility: tone, restraint and format traditions.This show: 10/10Dry humorDeadpan, understated wit.This show: 9/10Witty banterRapid-fire verbal sparring.This show: 9/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 9/10Central duoOne pair's chemistry carries everything.This show: 8/10Dialogue-drivenThe writing's voice is the main event.This show: 8/10Comfort rewatchThe kind of show people return to endlessly.This show: 8/10Warm humorAffectionate comedy that genuinely loves its characters.This show: 8/10
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Starring
Stephen FryHugh LaurieRichard DixonRobert DawsMary WimbushJohn Turner
Starring
Stephen FryHugh LaurieRichard DixonRobert DawsMary WimbushJohn Turner
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
0150300450600

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About

"Wodehouse's comic duo, performed with impeccable timing"

Bertie Wooster is a genial, dim-witted young gentleman in 1920s London who keeps tangling himself in engagements, family feuds, and harebrained schemes, only to be rescued each time by Jeeves, his impossibly calm and clever valet. Adapted from P.G. Wodehouse's novels, the show is gentle, whimsical farce rather than gag-a-minute comedy, driven almost entirely by dialogue, period charm, and the deadpan chemistry between Hugh Laurie's blustering fool and Stephen Fry's unflappable fixer. It's cozy, literate, unhurried television, the kind of thing you sink into for its voice and manners rather than any real stakes.

Watch it for

the note-perfect double act between Hugh Laurie's fool and Stephen Fry's imperturbable schemer.

Maybe skip if

you want fast-paced or edgy comedy rather than gentle, dialogue-driven period farce.

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All Seasons

Season 11990
8.12K54h 11m
Season 21991
8.32K65h 3m
Season 31992
8.11K65h 6m
Season 41993
8.01K65h 6m

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Stephen Fry Jeeves
Hugh Laurie Bertie Wooster
Richard Dixon Oofy Prosser, Oofy
Robert Daws Tuppy, Tuppy Glossop
Mary Wimbush Aunt Agatha
John Turner Spode
John Woodnutt Sir Watkyn, Sir Watkyn Bassett
Michael Ripper Drones Porter, Porter
Francesca Folan Florence, Madeline Bassett
Elizabeth Heery Madeline

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