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Basic Facts:

Episodes: 5
Runtime: 50 min.
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Premiered: 1990

Format:

Series

Genres:

Comedy

Created By:

Clive Exton

Actors:

Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry

Made In:

UK

Premiered at:

ITV

Long before US audi­ence have met Hugh Lau­rie and Dr. Gre­gory House, he was already accom­plished actor and starred in many excel­lent series and movies. I already have writ­ten on Black Adder series, and here is another real gem of UK tele­vi­sion pro­duc­tion. Jeeves and Wooster is cre­ated and pro­duced by Granada Tele­vi­son and pre­miered on ITV in 1990 with first from 4 sea­sons made, star­ring Hugh Lau­rie and Stephen Fry.

Story

Series is based on the sto­ries writ­ten by Pel­ham Grenville Wode­house from 1916 to 1974. Series is set in early 20-​th cen­tury (between two World Wars) in Eng­land and USA. As expected, Granada did excel­lent job in recre­at­ing the period. Music is also excel­lent, but after cou­ple of episodes, it became to repet­i­tive and bor­ing. Sec­ond sea­son will be imporved when the music is concerned.

Bertie Wooster is a bach­e­lor and minor aris­to­crat, mem­ber of ‘idle rich’ upper class, liv­ing of the fam­ily inher­i­tance, engaged to a new woman in almost every episode, and always get­ting him­self in some sort of trou­ble. Jeeves is his gentleman’s per­sonal gen­tle­man, or valet who is rally ‘a brain of the oper­a­tion’, and who is help­ing Bertie and his friends out of many awk­ward situations.

Jeeves & Wooster

This is one of the best adap­ta­tion of any writ­ten mate­r­ial , and the series didn’t lose any­thing in the adap­ta­tion process, and is true to original.

Char­ac­ters

There are few changes in some of the char­ac­ters from the writ­ten sto­ries, Wooster (played by Hugh Lau­rie) plays the piano in the series as Hugh often does in all series he stars in. And Jeeves (played by Stephen Fry) is younger than in the books. Hugh is as usu­ally amaz­ing, and the Wooster char­ac­ter is a per­fect match for his com­edy side. Stephen Fry is also per­fect as the silent but very smart valet aid­ing and in many cases con­trol­ling his mas­ter, as the good valet from the period often does. Bertie is in many ways a total oppo­site to Hugh’s char­ac­ter of Dr. House, so it’s very inter­est­ing to see him in a truly comedic roles that he is famous for.

Con­clu­sion

This is really excel­lent series, and really a must see for all Hugh Lau­rie fans inter­ested in see­ing him in excel­lent comedic role. Grab the DVD box set and enjoy.