The Delayed Arrival

"The Delayed Arrival"
	Jeeves and Wooster episode
Episode no.	Season 4; Episode 4
Directed by	Ferdinand Fairfax
Original air date	6 June 1993

"The Delayed Arrival" is the fourth episode of the fourth series of the 1990s British comedy television series Jeeves and Wooster. It is also called "Arrested in a Night Club". It first aired in the UK on 6 June 1993 (1993-06-06) on ITV.[1]

In the US, it was aired as the third episode of the third series of Jeeves and Wooster on Masterpiece Theatre, on 24 October 1993. "Jeeves Saves the Cow-Creamer" aired as the fourth episode of the fourth series instead.[2]

Background

Adapted from Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit.[2]

Cast

Bertie Wooster – Hugh Laurie
Jeeves – Stephen Fry
Aunt Dahlia – Jean Heywood
Florence Craye – Francesca Folan
Stilton Cheesewright – Nicholas Palliser
Percy Gorringe – Walter James
Uncle Tom – Ralph Michael
Mrs Trotter – Sylvia Kay
Mr Trotter – John Rapley
Magistrate – Peter Howell
Mr Burwash – James Ottaway
Seppings – Ian Collier
Oofy Prosser – Richard Dixon[2][3]

Plot

Aunt Dahlia's magazine is in deep money trouble again so she wants to sell it to a Mr Trotter. To make it more saleable, she plans on paying a thousand pounds to a famous novelist for a story, which means she has to pawn her pearl necklace. Meanwhile, Lady Florence Craye has an on-off engagement with the homicidal Darcy "Stilton" Cheesewright, with Bertie being the cause of the break-ups. An expert is brought in to value the pearls, which have been replaced with fakes, and there is a race on to sell the magazine and get the real ones back in time. Aunt Dahlia wants help from Jeeves to find a pearl necklace she has pawned. Jeeves appears in drag in this episode to impersonate the novelist Daphne Dolores Morehead.

gollark: Really should try and get more interest on that.

gollark: I don't actually have any more than that in my bank account.

gollark: Well, I can help you with precisely £1.90 of financial aid.

gollark: That is not very soon.

gollark: Bad punctuation I guess.

References

"Jeeves and Wooster Series 4, Episode 4". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
Taves, Brian (2006). P.G. Wodehouse and Hollywood: Screenwriting, Satires and Adaptations. London: McFarland & Company. pp. 193–197. ISBN 978-0-7864-2288-3.
"Arrested in a Night Club (1993)". BFI. British Film Institute. 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2019.

External links

The Delayed Arrival on IMDb

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[1] "Jeeves and Wooster Series 4, Episode 4". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 4 April 2019.

[Taves-2] Taves, Brian (2006). P.G. Wodehouse and Hollywood: Screenwriting, Satires and Adaptations. London: McFarland & Company. pp. 193–197. ISBN 978-0-7864-2288-3.

[3] "Arrested in a Night Club (1993)". BFI. British Film Institute. 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2019.