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Wodehouse Playhouse is a British television comedy series based on the short stories of P. G. Wodehouse. From 1974 to 1978, three series and a pilot were made, with 21 half-hour episodes altogether in the entire series.
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- 01The Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court""In our story tonight - 'The Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court' - we see how the malevolent influence of a house nearly wrecked the romance of two poets - they had the dickens of a time - but fortunately everything came right in the end."" (P.G. Wodehouse) Introduction Kindred spirits and fellow poets, Charlotte Mulliner (author of 'Vignettes in Verse') and Aubrey Trefusis (author of 'Pastels In Prose') meet at 'The Crushed Pansy' a club for the literati. It emerges that Charlotte Mulliner has been invited to stay at the home of Aubrey Trefusis' parents, Sir Alexander and Lady Bassinger. Bludleigh Court is a strange house - it exercises a ghastly spell that saps even the most humanitarian principles and turns the gentlest nature-lover into a monster of ravening bloodlust. At first Charlotte is inclined to scoff at Aubrey's warnings but upon arriving at the house, both young people soon fall under its spell. They find themselves pursuing Aubrey's Uncle Francis, whose sole to
- 02The Rise of Minna NordstromThe making of a Hollywood Film Star. In Prohibition era Hollywood, a producer's life is one bad audition after another. But a star is born when a successful movie producer encounters a housemaid who really has the goods - on him and his buddies...
- 03Rodney Fails to QualifyThis is the story of love among golfers. It shows how true love, even if it slides into troubled waters, can always get back on the fairway, though it may get rather wet. Young William Bates is a torpid wooer who will not pop the question to Jill Packard, who is becoming dreamy and absent-minded, ever since reading 'The Love That Scorches' a romantic epic about the desert and people on camels and an Arab Chief with stern but tender eyes, and oases and mirages and things like that... The Oldest Member advises William to be quick about it and ask Jill to marry him before she becomes too entangled with romantic poet Rodney Spelvin. His advice to William is to engage Jill in a passionate exchange at the 6th hole in the large bunker there - a vast sandy waste where Jill may prove more susceptible to his wooing, and recommmends that before he even speaks to her, William is to clasp her in his arms and let his hot breath sear her face. But will William be in time? Even now Jill is walking
Cast
Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01The Truth About GeorgeApril 23, 1975""If anyone here tonight is afflicted with a stammer you will be interested to learn how George Mulliner got rid of his... The method is sho
- S01E02Romance at Droitgate SpaApril 30, 1975""There is a terrible lot of snobbery, I am sorry to say, in all English health resorts. Visitors with merely a touch of arthritis are terr
- S01E03Portrait of a DisciplinarianMay 7, 1975Reggie Mulliner is invited to Bingley On Sea by his brother, Dr. Joe Mulliner, to visit their old Nannie, Nurse Wilks who lives on in Reggie
- S01E04Season's bestThe Unpleasantness at Bludleigh CourtMay 14, 1975""In our story tonight - 'The Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court' - we see how the malevolent influence of a house nearly wrecked the romance
- S01E05The Rise of Minna NordstromMay 21, 1975The making of a Hollywood Film Star. In Prohibition era Hollywood, a producer's life is one bad audition after another. But a star is born
- S01E06Rodney Fails to QualifyMay 28, 1975This is the story of love among golfers. It shows how true love, even if it slides into troubled waters, can always get back on the fairway
- S01E07A Voice From the PastJune 4, 1975""Tonight's story is called 'A Voice from the Past'. It tells of a young man who by means of tuition from a correspondence school developed
Season02
- S02E01Anselm Gets His ChanceMarch 26, 1976""Tonight's story, 'Anselm Gets His Chance', tells how the fortunes of even a humble curate can be improved if he has a girl like Myrtle Jel
- S02E02Mr. Potter Takes a Rest CureApril 2, 1976This episode tells of how an American publisher and a rising young politician were unwise enough to accept an invitation from the mother of
- S02E03Strychnine in the SoupApril 9, 1976—""Tonight's story, Strychnine in the Soup, tells how a young interior decorator won the hand of the girl he loved against all the odds, but
- S02E04Feet of ClayApril 23, 1976—""Tonight's story, 'Feet Of Clay', tells of Agnes Flack and Sidney McMurdo who both had the true golfing spirit and so were able to win thro
- S02E05The NodderApril 30, 1976—""Tonight's story, The Nodder, set in the Hollywood of 1928, tears the tinsel from The Boulevard of Broken Dreams to reveal the simple story
- S02E06The Code of the MullinersMay 7, 1976—""Tonight's story, The Code Of The Mulliners, is of Archibald, who had two great advantages in his life, his love for Aurelia Cammarleigh an
Season03
- S03E01The Smile That WinsOctober 31, 1978—Deadly serious young private detective Adrian Mulliner looks like an underdog when he takes on the British aristocracy. On doctor's orders,
- S03E02Trouble Down at TudsleighNovember 7, 1978—""Tonight's story, Trouble Down at Tudsleigh, is about Freddie Widgeon of whom it's been said that if all the girls he's loved and lost were
- S03E03Tangled HeartsNovember 14, 1978—At the golf club, bossy Smallwood Bessemer and burly Carter Muldoon inadvertently exchange fiancees. Non-golfer Bessemer must play his way
- S03E04The Luck of the StiffhamsNovember 21, 1978—Passionate but penniless Adolphus ""Stiffy"" Stiffham seeks his fortune in America to win the hand of his love, Lady Geraldine. But he does
- S03E05The Editor RegretsNovember 28, 1978—""Tonight's story, 'The Editor Regrets', concerns Bingo Little, the husband of best-selling novelist Rosie M. Banks and editorial force behi
- S03E06Big BusinessDecember 5, 1978—""Tonight's story, 'Big Business', is about Reginald Mulliner, a young man of slender means and slighter intellect who before the dramatic c
- S03E07Mulliner's Buck-U-UppoDecember 12, 1978—Tonight's story, Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo tells of the Reverend Augustine's experience with a wonder tonic capable of transforming a pale youn
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