“Jeeves and the Great Sermon Handicap”
(original transmission date: 13/6/1965)
“Jeeves and the Great Sermon Handicap” is the third episode of the first series of The World of Wooster and was adapted by Michael Mills. It is considered lost.
On October 2016, it was announced as having been recovered in the form of a 16mm print from an unnamed collector and was planned to be shown during the BFI's Missing Believed Wiped1 event of that year, but was found prior to screening to be a copy of “Jeeves and the Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace”2.
1. “DISCOVERY 68” @ missing-episodes.com
2. BBC Genome Blog
Synopsis
“Bertie, after a financial disaster at Goodwood Races is tempted to join Claude and Eustace and is lured by them to take part in a crazy enterprise.”
An adaptation of “The Great Sermon Handicap”, but does not feature Bingo. Bertie's cousins, Claude and Eustace, summon him to the village of Twing in an effort to make money out of betting on the length of sermons to be preached in the surrounding vicarages.
Cast
Bertie Wooster: Ian Carmichael
Jeeves: Dennis Price
Eustace: Simon Ward
Claude: Timothy Carlton
Steggles: Simon Carter
The Rev. Heppenstall: Arthur Ridley
Brookfield: Mischa De La Motte
Harry: Royston Tickner
Jeff: Michael Earl
Landlord: John Tucker
Also starring: Ronald Emm, Jack Haig, Michael Hart, George Lowdell, John Scott-Martin, Patrick Westwood
Broadcasts
First broadcast
Sun 13th Jun 1965, 21:40 (BBC One London)1
Repeated
Sun 23rd Apr 1967, 22:55 (BBC Two England)2
1. BBC Genome
2. BBC Genome
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