“Jeeves and the Song of Songs”


(original transmission date: 20/6/1965)

“Jeeves and the Song of Songs” is the fourth episode of the first series of The World of Wooster, and was adapted by Richard Waring. It is considered lost.


Synopsis

“The plot had been to humiliate Tuppy by having him jeered and cat-called at a charity concert while he was singing Sonny Boy. But at the crucial moment the carolling fiancee was not there to see Tuppy's debacle. Back in his luxurious flat...Bertie is consoling himself with the ‘ceaseless lashing of water on whisky’ when, again, Jeeves arrives with the inevitable, triumphant solution. ”
Shropshire Star, June 28th, 1965

An adaptation of “Jeeves and the Song of Songs”. Bertie is helping his friend Tuppy win the affections of an opera singer, but Aunt Dahlia wants the romance broken off in order for Tuppy to marry her daughter. By having him take part in an East End charity concert, Bertie and Jeeves hope to dissolve the budding relationship.


Cast

Bertie Wooster: Ian Carmichael
Jeeves: Dennis Price
Aunt Dahlia: Eleanor Summerfield
Tuppy Glossop: Edwin Apps
Cora Bellinger: Mo Dwyer
The Rev. Beefy Bingham: Peter Jesson
Assistant in music shop: Vernon Dobtcheff
Pianist: Kathleen O'Hagan
Reciter: Norman Mitchell
Concertina player: Alf Edwards
Also starring: Josephine Warner, John Tucker


Broadcasts

First broadcast

Sun 20th Jun 1965, 21:40 (BBC One London)1

Repeated

Thu 16th Sep 1965, 22:05 (BBC One London)2
Sun 30th Apr 1967, 22:50 (BBC Two England)3

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