“Jeeves and the Indian Summer of an Uncle”


(original transmission date: 15/2/1966)

“Jeeves and the Indian Summer of an Uncle” is the final episode of the second series of The World of Wooster, and was adapted by Michael Pertwee.

Some footage has survived, but it does no exist as a complete programme1. One scene was shown on Wogan on Wodehouse, a 2011 BBC2 documentary on the life and work of P. G. Wodehouse, with another or more fragments known to exist 2 3. A partial 16mm telerecording is held in the Kaleidoscope Archive.


1. “One or more sequences exist, but the complete programme is lost.” (Source: Kaleidoscope's Lost Television search engine)
2. “Indian Summer of an Uncle (surviving fragment) - Mrs Wilberforce (Beryl Reid) is a guest at Bertie's dinner. "Hello you old crook," she breezily greets Jeeves. Bertie's other companion is Lord 'Piggy' Yaxley, who turns out to be an old friend of the good lady. "Like deep calling to deep," they happily exchange details of their ailments just like "a sick parade"” (Source: 78rpm.co.uk)
3. missing-episodes.com


Synopsis

“Bertie (Ian Carmichael) meandering with a mazy motion, as somebody else puts it, and Jeeves (Dennis Price) with a voice like the silky plunge of a waterfall. Here also were Beryl Reid, shaking with laughter in a feather boa—she was once Uncle George's barmaid—and Uncle George himself (Max Adrian), croakingly gallant, if (as he said) with a liver like a soggy sponge. It was right that they should go off to a little celebration at the Cri.”
Listener and BBC Television Review, February 24th, 1966

An adaptation of “Indian Summer of an Uncle”. Bertie's sixty-year-old Uncle George wants to marry twenty-year-old waitress Rhoda. Aunt Agatha sends Bertie to buy her off. Old flames are revived when Bertie hosts a lunch at his flat.


Cast

Bertie Wooster: Ian Carmichael
Jeeves: Dennis Price
Aunt Agatha: Fabia Drake
Uncle George: Max Adrian
Mrs. Wilberforce: Beryl Reid
Rhoda: Penny Morrell
Maid: Janina Faye
Street musician: Dickie Martyn


Broadcasts

First broadcast

Tue 15th Feb 1966, 19:30 (BBC One London)1

Repeated

Fri 9th Sep 1966, 19:30 (BBC One London)2
Sun 16th Jul 1967, 21:45 (BBC Two England)3

1. BBC Genome
2. BBC Genome
2. BBC Genome


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