"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 on
ITV.
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
"Jeeves Saves the Cow-Creamer" is the first episode of the second series of the 1990s British comedy television series '' Jeeves and Wooster''. It is also called "The Silver Jug". It first aired in the UK on on ITV. Filming took place at Highcl ...
" aired as the fourth episode of the fourth series instead.
Background
Adapted from ''
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit''.
Cast
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Bertie Wooster –
Hugh Laurie
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Jeeves –
Stephen Fry
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Aunt Dahlia –
Jean Heywood
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Florence Craye –
Francesca Folan
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Stilton Cheesewright –
Nicholas Palliser
* Percy Gorringe –
Walter James
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Uncle Tom –
Ralph Michael
* Mrs Trotter –
Sylvia Kay
Sylvia Margaret Kay (16 May 1936 – 18 January 2019) was an English character actress who had many roles in British television programmes, most notably as Daphne Warrender in the BBC sitcom ''Just Good Friends''.
Early life
She attended Round ...
* Mr Trotter –
John Rapley
* Magistrate –
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*Peter Howell (musician) (born c. 1948), musician and composer
*Peter Howell (actor) (1919–2015), British actor
*Peter Howell (historian) (born 1941), British academic and historian
*Peter Howell (psychologist)
Pete ...
* Mr Burwash –
James Ottaway
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Seppings –
Ian Collier
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Oofy Prosser –
Richard Dixon
* Police –
Jon Croft,
Peter Diamond,
Jim Barclay
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.
See also
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List of ''Jeeves and Wooster'' characters
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Delayed Arrival, The
Jeeves and Wooster episodes
1993 British television episodes