Episode no. Season 3
Episode 1 | Directed by Ferdinand Fairfax | |
Original air date 12 May 1991 (1991-05-12) | ||
"Bertie Sets Sail" is the first episode of the third series of the 1990s British comedy television series Jeeves and Wooster. It's also called "Safety in New York." It first aired on 12 May 1991 (1991-05-12) on ITV.
Contents
Background
Adapted from "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest" .
Cast
Plot
Bertie escapes Aunt Agatha's plot to get him married to Honoria Glossop by taking a ship to New York, accompanied by Jeeves. On board he meets Tuppy Glossop who is going to buy a car there. Tuppy's uncle is Bertie's nemesis (and later good friend) Sir Roderick Glossop and his cousin is Bertie's ex-fiancée Honoria Glossop. Meanwhile Tuppy has fallen in love with the daughter of an American automobile manufacturer. He wants to import American cars to Britain and promises to buy 48 cars, but he barely has enough money for one American car.
Bertie is then lumbered with 23 years old Lord Wilmot 'Mottie' Pershore, who is the son of Aunt Agatha's friend Lady Pershore. Wilmot is ‘sucking the knob of his stick’
Once in America, she leaves for a tour of prisons for an upcoming book. She has left strict instructions as to how to look after the very delicate Wilmot, who cannot travel with his mother as he gets ill when traveling by train.
But once out of his mother's eye, he turns from a withdrawn little man into someone who's out clubbing and getting drunk every night and yielding to the temptations of New York in a big way. Bertie escapes to the woods to stay with poet friend Mr Todd while Jeeves sorts things out calling a policeman. Wilmot assaults the policeman whilst drunk, and is sent to prison. But his mother sees Wilmot as prisoner on her tour of prisons. Wilmot don't want that she finds out what he has done. The boy depends on Jeeves and turns to him, who is now Wilmot's surrogate guardian.