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The World of Wodehouse

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Country of origin
  
England

No. of series
  
2

Distributor
  
BBC Television

First episode date
  
24 February 1967

Network
  
BBC One

Language
  
English

Original language(s)
  
English

No. of episodes
  
13

Original network
  
BBC1

Final episode date
  
26 August 1968

Number of episodes
  
13

Number of series
  
2

Similar
  
The World of Wooster, Wodehouse Playhouse, Blandings, Jeeves and Wooster

The World of Wodehouse was a comedy television series, based on the Blandings Castle and Ukridge comedy stories by P. G. Wodehouse.

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The series, which followed The World of Wooster, was shown on BBC Television during 1967 (Blandings Castle, 6 episodes) and 1968 (Ukridge, 7 episodes). Apart from one or more extracts from a solitary episode of Blandings Castle ("Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend") broadcast in February 1967 all episodes of both series are lost. (See Wiping.)

Blandings Castle

(24 February 1967 – 31 March 1967)
The cast included:

  • Sir Ralph Richardson - as Lord Emsworth
  • Meriel Forbes - as Lady Constance Keeble
  • Stanley Holloway - as Beach (the Butler)
  • Jack Radcliffe - as the Gardener
  • Derek Nimmo - as Freddie Threepwood
  • Ukridge

    (15 July 1968 – 26 August 1968)
    The cast included:

  • Anton Rogers - as Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge
  • Julian Holloway - as Corky
  • References

    The World of Wodehouse Wikipedia