Return to New York (Jeeves and Wooster)
| "Return to New York" | |
|---|---|
| Jeeves and Wooster episode | |
| Episode no. |
Season 4 Episode 1 |
| Directed by | Ferdinand Fairfax |
| Original air date | 16 May 1993 |
| Episode chronology | |
"Return to New York " is the first episode of the fourth series of the 1990s British comedy television series Jeeves and Wooster. It is also called "Cyril And The Broadway Musical."[1] It first aired on 16 May 1993 on ITV.
Background
Adapted from "The Spot of Art" (from Very Good, Jeeves), "The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace" (from The Inimitable Jeeves) and "Fixing It for Freddie" (from Carry On, Jeeves).
Cast
- Bertie Wooster — Hugh Laurie
- Jeeves — Stephen Fry
- Aunt Agatha — Elizabeth Spriggs
- Tuppy — Robert Daws
- Eustace — Joss Brook
- Claude — Jeremy Brook
- Gwladys Pendlebury — Deirdre Strath
- Elizabeth — Briony Glassco
- Lucius Pim — Marcus D'Amico
- Slingsby — Harry Ditson
- Mrs Slingsby — Marcia Layton
Plot
Aunt Agatha wants to pack her wayward nephews Claude and Eustace Wooster off to Africa but both have fallen in love with a singer at a nightclub Bertie took them to the night before, and sneak back from the docks to Bertie's place to pursue her. Bertie wants to marry the portrait painter Gwladys Pendlebury. Aunt Agatha dislikes her portrait painting of Gwladys Pendlebury. Her portrait painting is used by the soup manufacturer Slingsby’s Superb Soup as “Granny’s Favorite” SLINGSBY’S Olde Englyshe Cock-a-Leekie Soup. Bertie's efforts to help Tuppy end in a disaster and Aunt Agatha ends up as a laughing stock, and looking for the cause, blames Bertie.