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Uncle Fred Flits By

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC One
  • 1967
  • 1 pilot

PG Wodehouse adaptation starring Wilfred Hyde White as the eponymous Uncle Fred, the Earl of Ickenham. Stars Wilfrid Hyde-White, Avis Bunnage, Jonathan Cecil, Richard McNeff, Gerald Case and more.

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The first and most celebrated of all pilot and comedy trial seasons, Comedy Playhouse was originally devised to find new programmes for Ray Galton and Alan Simpson following the end of Hancock's Half Hour.

P.G. Wodehouse's The World Of Wooster. Image shows from L to R: Bertie Wooster (Ian Carmichael), Jeeves (Dennis Price). Copyright: BBC TV

P.G. Wodehouse's The World Of Wooster

The chronicles of the naïve, upper-crust Bertie Wooster as witnessed by his worldly-wise man-servant, Jeeves.

Ralph Richardson TV

Blandings Castle

1967 television adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's Blandings saga, starring Ralph Richardson as Clarence, the 9th Earl of Emsworth.

Wodehouse Playhouse. Image shows left to right: John Alderton, Pauline Collins TV

Wodehouse Playhouse

Twenty of Wodehouse's short stories brought to the screen with John Alderton and Pauline Collins playing various characters.

Jeeves And Wooster. Image shows from L to R: Bertie Wooster (Hugh Laurie), Jeeves (Stephen Fry). Copyright: Picture Partnership Productions TV

Jeeves And Wooster

Bertie Wooster is a minor aristocrat of limited intellect, ably aided and assisted in regular times of crisis by his improbably wise valet, Jeeves.

Jeeves In Manhattan Radio

Jeeves In Manhattan

Sitcom

What Ho, Jeeves!. Copyright: BBC Radio

What Ho, Jeeves!

Adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's stories.

Blandings. Image shows from L to R: Clarence (Timothy Spall), Freddie (Jack Farthing), Beach (Mark Williams), Connie (Jennifer Saunders). Copyright: Mammoth Screen TV

Blandings

Television adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's Blandings stories, starring Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders.

Radio 4 Radio

Blandings On Radio 4

Radio 4 adaptation of the classic series of short stories and novels, starring Richard Vernon.

Summer Lightning. Image shows from L to R: Percy Pilbeam (Matt Lucas), Sir Gregory Parsloe (Michael Jayston), Hugo (Samuel West). Copyright: Jarvis and Ayres Productions Radio

Summer Lightning

Two-part Radio 4 dramatisation of PG Wodehouse's timeless comic classic about two rival pig farmers. Cast includes Charles Dance and Matt Lucas.

Anton Rodgers TV

Ukridge

Second series of TV adaptations under the World Of Wodehouse banner, about Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge.

Wodehouse In Exile. Image shows from L to R: Mackintosh (Paul Ritter), P.G. Wodehouse (Tim Pigott-Smith), Ethel Wodehouse (Zoë Wanamaker), Werner Plack (Richard Dormer). Copyright: Great Meadow Productions TV

Wodehouse In Exile

Comic drama about PG Wodehouse's fall from grace and how the man who defined Englishness became an exile from his own country.

Wodehouse Playhouse. Image shows left to right: John Alderton, Pauline Collins TV

Wodehouse Playhouse

Twenty of Wodehouse's short stories brought to the screen with John Alderton and Pauline Collins playing various characters.

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