The Delayed Arrival
| "The Delayed Arrival" | |
|---|---|
| Jeeves and Wooster episode | |
| Episode no. |
Season 4 Episode 4 |
| Directed by | Ferdinand Fairfax |
| Original air date | 6 June 1993 |
| Episode chronology | |
"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".[1] It first aired on 6 June 1993 on ITV.
Background
Adapted from "Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit".
Cast
- Bertie Wooster — Hugh Laurie
- Daphne Dolores Morehead — Stephen Fry
- Sir Roderick Glossop — Roger Brierley
- Lady Delia Glossop — Jane Downs
- Tuppy Glossop — Robert Daws
- Dwight Stoker — James Holland
- Pauline Stoker — Sharon Holm
- J. Washburn Stoker — Manning Redwood
- Marmaduke Lord Chuffnell ("Chuffy") — Matthew Solon
- Seabury Chuffnell — Edward Holmes
- Myrtle Chuffnell — Fidelis Morgan
- Maud Wilberforce — Paula Jacobs
- Lord Yaxley, Berti's uncle George Wooster — Nicholas Selby
- Claude Wooster — Hugo E. Blick
- Eustace Wooster — Ian Jeffs
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.