Wodehouse Playhouse
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Wodehouse Playhouse is a British
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 television
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 comedy series based on the short stories of P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...

. From 1975 to 1978, three series were made, with twenty half-hour episodes altogether in the entire series.

Overview

P. G. Wodehouse introduced the episodes in the first and second series, shortly before his death.

John Alderton
John Alderton
John Alderton is an English actor who is best known for his roles in Upstairs, Downstairs, Thomas & Sarah and Please Sir!. Alderton has often starred alongside his wife, Pauline Collins.-Early life:...

 is featured in all episodes, and his wife Pauline Collins
Pauline Collins
Pauline Collins, OBE is an English actress of the stage, television, and film. She first came to prominence portraying Sarah Moffat in Upstairs, Downstairs and its spin-off Thomas & Sarah during the 1970s. She later drew acclaim for playing the title role in the play Shirley Valentine for which...

 was featured in all of the episodes of the first and second series. Geraldine Newman
Geraldine Newman
Geraldine Newman is an English film and television actress who has acted in more than 30 television programmes and films.Her most notable television performance was on the sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles.-Biography:...

 was featured in the first series. Sally Thomsett
Sally Thomsett
Sally Thomsett is a British actress.She is mainly remembered for starring in the 1970 film The Railway Children, and for playing Jo in the TV sitcom, Man About the House...

 and Liza Goddard
Liza Goddard
Liza Goddard is an English television and stage actress best known for her work in the 1970s and 1980s.-Early life:Goddard was born in Smethwick, West Midlands, England...

 were among the actresses who were featured during the third series.

Series 1

  1. "The Truth About George
    The Truth About George
    "The Truth about George" is a short story by the British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. A part of the Mr. Mulliner series, the story was first published in 1926 in Strand Magazine, and appeared almost simultaneously in Liberty in the United States. It also appears in the collection Meet Mr....

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  2. "Romance at Droitgate"
  3. "Portrait of a Disciplinarian"
  4. "Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court"
  5. "The Rise of Minna Nordstrom"
  6. "Rodney Fails to Qualify"
  7. "A Voice From the Past"

Series 2

  1. "Anselm Gets His Chance"
  2. "Mr. Potter Takes a Rest Cure"
  3. "Strychnine in the Soup
    Strychnine in the Soup
    "Strychnine in the Soup" is a short story by the British comic writer P.G. Wodehouse. A part of the Mr. Mulliner series, the story was first published in 1932 in Strand Magazine. It also appears in the collections Mulliner Nights and Wodehouse on Crime...

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  4. "Feet of Clay"
  5. "The Nodder"
  6. "The Code of the Mulliners"

Series 3

  1. "The Smile that Wins
    The Smile that Wins
    "The Smile that Wins" is a short story by the British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. A part of the Mr. Mulliner series, the story was first published in the United States, in the October 1931 issue of American Magazine...

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  2. "Trouble Down at Tudsleigh"
  3. "Tangled Hearts"
  4. "The Luck of the Stiffhams"
  5. "The Editor Regrets"
  6. "Big Business"
  7. "Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo
    Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo
    Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo is a short story by the British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. A part of the Mr. Mulliner series, the story was first published in the United States by Liberty Magazine on August 07, 1926 and in the UK in The Strand in November 1926...

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