Kidnapped! (Jeeves and Wooster)
| "Kidnapped!" | |
|---|---|
| Jeeves and Wooster episode | |
| Episode no. |
Season 2 Episode 5 |
| Directed by | Simon Langton |
| Original air date | 12 May 1991 |
| Episode chronology | |
"Kidnapped!" is the fifth episode of the second series of the 1990s British comedy television series Jeeves and Wooster. It is also called "The Mysterious Stranger."[1] It first aired on 12 May 1991 on ITV.
Background
Kidnapped! was recorded in 1991. Chufnell Regis parts were filmed in Clovelly, Devon.
Cast
- Bertie Wooster — Hugh Laurie
- Jeeves — Stephen Fry
- Sir Roderick Glossop — Roger Brierley
- Lady Delia Glossop — Jane Downs
- 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
Plot
Bertie's club, the Drones Club, are electing a new dining committee chairman. Bertie wishes to be elected, but discovers that no one with a criminal record can stand. The trip results in startling results, including an encounter with several Drones in blackface.
Pauline Stoker is being stalked by a mysterious stranger. Bertie, always chivalrous, is called upon to protect her on her way back to Chuffnell Regis.
Because Lord Chuffnell ("Chuffy") cannot get permission to turn Chuffnell Hall into a hotel, Pauline tries to persuade Sir Roderick Glossop to turn it into a sanatorium. Glossop initially views Bertie as mentally unstable.
Bertie is kidnapped by Pauline Stoker's father, who wants that Bertie marries his daughter. But Bertie escapes by posing as one of the Barmy's blackface musicians.
All musicians and Sir Roderick, Stoker and Bertie are arrested in blackface. Sir Roderick, Stoker and Bertie become civil to each other and they patch up their differences after having been obliged to blacken their faces for different reasons.
And they get in front of Lord Chuffnell ("Chuffy") as the local magistrate, who releases the prisoners Sir Roderick, Stoker and Bertie. Sir Roderick, Stoker and Bertie are going undercover using snazzy aliases so that they aren't recognized: Sir Roderick as Alfred Trotsky, Stoker as Frederick Aloisius Lenin and Bertie as Dr. Crippen. But all musicians of Bertie's club, the Drones, are punished by Lord Chuffnell ("Chuffy") . The musicians of Bertie's club, the Drones, now have all a criminal record.
Lord Chuffnell ("Chuffy") as the local magistrate says: ″... you, Alfred Trotsky, and you, Frederick Aloisius Lenin, were led astray. You are discharged. But as for the rest of you: Boko Disraeli, Oofy Lloyd George, Barmy, Lord Tennyson, and the rest — not only have you been guilty of a breach of the peace of considerable magnitude, I also strongly suspect that you have given false names and addresses! You are each fined the sum of five pounds... Quiet, Dr. Crippen″[2]
References
- ↑ Kidnapped! at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/JeevesAndWooster