Steven Fry (left) as Jeeves and Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster in the TV series Jeeves and Wooster.

Reginald Jeeves is a fictional character in the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, being the "gentleman's personal gentleman" (valet) of Bertie Wooster. Created in 1915 and named in the title of most of his stories since 1916 and most of his books from 1919 to 1974, he is Wodehouse's most famous character. Jeeves has come to be seen as the quintessential example of his profession, inspiring many famous similar characters, and the name of Internet search engine Ask Jeeves. A "Jeeves" is now a generic term in references such as the Oxford English Dictionary. ask. ... Extricating Young Gussie is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse. ... Aunts Arent Gentleman is a book from the Jeeves and Wooster series by P. G. Wodehouse. ... Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) (IPA: ) was a comic writer who has enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. ... Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose-Price (June 23, 1915 – October 6, 1973) was a British actor. ... Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, writer, actor, humourist, novelist, columnist, filmmaker and television personality. ... For the 2007 French film, see The Valet. ... Bertie Wooster portrayed by Hugh Laurie in ITVs Jeeves and Wooster series Bertram Wilberforce Bertie Wooster is the wealthy, good-natured co-protagonist and narrator of P. G. Wodehouses Jeeves stories. ... The following is an incomplete list of fictional character appearing in the Jeeves stories by P. G. Wodehouse. ... Stephen Fry on the cover of his autobiography Stephen John Fry (born 24 August, 1957) is a British comedian, author, actor, and director. ... James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE (born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and musician. ... Bertie Wooster portrayed by Hugh Laurie in ITVs Jeeves and Wooster series Bertram Wilberforce Bertie Wooster is the wealthy, good-natured co-protagonist and narrator of P. G. Wodehouses Jeeves stories. ... Jeeves and Wooster is a British humorous television series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouses Jeeves stories. ... A fictional character is any person, persona, identity, or entity whose existence originates from a work of fiction. ... Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) (IPA: ) was a comic writer who has enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. ... For the 2007 French film, see The Valet. ... Bertie Wooster portrayed by Hugh Laurie in ITVs Jeeves and Wooster series Bertram Wilberforce Bertie Wooster is the wealthy, good-natured co-protagonist and narrator of P. G. Wodehouses Jeeves stories. ... Ask. ... The Oxford English Dictionary print set The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP), and is the most successful dictionary of the English language, (not to be confused with the one-volume Oxford Dictionary of English, formerly New Oxford Dictionary of English, of...

Jeeves is a valet, not a butler; a valet serves his employer as a person, whereas a butler serves his employer's house. However, Bertie Wooster has lent Jeeves out as a butler on several occasions, and notes that "if the call comes, he can buttle with the best of them".^[1] For the 2007 French film, see The Valet. ... For other uses, see Butler (disambiguation). ...

Character

The essential concept that drives the Jeeves stories is that the brilliant valet is firmly in control of his rich and foppish young employer's life. Much of the comic effect derives from the fact that the clueless Bertie Wooster, who narrates most of the stories, is for the most part blissfully unaware of how he is being manipulated. When Bertie gets into one of his scrapes, leading to an unwanted social obligation, legal trouble, or marriage engagement, Jeeves invariably comes up with a subtle plan to save the day, often without Bertie's knowledge.

Jeeves is known for his convoluted, yet precise, speech and for quoting from Shakespeare and famous romantic poets. In his free time, he likes to relax with "improving" books such as the complete works of Spinoza, or to read "Dostoyevsky and the great Russians"^[2]. He "glides" or "shimmers" in and out of rooms and may appear or disappear suddenly and without warning. His potable concoctions, both of the alcoholic and the morning-after variety, are legendary. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Romantics redirects here. ... Baruch Spinoza Benedictus de Spinoza (November 24, 1632 - February 21, 1677), named Baruch Spinoza by his synagogue elders and known as Bento de Spinoza or Bento dEspiñoza in the community in which he grew up. ... Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Russian: , Russian pronunciation: , sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, Dostoievsky, Dostojevskij or Dostoevski  ) (November 11 [O.S. October 30] 1821 – February 9 [O.S. January 28] 1881) was a Russian novelist and writer of fiction whose works, including Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, have had a profound and...

Jeeves has distinct opinions about certain items that Bertie adopts, such as a moustache, monogrammed handkerchiefs, a straw boater, an alpine hat, a scarlet cummerbund, spats in the Eton colours, white dinner jacket, or purple socks. Bertie's decision to take up playing the banjolele in Thank You, Jeeves almost led to a permanent rift between the two. Should Jeeves express his disapproval for an accessory of Bertie's, it is certain that his charge will reluctantly dispose of it in some way or another before the end of the story, or will announce his intention to do so only to find Jeeves has already "taken the liberty" of discarding it himself. Edgar Allan Poe grew a moustache later in his life. ... The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a public school (privately funded and independent) for boys, founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. It is located in Eton, near Windsor in England, north of Windsor Castle, and... The banjolele (brand name; sometimes banjo ukulele or banjo uke) is a four-stringed musical instrument with a banjo-type body and a neck with sixteen frets (shorter than a banjo, but longer than a ukulele). ... Thank You, Jeeves is a Jeeves novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.K. on March 16, 1934 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on April 23 1931 by Little, Brown and Company, New York. ...

Jeeves is a member of the Junior Ganymede Club, a club for butlers and valets, in whose club book all members must write down all the exploits of their employers. Thus, butlers and valets can be forewarned before taking up employment with the more infamous employers mentioned in the club book. The section labeled 'WOOSTER B' is the largest in the book. In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit it contained "eleven pages"^[3], and by Much Obliged, Jeeves it has grown to "eighteen pages"^[4]. However, at the end of Much Obliged, Jeeves, Jeeves informs Bertie that he has destroyed the eighteen pages, anticipating that he will never leave the latter's employment, thus eliminating the need to inform prospective valets about his employer's quirks; Bertie's answer provides the book with its name. In the Jeeves and Wooster stories by P. G. Wodehouse, the Junior Ganymede is the club for gentlemens gentlemen, butlers, and valets, especially for those whose employers are members of the Drones Club. ... Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on October 15, 1954 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the United States on February 23, 1955 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. ... Much Obliged, Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on October 15, 1971 by Barrie & Jenkins, London and in the United States on October 15, 1971 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. ...

Only once in the Wodehouse canon does Jeeves appear without Bertie: Ring for Jeeves, in which he is on loan to the 9th Earl of Rowcester while Bertie attends a school where the idle rich learn self-sufficiency in case of social upheaval. The novel was adapted from Wodehouse's play Come On, Jeeves, which he felt needed a more conventional ending, but was unwilling to marry off Bertie. Ring for Jeeves is a book from the Jeeves and Wooster series by P. G. Wodehouse. ... For people, see Earl (given name) and Earl (surname). ...

Jeeves's first job was as a page boy at a girls' school, after which he had at least eleven other employers. Before entering the employ of Bertie Wooster, he was with Lord Worplesdon, resigning after nearly a year because of Worplesdon's eccentric choice of evening dress; Mr Digby Thistleton (later Lord Bridgenorth), who sold hair tonic; Mr Montague Todd, a financier who was in the second year of a prison term when Jeeves mentioned him to Bertie; Lord Brancaster, who gave port-soaked seedcake to his pet parrot; and Lord Frederick Ranelagh, swindled in Monte Carlo by the reappearing character Soapy Sid. His tenure with Bertie contained several gaps, during which he was employed elsewhere: he worked for Lord Towcester for the length of Ring for Jeeves; Chuffy Chufnell for a week in Thank You, Jeeves, after giving notice due to Bertie's unwillingness to quit playing the banjolele; J. Washburn Stoker for a short period; Gussie Fink-Nottle, who masqueraded as Bertie in The Mating Season; and Sir Watkyn Bassett as a trick to get Bertie released from prison in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves. The Page Boy is a hair style named after a drawing of a woman dressed as an English page boy. ... Percival Percy Craye, Earl of Worplesdon is a fictional character who appears in P.G. Wodehouses Jeeves novels and stories. ... A glass of tawny port. ... Monte Carlo is a very wealthy section of the city-state of Monaco known for its casino, gambling, beaches, glamour, and sightings of famous people. ... Thank You, Jeeves is a Jeeves novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.K. on March 16, 1934 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on April 23 1931 by Little, Brown and Company, New York. ... The banjolele (brand name; sometimes banjo ukulele or banjo uke) is a four-stringed musical instrument with a banjo-type body and a neck with sixteen frets (shorter than a banjo, but longer than a ukulele). ... Augustus Gussie Fink-Nottle is a fictional character who appears in several of P. G. Wodehouses novels. ... The Mating Season is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on September 9, 1949 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on November 29 1949 by Didier & Co. ... In the stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, Sir Watkyn Bassett is a magistrate in the Bosher Street courthouse in London, the father of Madeline Bassett, and Bertie Woosters potential father-in-law on several occasions. ... Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves is a book from the Jeeves and Wooster series by P. G. Wodehouse. ...

Jeeves's first name of Reginald was not revealed until the penultimate novel in the series, Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971), when Bertie hears a "Hullo, Reggie" greeting Jeeves. The readers may have been surprised to learn Jeeves's first name, but Bertie was stunned by the revelation "that he had a first name" in the first place.^[5]

The Jeeves type of a sagacious sarcastic styled servant has become a modern archetype which probably inspired most later similar characters, from Dorothy L. Sayers's 1923 manservant Mervyn Bunter^[6], to Batman's 1943 butler Alfred, to Wodehouse fan Isaac Asimov's 1971 waiter Henry of the Black Widowers club,^[7] to Joseph Marcell's Geoffrey of the Banks residence on the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Dorothy Leigh Sayers (Oxford, 13 June 1893 – Witham, 17 December 1957) was a renowned British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist. ... Mervyn Bunter is a fictional character created by Dorothy L. Sayers in her Lord Peter Wimsey stories. ... Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ... Alfred Pennyworth is a fictional supporting character in the DC Comics Batman series. ... Isaac Asimov (January 2?, 1920?[1] – April 6, 1992), pronounced , originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as Айзек Азимов [1], was a Russian-born American author and professor of biochemistry, a highly successful writer, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. ... Starting in 1971, Isaac Asimov wrote a series of mystery short stories about a men-only dinner club called the Black Widowers. ... ‹ The template below (Expand) is being considered for deletion. ... Spoiler warning: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was a television sitcom which aired on NBC from 1990 to 1996. ...

Jeeves's propensity for wisdom and knowledge is so well known that it inspired the original name of the Internet search website Ask.com (called AskJeeves from 1996 to 2006). And in the twenty-first century, a "Jeeves" is a generic term (in the fashion of "a Jonah") in dictionaries such as the Oxford English Dictionary^[8] or the Encarta World English Dictionary.^[9] ask. ... The Oxford English Dictionary print set The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP), and is the most successful dictionary of the English language, (not to be confused with the one-volume Oxford Dictionary of English, formerly New Oxford Dictionary of English, of... The Encarta Websters Dictionary 2004 is the second edition of the Encarta World English Dictionary, originally published in 1999, Ann Soukhanov, editor. ...

Stories

Main article: List of books by P. G. Wodehouse

Wodehouse's work is often divided according to certain recurring characters and settings; the stories and novels about Bertie and Jeeves are often called "the Jeeves canon" or simply "the Jeeves books". The following is a complete list of books by P. G. Wodehouse, including novels and collections of short stories, sorted first by date of publication and later according to the conventional division of his work, by recurring characters or locations. ...

The concept which eventually became Jeeves actually preceded Bertie in Wodehouse's mind: he had long considered the idea of a butler — later a valet — who could solve any problem. A character named Reggie Pepper, who was in all respects very much like Bertie but without Jeeves, was the protagonist of seven short stories; Wodehouse soon decided to rewrite the Pepper stories, switching Reggie's character to Bertie Wooster and combining him with an ingenious valet. In his 1953 semi-autobiographical book with Guy Bolton Bring on the Girls!, Wodehouse suggests that Jeeves was based on an actual butler called Eugene Robinson that he employed for the purpose of study, and recounts a story where Robinson extricated Wodehouse from a real-life predicament; he also says that he named his Jeeves after Percy Jeeves (1888-1915), a then-popular English cricketer for Warwickshire. Percy Jeeves was killed at the Battle of the Somme during the attack on High Wood in July 1915, two months before the first appearance of the eponymous butler who would make his name a household word. Reginald Pepper, known as Reggie, is a fictional character who appears in seven short stories by P.G. Wodehouse. ... Guy Bolton (November 23, 1884 - September 6, 1979) was a writer of Broadway musical comedies who frequently collaborated with P. G. Wodehouse and Jerome Kern among others. ... Bring on the Girls is a semi-autobiographical collaboration between P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, first published in the United States on October 5, 1953 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. ... Percy Jeeves (5 March 1888 - 22 July 1916) was an English first-class cricketer, playing 50 matches for Warwickshire County Cricket Club from 1912 to 1914. ... Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Warwickshire. ... For other battles known as Battle of the Somme, see Battle of the Somme (disambiguation). ... High Wood is a small forest near Bazentin le Petit in the Somme département of northern France which was the scene of intense fighting for two months from 14 July to 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. ...

The Jeeves and Wooster canon was written between 1915 and 1974, and includes Wodehouse's last completed novel, Aunts Aren't Gentlemen. Bertie narrates all the stories but two, "Bertie Changes His Mind" (which Jeeves himself narrates), and Ring for Jeeves (which features Jeeves but not Bertie and is written in the third person). The stories are set in three primary locations: London, where Bertie has a flat and is a member of the raucous Drones Club; various stately homes in the English countryside, most commonly Totleigh Towers or Brinkley Court; or New York City and a few other locations in the United States. All take place in a timeless world based on an idealized vision of England before World War II. Only Ring for Jeeves mentions World War II. Aunts Arent Gentleman is a book from the Jeeves and Wooster series by P. G. Wodehouse. ... Ring for Jeeves is a book from the Jeeves and Wooster series by P. G. Wodehouse. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The fictional Drones Club, located in Dover Street, London, (where a real club, the Arts Club, is based) was created by English comic novelist P. G. Wodehouse. ... In P. G. Wodehouses Jeeves stories, Totleigh Towers is the seat of Sir Watkyn and Lady Bassett, as well as their daughter Madeline Bassett. ... Brinkley Court is a fictional locale in the stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse; the seat of Tom and Dahlia Travers, it is said to be modeled on the Lechmere house at Severn End, Hanley Castle, in Worcestershire. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Ring for Jeeves is a book from the Jeeves and Wooster series by P. G. Wodehouse. ...

Jeeves and Bertie first appeared in "Extricating Young Gussie", a short story published in September 1915, in which Jeeves's character is minor and not fully developed and Bertie's surname appears to be Mannering-Phipps. The first fully recognizable Jeeves and Bertie story was "The Artistic Career of Corky", published in early 1916. In the later stories, Jeeves assumed the role of Bertie's co-protagonist; indeed, their meeting was told in November 1916 in "Jeeves Takes Charge". In recent years, they have come to be called a comic duo. Extricating Young Gussie is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse. ... Jeeves Takes Charge is a short story written by P. G. Wodehouse. ...

The Jeeves canon consists of 35 short stories and 11 novels (or 24 short stories and 12 novels, depending on whether The Inimitable Jeeves is considered a novel or a collection of linked stories):

• The Man With Two Left Feet (1917) — One story in a book of thirteen
  • "Extricating Young Gussie" — The first appearances of Jeeves and Bertie
• (My Man Jeeves (1919) — Four stories in a book of eight, all four reprinted in Carry on, Jeeves. The non-Jeeves stories feature Reggie Pepper.)
  • ("Leave It to Jeeves", was reprinted in Carry on, Jeeves as "The Artistic Career of Corky")
  • ("Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest", was reprinted in Carry on, Jeeves)
  • ("Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg", was reprinted in Carry on, Jeeves)
  • ("The Aunt and the Sluggard", was reprinted in Carry on, Jeeves)
• The Inimitable Jeeves (1923) — Originally a semi-novel with eighteen chapters, it is normally published as eleven short stories:
  • "Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum" with "No Wedding Bells for Bingo" (together "Jeeves in the Springtime")
  • "Aunt Agatha Speaks Her Mind" with "Pearls Mean Tears" (together "Aunt Agatha Takes the Count")
  • "The Pride of the Woosters Is Wounded" with "The Hero's Reward" (together "Scoring Off Jeeves")
  • "Introducing Claude and Eustace" with "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch" (together "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch")
  • "A Letter of Introduction" with "Startling Dressiness of a Lift Attendant" (together "Jeeves and the Chump Cyril")
  • "Comrade Bingo" with "Bingo Has a Bad Goodwood" (together "Comrade Bingo")
  • "The Great Sermon Handicap"
  • "The Purity of the Turf"
  • "The Metropolitan Touch"
  • "The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace"
  • "Bingo and the Little Woman" with "All's Well" (together "Bingo and the Little Woman")
• Carry on, Jeeves (1925) — Ten stories:
  • "Jeeves Takes Charge" – Recounts the first meeting of Jeeves and Bertie
  • "The Artistic Career of Corky", a rewrite of "Leave It to Jeeves", originally published in My Man Jeeves
  • "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest", originally published in My Man Jeeves
  • "Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg", originally published in My Man Jeeves
  • "The Aunt and the Sluggard", originally published in My Man Jeeves
  • "The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy"
  • "Without the Option"
  • "Fixing It for Freddie", a rewrite of a Reggie Pepper story, "Helping Freddie", originally published in My Man Jeeves
  • "Clustering Round Young Bingo"
  • "Bertie Changes His Mind" — The only story in the canon narrated by Jeeves
• Very Good, Jeeves (1930) — Eleven stories:
  • "Jeeves and the Impending Doom"
  • "The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy"
  • "Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit" (US title: Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit)
  • "Jeeves and the Song of Songs"
  • "Episode of the Dog McIntosh" (US title: Jeeves and the Dog McIntosh)
  • "The Spot of Art" (US title: Jeeves and the Spot of Art)
  • "Jeeves and the Kid Clementina"
  • "The Love That Purifies" (US title: Jeeves and the Love That Purifies)
  • "Jeeves and the Old School Chum"
  • "The Indian Summer of an Uncle"
  • "The Ordeal of Young Tuppy" (US title: Tuppy Changes His Mind)
• Thank You, Jeeves (1934) — The first full-length Jeeves novel
• Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) (US title: Brinkley Manor)
• The Code of the Woosters (1938)
• Joy in the Morning (1946) (US title: Jeeves in the Morning)
• The Mating Season (1949)
• (Come On, Jeeves — 1952 play with Guy Bolton, adapted 1953 into Ring for Jeeves, produced 1954, published 1956)
• Ring for Jeeves (1953) — Only novel without Bertie (US title: The Return of Jeeves), adapting the play Come On, Jeeves
• Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954) (US title: Bertie Wooster Sees It Through)
• A Few Quick Ones (1959) — One short story in a book of ten
  • "Jeeves Makes an Omelette", a rewrite of a Reggie Pepper story originally published in My Man Jeeves
• Jeeves in the Offing (1960) (US title: How Right You Are, Jeeves)
• Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)
• Plum Pie (1966) — One short story in a book of nine
  • "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird"
• Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971) (US title: Jeeves and the Tie That Binds)
• Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (1974) (US title: The Cat-nappers)

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Jeeves adaptations

By chronological order on the first item of each sub-section:

Films

Despite the longtime popularity of the character, there have been only two Jeeves theatrical films:

• Thank You, Jeeves (1935) – Arthur Treacher as Jeeves, and David Niven as Bertie) meet a girl and help her brother stop two spies trying to get his secret plans. Nothing to do with the book of that title.

• Step Lively, Jeeves! (1936) – Arthur Treacher as Jeeves is conned by two swindlers who claim he has a fortune waiting for him in America, where Jeeves meets some gangsters. No Bertie. Nothing to do with the book of that name.

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• By Jeeves (2001) – A recorded performance of the musical, released as a video (with UK Martin Jarvis as Jeeves, and U.S. John Scherer as Bertie). It was also aired on TV.

• Arthur (film) (1981) - A film loosely based on the Jeeves and Bertie characters. Not based on any actual Jeeves novel or short story.

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Plays

• Come On, Jeeves (opened 1954, still played from time to time as of 2007 under its name or as Ring for Jeeves) – A 1952 play by Guy Bolton and Wodehouse (adapted into the 1953 novel Ring for Jeeves), opened 1954 in Worthing, England (cast unknown), published in 1956.

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Television

• The World of Wooster (30 May 1965 to 17 November 1967, 20 episodes of 30 minutes) – A half-hour comedy series for BBC1 (with Dennis Price as Jeeves, and Ian Carmichael as Bertie, plus Derek Nimmo playing Bingo Little). The 1967 run was Blandings Castle.

• Jeeves and Wooster (22 April 1990 to 20 June 1993, 23 episodes of 55 minutes) – A hit ITV series starring double-act Fry and Laurie (with Stephen Fry as Jeeves, and Hugh Laurie as Bertie).

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Musicals

• Jeeves (22 April 1975 to 24 May 1975, 38 performances) – An unsuccessful musical loosely based on Wodehouse, opened in London (with Michael Aldridge as Jeeves, and David Hemmings as Bertie).

• By Jeeves (1 May 1996 to 12 February 1997; 28 October 2001 to 30 December 2001, 73 performances) – A more successful complete rewrite of the former, opened in London (with Malcolm Sinclair as Jeeves, and Steven Pacey as Bertie), and made it to the U.S. in November 1996 (with U.S. Richard Kline as Jeeves, and U.S. John Scherer as Bertie). It was produced again in 2001 for Broadway (with UK Martin Jarvis as Jeeves, and U.S. John Scherer as Bertie), with one recorded performance released as a video film and aired on TV.

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Radio

• What Ho, Jeeves! (1972 to 1981) – A popular BBC Radio 4 series adapting various Jeeves stories (with Michael Hordern as Jeeves, and Richard Briers as Bertie).

• The Code of the Woosters (2006) – A BBC Radio 4 dramatization of The Code of the Woosters (with Andrew Sachs as Jeeves, and Marcus Brigstocke as Bertie).

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See also

• List of characters in the Jeeves stories
• List of fictional butlers, also including once-butler valets such as Jeeves

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References

Main primary sources consulted

All Jeeves books are relevant, but many key points are sourced from: Carry on, Jeeves (1925, first meeting, poaching Anatole); Ring for Jeeves (1953, butler, WW2); Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954, great Russians, eleven pages section); Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971, eighteen pages section, Reginald). In historical scholarship, a primary source is a document, or other source of information that was created at or near the time being studied, by an authoritative source, usually one with direct personal knowledge of the events being described. ... Carry on, Jeeves is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. ... Ring for Jeeves is a book from the Jeeves and Wooster series by P. G. Wodehouse. ... Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on October 15, 1954 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the United States on February 23, 1955 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. ... Much Obliged, Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on October 15, 1971 by Barrie & Jenkins, London and in the United States on October 15, 1971 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. ...

Secondary sources consulted

• Kuzmenko, Michel (The Russian Wodehouse Society) (2007-03-22 update). "Wodehouse books". Bibliography. Retrieved on 2007-08-15.
• Reggie (2007-03-16 update). "Wodehouse Who's Who: Jeeves". Blandings, a Companion to the Works of P. G. Wodehouse. Archived from the original on 2007-08-15.
• Usborne, Richard (2003). Plum Sauce: A P. G. Wodehouse Companion. New York: The Overlook Press, pp. 81–93, 187. ISBN 1-58567-441-9. 
• Wodehouse, P. G. (1963). Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves. New York: Simon & Schuster, pp. 1–2. ISBN 0-7432-0410-7. 

Endnotes

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Further reading

• Parkinson, C. Northcote [1979] (1981). Jeeves: A Gentleman's Personal Gentleman, U.S. edition, New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-44144-4.  – Mock biography of Jeeves.

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TV adaptations

• BBC's World of Wooster (March 2007 Archive.org cache) at the BBC Comedy Guide (down as of October 2007)
• ITV's Jeeves and Wooster (March 2007 Archive.org cache) at the BBC Comedy Guide (down as of October 2007)