10.0/101 votes#1 - Bertie Sets Sail
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 3/29/1992
In order to escape the wrath of Honoria Glossop and Aunt Agatha, Jeeves and Bertie board an oceanliner heading for New York. Unfortunately, Bertie is landed with the task of looking after Wilmot Malvern, a lad long cooped up with his mother Lady Malvern. He turns out to be a limpet of the worst sort with the knack for clinging to Woosters. On the ship Bertie also runs into Tuppy, who's off to America to become an importer of cars to Britain. Once in New York, the mother's boy breaks loose onto the nightclub scene with disasterous results, and Tuppy meets with similar lack of success when he realizes he'll have to buy more than one car at a time and that the steering wheel's on the wrong side.
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
Writer: Clive Exton
10.0/101 votes#2 - The Full House
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 4/5/1992
The aunt of Bertie's poet friend, Rocky, wants him to go out and live the New York nightlife and write her weekly letters so that she might experience it vicariously. Rocky, however can't stand anything but his cabin the the wilderness of Long Island, so Jeeves agrees to undergo the rigors and report back to Rocky. Another friend, Bicky, loves New York, but his uncle thinks he should be in Colorado. Jeeves suggests a bit of deception on his part as well, which works fine until relatives of both friends show up in New York, both believing that Bertie's flat belongs to their respective nephews. Solutions involve a lot of running about acting silly and quite a bit of handshaking as well.
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
Writer: Clive Exton
10.0/101 votes#3 - Introduction on Broadway
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 4/12/1992
Cyril Bassington-Bassington arrives in New York under specific instructions from Aunt Agatha for Bertie to keep him out of theatrical circles - instructions which of course Cyril rips up before Bertie can read them. So he lands a part in a Broadway musical called Ask Dad! and Bertie tours the USA with the show. Meanwhile, Bertie's struggling artist friend, Corky, needs help convincing his uncle that the girl he wants to marry is suitable. Unfortunately Jeeves' solution may be too good.
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
Writer: Clive Exton
10.0/101 votes#4 - Right Ho, Jeeves
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 4/19/1992
After a wild night with Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright, Gussie ends up in stir for wading about Trafalgar fountain looking for Newts. For purely simple and logical reasons Bertie goes to Devirill Hall pretending to be Gussie in order to win the aunts' approval of his marriage to Madeline Basset, and Gussie must go under the name Bertie Wooster to woo Catsmeat's fiancé, Gertrude Winkworth.
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
Writer: Clive Exton
10.0/101 votes#5 - Hot Off the Press
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 4/26/1992
Sir Watkin Bassett is writing his memories, which could prove scandalous to everyone in his life, so various members of society, such as Madeline Bassett, and Lady Florence Cray -- to whom Bertie has recently become engaged -- all want Bertie to steal them. Stiffy Byng is producing the village entertainment for Totleigh-on-the-Wold involving Mike & Pat Cross talk between Gussie and Spode, and a song by her betrothed, Stinker Pinker.
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
Writer: Clive Exton
10.0/101 votes#6 - Comrade Bingo
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 5/3/1992
Bingo wears a false beard and pretends to be a Bolshevik to impress his latest love, and Aunt Dahlia gets Bertie to become an art thief in order to convince a writer to print her story in Milady's Boudoir.
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
Writer: Clive Exton
10.0/101 votes#7 - Return to New York
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 5/16/1993
Back in New York, Bertie comissions the artist with whom he's fallen in love to paint a portrait of Aunt Agatha, and Tuppy's there trying to sell his recipe for Cock-A-Leekie soup to Slingsby of Slingsby's Soups. When there's a car accident involving the nasty Lucious Pim, and Claude and Eustace show up, things become of the sort in which one finds Jeeves' intervention invaluable.
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
Writer: Clive Exton
10.0/101 votes#8 - The Once and Future Ex
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 5/23/1993
Bertie spends much time putting the old Wooster brain to use in devising schemes to arrange the meeting of two tycoons. However, A more immediate concern is Stilton Cheesewright and Lady Florence Craye, both of whom hold vastly differing yet equally unpleasant opinions of Bertie - the former takes offense at his drinking and time spent with the later, while Florence thinks that he has possibilities. The final scene involving Abraham Lincoln climbing up the spire of the Empire State Building, amongst other things.
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
Writer: Clive Exton
10.0/101 votes#9 - Bridegroom Wanted
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 5/30/1993
Bingo's in love with another waitress, and the old Rosie M. Banks gag comes up again, this time with an unfortunate twist. Unfortunately New York does not seem to be the haven it once was, and the Glossops are in town looking to marry off Honoria. Luckily, Blaire Egleston is in love with her and Bertie has just the plan to push him to propose. But he may have pushed too hard.
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
Writer: Clive Exton
10.0/101 votes#10 - The Delayed Arrival
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 6/6/1993
Once more, Stilton Cheesewright and Lady Florence Craye loom large on the horizon, with differing opinions this time, not only with regard to Bertram Wooster, but his moustache as well. While Stilton works out in how many places he will break Bertie's spine, and how he's going to do it without altering the Wooster dart skills (for he's drawn his name for the annual Drones Darts Tournament) Jeeves must help Aunt Dahlia with her pearl-troubles, Percy Gorringe with his love troubles, and Bertie with his upper-lip troubles.
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
Writer: Clive Exton
10.0/101 votes#11 - Trouble at Totleigh Towers
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 6/13/1993
Certain members of the household believe there is a curse held over Totleigh Towers by a small African totem. So Bertie gets involved in another retrieval project while the Gussie-Madeline romance has developed it's final difficulties.
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
Writer: Clive Exton
10.0/101 votes#12 - The Ties That Bind
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 6/20/1993
The Ganymede Club book has turned up missing, and Jeeves must return it at all costs. Madeline Bassett's wedding doesn't proceed as smoothly as planned.
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
Writer: Clive Exton
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"Bertie Sets Sail" is the best rated episode directed by Ferdinand Fairfax. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by Clive Exton. It aired on 3/29/1992 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Full House".