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The Best Episodes of Jeeves and Wooster Season 4

Every episode of Jeeves and Wooster Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Jeeves and Wooster Season 4!

Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.

Genre:Comedy
Network:ITV1

Season 4 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "Jeeves and Wooster" season 4 is "Return to New York", rated 8/10 from 210 user votes. It was directed by Ferdinand Fairfax and written by Clive Exton. "Return to New York" aired on 5/16/1993 and is rated 0.4 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Once and Future Ex".

  • Return to New York
    8.0/10 210 votes

    #1 - 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

  • The Once and Future Ex
    7.6/10 198 votes

    #2 - 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

  • Bridegroom Wanted
    7.8/10 198 votes

    #3 - 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

  • The Delayed Arrival
    7.9/10 191 votes

    #4 - 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

  • Trouble at Totleigh Towers
    8.1/10 187 votes

    #5 - 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

  • The Ties That Bind
    8.5/10 226 votes

    #6 - 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