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Jeeves and Wooster is a four-series comedy based on the novels
and short stories of the Anglo-American writer P.G. Wodehouse
(1881-1975). The episodes centre around Bertie Wooster, a
wealthy young upper-class layabout, and his valet Jeeves,
who is much smarter than his master and spends a great deal
of his time getting Bertie out of trouble.
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The third and fourth series exhibit a marked decline in quality,
with frequent descents into the cartoonish. However, the Wodehousian
plots and the interplay between Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry
still manage to keep the program from sinking utterly into
mediocrity. Compared to the heights of the first two series,
series three and four are fairly poor efforts, but they still
shine compared to most of what's on television. One thing
is for sure, "Jeeves and Wooster" has had more cast
changes between series than any other British sitcom, a look
at our character guide shows
just how many parts were played by more than one person.
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