The Bassetts' Fancy Dress Ball
| "The Bassetts' Fancy Dress Ball" | |
|---|---|
| Jeeves and Wooster episode | |
| Episode no. |
Season 2 Episode 2 |
| Directed by | Ferdinand Fairfax |
| Original air date | 6 June 1993 |
| Episode chronology | |
"The Bassetts' Fancy Dress Ball" is the second episode of the second series of the 1990s British comedy television series Jeeves and Wooster. It is also called "A Plan for Gussie." [1] It first aired on 6 June 1993 on ITV.
Background
Adapted from The Code of the Woosters.
Cast
- Bertie Wooster — Hugh Laurie
- Jeeves — Stephen Fry
- Tuppy Glossop — Robert Daws
- Sir Roderick Spode — John Turner
- Gussie Fink Nottle — Richard Garnett
- Madeline Bassett — Francesca Folan
- Anatole — John Barrard
- Barmy Fotheringay Phipps — Adam Blackwood
Plot
Gussie Fink-Nottle has been keeping a notebook containing insulting observations on Sir Watkyn Bassett and Sir Roderick Spode, in order to keep his courage up about them. Gussie is naturally terrified of Spode, and even the smallest misunderstanding will put his life in jeopardy. Spode has two jobs—he is the leader of the Black Shorts,[2] but also designs and sells women's underwear, being the proprietor of a lingerie shop called Eulalia Soeurs. He is perpetually in fear that his followers in his first role will discover his second one and it is the threat of this disclosure which is used by Bertie to stop him assaulting Gussie. Jeeves revealed the secret pseudonym "Eulalia". When Gussie loses the notebook, he calls on Bertie to help find it. Gussie (dressed like the devil) is assaulted by Spode (a Roman soldier). Bertie finds a way of keeping Spode from beating Gussie into a jelly telling Spode: “Spode, I know all about Eulalie.”
The Rev. Harold "Stinker" Pinker and Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng wish to marry, but Stiffy's guardian Sir Watkyn doesn't approve. Stiffy blackmails Bertie into helping her convince her guardian otherwise.
Meanwhile Bertie comes into possession of a policeman's helmet.
See also
References
- ↑ The Bassetts' Fancy Dress Ball at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville (1 May 2008) [First published 1938 by Herbert Jenkins Ltd.]. The Code of the Woosters (Reprinted ed.). Arrow Books. p. 66. ISBN 978-0099513759.