The Delayed Arrival

"The Delayed Arrival" is the fourth episode of the fourth series of the 1990s British comedy television series Jeeves and Wooster. It is also called "Arrested in a Night Club". It first aired in the UK on 6 June 1993 (1993-06-06) on ITV.^[1]

"The Delayed Arrival"
Jeeves and Wooster episode
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 4
Directed by	Ferdinand Fairfax
Original air date	6 June 1993 (1993-06-06)
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In the US, it was aired as the third episode of the third series of Jeeves and Wooster on Masterpiece Theatre, on 24 October 1993. "Jeeves Saves the Cow-Creamer" aired as the fourth episode of the fourth series instead.^[2]

Background

Adapted from Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit.^[2]

Cast

• Bertie Wooster – Hugh Laurie
• Jeeves – Stephen Fry
• Aunt Dahlia – Jean Heywood
• Florence Craye – Francesca Folan
• Stilton Cheesewright – Nicholas Palliser
• Percy Gorringe – Walter James
• Uncle Tom – Ralph Michael
• Mrs Trotter – Sylvia Kay
• Mr Trotter – John Rapley
• Magistrate – Peter Howell
• Mr Burwash – James Ottaway
• Seppings – Ian Collier
• Oofy Prosser – Richard Dixon
• Police – Jon Croft, Peter Diamond, Jim Barclay^[2][3]

Plot

Aunt Dahlia's magazine is in deep money trouble again so she wants to sell it to a Mr Trotter. To make it more saleable, she plans on paying a thousand pounds to a famous novelist for a story, which means she has to pawn her pearl necklace. Meanwhile, Lady Florence Craye has an on-off engagement with the homicidal Darcy "Stilton" Cheesewright, with Bertie being the cause of the break-ups. An expert is brought in to value the pearls, which have been replaced with fakes, and there is a race on to sell the magazine and get the real ones back in time. Aunt Dahlia wants help from Jeeves to find a pearl necklace she has pawned. Jeeves appears in drag in this episode to impersonate the novelist Daphne Dolores Morehead.

See also

• List of Jeeves and Wooster characters