The World of Wodehouse

The World of Wodehouse
Scene from "Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend", with McAllister (Radcliffe), Gladys (Jones), and Lord Emsworth (Richardson)
GenreComedy
Based onBlandings Castle and Ukridge stories by P. G. Wodehouse
Written byJohn Chapman (Blandings Castle)
Richard Waring (Ukridge)
StarringRalph Richardson (Blandings Castle)
Anton Rodgers (Ukridge)
ComposersRon Grainer (Blandings Castle)
Arthur Wilkinson (Ukridge)
Country of originEngland
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes13
Production
ProducersMichael Mills and Frank Muir (Blandings Castle)
Joan Kemp-Welch (Ukridge)
Running time30 minutes
Original release
NetworkBBC1
Release24 February 1967 (1967-02-24) –
26 August 1968 (1968-08-26)
Related
The World of Wooster
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The World of Wodehouse is a comedy television series, based on the Blandings Castle and Ukridge stories written by P. G. Wodehouse.[1]

The series, which followed the television series The World of Wooster, was shown on BBC Television. It consisted of two series, the 1967 Blandings Castle series (six episodes) and the 1968 Ukridge series (seven episodes).

Apart from one or more extracts from one episode of Blandings Castle ("Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend"),[2] all episodes of both Blandings Castle and Ukridge are lost.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference taves was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "The World of Wodehouse: Blandings Castle". TV Brain. Kaleidoscope. 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  3. ^ See also "The World of Wodehouse: Ukridge". TV Brain. Kaleidoscope. 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2019.