Wodeaptations

Jeeves adaptations

Notes regarding the list

♥ A heart beside a listing indicates an official purchase link.

A lack of link indicates that I believe media is still extant, (ie: not lost media), but I cannot find an official purchase link or viewable online version. They are still documented here for posterity, in the hopes that a link will someday turn up.

If a listing features neither of the above, that means it's viewable for free! But if it's something not in the public domain, check and see if your local library can get it for you before reading it here, because borrowing from the library supports the author and helps them eat. But if it can't, well, that's why I made this doc!

Television and Movies

• 1936-1937 - Arthur Treacher Jeeves films: Thank You, Jeeves! (features David Niven as Bertie Wooster - not based on the same-named novel), Step Lively, Jeeves!

• 1965-1967 - The World of Wooster: Jeeves, the Aunt, and the Sluggard, Jeeves and the Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace - Ian Carmichael as Wooster and Dennis Price as Jeeves (out of the whole series, of which you can find an episode list here, only these two episodes survive, and I cannot even find Aunt and the Sluggard. curse you BBC and your tape wiping)

• 1970s-1990s - Croft Original Sherry advertisements (examples here, here, here, and here - this one features Jeremy Irons as Wooster and was shot by Ridley Scott)

• 1981 - Thank You, P. G. Wodehouse - Jonathan Cecil as Wooster and Michael Aldrige as Jeeves (documentary - hoping it’s not lost media)

• 1990-1993 - Jeeves and Wooster - Hugh Laurie as Wooster and Stephen Fry as Jeeves (link contains all episodes but S03E1 - which can be found here - and S03E5 - which can be watched in five parts here. It has also accidentally reversed the order of S02E5 and S02E6. You can also find a fun album of Fry and Laurie performing music in-character free on Spotify.)

Radio and Audio

• 1940 - Leave It To Jeeves - Edward Everett Horton as Wooster and Alan Mowbray as Jeeves (not based on the same-named story)

• 1958 - Jeeves: Jeeves Takes Charge, Indian Summer of an Uncle - Terry-Thomas as Wooster and Roger Livesey as Jeeves

• 1970-1971 - NRK Jeeves productions: Om morgenen er det frydesang, Fra Bertie Woosters memoarer - Per Theodor Haugen as Wooster and Gisle Straume as Jeeves (Norwegian)

• ♥ 1973-1981 - What Ho, Jeeves! (does not include Thank You, Jeeves, The Mating Season, or The Ordeal of Young Tuppy, but those can be found here for free) - Richard Briers as Wooster and Michael Hordern as Jeeves

• 1988 - Right Ho, Jeeves - Simon Cadell as Wooster and David Suchet as Jeeves

• 1997-1998 - L.A. Theatreworks adaptations: ♥ The Code of the Woosters (free on Spotify), ♥ Thank You, Jeeves (free on Spotify) (adapted by Mark Richard from his play scripts of the same name)

• 2006 - The Code of the Woosters - Marcus Brigstocke as Wooster and Andrew Sachs as Jeeves

• 2007-2020 - Jeeves Live! featuring Martin Jarvis (you’ll have to make a free account)

• ♥ 2012 - The Colonial Radio Players: P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster vol. 1 2 3

• 2013 - Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen featuring Blake Ritson

• 2014 - Ring for Jeeves - Jamie Bamber as Lord Bill Rowcester and Martin Jarvis as Jeeves

• 2018 - Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves - James Callis as Wooster and Martin Jarvis as Jeeves

Theatre

• 1960 - Come On, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton (later adapted into Ring For Jeeves - original script can be found in the book Wodehouse Four Plays)

• 1980 - Jeeves Takes Charge by Edward Duke (one-man show - audio recordings that appear to be adapted from it can be found here and here, with the flipside of the audio recording - I think? - here. apologies for the uncertainty)

• ♥ 2006 - Margaret Raether plays: Jeeves Intervenes, Jeeves in Bloom, Jeeves Takes a Bow, Jeeves at Sea (scripts), Jeeves Saves the Day (not available yet I don’t think?)

• 1996-2001 - By Jeeves (broken into parts here - these are the 2001 recorded performance), a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn - John Scherer as Wooster and Martin Jarvis as Jeeves ( ♥ script buyable here, soundtrack on Spotify here, BBC radio version with 1996 cast and slight song changes free here, and the cast recording of Jeeves, the original 1975 version of this musical, can be found for free here)

• ♥ 2013 - Jeeves & Wooster in ‘Perfect Nonsense' by David and Robert Goodale (script)

Pastiches and Comics

For the purposes of this doc, a “pastiche” refers to any published Jeeves work not written by Wodehouse.

• 1932 - Clubs are Trumps by Hugh Kingsmill (present in the linked Kingsmill anthology - written as a sequel to “The Purity of the Turf”)

• 1956 - Good Lord, Jeeves by Julian Maclaren-Ross (a parodic short story praised by Wodehouse himself! found on page 16 out of 52 of this archived issue of Punch)

• 1970s-1980s - Croft Original Sherry advertisements (two can be seen in Punch here and here)

• 1979 - Jeeves: A Gentleman’s Personal Gentleman by C. Northcote Parkinson (full-cast audio version: part 1 2 3 4)

• 1980 - The Jeeves Cocktail Book by Hugh Bredin and Russell Coulson

• 1994 - Scream for Jeeves: A Parody by “H. P. G. Wodecraft”/Peter H. Cannon (contains three short stories that place Jeeves and Wooster in the following three Lovecraft tales: The Rats in the Walls, Cool Air, and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. They are recommended reading before reading the pastiche, and there are also direct references to Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family and the works featuring the character Randolph Carter.)

• 2003-2019 - Code Name: Hunter by DarcSowers (webcomic that features furry versions of Bertie and Jeeves as minor characters)

• ♥ 2005 - Wake Up, Sir! by Jonathan Ames (more of an homage than anything, as the setting and protagonist are different and the only character it features is Jeeves)

• ♥ 2007 - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier (features the gang in the segment “What Ho, Gods of the Abyss?”, readable here for free)

• ♥ 2008-2014 - プリーズジーヴス / Please, Jeeves: 1 2 3 4 5 by Tamaki Morimura and Bun Katsuta (Japanese - three chapters and a behind-the-scenes travel comic are available to read in English for free here)

• ♥ 2012 - Ideas and Entities by Andrew Hickey (short story collection featuring “Jeeves and the Singularity”)

• ♥ 2013 - Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks

• ♥ 2015 - Old Venus (science fiction anthology containing the story “Greeves and the Evening Star”, a parody where “Greeves and Gloster” live on the planet Venus)

• ♥ 2018 - Crikey! How Did That Happen?: The [Refreshingly Unauthorised] Biography of Sir Bertram Wooster, KG by Ian Strathcarron

• ♥ 2018-2020 - Ben Schott’s pastiches: Jeeves and the King of Clubs, Jeeves and the Leap of Faith

Video Games

• 2006 - Aunts and Butlers (a surreal Jeeves parody that features a brief cameo from Jeeves himself)

• ♥ 2017 - Tally Ho (okay it’s not technically a Jeeves game but it’s basically a Jeeves game. It’s like a copyright-dodging Jeeves. A store-brand Jeeves. The Herlock Sholmes Arrives Too Late of the Jeeves community.)

Fanworks

• Archive of Our Own (as well as here for the Fry and Laurie TV show)

• Fanfiction.net (as well as crossovers with other media here, some hosted in different categories here, here, and here - you can try and browse other untagged crossovers by clicking various fandoms here, and two more fics here and here)

• The LiveJournal community and the kink meme

• A small handful of Wattpad fics here, here, here, and here

• A fic on Wordpress here

• And Shine Heaven Now by Erin Ptah, a long-running Hellsing fan comic that features Bertie and Jeeves as side characters (Bertie’s character tag can be found here

Non-English sites

• Japanese-language fics on Pixiv here

• Russian-language fics on Ficbook here (and here for the Fry and Laurie TV show)

• Chinese-language fics and art on the Lofter tag here

• German-language fics here (only two, though)

Lost Media

Movies

• 1919-1920 - Silent Jeeves and Reggie Pepper films: Making Good With Mother, Cutting Out Venus - Lawrence Grossmith as Reggie Pepper (Wodehouse’s prototype character to Wooster) and Charles Coleman as Jeeves

Radio

• 1955-1956 - Deryck Guyler Jeeves programs: Ring for Jeeves, Right Ho, Jeeves

Plays

• 1954 - Joy in the Morning by P. G. Wodehouse

• 1955 - Too Much Springtime by Marjorie Duhan Adler

• 1987 - Right Ho! Stiff Upper Lip by Robert Goodale and Jeremy Silberston

• 1993-1997 - Mark Richard plays: Right Ho, Jeeves, Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, Jeeves in the Morning (The Code of the Woosters and Thank You, Jeeves exist in their radio-adapted form)

• 1997 - Betting On Bertie (though the song “Brains” is floating around on an Anastasia: The Musical soundtrack CD by George Forrest and Robert Wright - if someone possesses it that would be greatly desired)

• 2001 - Jeeves and the Mating Season by Page Hearn