The Wooster Papers

Cast

E. Jimpson Murgatroyd

Also called E. Jimpson, Murgatroyd, E. J. Murgatroyd, Mr Murgatroyd, The doc, Doctor Murgatroyd, Old Jimpy Murgatroyd

Bertie's gloomy, whiskered Harley Street doctor, once a star wing three-quarter at Haileybury, who orders him to the country over his spots.

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Scenes they are in

  1. At the doctor's Bertie meets Major Plank, who fails to place him and alarms him about his spots, and then Murgatroyd pronounces the spots harmless but orders him to the country for a quiet life, which Bertie plans to spend with Aunt Dahlia.Chapter 3, Murgatroyd's consulting room

Talked about, but not there

  1. Bertie finds pink spots on his chest, gets the name of the specialist E. Jimpson Murgatroyd from Tipton Plimsoll, and over Jeeves's warning about a protest march decides to drive to the appointment in his own car.Chapter 1
  2. Driving to see Murgatroyd, Bertie gets stuck behind the protest march and sits watching it.Chapters 1–2
  3. Bertie phones Aunt Dahlia to cadge an invitation, but she is off to the Briscoes at Maiden Eggesford and promises to find him a cottage there, near the Bridmouth races.Chapter 3, as The doc
  4. Bertie tells Jeeves the New York trip is off in favour of Maiden Eggesford, where Jeeves has an aunt, and recalls with him the old Plank episode.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat, as the medicine man
  5. Bertie drives down to Maiden Eggesford, cured of his spots, and is shaken to glimpse what looks like the ghost of Major Plank leaving the Goose and Grasshopper.Chapter 4, Maiden Eggesford
  6. At the cottage Jeeves tells Bertie that Plank really is in the village as Mr Cook's guest at Eggesford Court, and the shaken Bertie swaps his ginger ale for a dry Martini.Chapter 4, Wee Nooke
  7. Aunt Dahlia telephones to say the Briscoes want Bertie to lunch and forbids the Drones Club tie, and Jeeves gives directions to Eggesford Hall and reports that his own aunt has gone to Liverpool.Chapter 4, Wee Nooke, as E. Jimpson
  8. Taking the wrong turning, Bertie strays into Eggesford Court, befriends a cat and is accused by its owner Cook of stealing it for Briscoe, until Plank turns up, explains Cook's troubles with Vanessa and advises Bertie to clear out before Cook calls the police.Chapter 4, Eggesford Court
  9. Back at the cottage Jeeves explains that Cook and Colonel Briscoe are bitter rivals and that Cook's racehorse Potato Chip pines without the stray cat Bertie was caught holding.Chapter 5, Wee Nooke
  10. Preoccupied with fear of Cook, Bertie eats and drinks heartily at the Briscoes' lunch but hardly says a word.Chapter 5, Eggesford Hall
  11. Driving home drowsy from lunch, Bertie naps in a wood and is woken by Orlo Porter, who accuses him of following Vanessa Cook to Maiden Eggesford and threatens to tear his insides out with his bare hands if he goes near her again.Chapters 6–7, the woods
  12. Vanessa accuses Bertie of following her, plans to use him as a postbox for Orlo's letters, and on learning Orlo is in the village sends Bertie to the Goose and Grasshopper to fix a meeting at his cottage.Chapter 7, Wee Nooke, as My doctor
  13. Walking round the village, Bertie looks into the shop's lending library, where Angelica Briscoe conspiratorially asks him 'Has he brought it yet?' before her father arrives to buy sweets.Chapter 9, the village shop, as E. J. Murgatroyd
  14. Jeeves reports that Vanessa and Orlo quarrelled when he refused to bully her father or steal the cat, and she broke with him; then Vanessa storms in and tells Bertie she will be his wife.Chapters 9–12, Wee Nooke, as Doctor Murgatroyd
  15. Jeeves unties Bertie, freezes off Plank by denying he is Inspector Witherspoon, and reveals the cat is his aunt's, so Bertie sets off to put terms to Cook.Chapter 19, Wee Nooke, as E. J. Murgatroyd