The Wooster Papers

Cast

Bertie Wooster and Bingo Little

They deal with each other in The Inimitable Jeeves 1, 2, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18; Carry On, Jeeves 9; Very Good, Jeeves 1, 7, 9; Right Ho, Jeeves 10; Thank You, Jeeves 16; The Code of the Woosters 2.

Scenes they share

  1. Bertie meets Bingo in the park wearing a ghastly tie, and Bingo confesses he is in love with a girl called Mabel.Chapter 1, Hyde Park
  2. At a tea-shop near the Ritz Bingo introduces Mabel the waitress and begs Bertie to get Jeeves to find a way of breaking the news to his uncle.Chapter 1, the tea-shop
  3. Over an egg beaten up in sherry, a hoarse Bingo reports that the Rosie M. Banks novels are winning over his uncle and that he has a pippin of an idea to clinch things.Chapter 2
  4. Bingo announces that his recovered uncle wants Bertie to lunch, and bullies a reluctant Bertie into breaking the news of his engagement to the old man.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat
  5. Hailed by old Little as the author of Rosie M. Banks's novels, Bertie wins his blessing for Bingo's marriage to a waitress, but learns the allowance cannot be raised because old Little is marrying his cook.Chapter 2, No. 16, Pounceby Gardens
  6. At Buck's, Bingo Little, now tutoring the Glossop kid at Ditteredge, declares at the top of his voice that he worships Honoria Glossop.Chapter 5, Buck's
  7. At Ditteredge Bertie meets the supercilious Oswald and hatches a Jeeves-like scheme: he will push the boy off the bridge so that Bingo can rescue him under Honoria's eyes.Chapter 5, the grounds
  8. On the stairs Bingo explains he never hid in the bushes because he fell in love at first sight with Daphne Braythwayt, and Bertie walks away from him.Chapter 6, Ditteredge Hall
  9. In the park Bertie meets Bingo's uncle, now Lord Bittlesham and owner of Ocean Breeze, and the two are loudly abused by a bearded Red Dawn orator.Chapter 11, Hyde Park
  10. Bingo reveals he was the bearded orator, explains he is courting the revolutionary Charlotte Rowbotham, and invites himself and her family to tea at Bertie's flat.Chapter 11, the Drones Club
  11. Bingo's bearded arrival rattles Jeeves, the Revolutionaries wolf the tea, Rowbotham rebukes Jeeves for servility and Comrade Butt sulks with jealousy.Chapter 11, Bertie's flat
  12. Bertie meets a terrified Lord Bittlesham with Bingo, who privately admits he wrote the threatening letter himself to get a fifty-pound cheque to put on Ocean Breeze.Chapter 12, St James's Street
  13. Ocean Breeze loses, Bingo in his beard denounces his uncle to the crowd, and Butt tears off the beard to reveal him as Bittlesham's nephew before a policeman hauls both away.Chapter 12, Goodwood
  14. Arriving late for dinner at Twing Hall, Bertie sits next to Cynthia, who points out the local clergy and complains that Bingo keeps gazing at her oddly, which Bertie diagnoses as love.Chapter 13, the dining-room
  15. Bertie finds Bingo in his room, over Charlotte and now madly in love with Lady Cynthia, and is shooed away so Bingo can write poetry to her.Chapter 13, Bingo's room
  16. Bingo reads Bertie his poem to Cynthia, then Claude and Eustace burst in to explain Steggles's book on the Sermon Handicap and why Heppenstall is a sitter, and Bertie agrees to finance the syndicate while Jeeves declines a flutter.Chapter 13, Twing Hall
  17. Heppenstall's note reveals that Bates is preaching the Brotherly Love sermon at Gandle-by-the-Hill, on which Jeeves has a tenner thanks to inside information from Brookfield, and Bingo learns that Bates is engaged to Cynthia.Chapter 13, Twing Hall
  18. Bingo proposes betting on Steggles's book for the school-treat sports, Bertie forms a syndicate with Jeeves, and Jeeves tips Harold the page-boy for the Choir-Boys' Handicap.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Twing
  19. From the passage-window Bertie watches Harold leave the second footman standing, and declares the Wooster shirt goes on the boy.Chapter 14, the passage-window
  20. Bingo admits he let Steggles see Harold sprint on the links, and Bertie fears Steggles will try to nobble the favourite.Chapter 14, Twing Hall
  21. Bingo, off to London with Egbert, insists Bertie go to evening service to guard Harold, who is on his last warning in the choir.Chapter 14, Twing Hall
  22. Steggles nobbles Mrs Penworthy with cake, Prudence Baxter finishes down the field, but Heppenstall disqualifies the first four for taking a manservant's bribe and gives Prudence the prize.Chapter 14, the Hall grounds
  23. Bingo marches Bertie across ploughed fields to catch a glimpse of Mary, who passes with her brother, her dog and the curate while Bingo is too awed to speak.Chapter 15
  24. Bingo takes Jeeves's tip, befriends Wilfred and is soon walking out with Mary and the boy.Chapter 15, Twing Hall
  25. Bertie finds Bingo asleep in his bed; Bingo explains that good works have softened Mary and that, with Wingham down with mumps, he has taken over the village Christmas Entertainment and is in town to pinch material from revues.Chapter 15, Bertie's flat
  26. Bingo's revue collapses as the lights fail, the Squire is called on to sing and walks out, and Steggles's real oranges cause a riot, after which Mary throws Bingo over and he flees the mob through the cellar.Chapter 15, Twing Village Hall
  27. Lunching Bingo at the Senior Liberal Club while the Drones is being cleaned, Bertie watches him fall instantly in love with their waitress.Chapter 17, the Senior Liberal Club
  28. Bingo, now engaged to the waitress, talks Bertie into posing again as Rosie M. Banks to win back his allowance from his uncle, starting with a signed copy of The Woman who Braved All.Chapter 17, Bertie's flat
  29. Bertie reports the allowance won but the blessing wobbly, and Bingo blames him and hints that things are awkward.Chapter 17, Bertie's flat
  30. Bingo drifts in with a flower in his buttonhole, babbles, and announces that he is married.Chapters 17–18, Bertie's flat
  31. Bertie meets the quietly dressed bride in the hall and the three take a taxi.Chapter 18
  32. Bertie quotes The Woman who Braved All at Lord Bittlesham, who thinks Bertie is its author, is won over and consents to Bingo's marriage.Chapter 18, No. 16, Pounceby Gardens
  33. Bingo bursts in to say his bride revealed herself as Rosie M. Banks, and his uncle, realising he was hoaxed, called her an impostor.Chapter 18, Bertie's flat
  34. Lord Bittlesham opens Bingo's door and flees in fright, and Bingo explains that Jeeves fixed everything by telling the old man Bertie is a lunatic who believes he is Rosie M. Banks, with Sir Roderick Glossop backing it up.Chapter 18, Bingo's flat
  35. A gloomy Bingo asks Bertie to be at home next morning for a matter of life and death.Chapter 9, the Littles' drawing-room
  36. Anatole’s magnificent dinner transforms Tom’s mood while Bingo remains miserable.Chapter 9, the Littles' dining-room
  37. Jeeves proposes stopping Rosie’s embarrassing article by provoking a quarrel through transferring Anatole to Dahlia.Chapter 9, Bertie's bedroom at the flat
  38. When Anatole refuses to leave his beloved parlourmaid, Bingo persuades Bertie to steal the dictating cylinder.Chapter 9, Bertie's bedroom at the flat
  39. Bertie finds Bingo Little in the garden, tutoring young Thomas, who begs Bertie to treat him as a stranger lest Aunt Agatha sack him, then dives into a laurel bush.Chapter 1, the garden
  40. After days of golf with Filmer, Bertie hears Bingo confess he lost Rosie's housekeeping money on a horse and fears Thomas's planned revenge on Filmer will get him sacked.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Woollam Chersey
  41. At the tennis party Bingo falls into his tennis trance and forgets Thomas, until a thunderstorm breaks.Chapter 1, the tennis lawn
  42. Over breakfast at Bingo's new country house, Bertie is invited back for the Lakenham races and Mrs Bingo announces that her school friend Laura Pyke is coming to stay.Chapter 9, Bingo's house
  43. Bertie returns to find Bingo miserable: Laura Pyke is a food crank who has Rosie in thrall, and there are no cocktails and no beefsteak puddings.Chapter 9, Bertie's room at Bingo's
  44. At a meagre dinner the Pyke lectures on food and holds up Bingo's eating as the awful example.Chapter 9, Bingo's house
  45. Bertie has Jeeves pack extra sandwiches, and a jaunty Bingo describes the lavish lunch-basket he has supervised.Chapter 9, Bingo's house
  46. The luncheon-basket has been left behind; Rosie meekly accepts it, the men eat Jeeves's sandwiches behind a hedge, and Jeeves confesses he left the basket on purpose.Chapter 9, Lakenham races
  47. Bertie meets Bingo and Jeeves coming in his car, and he and Bingo creep back to overhear Rosie and the Pyke in a full-scale row raking up their schooldays.Chapter 9, Norfolk
  48. The Pyke leaves to catch her train, Bingo bullies the Bandit into giving Rosie tea by threatening to wake his baby, wins back her adoration, and reveals that Jeeves drained the petrol to start the row.Chapter 9, Norfolk

Every dealing, in order

The Inimitable Jeeves

Carry On, Jeeves

Very Good, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves

Thank You, Jeeves

The Code of the Woosters