The Wooster Papers

Cast

Bertie Wooster and Roderick Spode

They deal with each other in The Code of the Woosters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13; Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 4, 12, 14, 15, 21; Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 22, 23; Much Obliged, Jeeves 1, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17; Aunts Aren't Gentlemen 7, 8.

Scenes they share

  1. At the antique shop Sir Watkyn takes Bertie for a reformed bag-snatcher, catches him with his umbrella, and when Bertie trips over the cat and charges out with the cow-creamer, he and Roderick yell for the police and Bertie bolts.Chapter 1, the antique shop
  2. Strolling on the terrace, Bertie spots the silver collection, steps in and lifts the cow-creamer out of its unlocked case just as Spode appears with a shotgun and says 'Hands up!'Chapters 2–3, the collection-room
  3. Bertie overhears Gussie tell Spode not to talk rot, and at tea finds Gussie lordly and patronising, scolding him for forgetting a book.Chapter 3, the Totleigh drawing-room
  4. Spode warns Bertie that he is being watched and will be beaten to a jelly if the cow-creamer disappears, and Jeeves brings word that Aunt Dahlia has arrived and wants Bertie in the Blue Room.Chapter 4, the terrace
  5. At a superb dinner Bertie can barely eat for watching Gussie and Madeline sit in frozen silence, their engagement plainly off.Chapter 6, the Totleigh dining-room
  6. Left with Sir Watkyn and Spode over the port, Bertie retreats to his room, where Spode bursts in looking for Gussie and leaves a message that he means to break his neck.Chapter 6, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  7. Bertie forgets the magic name when facing Spode, Gussie crowns Spode with a painting and flees, a brawl brings in Aunt Dahlia, and the remembered 'Eulalie' reduces Spode to grovelling, after which Aunt Dahlia scoffs at Bertie's plan to search Stiffy's room.Chapter 7, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  8. Bertie finds Spode battering Gussie's door, cows him, and takes from him the notebook he found in the cow-creamer, then hands it to Gussie to show Madeline.Chapter 10, the passage
  9. Bertie sees Spode off from menacing Gussie, mocks his asparagus-eating, and Jeeves arrives with the brandy and news that Oates was assaulted and the cow-creamer stolen, sending Spode galloping off.Chapter 11, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  10. Bertie refuses to let Aunt Dahlia buy his freedom with Anatole, plans his release dinner, defies Sir Watkyn, and is saved when Spode confesses to stealing the helmet.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  11. At breakfast a beaming Stilton thanks Bertie for freeing him from Florence and leaves to go rowing with Daphne, then Mrs. Trotter reads that Robert Blenkinsop has been knighted and orders Trotter to refuse any knighthood, wrecking Aunt Dahlia's hold on him, just as Seppings brings in a pearl necklace.Chapters 20–22, the Brinkley dining-room
  12. At tea Madeline tells Bertie she still loves Gussie and weeps over his hopeless love for her, and Spode walks in to find Bertie patting her head.Chapters 5–6, the Totleigh drawing-room
  13. At a sombre dinner Bertie admires Sir Watkyn's new black amber statuette, bought from Plank and worth a thousand pounds, offends him by calling it soapstone, and slips off to his room afterwards.Chapters 6–7, the Totleigh dining-room
  14. Bertie drives into the Totleigh stable yard and Spode orders him out of the car so he can search it.Chapters 11–12, the stable yard
  15. Jeeves reports that a boy egged Sir Watkyn and Stiffy's dog bit Gussie at the school treat; Gussie goes off to walk with Emerald Stoker, Stinker's vicarage is in doubt, and Spode bursts in.Chapters 13–14, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  16. Gussie, clutching Emerald's ham sandwiches, declares her his true love and Madeline heartless; Stiffy and Stinker tell Bertie to keep clear of Sir Watkyn, and when Stiffy warns Gussie that Spode is after him he bolts straight into Spode.Chapters 14–15, the yew alley
  17. Gussie flees with Bertie to meet Emerald in the kitchen garden, where she flattens the pursuing Spode with a basin, and Madeline, finding Gussie over the body, declares she loathes him and it is the end as he defiantly eats a ham sandwich.Chapter 15, the kitchen garden
  18. Back in the drawing-room Bertie ponders how to approach Pop Bassett about the statuette when Spode comes in.Chapters 17–22, the Totleigh drawing-room
  19. Blocked from the window by Bartholomew, Bertie hides under the sofa and hears Spode declare his love to Madeline and denounce Bertie as a thief after the statuette, then go to fetch Sir Watkyn.Chapters 22–23, Totleigh Towers
  20. Spode, Sir Watkyn and Plank denounce Bertie as a thief, Madeline drops him and accepts Spode, and when Bertie sneezes behind the sofa Sir Watkyn sends for Constable Oates and promises him twenty-eight days.Chapter 23, Totleigh Towers
  21. Outside the French window Bertie overhears Spode, now Lord Sidcup, tell the camera chap that Wooster is a thief, and the camera chap vows the stiffest sentence if Bertie touches the silver he has brought to sell Uncle Tom.Chapter 5, the Brinkley drawing-room
  22. Jeeves, buttling in place of the indisposed Seppings, brings Bertie a reviving whisky and soda and consoles him with Shakespeare on good names, before Aunt Dahlia bounds in.Chapters 5–7, the Brinkley drawing-room
  23. Uneasy at Bingley's confident tip, Bertie walks home and finds Aunt Dahlia doing the Observer crossword.Chapters 8–10, Brinkley Court
  24. Spode tells Bertie that Madeline has broken their engagement and means to marry Bertie, and threatens to tear him limb from limb if he lets her down.Chapter 14, the Brinkley drawing-room

Every dealing, in order

The Code of the Woosters

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Much Obliged, Jeeves

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen