Cast

Roderick Spode and Sir Watkyn Bassett

• Roderick Spode is friend of Sir Watkyn Bassett The Code of the Woosters 1, 2, 3, 14
• Sir Watkyn Bassett approves the marriage of Roderick Spode The Code of the Woosters 3
• Sir Watkyn Bassett gets word to Roderick Spode The Code of the Woosters 4, 5
• Roderick Spode admires Sir Watkyn Bassett The Code of the Woosters 5
• Roderick Spode speaks to Sir Watkyn Bassett The Code of the Woosters 6
• Sir Watkyn Bassett trusts Roderick Spode The Code of the Woosters 13
• Sir Watkyn Bassett approves of Roderick Spode Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 23
• Roderick Spode is future son-in-law of Sir Watkyn Bassett Much Obliged, Jeeves 5

They deal with each other in The Code of the Woosters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 13, 14; Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 22, 23; Much Obliged, Jeeves 5.

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. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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

Every dealing, in order

The Code of the Woosters

• Chapter 1Roderick Spode is companion of Sir Watkyn Bassett
• Chapter 2Roderick Spode is friend of Sir Watkyn Bassett
• Chapter 3Roderick Spode is friend of Sir Watkyn Bassett
• Chapter 3Sir Watkyn Bassett wanted Madeline to marry Roderick Spode (earlier)
• Chapter 4Sir Watkyn Bassett told about the cow-creamer Roderick Spode
• Chapter 5Roderick Spode esteems Sir Watkyn Bassett
• Chapter 5Sir Watkyn Bassett confides his suspicions to Roderick Spode
• Chapter 6Roderick Spode confers in low voices with Sir Watkyn Bassett
• Chapter 10Roderick Spode wants to show the notebook to Sir Watkyn Bassett
• Chapter 13Sir Watkyn Bassett trusts Roderick Spode
• Chapter 14Roderick Spode is friend of Sir Watkyn Bassett

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

• Chapter 22Sir Watkyn Bassett told of her engagement to Bertie Roderick Spode
• Chapter 22Roderick Spode goes to fetch Sir Watkyn Bassett
• Chapter 23Sir Watkyn Bassett approves of the engagement of Madeline to Roderick Spode

Much Obliged, Jeeves

• Chapter 5Roderick Spode is future son-in-law of Sir Watkyn Bassett