The Delayed Arrival
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| series = Jeeves and Wooster
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| season = 4
| episode = 4
| airdate = {{Start date|1993|6|6|df=y}}
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| director = Ferdinand Fairfax
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| episode_list = List of Jeeves and Wooster episodes
| prev = Bridegroom Wanted!
| next = Trouble at Totleigh Towers
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"The Delayed Arrival" is the fourth episode of the fourth series of the 1990s British comedy television series Jeeves and Wooster. It is also called "Arrested in a Night Club". It first aired in the UK on {{Start date|1993|6|6|df=y}} on ITV.{{cite web |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/jeeves_and_wooster/episodes/4/4/ |title=Jeeves and Wooster Series 4, Episode 4 |author= |date= |website=British Comedy Guide |publisher= |access-date=4 April 2019}}
In the US, it was aired as the third episode of the third series of Jeeves and Wooster on Masterpiece Theatre, on 24 October 1993. "Jeeves Saves the Cow-Creamer" aired as the fourth episode of the fourth series instead.{{Cite book |author = Taves, Brian |year = 2006 |title = P.G. Wodehouse and Hollywood: Screenwriting, Satires and Adaptations |location = London |publisher = McFarland & Company |pages=193–197 |isbn = 978-0-7864-2288-3}}
Background
Adapted from Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit.
Cast
- Bertie Wooster – Hugh Laurie
- Jeeves – Stephen Fry
- Aunt Dahlia – Jean Heywood
- Florence Craye – Francesca Folan
- Stilton Cheesewright – Nicholas Palliser
- Percy Gorringe – Walter James
- Uncle Tom – Ralph Michael
- Mrs Trotter – Sylvia Kay
- Mr Trotter – John Rapley
- Magistrate – Peter Howell
- Mr Burwash – James Ottaway
- Seppings – Ian Collier
- Oofy Prosser – Richard Dixon
- Police – Jon Croft, Peter Diamond, Jim Barclay{{cite web |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7c9414a9 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180107234520/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7c9414a9 |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 January 2018 |title=Arrested in a Night Club (1993) |author= |date=2019 |website=BFI |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=4 April 2019 |quote=}}
Plot
Aunt Dahlia's magazine is in deep money trouble again so she wants to sell it to a Mr Trotter. To make it more saleable, she plans on paying a thousand pounds to a famous novelist for a story, which means she has to pawn her pearl necklace. Meanwhile, Lady Florence Craye has an on-off engagement with the homicidal Darcy "Stilton" Cheesewright, with Bertie being the cause of the break-ups. An expert is brought in to value the pearls, which have been replaced with fakes, and there is a race on to sell the magazine and get the real ones back in time. Aunt Dahlia wants help from Jeeves to find a pearl necklace she has pawned. Jeeves appears in drag in this episode to impersonate the novelist Daphne Dolores Morehead.