Twenty-three years after the BBC laid The World Of Wooster to rest, Granada TV revived P G Wodehouse's comic stories with spectacular success, casting, in a stroke of genius, comedy double-act Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry in the roles, respectively, of gentleman and gentleman's gentleman. (For a fuller explanation of Wodehouse's characters and stories see that chronologically earlier BBC series, which had starred Ian Carmichael and Dennis Price.)

Although there was some doubt among members of the Wodehouse Society about their appropriateness for the parts, Fry and Laurie were simply perfect in the roles of unsurpassable valet Jeeves and bally ass Wooster, living in a 1920s-30s world of Hooray Henries and splendidly indomitable aunts. Both were major fans of the original books, and Fry had even written Wodehouse a letter, before the master's death in 1975, which elicited a signed photograph that remains much treasured.

Shot on film, production values were high throughout the 23 episodes and all of them were very funny. The scripts were dramatised from the Wodehouse originals by Clive Exton (who also adapted Agatha Christie's Poirot books for ITV), six of them being set in New York City.