Series: | Jeeves and Wooster |
Season: | 4 |
Episode: | 5 |
Director: | Ferdinand Fairfax |
Episode List: | List of Jeeves and Wooster episodes |
Prev: | The Delayed Arrival |
Next: | The Ties That Bind |
"Trouble at Totleigh Towers" is the fifth episode of the fourth series of the 1990s British comedy television series Jeeves and Wooster.[1] It is also called "Totleigh Towers". It first aired in the UK on on ITV.[2] Some of the external scenes were filmed at Highclere Castle.
In the US, it was one of five episodes of Jeeves and Wooster that were not aired as part of the original broadcast of the television series on Masterpiece Theatre, though all episodes were made available on US home video releases. "The Bassetts' Fancy Dress Ball" aired as the fifth episode of the fourth series of Jeeves and Wooster instead.[3]
In the episode, Wooster appears in blackface and uses racial stereotypes to impersonate a visiting dignitary.
Adapted from Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves.[3] The filming location for Totleigh Towers, where much of the episode takes place, was Highclere Castle.
Stiffy tasks Bertie with stealing a statuette that is believed to be cursed. Gussie Fink-Nottle resists his fiancée Madeline Bassett's attempts to make him a vegetarian.