Wodehouse Playhouse - Season 3

Wodehouse Playhouse - Season 3

Season 3

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Episodes7
DatesOct 31, 1978 - Dec 12, 1978
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Episodes

The Smile That Wins
Season 3Episode 130 min

The Smile That Wins

Deadly serious young private detective Adrian Mulliner looks like an underdog when he takes on the British aristocracy. On doctor's orders, he goes in smiling.
Oct 31, 1978
Trouble Down at Tudsleigh
Season 3Episode 230 min

Trouble Down at Tudsleigh

""Tonight's story, Trouble Down at Tudsleigh, is about Freddie Widgeon of whom it's been said that if all the girls he's loved and lost were laid end to end they would reach from Piccadilly Circus to Hyde Park Corner, possibly further, for many of them were quite tall, as indeed was April Carroway whom Freddie met while on a duty visit to Lady Carroway at Tudsleigh Court..."" One look at April Carroway and Freddie Widgeon falls hard. To impress her, he does battle with the perplexing Lady of Shallott and April's dangerous younger sister, Prudence.
Nov 7, 1978
Tangled Hearts
Season 3Episode 330 min

Tangled Hearts

At the golf club, bossy Smallwood Bessemer and burly Carter Muldoon inadvertently exchange fiancees. Non-golfer Bessemer must play his way out of the rough.
Nov 14, 1978
The Luck of the Stiffhams
Season 3Episode 430 min

The Luck of the Stiffhams

Passionate but penniless Adolphus ""Stiffy"" Stiffham seeks his fortune in America to win the hand of his love, Lady Geraldine. But he doesn't appear to have a ghost of a chance of succeeding...
Nov 21, 1978
The Editor Regrets
Season 3Episode 530 min

The Editor Regrets

""Tonight's story, 'The Editor Regrets', concerns Bingo Little, the husband of best-selling novelist Rosie M. Banks and editorial force behind 'Wee Tots', that popular and influential journal which has done so much to mold thought in the nursery and has now led to a sort of literary renaissance at the Drones Club"". Revelling in his fame as editor of Wee Tots magazine, Bingo Little is the toast of his club. Trouble ensures when he brushes off an American children's author being pursued by his boss..
Nov 28, 1978
Big Business
Season 3Episode 630 min

Big Business

""Tonight's story, 'Big Business', is about Reginald Mulliner, a young man of slender means and slighter intellect who before the dramatic change in his fortunes had only two assets in his life -the love of Amanda Biffen and the ability to sing Old Man River, a talent we discover him exercising in anticipation of the annual church concert in the village of Lower Smattering On The Whistle,Worcestershire..."" Agreeably addle-brained Reginald Mulliner loses a fortune and a girl while preparing for his big moment on stage at the Christmas show. But from the depths of despair, he finds a new voice...
Dec 5, 1978
Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo
Season 3Episode 730 min

Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo

Tonight's story, Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo tells of the Reverend Augustine's experience with a wonder tonic capable of transforming a pale young curate, timidly in love with his vicar's daughter, into a - but let's start at the beginning, with our pale young curate ....
Dec 12, 1978

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