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Wodehouse Playhouse Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
7 Episodes 1978 - 1978
Episode 1
The Smile That Wins
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.
Episode 2
Trouble Down at Tudsleigh
Freddie falls in love, but he faces several obstacles: a bad-tempered rival, a younger sister, and Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Episode 3
Tangled Hearts
Golf club members Smallwood Bessemer and Carter Muldoon switch fiancees, and Smallwood must try to learn golf quickly to impress his new partner.
Episode 4
The Luck of the Stiffhams
Adolphus (Stiffy) Stiffham, secretary to the Earl of Wivelscombe, wants to marry his daughter Lady Geraldine Spettisbury, but is dismissed for his trouble. He leaves for America (not knowing that the Wall Street crash has just occurred), hoping to make his fortune. At his hotel, the bellboy gets him involved in an illegal craps game. Innocently betting against a hardened crew of players, he makes $120,000, and banks it. Next day, thinking that the bank has gone bust, he writes a suicide note to Geraldine, but then learns that the money is safe. He returns home to claim Geraldine. She still loves him, but the Earl thinks that he really has committed suicide, and what he sees is really Stiffy's ghost. The Earl is thoroughly frightened that he will be haunted. With the connivance of the butler, the Earl gives his consent to the marriage.
Episode 5
The Editor Regrets
Bingo Little is fired from his job as editor of a children's magazine after disregarding an important contributor and comes up with a plan to get his job back.
Episode 6
Big Business
Reginald Mulliner sings his heart out at the Christmas fete.
Episode 7
Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo
Well, this fellow was too meek and mild. So one of his relatives, concerned about this, sent him Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo. It turns him into a lion. He rescues a prelate from a pesky puppy and pursues a new career as a pastor.