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The Truth About George

30 min

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30 min

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Portrait of a Disciplinarian

30 min

The Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court

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The Rise of Minna Nordstrom

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Rodney Fails to Qualify

30 min

A Voice From the Past

30 min

Wodehouse Playhouse

TV Series

197430m7.0

Comedy

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Portrait of a Disciplinarian

Season 1 · Episode 3 · May 7, 1975

Reggie Mulliner is invited to Bingley On Sea by his brother, Dr. Joe Mulliner, to visit their old Nannie, Nurse Wilks who lives on in Reggie's memory as being 7 feet tall, with stevedore shoulders, beetling brows and steel teeth. Noblesse Oblige requires Reggie to visit Nurse Wilks for afternoon tea with boiled eggs and fruit-cake. Upon arriving at 'Wee Holme' in Marazine Road, Nannie's address, he finds that she is also entertaining Jane Oliphant, Reggie's ex-fiancee, a girl with a heart of stone whom Reggie has reason to believe visited some people by the name of Ponderby and became engaged to a man named Dillingwater, all in the space of a week. It is up to Nurse Wilks to bring the two star-crossed lovers together. Reggie is locked in a cupboard because he refuses to kiss Miss Jane, and Jane follows Reggie into the cupboard when she forgets where she is and lights up a cigarette. There can be no person on earth more likely to strike terror into the human heart and mind than the En

7.5episode rating

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Wodehouse Playhouse

TV Series

197430m7.0

Comedy

Now playing

Portrait of a Disciplinarian

Season 1 · Episode 3 · May 7, 1975

7.5episode rating

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