Classic Serial - Something Fresh - Episode 1

First of a two-part dramatisation of PG Wodehouse's 1915 comic novel. Two imposters infiltrate Blandings Castle, intent on recovering a valuable scarab which the dotty Lord Emsworth has unknowingly acquired from a dyspeptic American millionaire. Ashe ...... Ioan Gruffudd Joan ...... Helen McCrory J Preston Peters ...... Hector Elizondo Earl of Emsworth ...... Martin Jarvis Aline Peters ...... Andrea Bowen George Emerson ...... James Frain Baxter ...... Jared Harris Beach ...... Morgan Sheppard Mrs Twemlow ...... Jill Gascoine Miss Willoughby ...... Joanne Whalley The Hon Freddie ...... Matthew Wolf Mr Judson ...... Darren Richardson Adams ...... Kenneth Danziger Jones/Ferris/Porter ...... Alan Shearman All the maids ...... Moira Quirk Wodehouse ...... Ian Ogilvy Directed by Martin Jarvis.