1933 Thank you, Jeeves
The first Bertie/Jeeves novel. Jeeves gives his notice because of the banjolele, J. Washburn Stoker traps Bertie on board his yacht, Bertie blackens up with shoe polish to escape.
The Movie
This first novel was turned into a movie in 1934 that starred a very young David Niven as Bertie Wooster, and Arthur Treacher as Jeeves. The plot of the movie was nothing like novel. What little bits of the original story the Movie Moguls kept was altered. The movie opens with Bertie banging a full drum set not a banjolele. There was a single black (not a minstrel show) but he was a musician (saxophone). Apart from that, if you saw the movie and said it reminded you of any of the Bertie stories you would be stretching the imagination. Also, Arthur Treacher evidently didn't bother reading any of the Bertie/Jeeves stories, or he would have played Jeeves in his quiet "stuffed frog" character. Treacher's Jeeves was loud, vociferous, frenetic, outspoken, and the total opposite of how Bertie describes his demeanor in the stories.

1934 Right ho, Jeeves
Cast: Bertie, Jeeves, Aunt Dahlia, Angela, uncle Tom, Tuppy Glossop, Gussie Fink-Nottle, Madeline Bassett, Anatole the chef.

Story Highlights:

• Gussie in his scarlet tights going to a party dressed as Mephistopheles.
  
• Bertie and Madeline scene as he tries to plead Gussie's cause with her.
  
• The latenight gathering around the kitchen table, as Tuppy tries to sneak some steak and kidney pie, complete with Uncle Tom entering, brandishing his pistol.
  
• The splintering crash of the "well-kicked plate of ham sandwiches" Angela brought Tuppy.
  
• Probably the funniest scene I have ever witnessed - Gussie addressing the Market Snodsbury youths, stewed to the gills.
  
• The sight of Gussie on the roof, looking through the window, with Anatole shaking his fist at him, and screaming oaths in his Bingo-cum-Maloney enhanced French.

Plot:This is the story that introduces the ongoing Gussie/Madeline/Bertie mixup and affair. Bertie spent several months on the French Riviera with Aunt Dahlia, her daughter, Angela, and her friend, Madeline Bassett. Bertie found himself staring at Madeline in disbelief that someone so goofy could roam the earth without a keeper. She misinterpreted this as his staring at her with longing and passion.When Bertie cornered Madeline out in the garden, to plead Gussie's cause with her, Madeline of course thought Bertie was pleading his own, reflecting on the times he stood staring at her. She apologetically stated that she loved another (Gussie), but if anything were to go phut with this, that he was next on the boards to escort her down the aisle.

Angela, Bertie's cousin, and her bethrothed, Tuppy Glossop, have the subplot as she accuses Tuppy of being too enamored of food, making him take umbrage and lower the status of her shark to a flatfish playing. Tuppy thinks that Angela's affections are now transferred to another, and takes on Bertie, then Gussie, as his way of getting revenge. Bertie slides out of it by using the Madeline misunderstanding as his confession of love for someone other than Angela. Tuppy then decides Gussie is the culprit, and chases him all over the grounds, culminating in Gussie being on the roof, staring down Anatole's skylight window.

The most hilarious scene is when Gussie, after Bertie and Jeeves have filled him with alcoholic drinks, goes to hand out prizes at the Market Snodsbury school gathering. From calling the school headmaster a "silly ass," to his questioning the Scripture Knowledge winner if he knows anything of "what's his name, who begat thingummy," Gussie goes onto to misquote the jokes and phrases that Bertie and Jeeves gave him, then brings the whole scene to a close by implying that the mother of G. G.Simmons (one of the prize winners) had some illicit affair going on with the headmaster, so that he would "cook the marks" for her son.

Jeeves, of course, saves the day with his "ringing the fire bell" alternative scheme, which requires Bertie to ring the fire-alarm bell, bringing everyone outside on the lawn at 12:30 a.m. Jeeves then suggests Bertie as the person who should ride 9 miles on a bike to the party where the maids and butlers are cavorting, in order to get the house key from Seppings.

When Bertie returns some hours later, he finds that all is well, all breakups have been reconciled, and it is a veritable garden of happy endings.

1938 Code of the Woosters
The first story of the infamous Silver Cow Creamer. Bertie goes to Sir Watkyn Bassettıs Totleigh Towers to pinch the Cow Creamer, that Sir Watkin slighted from Uncle Tom.Features Madeleine Bassett, Sir Roderick Spode, Gussie Fink-nottle, Aunt Dahlia.

1946 Jeeves in the Morning (Joy in the morning)
Features Percy Worplesdon, Aunt Agatha, Boko Fittleworth, Stilton Cheesewright, Florence Craye, Edwin the Boy Scout. Edwin burns Bertieıs cottage, Boko manufactures the break-the-window scheme, and Old Worplesdon dons Bertie's favorite Sinbad Sailor costume and goes to the fancy ball.

1949 The Mating Season
Bertie goes to Deverill Hall, in place of Gussie. Very similar to ³Without the option,² in which Bertie goes to a stranger's estate masquerading as Sippy, who biffed a cop. The Hall is filled with disapproving aunts. Features the actor, Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright, and his sister, Corky.

1955 Jeeves & The Feudal Spirit (Bertie Wooster see it through)
Bertie grows a mustache and Jeeves disapproves. Also, Florence Craye, Stilton Cheesewright, and Aunt Dahlia. Bertie goes to Mottled Oyster with Florence, and it gets raided. Bertie helps Florence to escape, and gets pinched himself.

1960 Jeeves in the Offing (How right you are, Jeeves)
My first Bertie/Jeeves story. Features Roberta (Bobbie) Wickham, Reginald (Kipper) Herring, and Sir Roderick Glossop who impersonates a butler so he can observe Willie, son of the female detective novelist, Adele Cream.

1963 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
Sir Watkyn Bassett, Spode, Madeleine Bassett, Major Plank, Aunt Dahlia, and the green amber statuette. Jeeves impersonates Scotland Yard Inspector Witherspoon. Bertie bumps into the grandfather clock in the dark of the night. Madeleine puts Gussie on vegetarian diet. Gussie elopes with Amber Stoker.

1971 Jeeves and the Tie That Binds (Much obliged, Jeeves)
Bingley (formerly Brinkley), who burned the hut in ³Thank you, Jeeves,² pops back up in the Junior Ganymede Club of Jeeves, and pinches the club book that tells stories of Bertieıs mishaps.

1974 The Cat-nappers (Aunts arenıt gentlemen)
Aunt Dahlia wants the competitor's stable cat kidnapped to nobble the horse that likes it. Features Vanessa Cook, Orlo Porter, Major Plank, Pop Cook.

Ring For Jeeves
This is the only story that Bertie Wooster does not appear in. The book was actually not written originally by Wodehouse, but by his playwright pal, Guy Bolton, who wrote the play " Ring for Jeeves." Wodehouse took the play and put it into prose form, but it lacks something because it does not possess the inimitable Wodehousian farce and wit of plot. A reasonable, passable story, but not one of Wodehouse originality.