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I was watching the cow creamer episode today, and it always cracks me up when I see actress Vivian Pickles as Aunt Dahlia, because to me she will ever and always be Harold's mother (from Harold And Maude). I expected to hear a Cat Stevens score usurp the Anne Dudley music whenever she was onscreen. <g>

I know this has been mentioned before, numerous times, but I agree: the use of different actors in so many of the crucial supporting roles is a bit jarring. There were *four* Aunt Dahlias. And to use Francesca Folan as Madeleine, and then later as Florence was a bit of a shock (especially seeing first season years after seeing 3rd and 4th seasons).

Does anyone else have favorites? I definitely prefer Richard Garnett's Gussie, Elizabeth Morton's Madeleine, and Fiona Gillies' Florence. I like both of the actresses who played Aunt Agatha, and all but the first portrayal of Aunt Dahlia (Harold's mother notwithstanding).

Ah well, as long as we got Fry and Laurie, I'm not complaining.

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[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

I *adored* the Granada Sherlock Holmes series. No one else will ever be Holmes for me. Not having seen Jeeves and Wooster at the time, I didn't recognize any of the supporting/guest actors much, but I'm sure I would today. :-) I've watched a few on PBS recently when our station was showing them. What a pleasure!

Fiona Gillies' Florence just has that martinet quality that is a perfect, jarring contrast to her prettiness. You can *just* see Bertie falling for "Flossie, old thing" (and isn't it hilarious when she cuts him dead on that), then seeing what a disaster it would be after Jeeves opens his eyes to Lady Caligula. Francesca Folan's Florence never quite clicked with me after that.

Richard Braine was the first Gussie I saw -- and then recently I saw the Steggles character just after reading the story and thought, ew--they used this guy to play Steggles *and* Gussie? Just *wrong*. And then I saw the earlier Gussie and thought, now that's more like it. Cute, clueless nerdy newt-fancier. You can sort of see how he and Madeleine would fall for one another.