由“英国国宝”Stephen Fry和豪斯大叔Hugh Laurie联袂演出，1986年至1995年间，在英国BBC-1台、BBC-2台合共播出四季26集。 不同于主流的情景喜剧，这个节目每集由几个独立小品构成，除了路人甲乙，Stephen和Hugh包揽了剧中的所有角色 ：德国和英国军官，情报局头头和秘书，公司合伙人，五金店老板和顾客，心理医生和病人等等。 剧情以两人的对话展开，针对某一历史事件或社会现象，或明里挞伐，或暗中嘲讽，不时拿上层社会的贵族、政要和名人开涮，时任英国首相的撒切尔夫人、约翰·梅杰亦不能幸免成为揶揄对象。 除了重口味的政治笑料，剧中也有无厘头的冷笑话，英式双关语，以及最简单的肢体滑稽剧。值得一提的是，全部四季的剧本均由Stephen和Hugh两人撰写。《纽约时报》评论道：他们挥洒文字的自如程度，连《窈窕淑女》中的希金斯教授也会嫉妒不已，他们用语言创造出一个刘易斯·卡罗尔笔下的奇幻仙境。 虽然两位主角大多只是耍耍嘴皮子，但对白尺度很大，夹杂着直白的性描述和粗俗的俚语，曾经因为出现"c-u-n-t"这个单词而惊动BBC高层。除此以外，你还可以欣赏到青涩的House大叔弹琴飙歌，以及Fry大叔雷死人不偿命的舞姿，更不乏两位大叔让人YY联翩的JQ。 总而言之，无论你是想HC两位有才的英国大叔，还是想一窥英伦社会百态，抑或只是纯粹找乐子，一点双人秀都不会让你失望。

Bertie is back in New York and enamoured of portrait painter Gwladys Pendlebury but Aunt Agatha is not enamoured of the painting of her Bertie commissioned and she is even more annoyed when her wayward twin sons, charged to Bertie's care before being shipped off for colonial posts, give him the slip to pursue a cabaret singer. Tuppy Glossop arrives to sell his family recipe for cock-a-leekie to soup magnate Slingsby to finance his nuptials to Elizabeth but slimy ad man Lucius Pim steals Gwladys from Bertie and makes Aunt Agatha the unwitting face of Slingsby's soups on every billboard in New York.

Fleeing from the twin horrors of prospective marriage and the baleful Aunt Agatha, Bertie sails to New York with Jeeves, where he hopes to lie low but instead he is charged with minding the ultra-shy mother's boy Wilmot, son of Lady Malvern, and showing him the high life. Oddly enough Wilmot takes only too well to the night-spots of Manhattan, wearing Bertie out in the process. Tuppy Glossop also arrives, to talk about car exportation with wealthy businessman Mr. Stoker. Unfortunately Tupper's business plan is nowhere near as lofty as it should be.

Romantic entanglements are complicated by a unique silver cow creamer that is desired by both Bertie's Uncle Thomas and his rival, Judge Sir Watkyn Bassett. Sir Watkyn purchases the creamer by telling the shopkeeper, falsely, that Thomas had sent him. Bertie's Aunt Dahlia and friend "Stiffy" Byng both want him to steal the creamer for different reasons, but Judge Sir Watkyn has already sentenced him once (for stealing a bobby's helmet) and he doesn't want to go to jail.

根据世界级英裔美籍著名幽默作家P.G.Wodehouse的系列作品改编，编剧Clive Exton同时也是ITV拳头剧《大侦探波罗》(Poirot)系列的主力编剧。主演史蒂芬·弗莱(Stephen Fry)和休·劳瑞(Hugh Laurie)均为剑桥出身，与爱玛·汤普森(Emma Thompson)等当年同在剑桥Footlights表演俱乐部演出(Monty Python主要成员也出身于此)，两人均多才多艺，剑桥之后在电影、电视、广播领域长年合作。国内观众对这两位的印象可能主要来自Richard Curtis/Ben Elton编剧、罗温·艾金森(Rowan Atkinson)主演的《黑爵士》(Blackadder)系列。小说作者P.G. Wodehouse，通译沃德豪斯(1881-1975)，英国小说家和喜剧作家。以塑造“绅士中的绅士”Jeeves这一形象而闻名，1955年入美国籍。《万能管家》中的主角是迷迷糊糊的英国绅士Bertie Wooster （其实就是个250）和他的聪明机灵、花样百出的男仆Jeeves，几乎每一个故事都是由主人荒唐的行为转变成不可收拾的困境，但是最后总是由男仆出人意料的机智解决。