History Main / GenteelInterbellumSetting

* Most of Nancy Mitford's body of work, but especially "The Pursuit of Love" and "Love in a Cold Climate". The various TV adaptations fall under this heading as well.

%%* ''VideoGame/LauraBow''

* ''[[Film/CarryOn Carry On Laughing!]]'': the [[AffectionateParody "Lord Peter Flimsy"]] episodes.

** To make things even more confusing Creator/GeorgeOrwell put forward a case that Wodehouse's stories are in fact TwoDecadesBehind, and that for all intents and purposes they are set in TheEdwardianEra.

** Wodehouse himself [[FlipFlopOfGod was a bit inconsistent]] on this point; asked point-blank when his novels were set, he said "Between the wars", and sometimes excused the out-of-dateness of his settings by claiming that he wrote "historical novels". He also confessed to [[VagueAge not knowing how old his characters were]].

* Creator/PGWodehouse's Literature/JeevesAndWooster stories are often remembered as this, but in fact they do have occasional references that establish the passing of time (there's a past-tense mention of World War II in at least in ''Ring for Jeeves'' - which is a bit of OddballInTheSeries). [[Series/JeevesAndWooster The TV series]] is definitely and deliberately set in Christie Time, though.

* Creator/PGWodehouse's Literature/JeevesAndWooster stories are often remembered as this, but in fact they do have occasional references that establish the passing of time (there's a past-tense mention of World War II in at least one of the later ones, and so on). [[Series/JeevesAndWooster The TV series]] is definitely and deliberately set in Christie Time, though.

* ''Film/ThePhantom''

* RichardLockridge's husband and wife detectives, MrandMrsNorth.

* ''DowntonAbbey'' moves into this period starting in Episode 7 of Series 2, Series 1 being firmly [[TheEdwardianEra Edwardian]] and the first six episodes of Series Two being set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.

* ''UpstairsDownstairs'' and its lookalike ''TheDuchessOfDukeStreet'', for the most part, though both actually run from about 1900 to 1930.

* Basically all of NoelCoward's comedies, such as

** ''PrivateLives''
* LendMeATenor

* ''LauraBow''
* The ''ProfessorLayton'' series ''seems'' to be set in this, but the [[AnachronismStew anachronisms flow so thick,]] you might as well chalk it up to PurelyAestheticEra.

* ''TheLastExpress'' is set in 1914, just before WWI, is filled to the brim with Art Nouveau and is about [[ThrillerOnTheExpress a murder on the Orient Express]].

* Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel

* ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel

* NgaioMarsh's Roderick Alleyn mysteries.

* ''GosfordPark''
* ''OurDancingDaughters''

* ''Series/{{Poirot}}''

* KerryGreenwood's PhryneFisher mysteries, which are mostly set in Australia during 1928 (although the last two books have moved into 1929, and ''Murder in Montparnasse'' had flashbacks to post-UsefulNotes/WorldWarI Paris).

* ''[[Literature/LordPeterWimsey The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries]]'' by DorothyLSayers.

* Creator/GKChesterton's ''Literature/FatherBrown'' stories.

** Christie's final novel ''Curtain'' actually does provide a timeframe for her stories (or at least the ones about Poirot, though this would probably drag a lot of others into the mix as well by proxy due to overlapping characters), placing them in the period of the early 1920's through the early 1940's. This may not always be consistent with the details of all of her stories but at least it's established.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' is set in an alternate universe 1920's to 1930's aesthetic bonded with Asian elements.

** ''EasyVirtue''

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E5BlackOrchid Black Orchid]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E7TheUnicornAndTheWasp The Unicorn and the Wasp]]", plus bits of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E2CarnivalOfMonsters Carnival of Monsters]]".

** ''The Secret Adversary'' (1922), which introduced Literature/TommyAndTuppence not so long after they were both out of work due to the end of WorldWarI. ''Partners in Crime'' (1929) is a series of linked short stories about their joint venture in running a detective agency. Unlike [[Literature/HerculePoirot Poirot]] mentioned above, Tommy and Tuppence [[GrowOldWithMe aged roughly in real time]].

* KerryGreenwood's PhryneFisher mysteries, which are mostly set in Australia during 1928 (although the last two books have moved into 1929, and ''Murder in Montparnasse'' had flashbacks to post-WorldWarI Paris).

* ''DowntonAbbey'' moves into this period starting in Episode 7 of Series 2, Series 1 being firmly [[TheEdwardianEra Edwardian]] and the first six episodes of Series Two being set during WorldWarI.

* The film version of MrandMrsNorth.