The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976)
Synopsis
Disillusioned after a long career at Sunshine Desserts, Perrin goes through a mid-life crisis and fakes his own death. Returning in disguise after various attempts at finding a 'new life', he gets his old job back and finds nothing has changed. He is eventually found out, and in the second series has success with a chain of shops selling useless junk. That becomes so successful that he feels he has created a monster and decides to destroy it. In the third and final series he has a dream of forming a commune which his long suffering colleagues help bring to reality. Unfortunately that also fails and he finds himself back in a job not unlike the one he originally had at Sunshine Desserts.
First Air Date: 1976-09-08
Last Air Date: 1996-11-03
Number of Seasons: 4
Number of Episodes: 28
Created By: David Nobbs
Networks: BBC One
Top Cast
- Leonard Rossiter as N/A
- Pauline Yates as Elizabeth Perrin
- John Barron as C.J.
- Sue Nicholls as N/A
- Geoffrey Palmer as Jimmy Anderson
- Leslie Schofield as N/A
- John Horsley as N/A
- Tim Preece as N/A
- Bruce Bould as David Harris-Jones
- Trevor Adams as Tony Webster
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: The Very Best Of Leonard Rossiter
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Ep. 2: The Funny Side of Christmas - Christmas Sketch
Reggie and Elizabeth's quiet Christmas morning is interrupted by family, friends, coworkers, and even a tramp. On December 27th, 1982, at 8.05pm, Frank Muir introduced an hour of sitcom shorts specially made for the Christmas season. The sixty-minute programme was entitled "The Funny Side Of Christmas", and featured five- to ten- minute, and mostly one- or two- scene, situations of some of the BBC's most popular programmes of the time - all of which are now defined as 'classic television'.
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Ep. 3: Comedy Connections
The history of classic comedy shows. A look at 1970s sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, including interviews with writer and stars.
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