The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Fantastically funny
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.
- Created By
David Nobbs
- First Aired on
Sep 08, 1976
- Popularity: 11.4157
- 26 votes
- Networks
- (GB)
- Status: Ended
Show Ended
4 seaons till Nov 03, 1996
Last episode: The Day of Revolution
Seasons & episodes
Total 4 seasons, 28 episodes
Specials
Aired
Episode 1The Very Best Of Leonard Rossiter30 min
Overview not available
Episode 2The Funny Side of Christmas - Christmas Sketch30 min
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'.
Episode 3Comedy Connections30 min
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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