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Reggie Perrin DVDs

Product image for ASIN: B0000AQVMW The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin - The Complete Collection
Product image for ASIN: B00006L9WL The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin - The Complete First Series [1976]
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The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin - The Complete Third Series

Reggie Perrin Videos
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'The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin' was an inspiration for all of us who want something more than the treadmill that is the rat race, but 'Reggie Perrin' never descended into glumness - with C.J.'s farting chairs, and Reggie's vision of his mother-in-law as a hippopotamus (yes, I know, rather sexist), how could it?

The colleagues of Reggie were all pretty irritating, as was his son-in-law, and Geoffrey Palmer's care in the community escapee, Jimmy.

The women in the series seemed more interesting, and Reggie's wife, Elizabeth, was heroic, with Pauline Yates playing her role with an unfazed air.

Leonard Rossiter was simply masterful as the sneering Reggie, and none of his colleagues really seemed to twig when he was in contemptuous mood. They were just too damn dull!

- Paul Rance.


 

Reggie Perrin Main Cast List and Credits
Leonard Rossiter Reginald Iolanthe Perrin
Pauline Yates Elizabeth Perrin
John Barron C.J. (Charles Jefferson)
Sue Nicholls Joan Greengrass
Trevor Adams Tony Webster
Bruce Bould David Harris-Jones
John Horsley Doc Morrissey
Geoffrey Palmer Jimmy Anderson
Terence Conoley Peter Cartwright (1st series)
Sally-Jane Spencer Linda Patterson
Tim Preece Tom Patterson (1st and 2nd series)
Leslie Schofield Tom Patterson (3rd series)
David Warwick Mark Perrin (1st series)
Glynn Edwards Mr. Pelham (2nd series)
Joan Blackham Miss Erith (2nd series)
Derry Power Seamus Finnegan (2nd series)
Theresa Watson Prue Harris-Jones (3rd series)
Joseph Brady Kenny McBlane (3rd series)
Writer David Nobbs
Producer Gareth Gwenlan
Director Gareth Gwenlan

 

REGGIE PERRIN EPISODE GUIDE
(Dates first broadcast are in brackets)

1st SERIES - THE FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN

Episode 1 (08/09/76) - Very early on Reggie is thinking of escaping his unsatisfying life.
Episode 2 (15/09/76) - Reggie has a stressful weekend family outing.
Episode 3 (22/09/76) - Reggie's yearnings for his secretary Joan are nipped in the bud...for now.
Episode 4 (29/09/76) - While wife Elizabeth is away, Reggie plays host to boss C.J. and wife.
Episode 5 (06/10/76) - After a dreadful, drunken, public humiliation of a speech, Reggie has had enough, and fakes a suicide.
Episode 6 (13/10/76) - Reggie plays with the idea of different identities, and discovers Elizabeth is to marry again.
Episode 7 (20/10/76) - Reggie settles on the bearded, suave sophisticate Martin Wellbourne as his desired alter ego. He's attractive to Elizabeth, and C.J. gives him a top job with the Reginald Perrin Memorial Foundation!

2nd SERIES - THE FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN

Episode 1 (21/09/77) - Reggie tells Elizabeth he is not really the great traveller Martin Wellbourne. C.J. isn't impressed and Reggie is sacked.
Episode 2 (28/09/77) - Reggie struggles to find a suitable job, but Elizabeth secretly gets a job with C.J.'s firm.
Episode 3 (05/10/77) - C.J. sacks Elizabeth, but Reggie gets a eureka moment.
Episode 4 (12/10/77) - The great idea Reggie has is Grot, which stocks pure crap like tennis rackets with no strings, for exorbitant prices, but he can't stop making money.
Episode 5 (19/10/77) - Grot's success skyrockets, and Reggie ends up employing his old boss cum monster, C.J.
Episode 6 (26/10/77) - Reggie gets disillusioned with Grot's success, but his efforts to destroy it have the opposite effect.
Episode 7 (02/11/77) - Reggie takes drastic action to find a more meaningful existence.

3rd SERIES - THE FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN

Episode 1 (29/11/78) - Reggie decides to escape the rat race and start a commune, Perrins.
Episode 2 (06/12/78) - The commune idea, at first, doesn't seem to be as appealing to the public as Grot.
Episode 3 (13/12/78) - Suddenly the public catch on, and the clients of Perrins are well satisfied.
Episode 4 (20/12/78) - Unusual happenings continue at Perrins...
Episode 5 (27/12/78) - Though Perrins has been successful, the cracks are starting to appear in Reggie's latest venture.
Episode 6 (03/01/79) - There is friction at Perrins, and Reggie will have to find something new, or...
Episode 7 (10/01/79) - Reggie ends up back at square one - being offered a boring job.

- Paul Rance.

 


The Catchphrases

"I didn't get where I am today..." - C.J.
"There's been a bit of a cock-up..." - Jimmy Anderson.
"Great!" - Tony Webster
"Super!" - David Harris-Jones
"I'm not a........person." - Tom Patterson



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