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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

  • TV Series
  • 1976–1979
  • 30m
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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', h... Read allDisillusioned 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 ... Read allDisillusioned 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 ... Read all

  • Stars
    • Leonard Rossiter
    • Pauline Yates
    • John Barron
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    • Stars
      • Leonard Rossiter
      • Pauline Yates
      • John Barron
    • 26User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    • Nominated for 7 BAFTA Awards
      • 7 nominations total

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    Leonard Rossiter
    Leonard Rossiter
    • Reginald Perrin
    Pauline Yates
    • Elizabeth Perrin
    John Barron
    John Barron
    • C.J.…
    Sue Nicholls
    Sue Nicholls
    • Joan Greengross
    Trevor Adams
    • Tony Webster
    Bruce Bould
    • David Harris-Jones
    Sally-Jane Spencer
    • Linda Patterson…
    John Horsley
    John Horsley
    • Doc Morrissey
    Geoffrey Palmer
    Geoffrey Palmer
    • Jimmy Anderson…
    Tim Preece
    • Tom Patterson…
    Leslie Schofield
    Leslie Schofield
    • Tom
    Theresa Watson
    • Prue Harris-Jones
    Terence Conoley
    • Peter Cartwright
    Joseph Brady
    Joseph Brady
    • McBlane
    Glynn Edwards
    Glynn Edwards
    • Mr. Pelham
    Robert Hiller
    • Adam…
    Abigail Morgan
    • Jocasta…
    Roland MacLeod
    • Morris Coates
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    • Trivia
      Real-life Labour MP (Member of Parliament) John Stonehouse faked his own apparent suicide in exactly the same way as Reginald Perrin - in the summer of 1974 he left his clothes on a beach in Miami and disappeared. However this was pure coincidence: David Nobbs wrote his novel "The Death of Reginald Perrin" early in 1974, before Stonehouse disappeared (so Nobbs couldn't have based the novel on Stonehouse's disappearance) but the novel wasn't published until 1975, after Stonehouse went missing (so Stonehouse couldn't have got ideas for his disappearance by reading the novel).
    • Goofs
      In the first episode, 'Reggie' explains his late arrival at the office with the excuse "staff shortages at Nine Elms". However, there is no railway or underground station at Nine Elms.
    • Quotes

      [Jimmy is explaining to Reggie what kinds of people his secret army will be against]

      Jimmy Anderson: Wreckers of law and order. Communists, Maoists, Trotskyists, neo-Trotskyists, crypto-Trotskyists, union leaders, Communist union leaders, atheists, agnostics, long-haired weirdos, short-haired weirdos, vandals, hooligans, football supporters, namby-pamby probation officers, rapists, papists, papist rapists, foreign surgeons - headshrinkers, who ought to be locked up, Wedgwood Benn, keg bitter, punk rock, glue-sniffers, "Play For Today", Clive Jenkins, Roy Jenkins, Up Jenkins, up everybody's, Chinese restaurants - why do you think Windsor Castle is ringed with Chinese restaurants?

      Reginald Perrin: You realise the sort of people you're going to attract, don't you, Jimmy? Thugs, bully-boys, psychopaths, sacked policemen, security guards, sacked security guards, racialists, Paki-bashers, queer-bashers, Chink-bashers, anybody-bashers, rear Admirals, queer admirals, Vice Admirals, fascists, neo-fascists, crypto-fascists, loyalists, neo-loyalists, crypto-loyalists.

      Jimmy Anderson: Do you think so? I thought recruitment might be difficult.

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      Featured in 'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter (1996)

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    'Nothing wrong, darling. Things have never been right, I promise!'.
    The late, great Leonard Rossiter will always be remembered best in the classic sitcom, Rising Damp, but the BBC's The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin is also not to be missed.

    Reggie was quite different to the many other TV comedies of the seventies in the fact that the programme (adapted from the writer's novels) continued the story in a 'serial' fashion which was that of middle-aged, rebel, Reginald Perrin, who suffers a breakdown with hillarious results and resorts to faking his own death. This all happens in the first series but i'm sure that many laughs beyond Reggie's original six misadventures.
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    • Release date
      • September 8, 1976 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • Reggie Online
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Caída y auge de Reginald Perrin
    • Filming locations
      • 32-36 Telford Way, Acton, London, England, UK(Sunshine Desserts office - Series 1)
    • Production company
      • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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      30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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