David Nobbs
Director
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976)
Specials
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.
Released Sept. 8, 1976
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Comedy
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Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S0E1 - The Very Best Of Leonard Rossiter
S0E2 - 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'.
Dec. 26, 1982, midnight
S0E3 - 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.
July 19, 2004, midnight
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 840 min.
Released: Sept. 8, 1976
Last Air Date: Nov. 3, 1996, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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