The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976)

09/08/1976 (GB) • 30m

Comedy

Fantastically funny

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

Leonard Rossiter

28 Episodes

Pauline Yates

Elizabeth Perrin

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John Barron

C.J.

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Sue Nicholls

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Geoffrey Palmer

Jimmy Anderson

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Leslie Schofield

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John Horsley

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Tim Preece

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Bruce Bould

David Harris-Jones

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Last Season

Season 4 of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin premiered on September 22, 1996.

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Status

Ended

Network

network

Type

Scripted

Original Language

English

Keywords

england

depression

midlife crisis

surreal

marriage

satire

dark comedy

sitcom

workplace comedy

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