"The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin" Reviews & Ratings - IMDb IMDb trailers and videos full cast and crew trivia official sites memorable quotes Overview 31 out of 32 people found the following review useful: Beyond TOWERS, funnier than PYTHON... unforgettable greatness 21 January 2002 I didn't get where I am today without knowing a good show when I see it! What average Joe suffering through the daily grind does not have a bit of Reggie Perrin hidden inside, boiling and bubbling just under the surface? Reginald Perrin is perhaps the most thoughtful character ever seen in a comedy series. He is a deep and complex man. Supporting characters each have an unforgettable "trademark" (for lack of a better term)... Sometimes direct, sometimes symbolic -- the creator of Reggie Perrin effortlessly distills the essence of real life oddities. Brilliant and funny. On the whole, this is the only British comedy I put ahead of MONTY PYTHON and FAWLTY TOWERS. Reginald Perrin is worthy of such a supreme compliment. A sitcom Masterpiece. All else is just Grot. Comedy-City, Arizona! Super! Great!

Was the above review useful to you? 19 out of 19 people found the following review useful: All great humor is grounded in pain from Austin, Texas 8 May 2000 David Nobbs' brilliant satire of modern life features the incomparable Leonard Rossiter as middle-aged, middle-class, middle-manager Reggie Perrin, who longs for a life that is just out of reach. Despite his best (and most bizarre) efforts to break free from the insipid conformity that he sees all around him, he never quite succeeds. Perrin is surrounded by one of the finest and funniest ensembles in the history of British comedy - you'll find most of your friends, family and enemies represented here. As Reggie's fatuous boss (a character that anticipated the Dilbert comic strip by about 20 years) would put it, "I didn't get where I am today without appreciating one of the finest British sitcoms ever." Outstanding writing and hilarious acting make this one of the greats. Was the above review useful to you? 18 out of 18 people found the following review useful: A happy memory I've been talking about for 21 years!

from Greater Milwaukee 5 October 2002 PBS aired the series in '79 and '81. I wandered into the first episode by accident and was immediately hooked. And since this was the age when VCRs still cost over a thousand bucks, I had no option but to try and memorize the series.... And then recite the lines to my friends who'd missed the two seasons that aired. PERRIN was possibly the first series to use seemingly unconnected visuals to illustrate a character's state of mind, a trick later used in series like DREAM ON and ALLIE McBEAL. I'm still struck by the role the surf plays in PERRIN as a place to dump old cares, worries, and lives in exchange for new lives. The final sequence of the second season has also stayed with me-- Reggie and his wife go to the beach to assume new lives, then discover an entire beach full of people doing the same thing. Reggie smiles and says "Look Elizabeth, it's catching." In the past 20 years, when things looked bleak, I'd think of finding my way to that beach.... That the series is finally on videotape is fantastic.

That there is a third season I never knew about is beyond words!!!! Was the above review useful to you? 15 out of 17 people found the following review useful: IMO One of the very best Comedy Series ever made 7 June 2006 First I must confess to a crush on Elizabeth (Pauline Yates). The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is one of those rare comedy series that I can watch over and over without tiring of it. Its easy to become attached to the characters as they are all lovable (even CJ). In fact I even missed the original actor who played Tom (Reggie's 'Straggely-mustached,Bearded-Prig' Son-in-Law) in the first two series when he was replaced by another actor in Series three. I felt this unfortunate because by that time the 'original' Tom had really got the part down to a tee.

I first saw this show as a young lad in England when it was originally released in the mid '70s so I'm probably a little biased - it certainly has much nostalgic value to me, but judging by the ratings the show has so far (9 out of 10 ), I think I'm right in my estimation of this as a 10. Also, I feel the late Leonard Rossiter gave a very great gift to many many people - he made Reggie on of the most enduring and well-loved characters in British comedy. He was the perfect Reggie Perrin. Was the above review useful to you? 12 out of 12 people found the following review useful: All you can say is "Wow!!!" from Canada 23 February 2009 There is no shortage of excellent sitcoms - the U.S. gave us Seinfeld, and Soap, the Brits Good Neighbors, Fawlty Towers and Butterflies. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, rises above even these, and is a true masterpiece of television. What makes The Fall and Rise so exceptional is its incredible depth. While other shows were content to earn certain points and then coast (e.g.

Seinfeld acts as a catalog of ridiculously mutated and twisted social convention, but rarely moves beyond it) The Rise and Fall never lets up on its observations, criticisms and offering of wild and crazy solutions, providing a hero who sees everything wrong with the world and is desperate and willing to change as much as possible. The absurdity of corporate culture, suburban monotony, flaky post-hippie child-rearing concepts, condescendingly manipulative advertising and marketing, sexism, racism, class conflict, are hung, drawn and quartered for laughs. And Leonard Rositter's posturing and snarking make it surreal. It is Voltaire, Brecht. Of course, the hero's plans rarely turn out as he expected, and Perrin is constantly thrown off course as each of his absurd plots is met by an even more absurd response from the world. Rositter's Perrin reacts with even more absurdity, all the while stammering and mugging to underline the fact that, well, that's life. The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin, is a must to television viewing as Mozart is to music, Citizen Kane to cinema, and Dickens to reading.

You will probably like it, but even if you don't, it will do you great good, and be the yardstick by which you judge all other related material. Was the above review useful to you? 12 out of 13 people found the following review useful: One of the All Time Classic Bricoms from The World Of Tomorrow 31 January 2005 There's nothing like Reginald Perrin. The only things that approach it are Ronnie Barker's stammering speeches in Open All Hours, or his cockney patter in Porridge, and John Cleese's tantrums in Fawlty Towers. Leonard Rossiter's gift for rattling off a screed like a machine gun is amazing. If Reg Parrin ever did walk into the sea he'd never drown because he never has to stop to take a breath! Every episode is remarkably simialar. Elizabeth sends him off to work, to which he is invariably late. He fantasizes about his secretary Joan until he's called on the carpet by his boss CJ, who didn't get where he is by . . etc . . . who gives Reg the completely mad assignment of the day.

And then he goes home for the day, where his dinner, which is invariably rizotto, is interrupted by his nutty military brother-in-law's cockup on the catering front, or his pipe smoking son-in-law's latest attempts at nettle wine. And then he thinks about his weekend visit to his mother-in-law whom he pictures as a hippo. I know! It sounds about as boring as anyone's routine. What isn't boring is watching him slowly go into meltdown, and start spouting off like a volcano erupting. It just get's better and better as Reggie's life gets worse and worse. Reg really does try to make his way through the day. But if you or I had days like his we'd probably turn our hand to eccentric occupations too. But hang on, because with every new twist in his otherwise monotonous road there will be another fall and rise in this roller-coaster ride of a comedy. Was the above review useful to you? 12 out of 14 people found the following review useful: Rule Brittania from Port Elizabeth, South Africa 3 March 2002 From what I gather this was a 1970's British television series.

What I saw was a 100 minute film, albeit with a laughtrack, so it may well have been a condensation of several programmes of the series. No matter. This was FUNNY. I don't mean quiet chortle funny; I mean laugh out loud, uncontrollable giggle, hearty guffaw funny. Leonard Rossiter of "Rising Damp" fame (a television series that I DID see) is Reginald Iolanthe Perrin, a middle aged marketing executive suffering a severe midlife crisis. He fantasises about having an affair with his secretary, torturing his overbearing boss (John Barron giving a marvellous performance) and escaping from the drudgery which is his life. After drinking too much wine before giving an embarrasing luncheon speech he effects his escape by faking his own death. Away from the constraints of work and family life he finds that his new found freedom is not all it's cracked up to be and he finds himself longing for his wife. Now he has to find a way to come back... The situations and dialogue are hilarious, while the performances of very British characters are uniformly excellent.

Even after repeated viewings the bittersweet ending still gives me goosepimples. Highly recommended. Author: labradors 19 July 2001 After years of trying to find this on VHS, I now find that it IS available. The problem is, now I have a DVD player, and would prefer to have this series on DVD. This was one of my favorite Britcoms, although I haven't seen it in quite a while. Having two great Britcom actors: Leonard Rossiter ("Rising Damp") and Geoffrey Palmer ("Butterflies"), this series was bound to be a winner. Rossiter, of course, as the title character, really is almost a one-man show with everyone else supporting him rather than having major roles. When Perrin, talking to himself after his failed (or, some would say, faked) suicide attempt, realizes he cannot go back home, and decides that he will use, as his new name, the first thing he sees as he looks over a fence, then realizes that "cow pat" would NOT be a good name, one knows that the series is just getting started, and will really take off from there. PLEASE make this available on DVD!

Was the above review useful to you? 8 out of 8 people found the following review useful: 'Nothing wrong, darling. Things have never been right, I promise!'. Author: lawrence-14 17 March 2000 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. Was the above review useful to you? 5 out of 5 people found the following review useful: Ask BBC America to release FRRP on DVD! from New York, NY 25 April 2007 Let's try to get the BBC to release Reggie on American format DVD!!

Apparently, BBC America is responsible for all commercial content in the States, and I was given the following information by BBC in the UK. Write or call: BBC Worldwide Americas 747 3rd Avenue 6th floor NY, NY 10017 USA Tel: 001 212 705 9300 Fax: 001 212 888 0576 It's available in the UK, I just think they don't realize what a fan base there is here in the US. I just re-read both "The Fall and Rise of" and "The Return of" for the hundredth time, but I'd give anything to own the series. Was the above review useful to you? Page 1 of 2: The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - Show News, Reviews, Recaps and Photos - TV.com The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Follow EDIT When Reginald Iolanthe Perrin set out for work on the Thursday morning, he had no intention of calling his mother in-law a hippopotamus.

Yet that's exactly what he did do - and when the book (which opened with that very line) was adapted for TV by the BBC in 1976, Reggie's visions of that waddling, mud-caked hippo created one of TV's funniest images. On that level alone, the show is great comic entertainment - but there's so much more to enjoy besides. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is a situation comedy with a difference. The situation is that of a tired, middle-aged executive who, feeling suffocated by his repetitive commuter lifestyle, decides he wants out; the comedy comes from his attempts to actually do so. But this isn't just a series of half-baked plots - it's a continuing serial which follows every trial and tribulation of our anti-hero as he slowly descends into madness, then makes the one bid for freedom which might just save his sanity. And it's this satirical element that elevates Perrin from mere half-hour laugh-fest to poignant comedy drama; just as Reggie tries to prove there is more to life, the programme proves there is more to comedy than an endless stream of gags.

We travel every step of the way with Reggie, feeling his frustration; celebrating when he breaks free; and empathising when he finally discovers that the grass isn't always greener on the other side. The late, great Leonard Rossiter stars as Reggie, a role a million miles away from his most famous character - Rising Damp's lecherous landlord Rigsby - but every bit as memorable. The rest of the characters are somewhat more caricatured, from domineering boss, sexy secretary and stammering, sycophantic colleague, through to understanding wife, hippie son-in-law and scrounging brother-in-law. Yet this is not a criticism - they're played as caricatures because that's precisely what they are, with their catchphrases and repetitive behaviour only serving to heighten Reggie's sense of suffocation. The show ran for three series, in which Reggie tried various ways of putting two fingers up to the world. There was also a spin-off, Fairly Secret Army, starring Geoffrey Palmer, and a dire American version with Soap star Richard Mulligan in the title role.

But perhaps most poignant was the fourth series, The Legacy of Reginald Perrin, which aired in Britain in 1996 and reunited all the original cast with one notable exception: Reggie himself. Sadly, Leonard Rossiter died in 1984, and another actor taking over the character was unthinkable, so here his family, friends and colleagues gathered to carry out the conditions of his last will and testament. The book was a joy as, despite Reggie's absence, his spirit lived on through the others; sadly in the TV adaptation, his absence was all-too apparent - without a fully formed central character, all the others were reduced to simple caricature. Nevertheless, The Fall and Rise ... stands proudly alongside other classic BBC comedies such as Fawlty Towers, Only Fools and Horses, Dad's Army and Steptoe and Son.

================================ CREW: Directed by Gareth Gwenlan John Howard Davies (pilot episode) Writing credits David Nobbs Original Music by Ronnie Hazlehurst Film Editing by Bill Harris Chris Lovett Dan Rae Graham Walker Production Design by Lesley Bremness Barbara Gosnold Graham Oakley Jon Pusey Costume Design by Christian Dyall June Hudson (pilot) Joyce Mortlock Janet Tharby Makeup Department Dawn Alcock .... makeup artist (series 1) Fran Needham .... makeup artist (series 3) Christine Whitney .... makeup artist (series 2) Sound Department Rodney Bond .... sound recordist (series 3) Jeff Booth .... studio sound Richard Chamberlain .... sound (pilot episode) Basil Harris .... sound recordist (series 1) Laurie Taylor .... studio sound Bill Wild .... sound recordist (series 2) Other crew Brian Clemett .... studio lighting John Dixon .... studio lighting John B. Hobbs .... production assistant Brian Jones .... production assistant Ron Koplick .... studio lighting Reg Pope .... camera operator James Purdie ....

lighting technician (pilot episode) (as Jimmy Purdie) =============================== Production Companies * British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) ============================= Awards for BAFTA Awards 1980 -- Nominated -- Best Situation Comedy -- Gareth Gwenlan 1979 -- Nominated -- Best Light Entertainment Performance -- Leonard Rossiter (Also for "The Losers" (1978) and "Rising Damp" (1974)) 1979 -- Nominated -- Best Situation Comedy -- Gareth Gwenlan 1978 -- Nominated -- Best Light Entertainment Performance -- Leonard Rossiter [Also for "Rising Damp" (1974)] 1978 -- Nominated -- Best Situation Comedy -- Gareth Gwenlan 1977 -- Nominated -- Best Light Entertainment Performance -- Leonard Rossiter 1977 -- Nominated -- Best Situation Comedy -- Gareth Gwenlan =========================== 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 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). * Creator David Nobbs originally wanted Ronnie Barker to play Reginald Perrin, having written a lot of material for "The Two Ronnies" (1971). =============================== Followed by "The Legacy of Reginald Perrin" (1996) Remade as "Reggie" (1983) =========================== Release dates UK -- 8 September 1976 ========================== Filming Locations 1. High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK 2. Sandalls Close, London, England, UK 3. West Bay, Dorset, England, UK 4. Witney, Oxfordshire, England, UK ============================= Based on the novels. Original Literary Source Nobbs, David. The Better World of Reginald Perrin.

Mandarin, December 1990, 0749304685 Nobbs, David. The Complete Reginald Perrin. Methuen, October 1990, 0413638804 Nobbs, David. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Mandarin, June 1990, 0749303794 Nobbs, David. The Return of Reginald Perrin. Mandarin, December 1990, 0749304693 =========================moreless Amazon.com: The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin: The Complete Series: Leonard Rossiter, Pauline Yates, John Barron, Sue Nicholls, John Horsley, Trevor Adams, Roland MacLeod, Bruce Bould, Jacki Piper, Terence Conoley, Norman Mitchell, Ray Marioni, Gareth Gwenlan, John Howard Davies: Movies & TV Next Special Offers and Product Promotions Get a $75.00 statement credit after first Amazon.com purchase made with new Discover itÂ® card within 3 months. Terms and conditions apply.

See offer for details. Apply now. Editorial Reviews Opening with a naked Reggie running into the sea, this groundbreaking BBC comedy series tells the story of a man desperate to escape his daily monotony. Adapted by David Nobbs from his darkly-comedic novel, and powered by the unique performance of Leonard Rossiter, this brilliant satire had the world “cracking up” over one man’s nervous breakdown. Reginald Perrin (Rossiter) has a respectable career at Sunshine Desserts, a happy marriage and two less than satisfactory children. But the pressures of the rat race are beginning to push Reggie over the edge. The mere mention of his mother-in-law conjures the image of a hippopotamus, the word ‘earwig’ keeps creeping into his conversations, and his thoughts are repeatedly interrupted by outrageous fantasies involving his secretary – what’s an overstressed food firm executive to do? INCLUDES ALL 3 SEASONS (21 EPISODES) PLUS: “The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter” – the ultimate film review of the acclaimed actor including unforgettable highlights, archival interviews with Rossiter and first-hand reflections from four of his Reginald Perrin co-stars.

“Reginald Perrin Christmas Special Sketch” – the long-lost sketch, which reunited the cast three years after the completion of the series; originally broadcast as part of BBC’s 1982 “The Funny Side of Christmas” special. Special Features David Nobbs's Reginald Perrin: 'a stealth drama riding on the wheels of a sitcom' | Television & radio | The Guardian TV and radio blog David Nobbs's Reginald Perrin: 'a stealth drama riding on the wheels of a sitcom' From mother-in-law gags to existential angst, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin by the late David Nobbs was brilliantly funny, emotional and absurd Leonard Rossiter as Reginald Perrin: ‘a perfect central performance’. Photograph: web David Quantick Monday 10 August 2015 10.11 EDT Last modified on Thursday 11 August 2016 06.15 EDT Share on Messenger Close David Nobbs’s Reginald Perrin , in these lazier times of clip shows and false memory, tends to be lumped in with Basil Fawlty and Victor Meldrew as a Great Sitcom Character.

Which, of course, he is. And Perrin is a classic sitcom: it has great catchphrases – “Great!”; “Super!”; “I didn’t get where I am today …”; “Morning Joan, 15 minutes late, escaped panther at Bridgend”; “Tricky chap, Johnny Foreigner”; “I’m not a people person,” and so brilliantly on – farcical situations and fantastic, unbeatable humour. But there was a lot more to it than that. David Nobbs, Reginald Perrin creator, dies at 80 Read more The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin was originally a novel called, significantly, The Death of Reginald Perrin. After being remodelled for television by Nobbs with Ronnie Barker in mind for the lead (Nobbs also being a writer for The Two Ronnies), it retained not only its humour but also, amazingly, its central melancholy. This was a show about a man who killed himself in the opening credits – or at least faked his own death in the manner of then postmaster general John Stonehouse .

And he did so not because of his wife or the funny neighbours, but because he was enduring an existential crisis – not a situation ever faced by Stan from On the Buses . Overwhelmed by the meaninglessness of his life, the corporate culture he was immersed in – “Here lies Reginald Iolanthe Perrin. He didn’t know the names of the trees and the flowers, but he knew the rhubarb crumble sales figures for Schleswig-Holstein”, read his gravestone – and his increasingly stale marriage, Reggie is coming apart at the seams. With a perfect central performance by Leonard Rossiter, a man who could make the concept of jittery look calm, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is, if you like, a stealth drama. It rides on the wheels of sitcom (it even had a brilliant mother-in-law gag), but it is a far deeper, darker vehicle. Pinterest Unlike almost any other show from its era, Perrin doesn’t particularly feel as though it is from the 1970s.

It is shot through with the imagery of its day – the awful suits, the terrible food and drink – but Nobbs wasn’t interested in writing a time capsule, such as Man About the House or even The Good Life. (This is perhaps why one of Nobbs’s biggest admirers, Jonathan Coe, sought him out to adapt What a Carve Up! for radio.) Instead, Nobbs took the already overfamiliar character of the Little Man – used by everyone from the Grossmiths to Charlie Chaplin – and did something different. Rather than making Reggie a hapless cog in a machine, he made him intelligent and aware of how ridiculous everything was. Self-aware characters rarely work in comedy, the humour generally coming from their own self-delusion. Reggie, though, was not only very conscious of being a rat in a maze – a rat who realised that the world is insane and the only way to beat them is to join them – but he was also hilarious about it.

Your next box set: The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Read more What Nobbs did in his work that no one could do better was to combine the human and emotional with the surreal and absurd (anyone who hasn’t read Nobbs’s epic, heart-twisting Henry Pratt novels should do at once). When I first met him a few years ago, it was to interview him about one of his heroes, the comic playwright NF Simpson, whose absurdist sensibilities informed Nobbs’s own. You can see Simpson’s beliefs reflected in the moment when Reggie finds even words themselves to be ridiculous: “‘Parsnip’. ‘Coffee’. What does it matter what we call things?” Add to this the fact that Reggie (and his wife Elizabeth, his secretary Joan, his brother-in-law Jimmy and even his oppressive boss CJ) is a human being, set adrift in the dark like the rest of us, and you have something new and unique. Now David Nobbs has gone and we won’t see his like again. Reggie Perrin, though, is still with us in a fantastic series of novels and television adaptations.

He was even resurrected in the 21st century with a new TV version written by Nobbs and Simon Nye. But, with all due respect, the Perrin I will remember is the tightly wound man making his way down Coleridge Close, past Tennyson Avenue and Wordsworth Drive into Station Road, with a rolled-up umbrella in one hand and, in the other, a briefcase bearing the initials RIP.

Comic writer best known for his Reginald Perrin novels, serialised for television starring Leonard Rossiter Published: 10 Aug 2015 In the late David Nobbs’s world, crosswords were hilariously preposterous Published: 10 Aug 2015 Stage and screen actor who played Reggie Perrin’s long-suffering wife in the television comedy Published: 26 Jan 2015 Author had written 20 novels, as well as material for comedians including Les Dawson, Ken Dodd, Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howerd and Dick Emery Published: 9 Aug 2015 The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (TV Series 1976–1979) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin 30min BBC Television comedy detailing the fortunes of Reginald Iolanthe Perrin.

Disillusioned after a long career at Sunshine Desserts, Perrin goes through a mid-life crisis and fakes his own ... See full summary » Stars: Reggie asks C.J. for a start-up loan to establish his shop Grot. C.J. thinks it's hush money to keep quiet about his hitting on Elizabeth and lends it to him. Grot sells highly unusual and often ... 9.1 Elizabeth has gone to stay with her sick mother so Reggie uses the opportunity for some afternoon delight with his glamorous secretary Joan, who proves herself to be up for it. Sadly,just as they are... 8.9 Reggie is about to open his fiftieth Grot shop whilst Sunshine Desserts has gone bust and is now a thing of the past. Generously Reggie decides to employ C.J. but makes him wait an extra week for his...

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See full summary » Stars: Wendy Craig, Geoffrey Palmer, Bruce Montague Edit Storyline BBC Television comedy detailing the fortunes of Reginald Iolanthe Perrin. 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. Written by D.Giddings <darren.giddings@newcastle.ac.uk> 8 September 1976 (UK) See more » Also Known As: Caída y auge de Reginald Perrin See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know?

Trivia The streets in Reggie Perrin's neighborhood, the signs for which he is regularly seen walking by to and from work ("Wordsworth Drive," "Tennyson Avenue" and "Coleridge Close") are named after the famous British 19th century poets, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In the last episode of the series, when Reginald Perrin has taken another executive job in a large corporation, like the one he had at the beginning of the series, the street signs when he walks to work now read Liebnitz Drive, Bertrand Russell Rise and Schopenhauer Grove. These streets are named after the philosophers Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Bertrand Arthur William Russell and Arthur Schopenhauer. See more » Quotes – See all my reviews I didn't get where I am today without knowing a good show when I see it! What average Joe suffering through the daily grind does not have a bit of Reggie Perrin hidden inside, boiling and bubbling just under the surface? Reginald Perrin is perhaps the most thoughtful character ever seen in a comedy series. He is a deep and complex man.

Supporting characters each have an unforgettable "trademark" (for lack of a better term)... Sometimes direct, sometimes symbolic -- the creator of Reggie Perrin effortlessly distills the essence of real life oddities. Brilliant and funny. On the whole, this is the only British comedy I put ahead of MONTY PYTHON and FAWLTY TOWERS. Reginald Perrin is worthy of such a supreme compliment. A sitcom Masterpiece. All else is just Grot. Comedy-City, Arizona! Super! Great! 31 of 32 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin: Complete Box Set DVD review | Den of Geek Search The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin: Complete Box Set DVD review It's not all great and not all super, but there's some genuinely classic British comedy in this new collection... j Though it's hard to quantify such things, social historians reckon 1976 to be the year that Britain was happiest.

Punk rock hadn't made enough progress to really dislodge the vicar's pipe, the winter of discontent was two years ahead, the swingeing electrical cuts and chronic strikes two years behind. The sun beat down in a Mediterranean-style heat wave that blew away Britain's grey skies, and to boot there was some pretty damned good comedy on TV, amongst which David Nobbs' The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin was not the least. Nobbs' source novel was a rather darker affair, telling the tale of a food products executive who has a truly apocalyptic mid-life crisis, leading to eccentric and eventually bizarre behaviour, and commitment to a mental hospital. Hardly the stuff of sit-com, but by the time The Death Of Reginald Perrin had been transformed into TV's The Fall And Rise of Reginald Perrin, middle-aged middle England had its own one-man punk movement in the form of Leonard Rossiter, already a deservedly huge comedy hit as tight-fisted landlord Rigsby in ITV's Rising Damp. 2 | Entertain now bring us a definitive 5-disc compendium of all things Perrin, perhaps prompted by news of the remake .

The four series and one Christmas special are too different to treat as a unit, so let's look at exactly what's in the package. Series 1 (1976) Reggie Perrin (Leonard Rossiter) is in the throes of mid-life crisis, deadened by his meaningless work at Sunshine Desserts and by the grey routine of his life. He loves his wife Elizabeth (Pauline Yates) but is becoming impotent and dreams of open-air trysts with his secretary Joan (Sue Nicholls). He beguiles life's duller moments with other increasingly bizarre flights of imagination: every time his wife mentions his mother-in-law, a huge hippopotamus trundles across his interior vision. Trapped in a dreadful safari trip with his family, he walks out amongst lions. Anything is preferable to the monotony and predictability of his existence; to being routinely summoned to the office of his pompous boss C.J.

(John Barron) and made to sit in 'farting chairs'; to listening to the chorus of 'Great!' and 'Super!' from C.J.'s yes-men (Trevor Adams and Bruce Bould); to suffering the endless solicitations for food from his no-hoper brother-in-law (Geoffrey Palmer) and the ghastly river of home-made wine from his son-in-law (Tim Preece). There's no help to be had from company quack Doc Morrissey (John Horsley), arguably the worst doctor in Britain, and - after failing to override his conscience and have an affair with his secretary - Perrin finally decides to end it all by walking into the sea. However, it's a bit chilly, so he quickly re-emerges, dons a disguise and ultimately returns to his old haunts to re-court his widow as the rather more interesting Martin Wellbourne... Series 1 of Perrin is a UK comedy gem, and surprisingly perennial: offices are still grey, trains are still unbearable, life is still awfully repetitive, bosses still insufferable and office-affairs still tempting.

It's a huge pleasure to watch the enormous comic talent that was Leonard Rossiter descending into his campaigns of subversion and anti-propaganda. With the ill though-out exception of Perrin's actor son (David Warwick, who is abandoned early in this series and never surfaces again in the Perrin saga), the surrounding cast provide a flawless foil for the long-suffering executive. There are too many to list here, and it's unfair to single anyone out, except to note that John Barron's C.J., with his relentless 'I didn't get where I am today without...' catch-phrase, is one of the most enduring love-t-hate characters from 1970s comedy. That said, Reginald Perrin's brand of catch-phrase comedy is uniquely excused from accusations that the technique is trite, since repetition and rote are the very enemies against which Perrin begins his Quixotic crusade. And even if you don't buy that, it's just as funny as hell. Series 2 (1977) Ironically it's repetition that quickly becomes the enemy of the saga itself when trying to extend the Perrin madness beyond the original run.

There's much to enjoy in series 2, but having so thoroughly exploded convention in the first series, there's little left to do but play around with the debris. What most viewers who have seen series 2 will remember is the delightful new Perrin industry 'Grot', wherein our hero opens a chain of shops avowedly selling overpriced items of absolutely no value at all. In this section of the story, the show truly meets up with the punk-rock attitude that was 'threatening' British society by now. However 'Grot' turns up pretty late in series 2, and Nobbs doesn't seem to know exactly where to go next with the story. That said, there are some sublime comic performances, including Rossiter's 'pig-farmer' character, which drives home the nature of Perrin as the 'prodigal son' who couldn't find the dream that lay beyond his dull executive life. The closing scene of series 2 is incredibly touching, and the obvious point at which to wave a fond farewell to our gallant crusader and his unbelievably patient wife.

Series 3 (1979) Reggie plunges the sales from Grot into a vaguely-conceived commune for the middle-classed and middle-aged, and improbably rehires everyone from Sunshine Desserts and Grot to staff it. With the exception of the first and last episode, this really does represent the nadir of the show, which descends into those typical racist and homophobic shenanigans that characterise 1970s British comedy, and which the previous two series had been well-written enough to eschew. This is a pretty ghastly combination of The Good Life and Robin's Nest, lacking the charm of either. Tim Preece is substituted by Leslie Schofield in the role of Tom, and did well to avoid this one. It's only the presence of Rossiter that raises series 3 above one star. Even the mighty C.J. is reduced to a half-crazed, nappy-changing lunatic here, and it has the air of a school play gone very wrong. It's also very dated compared to the previous two series.

The Legacy of Reginald Perrin (1996) In David Nobbs' mid-nineties codicil to the Perrin saga, all the usual suspects (with the exception of Trevor Adams' Tony 'Great!' Webster character) must prove to the late Reginald Perrin's lawyer that they have done something truly absurd; if they can, they get a million pounds each; if not, it all goes to the Battersea dogs home. The BBC had done well reviving Till Death Us Do Part with In Sickness And In Health in the 1980s, but as UK comedy revivals go Legacy is strictly in the Grace And Favour category. A Perrin series without Leonard Rossiter was a non-starter, though the central idea would have been an enjoyable tribute as a one-off TV special. Legacy is considerably enlivened by the delightful Patricia Hodge as the lawyer subjected to no less than three romantic crusades from the Perrin wrinklies, Geoffrey Palmer is as reliable as ever and there's a certain 'then and now' fascination regarding the various actors. But Elvis had truly left the building, and this is strictly a curiosity.

Extras The spartan fifth disc contains the Comedy Connections episode dealing with Reginald Perrin. Comedy Connections is a resource to which 2 | Entertain frequently turn when the budget is low on these special editions. Luckily, it's about as good as any independently-made doc could expect to be, if inevitably a little superficial. Most of the surviving actors appear, with the exception of Pauline Yates, and it's a worthy tribute to the series. The Funny Side Of Christmas is a 5-minute Perrin special from 1982, wherein our hero and his beloved wife are besieged by the usual gang of misfits, who eat them out of house and home on Christmas eve. It's a bit of fun, and a hell of a lot better than series 3. Sadly there are no commentaries or other extras in this set. The collection is currently priced at just under £18. Series 1 and 2 alone are worth that, but given the lack of dedicated extras, you might want to wait for the price to fall a tad.

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin: Complete Box Set is released on the 27th of April 5/5 The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin: Amazon.co.uk: David Nobbs: 9780749321680: Books The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Apple To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. or Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here , or download a FREE Kindle Reading App . Product details Publisher: Mandarin / Octopus (Nov.

1995) Language: English Product Dimensions: 1.9 x 10.8 x 17.1 cm Average Customer Review: Product Description About the Author David Nobbs was born in Kent. After university, he entered the army, then tried his hand at journalism and advertising before becoming a writer. A distinguished novelist and comedy writer, he lives near Harrogate with his wife Susan. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item? By lawrence@jbennie.freeserve.co.uk on 23 Sept. 2000 Format: Paperback Is that what Reggie Perrin's cliche-speaking boss CJ would have said? Well, proably something along those lines. Here it is. David Nobbs' original Perrin book in large print which probably makes it handy for several of Reggie's 'other identities'. But, also of course, its good for the rest of us who wish to experince the bigger, better world of Reginald Perrin. "When Reginald Iolathe Perrin set out for work, he had no intention of calling his mother-in-law a hippottamus". Well, he did a few days later.

He also haplessly tried to seduce his secertary, invited his co-workers and friends round for dinner but didn't cook them anything and drunk himself silly at an important speech. It's official, Sushine Dessert's senoir executive is having a one-of-a-kind nervous breakdown....one with spectacularly hillarious results. David Nobbs' brilliant book of course also wound up as the superb TV series of the same name, skifully adapted by the author himself. Both book and show, are two towering comedy classics. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - Wikiquote The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation , search The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is a novel and British sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter in the title role. Both the book and TV series were written by David Nobbs, and the screenplay for the first series was adapted by Nobbs from the novel. This article needs cleanup. Please review Wikiquote:Templates to determine how to edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article quality.

Contents Series 1[ edit ] "I didn't get where I am today without knowing a favourable report when I read one." "I didn't get where I am today without knowing a real winner when I see one." "I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone and West Germany." "I didn't get where I am today by waffling." "I didn't get where I am today without learning how to compromise." "I didn't get where I am today by biting people in the changing room." "I didn't get where I am today without knowing the Algarve when I see it." "I didn't get where I am today by wearing underpants decorated with Beethoven." "I didn't get where I am today by saying 'earwig' instead of 'thank you'." "I didn't get where I am today without having a little champagne, not too much, just enough.

"I didn't get where I am today by talking about Dutch parking meter disease!" "I didn't get where I am today by shaking hands with the person on my right!" "I didn't get where I am today without getting letters from cranks." "I didn't get where I am today without making enemies." "I didn't get where I am today wondering what life's all about." "I didn't get where I am today by thinking." "I didn't get where I am today by going on and on about gumboots." "I didn't get where I am today by knowing the difference between one country and another." "I didn't get where I am today without knowing there's no fun in getting where I am today." "I didn't get where I am today without naming it the 'Reginald Perrin Memorial Foundation'." Series 3[ edit ] "I didn't get where I am today by being nice." "I didn't get where I am today without recognising a rib-tickling play on words when I hear one." "I didn't get where I am today by having green frogs thrust down my crotch." "I didn't get where I am today by changing nappies." "I didn

't get where I am today without recognising a person who doesn't pull his weight." "I didn't get where I am today by telling undertakers from anyone else." "I didn't get where I am today listening to married couples squabble like children." "I didn't get where I am today learning about the 'them and us' situation which bedevils British industry so tragically." "I didn't get where I am today by sleeping with sweaty, Caledonian chefs." "I didn't get where I am today without recognising Success City, Arizona when I see it." "I didn't get where I am today by tearing money into small pieces!" "I didn't get where I am today by touching everybody!" "I didn't gergle where I am todergle without recognising a mergle that looks like rain when I see one." "I didn't get where I am today by playing 'mothers and fathers'." "I didn't get where I am today by looking a gift horse in the mouth.

Or by going down with a sinking ship." "I didn't get where I am today by drinking a liquid that's only been tested on pencils." "I didn't get where I am today by being disguised as half a compost heap!" "I didn't get where I am today by everything smelling of a Bolivian unicyclist's jockstrap!" The Legacy of Reginald Perrin (Series 4)[ edit ] "I didn't get where I am today without knowing God moves in mysterious ways." "I didn't get where I am today by looking a gift horse in the bush." "I didn't get where I am today without being pleased to come." "I didn't get where I am today by being absurd." "I didn't get where I am today by throwing money into the hands of overpaid lawyers." "I didn't get where I am today by sounding like a cheese." "I didn't get where I am today by pouring cold water over a wet blanket." "I didn't get where I am today without being able to see which way the wind is blowing." "I didn't get where I am today by comparing Jimmy to Sir Winston Churchill." "I didn't get where I am today without knowing a burglar

 type when I see one." "I didn't get where I am today by sweating my guts out over a bloodless revolution." "I didn't get where I am today without striking while the bird in the hand is hot." "I didn't get where I am today by apologising." "I didn't get where I am today by using and discarding people like old socks." "I didn't get where I am today by taking over the government." "I didn't get where I am today by caring about ginger-headed strangers." "I didn't get where I am today feeling like a fish out of water but you can't make him drink." "I didn't get where I am today without spending lolly to earn even more lolly." "I didn't get where I am today by being a good chap." "I didn't get where I am today by booking more coaches." "I didn't get where I am today without knowing a shrewd idea when I hear one." "I didn't get where I am today without knowing this is the age of the media." "I didn't get where I am today without the Lake District is full." "I didn't get where I am today without wondering who has betrayed us." "I

 didn't get where I am today by being upset by being 'sent to Birmingham'." Muddled proverbs etc.[ edit ] Series 3[ edit ] CJ: "Absence is better than a cure." Reggie: "Prevention makes the heart grow fonder." "After all, the proof of the pudding is caviar to the general" (spoken by Reggie, not CJ) "...a different kettle of fish out of water" "The only good ringer's a dead ringer" "...the pot calling the kettle a silver lining" "It's a long lane that gathers no moss" "Sacrifice never killed the cat" "Every silver lining has a cloud" "Out of the mouths of babes and little children" "Run it up the flagpole, see if the rats desert a sinking ship" "...spoil the ship for a ha'peth of spilt milk" "Trumpet call of duty" Series 1 (as Reginald Perrin, Sunshine Desserts)[ edit ] "Eleven minutes late, staff difficulties at Hampton Wick." "Eleven minutes late, signal failure at Vauxhall." "Eleven minutes late, staff shortages, Nine Elms." "Eleven minutes late, derailment of container

 truck, Raynes Park." "Eleven minutes late, seasonal manpower shortages, Clapham Junction." "Eleven minutes late, defective junction box, New Malden." "Eleven minutes late, overheated axle at Berrylands." "Eleven minutes late, defective axle at Wandsworth." "Eleven minutes late, somebody had stolen the lines at Surbiton." Series 2 (as Martin Wellbourne, Sunshine Desserts)[ edit ] "Seventeen minutes late, defective bogey at Earlsfield." "Seventeen minutes late, water seeping through the cables at Effingham Junction - there was a lot of Effingham and a good deal of Blindingham!" Series 2 (as Reginald Perrin, Grot)[ edit ] "Twenty-two minutes late, black ice at Norbiton." "Twenty-two minutes late, obstacles on the line at Berrylands." "Twenty-two minutes late, badger ate a junction box at New Malden." "Twenty-two minutes late, fed up by train delays, came by bike.

Slow puncture at Peckham." "Twenty-two minutes late, escaped puma, Chessington North." "Take a letter, Joan..."[ edit ] Series 1 (Sunshine Desserts)[ edit ] Geoff Maynard, Randall's Farm, Nether Somerby, Dear Sir, Thank you for your letter of the 7th inst. I am sorry that you are finding it inconvenient to change over to the Metzinger scale. Let me assure you that many of our suppliers are already finding the new scale is the most realistic method of grading plums and greengages. With the advent of metrication, [the phone starts to ring] I feel confident that [the phone is still ringing] the bloody phone will ring all day... L.D. Mayhew, Mile End Farm, Bumstead St. Peter, Dear Sir, Thank you for your letter of the 8th. I'm sorry but we won't be able to renew the contract for your rhubarb due to the new Common Market agreement we have undertaken to buy the new Euro-rhubarb from France,in exchange for Euro-plums which are re-exported to Italy in exchange for Dutch greengages from Austria. In the circumstances, I...

[he feels ill and leaves for a check-up with Doc Morrissey]. The Traffic Manager, British Rail (Southern Region), Dear Sir, Every morning my train is eleven minutes late. This is infuriating. This morning I took a later train. This also was eleven minutes late. This also was infuriating. Why don't you re-time all your trains to arrive eleven minutes late? - then they will all be on time. The Manager, Get-It-Quick Supermarket, Get-It-Quick House, 77 Car Park Rd., Birmingham, Dear Sir, Thank you for your comments of the 27th ult. Your complaints about late delay are not only completely unjustified, but also ungrammatical. The fault lies in your inability to fill in an order form correctly. You are, in effect, a pompous illiterate baboon. The Traffic Manager, British Rail (Southern Region), Dear Sir, Despite my letter of Friday last, I see you have still taken no action in the matter of the late-arrival of trains at Waterloo. This morning my train arrived, as always, eleven minutes late.

It is rapidly becoming apparent to me that you are not only not competent enough to hold your job, but you could not even run a game of strip-poker in a Turkish brothel. It should be obvious, even to a retarded Belgian hamster, that all of your trains should be re-timed to take eleven minutes longer. Yours Faithfully, Reginald I. Perrin PS: During the pollen season, Peter Cartwright's sneezing is rather offensive to those of us who, like myself, are allergic to sneezing. Today he blew his nose on the Greater Manchester Development Plan supplement, which is of sound enough environmental comment, but not a pretty sight. Why don't you divide your carriages into 'sneezers' and 'non-sneezers'? Series 2 (Grot)[ edit ] The Manager, Grot shop, Radford, Dear Sir, I am sorry to hear you have not yet received your supply of edible furniture. This can only be due to the non-arrival of supplies.

I am, however, deeply disturbed to hear that you have not yet received our new range of dentures for pets, which are proving so popular with bloody silly idiots who put little doggie dentures in glasses of water beside their kennels, and little budgie dentures in even smaller glasses of water beside their cages.... The Manager, Grot shop, Ebbw Vale (near Hamburg), Welsh Wales, Dear Sir, It has come to my notice that you have been serving Welsh people in your shop. I wouldn't have thought I'd have to tell you about this. I want no more Welsh people served from now on. Yours etc., yachy da. "Great!" (series 1&2) "Knockout!" (series 3) He found a new catchphrase for series 2 and 3, describing things as though the nouns were...

"Dramatic happenings in Jelly City" "Sensations in Triflesville" "I'm not a heat person" "I'm a fish person" "I'm not a cricket person" "I'm a coffee person" "I'm not a mystery person" "I'm not a cork person" "I'm not a basket person" "I'm not a thanks person" "I'm not a pig person" "I'm a cold and wet person" "I'm not really a campaign person" "I'm not really a slogan person" "I'm a publicity person" "I'm not a flower person" "I'm not a champagne person" "I'm a happiness person" Dialogues[ edit ] Reggie: So come on, Jimmy, who are you going to fight when this balloon of yours goes up? Jimmy: Forces of anarchy: 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, squatters, Clive Jenkins, Roy Jenkins, Up Jenkins, up everybody's, Chinese restaurants - why do you think Windsor Castle is ringed with Chinese restaurants? Reggie: 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: Do you really think so? I thought support might be difficult. Elizabeth: Have a nice day at the office! Reggie: I won't! Elizabeth: Did you have a good day at the office? Reggie: No ... what's for dinner? Doc Morrissey: Do you find you can't finish the crossword like you used to, nasty taste in the mouth in the mornings, can't stop thinking about sex, can't start doing anything about sex, wake up with a sweat in the mornings, keep falling asleep during "Play For Today"? Reggie: That's extraordinary, Doc! That's exactly how I've been feeling. Doc Morrissey: So have I. I wonder what it is? Take two aspirins. Reggie: Look, I came here for a balanced three-course meal - ravioli, ravioli and ravioli. I like ravioli. Reggie: Time and motion wait for no man.

Question: For which firm did 'Reggie Perrin' work in 'The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin'?
Answer: 'SUNSHINE DESSERTS'