The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976)
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.
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Episode 1 - The Great Project
Release Date: 1978-11-29Reggie decides to open a commune helping people to live in peace and harmony. But first he needs staff...
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Episode 2 - Staff Training
Release Date: 1978-12-06Having recruited all the old faces, Reggie welcomes his one and only guest to "Perrin's"
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Episode 3 - The Trickle of Visitors
Release Date: 1978-12-20After an unique advertising campaign, "Perrin's" gains another guest.
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Episode 4 - Communal Social Evenings
Release Date: 1978-12-27Business is booming and Reggie is content... but for how long?
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Episode 5 - Timebomb
Release Date: 1979-01-03Money and jewelery begin to disappear at Perrin's and a female guest starts to be suggestible with the male staff.
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Episode 6 - Episode Six
Release Date: 1979-01-17Perrin's loses face in the community as McBlane attacks a Salvation Army woman and there is a backlash against his "Peacekeeping Force"
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Episode 7 - Episode Seven
Release Date: 1979-01-24Perrin's closes and everyone says their goodbyes. Reggie gets a new job but finds himself again working for C.J. and his brother F.J. Is the coast calling again?
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Episode 8 - Christmas Special
Release Date: 1982-12-26Reggie 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'.