The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin was a British sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter in the title role. The screenplay was adapted by David Nobbs from his own Reginald Perrin novels.The original three series, all of the same name, were broadcast between 1976 and 1979, and a fourth, The Legacy of Reginald Perrin, followed in 1996.
The basis of the plot is the mid-life crisis experienced by Perrin as he becomes desperate to escape his dreary life as a sales executive at Sunshine Desserts. At the end of the first series he fakes his own suicide by leaving his clothes on a beach in Dorset and running into the sea. In the second series he remarries his wife, they build a successful business ("Grot") but the two of them fall into the same boredom that Reggie suffered before, so at the end of the second series they fake a joint suicide. In the third series, Reggie and his wife open a therapy centre for bored middle-aged people. The fourth series shows the effect of Reggie's legacy, a fortune left to his friends and family but with strange conditions attached.
Cast
External Link
Reggie Perrin fan site
