4 Season
28 Episode
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Fantastically funny
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.
- Year: 1996
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Comedy
- Studio: BBC One
- Keyword: england, depression, midlife crisis, surreal, marriage, satire, dark comedy, sitcom, workplace comedy
- Director: David Nobbs
- Cast: Leonard Rossiter, Pauline Yates, John Barron, Sue Nicholls, Geoffrey Palmer, Leslie Schofield
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One of the very greatest from the era of great sitcoms. Throws into sharp relief what an abject embarrassment today's BBC has become.