The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

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.

Cast

Leonard Rossiter

Pauline Yates

Elizabeth Perrin

John Barron

C.J.

Sue Nicholls

Geoffrey Palmer

Jimmy Anderson

Leslie Schofield

John Horsley

Tim Preece

Bruce Bould

David Harris-Jones

Trevor Adams

Tony Webster