The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
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Année : 1976
Nombre de saisons : 4
Durée moyenne d'un épisode : 30 minutes
Genre(s) : Comédie
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.
Saisons
Saison 1
Saison 2
Saison 3
Saison 4
Épisodes
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Épisode 1 - Hippopotamus
8 septembre 1976
Reggie's life as a sales executive at Sunshine Desserts is getting too much for him and the strain is starting to show.
Épisode 2 - Nightmare in the Park
15 septembre 1976
Reggie's plans for a relaxing weekend are scuppered when the family decides to visit a safari park.
Épisode 3 - The Sunday Extraordinary Business Meeting
22 septembre 1976
Elizabeth is away, so Reggie decides to invite his secretary Joan over for a secret tryst... but constant visitors from family and friends prevent this.
Épisode 4 - The Bizarre Dinner Party
29 septembre 1976
With Elizabeth still away, Reggie hosts a dinner party (without any food) for his business associates.
Épisode 5 - The Speech to the British Fruit Association
6 octobre 1976 - 5/5
After a disastrous public speech to the Fruit Association at Bilberry Hall, Reggie decides to take drastic action...
Épisode 6 - Trying a Frenchman, Welshman, Scotsman and an Italian
13 octobre 1976
After his fake suicide, Reggie tries out a number of different new identities.
Épisode 7 - The Memorial Service
20 octobre 1976
Reggie returns as Martin Wellborn, attends his own memorial service, and wins back Elizabeth.
Épisode 1 - Remarried and Back at Sunshine Desserts
28 septembre 1977
Reggie has returned from his wanderings disguised as his old friend Martin Wellbourne. He has remarried Elizabeth and gone back to Sunshine Desserts. Clearly this situation cannot last for ever.
Épisode 2 - Elizabeth's New Admirer
21 septembre 1977
Reggie is reduced to working at Mr. Pelham's pig farm and Elizabeth decides to get a job. After a disastrous morning working for Tom's estate agents, Reggie returns to the piggery, as himself, but does his back in, so Elizabeth decides that she will become the bread-winner. She gets a job as secretary to C.J. at Sunshine Desserts but does not want Reggie to know, so she claims that her employers are the British Basket Company. Reggie is suspicious as his efforts to find the company come to nothing. C.J. tries it on with Elizabeth at home whilst his wife is away but stops himself in time. Then, on Monday morning Reggie follows his wife and discovers where she ...
Épisode 3 - Jimmy's Offer
5 octobre 1977
Reggie has an idea for making a fortune: a shop that sells total rubbish. It will be called "Grot." Reggie suspects Elizabeth of having an affair, leading to a punch-up in the firm's car park and a black eye. He returns to the piggery but gets the sack after his employer finds out who he really is. Elizabeth also gets the sack after altering some of C.J.'s letters. Reggie goes to visit Jimmy, who is hoarding guns under his bed. He tells an appalled Reggie of his plan to form a private right wing army to rid the country of all do-gooders and - as he sees it - scroungers. Having told Jimmy his plan is rubbish, Reggie forms his own idea. He will open a shop selling rubbish...
Épisode 4 - The Unusual Shop
12 octobre 1977
Grot is a huge success selling all sorts of useless products. 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 impractical things but people buy them, either because they are unique, such as square hula hoops, which in fact become a craze, or as presents for relatives they dislike, like Tom's turnip wine. Grot becomes a huge success and Reggie quickly has the wherewithal to repay the loan. However, when he returns to Sunshine Desserts to see his old boss he finds things have changed.
Épisode 5 - Re-Involvement
19 octobre 1977
Sunshine desserts goes bankrupt and Reggie hires his old coworkers and boss to Grot. 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 interview and enjoys having power over him. He asks Joan to be his secretary again but she and Tony are already having marital problems, which Reggie sorts out before employing them both. Elizabeth is annoyed that Reggie has yet to offer her a job with the shop, but eventually he does - even imagining her mother as a hippopotamus, just like old times.
Épisode 6 - The Four Untrustworthy Men
26 octobre 1977
Reggie is bored with his success and plans to destroy Grot by hiring totally unsuitable people Scared by the fraudulent success of Grot, Reggie decides to kill off the monster he has created by giving executive posts to men he sees as incompetents - Doc Morrissey, Jimmy, Tom and an Irishman called Seamus in the hopes that they will destroy the shop chain. However the business goes on to even greater heights as a result, thanks to Tom's advertising slogans, leading to a television advert, and a useless machine made by Jimmy, which becomes the latest must-have item. He is mindful to sack them but feels he cannot fire in-laws and ends up by giving Seamus, who has seen ...
Épisode 7 - Extreme Solution
2 novembre 1977
Reggie's plan fails. He tries more extreme tactics which also fail. Only one more thing left to do... Desperate to kill off Grot Reggie goes to extreme lengths,such as insulting chat show hosts on whose television shows he appears. He also insults a job applicant who mistakenly believes he is making a pass at him so he pretends to be gay when visiting the branch manager, only to find that he is gay and is attracted to Reggie. He dresses in drag in public but by now everybody is used to Reggie's eccentric behaviour and see it as the norm. Finally he and Elizabeth go back to the beach and fake a double suicide, only to discover that they have set a trend and scores of ...
Épisode 1 - The Great Project
29 novembre 1978
Reggie decides to open a commune helping people to live in peace and harmony. But first he needs staff...
Épisode 2 - Staff Training
6 décembre 1978
Having recruited all the old faces, Reggie welcomes his one and only guest to "Perrin's"
Épisode 3 - The Trickle of Visitors
20 décembre 1978
After an unique advertising campaign, "Perrin's" gains another guest.
Épisode 4 - Communal Social Evenings
27 décembre 1978
Business is booming and Reggie is content... but for how long?
Épisode 5 - Timebomb
3 janvier 1979
Money and jewelery begin to disappear at Perrin's and a female guest starts to be suggestible with the male staff.
Épisode 6 - Jinx
17 janvier 1979
Perrin's loses face in the community as McBlane attacks a Salvation Army woman and there is a backlash against his "Peacekeeping Force"
Épisode 7 - Amalgamated Aerosols
24 janvier 1979
Perrin'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?
Épisode 8 - The Funny Side of Christmas - Christmas Sketch
26 décembre 1982
Reggie 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'.
Épisode 1 - Reggie's Will
22 septembre 1996
Following Reggie's death, his family and friends gather together at his funeral and then at the reading of his will. They are then informed by his solicitor that all of Reggie's money is to be divided equally among them. Each of them will inherit one million pounds but there is one condition, they must do something truly absurd in order to earn the money.
Épisode 2 - The Unlikely Leader
29 septembre 1996
Each individual begins their attempt to earn the money. Their efforts at ridiculous behaviour include cross dressing, fancy dress and making marriage proposals to virtual strangers. Realising that these schemes will not suffice, they decide to pool their resources and to work together. They concoct a plan to march on Whitehall on behalf of the elderly and the redundant. Jimmy is elected as the group's leader.
Épisode 3 - BROSCOR
6 octobre 1996
The group starts to seek support for their venture and visit impotency clinics, gentlemen's clubs and sheltered accommodation to recruit followers. Unfortunately they return largely unsuccessful. Their numbers however are swelled by Joan's boyfriend Hank who has been made redundant. The group decide to plan their tactics before they attempt to garner support again. Meanwhile both C.J. and Doc Morrissey attempt to romance Miss Hackstraw.
Épisode 4 - The Split
13 octobre 1996
Elizabeth decides that they ought to set up a think tank and a policy research unit. Together they come up with several ideas to combat ageism including young-age pensions, face drops and fashion shows for older people. The group spirit is further reinforced by Tom and Linda's reconciliation and their decision to re-marry.
Épisode 5 - Suspicions
20 octobre 1996
Suspicious of C.J.'s recent nice behaviour, Jimmy orders that he should be followed. It transpires that C.J. has told the story of the group's exploits to a journalist, Morton Radstock who is subsequently injured in a car accident. C.J. then repeats the story to another journalist, Welton Ormsby. Ormsby decides to join the group however due to his recent sacking. The episode concludes with Tom and Linda's wedding and Jimmy and Miss Hackstraw becoming romantically involved.
Épisode 6 - Jimmy's Inspiration
27 octobre 1996
The quest continues apace with Jimmy instructing that every coach in the U.K. should be booked to take supporters down to Whitehall. The number of recruits continues to multiply and even C.J. is now behind the cause and agrees to make a donation in order to ensure its success.
Épisode 7 - The Day of Revolution
3 novembre 1996
The big day arrives and the group, with many thousands of supporters, arrive in London as planned. While many march on Whitehall, Jimmy takes over the BBC News studio to further inform people about the demonstrations taking place throughout London. The scheme fails however as journalist Morton Radstock has given the police full details of what was to take place. The group must therefore return to Miss Hackstraw to see whether they have done enough to claim their money.
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