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Summary
Reginald Iolanthe Perrin (Leonard Rossiter) is a bored, middle-aged executive working for Sunshine Desserts.
One day, while talking to his wife Elizabeth (Pauline Yates), he suddenly has a vision of his mother-in-law as a hippopotamus. That's the beginning of a rapid decline towards a breakdown, marked by increasingly odd behaviour at home and at work.
Eventually, Reggie fakes his own suicide and sets off to start a new life. He returns, disguised as his non-existent best friend Martin Wellbourne, just in time to attend his own memorial service.
He subsequently begins a relationship with his own wife and returns to work at Sunshine Desserts, before eventually being 'unmasked'.
In the second series, Reggie decides to set up in business. He opens a shop called 'Grot' which specialises in selling absolutely useless goods. He ends up as a successful millionaire businessman with a chain of 'Grot' shops.
In the third series, Reggie sets up a 'community' for disenchanted middle class people. In the end, however, he finds that his life comes full circle and he's left pretty much in the position he started from.
Cast List
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Leonard Rossiter
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Reginald Perrin
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Pauline Yates
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Elizabeth Perrin
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John Barron
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C.J.
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Sue Nicholls
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Joan Greengross
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Geoffrey Palmer
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Jimmy
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Sally-Jane Spencer
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Linda
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Tim Preece
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Tom (Series 1-2)
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Leslie Schofield
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Tom (Series 3)
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Trevor Adams
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Tony Webster
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Bruce Bould
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David Harris-Jones
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John Horsley
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Doc Morrissey
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Theresa Watson
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Prue Harris-Jones
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Joseph McBrady
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McBlane
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Production Details
Written by:
David Nobbs
Directed by:
Gareth Gwenlan
Produced by:
Gareth Gwenlan
3 series, 21 episodes
Transmitted: 1976-79
TV Channel: BBC1
BBC Television
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