The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

The Perrins communities are sold....
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The Perrins communities are sold. Everybody has a job to go to - except Reggie,who moves back to suburbia with Elizabeth. Then he gets an interview with Amalgamated Aerosols, a firm which makes air fresheners. It is run by F.J.,the identical twin brother of C.J. who even has two young yes men redolent of Tony and David. Reggie is now trapped in the same routine as when he was at Sunshine Desserts and,after suggesting Bolivian Unicyclist's Jockstrap as an exciting new fragrance,heads back to the beach.
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After Reggie is interviewed on...
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After Reggie is interviewed on television another twenty-two guests turn up,including Mr. Johnson, a dissatisfied black teacher who cannot get the sack for fears of racism, and Deborah Swaffham,a nymphomaniac, who tries it on with all the male staff in turn though, when they go to her room as invited, she is not there. 'Lofty' Anstruther,Jimmy's old business partner,who cheated him,also arrives,swearing he needs help with his redemption. Unfortunately money starts to go missing. Plainly it is down to 'Lofty' especially as he too disappears. After Reggie has fallen off a drainpipe whilst trying to escape Deborah's amorous clutches, Lofty returns. He has lost all the stolen money on the horses and now wants a genuine cure.
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The success of Perrins has mushroomed...
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The success of Perrins has mushroomed so that Reggie now has five houses in Oslo Avenue as therapy communes. They are taking in so many guests that staff have to double up in the bedrooms and living rooms become therapy classrooms. Mr. Dent,a council official,comes to look into these arrangements but Reggie is persuasive and gets him to take part in a therapeutic boxing match. Mr. Dent decides to stay - various council officials turn up to find out what is happening. They all decide to stay.
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Mr. Babbacombe leaves but a number of...
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Mr. Babbacombe leaves but a number of other guests arrive,including Reggie's old boss from the piggery,who has gone off meat,and wealthy tycoon Thruxton Appleby,who dislikes being disliked,as well as Bernard Trilling,the head of comedy at a television studio,who has lost his sense of humour. By a series of accidents and designs,Reggie and his staff help out their guests,in Thruxton's case by having him change places with arc welder Arthur Noblet,with whom he has a slanging match. Everybody is very grateful - and it shows in the cheques they give to Reggie.
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At Elizabeth's request Reggie employs...
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At Elizabeth's request Reggie employs Jimmy as Perrins' physical fitness instructor though his early morning bugle calls are not appreciated. He also takes on Kenny McBlane,a Scottish chef whom nobody can understand. When two of the neighbours complain about Perrins,Reggie gets C.J.,Tom and Tony to black up as different ethnic types proposing to buy the house and the complainants move out. The first and only guest arrives - nervous Mr. Babbacombe. The staff pretend to be guests to put him at ease and when he sees through the ploy Reggie passes it off as a group exercise.
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Desperate to kill off Grot Reggie...
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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 people are following suit in order to reinvent themselves.
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Scared by the fraudulent success of...
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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 through his ruse, a raise.
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Reggie is about to open his fiftieth...
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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.
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Reggie suspects Elizabeth of having...
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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 to a gullible public and will call it Grot.
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After a disastrous morning working...
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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 really works.
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Calling himself Martin Wellbourne ,an...
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Calling himself Martin Wellbourne ,an alleged friend of the deceased newly arrived from Brazil,and sporting a curly beard, Reggie gate-crashes his own memorial service where a vague vicar plugs Mark's new play and people seem to miss Reggie less than he had hoped. Elizabeth is engaged to Henry but recognizes Reggie immediately. She allows him to romance her and plays along with his deception,finally agreeing to marry him,as Martin. Linda has also seen through the disguise but Elizabeth tells her to say nothing as Reggie is clearly much happier in his new skin. He even gets his old job back as Martin.
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Reggie tries out various new...
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Reggie tries out various new identities,including Lord Amherst,which attracts the attention of the comely Jean,and Donald Potts,which attracts the less comely Miss Pershore. However he misses Elizabeth and is upset to find that,since she assumes that Reggie is dead,she is seeing an old flame,Henry. He even encounters them whilst pretending to be an Italian,though she fails to recognize him,as do his work colleagues when he sits near them in their local pub. Finally he gets a job in a sewage works.
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A nervous Reggie is to address the...
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A nervous Reggie is to address the British Fruit Association and mixes Dutch courage with sedative pills,with the result that the speech is a disaster and he has to be dragged off the stage. He is now at breaking point and tells C.J. that blood will flow. C.J. takes this literally when Reggie empties a lorry load of loganberry juice into the river where C.J. is fishing. Next Reggie leaves his clothes by the edge of the sea to fake his suicide and considers which false identity to assume.
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Still at her mother's house,Elizabeth...
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Still at her mother's house,Elizabeth rings Reggie to remind him that she had planned a dinner party but Reggie does not cancel it.Instead he asks C.J. and his wife,young colleague David,who toadies to C.J.,the well-endowed Davina from the custards department and his rude uncle Percy,who makes sexist comments about Davina. Then he tells them that there is no food as he has made a donation to Oxfam instead. Next morning he finds a hung over David has stayed the night and can remember nothing of the evening before,not even when his trousers fell down,exposing his Beethoven underpants.
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Elizabeth has gone to stay with her...
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Elizabeth has gone to stay with her sick mother so Reggie uses the opportunity for some afternoon delight with his glamorous secretary Joan, who proves herself to be up for it. Sadly,just as they are about to unleash their passions Reggie is visited,first by his layabout son,resting actor Mark,and then by Elizabeth's right wing,scrounging brother Jimmiy,wanting food. Eventually Joan,hiding from them in Reggie's bedroom, escapes down the drainpipe.
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Life is beginning to get on top of...
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Life is beginning to get on top of Reggie as he starts to dictate abusive letters. Perhaps he needs a nice peaceful holiday. Unfortunately his daughter Linda asks him to take her and her husband Tom and their children,Adam and Jocasta,to a safari park,as Tom has crashed their own car. Being cooped up in a hot car in a safari park is too much for Reggie who gets out of the car for a walk and has to be rescued from the lions.
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