THE FALL AND RISE OF
REGINALD PERRIN

I didn't get where I am today without knowing there's no fun in getting where I am today!

Bored, middle-aged sales executive, under stress, sexually- frustrated, tired and weary
of the rat-race, Reginald Perrin was a hero for millions of similar-suffering people in the
late 1970s; people who, just like Reggie, lived in the commuter-belt suburbia around a
major town, who travelled on the same train every morning, sat opposite the same faces,
trudged down the same roads and around the same corners to their dreary office blocks
or factories.

Reggie lived in the town of Climthorpe, his employers were pudding and ice cream
manufacturers Sunshine Desserts, and his self-important and tyrannical boss had the
mysterious name of C.J. His colleagues and family almost matched Reggie for their
eccentricity, but the whole combined to make one of the most fondly-remembered
sitcoms of the 1970's.

EPISODE 2
Everyone thinks that Reggie needs a month's holiday. C.J. agrees -- and gives him the
afternoon off. The weekend is no better with a nightmarish family outing in a safari park. 

EPISODE 3
Elizabeth is away so Reggie decides to play and invites his secretary to join him. But fate
in the shape of the family stops him from translating fantasy into reality. 

EPISODE 4
Reggie, still without his wife, gives a dinner party with Mr. and Mrs. C.J. as the guests
of honour. There is no food. 
After a disastrous, drunken public speech, Reggie creates the world's first loganberry slick
- on C.J.'s trout stream and stages a suicide. 

EPISODE 5
Reggie tries and discards various identities, ending as Donald Potts, jobbing gardener,
ex-convict and ex-drunkard. He learns that Elizabeth is to marry again. 

EPISODE 6
As Martin Wellbourne, just  back from Brazil, Reggie woos and wins Elizabeth. C.J. makes
him director of the newly created Reginald Perrin Memorial Foundation. 

EPISODE 2
Reggie can't find another good job. Elizabeth is offered a job by C.J. but doesn't tell
Reggie where she is working. 

EPISODE 3
Life as the sole breadwinner causes problems for Elizabeth, who finally gets fired by
C.J. Meanwhile, Reggie's job search leads him to an idea that will change his life. 

EPISODE 4
Reggie opens Grot, which stocks things that are of no value whatsoever, and sells
them at high prices to people who will find them of no possible use. He makes a fortune. 

EPISODE 5
Perrin Enterprises goes from strength to strength. Reggie employs C.J. and all of his
old colleagues as Grot goes into Europe. 

EPISODE 6
Reggie, tiring of success, decides to destroy Grot and employs four men ideally suited
for the job. They make the company even more prosperous. 

EPISODE 7
Reggie can do nothing to shock people and destroy Grot, so an extreme solution his
welcome success is forced onto him -- the same action he took once before. 

EPISODE 2
The staff have been trained. The doors of Perrins are wide open. But where is the public? 

EPISODE 3
The slow trickle becomes a fast one. The treatment the clients receive is amazing
- and so are the results.

EPISODE 4
Perrins is in full swing and communal social evenings produce scenes never before witnessed
at 21, Oslo Avenue, Botchley. 

EPISODE 5
Reggie's venture has become an enormous success, but how long can it last? Already
there are ominous signs. 

EPISODE 6
The community is under attack from within and without - and  it seems that
nothing can stop the rot. 

EPISODE 7
Reggie is offered a job at Amalgamated Aerosols, but the sweet smell of success
still eludes him.