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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Professor Wagstaff)
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Subject: greatest tv program ever??  (REGINALD PERRIN)
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Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 18:25:26 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 20 18:25:26 1985
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> Ok, here's one I never seen mentioned on the net, that I consider to be the
> finest show ever done. THE FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN. ... In a
> nutshell the show is about Reggie who is 40 yrs old, middle manageament and
> very bored with his life, finally one day he fakes a suicide wanders around
> trying to have fun, returns to his wife, gets a job with his old firm, gets
> found out, loses his job, cleans up afters pigs, opens GROT a store devoted
> to sell only junk and totaly useless items, gets bored with GROT and all
> the sucess, sells, and opens PERRINS, which offers the universal pancea for
> all the worlds ills, stay as long as you like and pay as much as you like, 
> when PERRINS crashes down, he ends up working for his first bosses brother
> and the circle of his life is complete. The shows take in about 7 years
> of reggies live in great detail.  [DENNIS WILMOT]

It's next to impossible to describe the intricacies of this show in a few
paragraphs, but I'd have to say, yes, this is one great series.  As far as
situation comedies (whatever *they* are!) go, The Fall and Rise of Reginald
Perrin is running neck-a-neck with Fawlty Towers as the best of them all.
(At least in my book.)

Which makes it all the more befuddling as to why American TV couldn't usurp
the idea to make a decent American TV series out of it.  Even Richard
Mulligan, who's quite an expressive comic actor, couldn't save the pilot.
(Actually it's not befuddling at all.  Americans want completely different
things from TV than the British do.  And, unfortunately, that's all too often
what we get...)
-- 
"Which three books would *you* have taken?"
				Rich Rosen	ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr