71%User score 71 percent
My Family
2000 · Comedy
User Score
31 votes
Fantastically funny
Disillusioned after a long career at Sunshine Desserts, Reginald Iolanthe Perrin endures a midlife crisis and fakes his own death. Returning in disguise after various attempts at finding a 'new life', Perrin gets his old job back and finds nothing has changed. He is eventually found out, and later finds success with a chain of junk shops. However, it becomes so successful that he feels he has created a monster and decides to destroy it.
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Season list for The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Leonard Rossiter
Reginald 'Reggie' Iolanthe Perrin
John Barron
Charles Jefferson / 'C.J.'
Sue Nicholls
Joan Greengross
John Horsley
Doc Morrissey
Geoffrey Palmer
Jimmy Anderson
Leslie Schofield
Tom
Patricia Hodge
Geraldine Hackstraw
Tim Preece
Tom Patterson
Glynn Edwards
Mr Pelham
Michael Fenton Stevens
Hank Millbeck
David Ryall
Welton Ormsby
David Bark-Jones
Adam Patterson
Dave Chapman
Otis the Aadvark
Roland MacLeod
Morris Coates
Jacki Piper
Esther Pigeon
Norman Mitchell
Ron Napier
Pauline Yates
Elizabeth Perrin
Bruce Bould
David Harris-Jones
Trevor Adams
Tony Webster
Sally-Jane Spencer
Linda Perrin
elev8
July 15, 2023
One of the very greatest from the era of great sitcoms. Throws into sharp relief what an abject embarrassment today's BBC has become.
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