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Reggie Online: The Official Reginald Perrin web site
Related Productions: Reggie - Fairly Secret Army
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Reggie (US: ABC; UK: Channel 4)
The American adaptation of "The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin", cancelled (some would say mercifully), after the first series of six episodes were broadcast in 1983. Richard Mulligan, known more to British viewers for his role as Burt Campbell in 'Soap', played Reggie Potter, an employee of the Funtime Ice Cream Company, continually frustrated by his boss C.J. (a younger man than Reggie, and a whizzkid). When at home, he lusts after his son Mark's girlfriend, and fantasises about her, and also his secretary Joan.
Created by: David
Nobbs
Produced by: Fox-Unicorn/Can't
Sing Can't Dance Productions
Released through:
Columbia Pictures.
Broadcast on: ABC
Networks (Channel 4 in the UK)
Written by: Sylvia
Alan, Loren H. Dreyfuss, Ken Hecht, Dinah Kirgo/Julie Kirgo,
Bernie Kukoff, David Landsberg,
Stephen Nathan, Paul B. Price
Executive Producers:
Barbara Corday, Bernie Kukoff
Producers: Dinah
Kirgo, Julie Kirgo
CAST:
Richard Mulligan.........Reggie
Potter
Barbara Barrie............Elizabeth
Potter
Chip Zien....................C
J Wilcox
Jean Smart.................Joan
Reynolds
Dianne Kay.................Linda
Potter-Lockett
Timothy Stack............Tom
Lockett
Tim Busfield...............Mark
Potter
EPISODE GUIDE:
U.S. BROADCAST DATE U.K. BROADCAST DATE
1. Mark's Girlfriend
Tues.2-Aug-83
Fri. 14-Sept-84 10pm
2. The Seduction of Reggie
Thurs.4-Aug-83
Fri. 21-Sept-84 10pm
3. That's Life
Thurs.11-Aug-83
Fri. 28-Sepy-84 10pm
4. Reggie's Warning
Thurs.18-Aug-83
Fri. 5-Oct-84 10pm
5. It's My Party And I'll
Die If I Want To Thurs.25-Aug-83
Fri. 12-Oct-84 10pm
6. Once A Father...
Thurs.1-Sept-84
Fri. 19-Oct-84 10pm
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and misadventures of Jimmy, Reggie Perrin's unlucky brother-in-law, gave
David Nobbs the idea for a sitcom of his own, or at least a character similar
to Jimmy.
Geoffrey Palmer, who played hapless Jimmy in 'The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin' again took the role of the forcibly-retired Major, this time Harry Kitchener Wellington Truscott. Truscott, a former Major in the Queen's Own West Mercian Lowlanders, refuses to put his army days behind him when given the heave-ho, and decides to form a group to fight 'the forces of anarchy when the balloon goes up'. Two series were made, in
1984 and 1986, and broadcast on Channel 4.
Written by: David
Nobbs:
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CAST:
Geoffrey Palmer.......Harry
Truscott
Jeremy Child............Beamish
Diane Fletcher..........Nancy
Liz Fraser.................Doris
Entwhistle
Michael Robbins.......Sgt.
Major Throttle
Paul Chapman..........Peg-Leg
Pogson
Richard Ridings........Ron
Boat
Jeremy Sinden..........2nd
Leut. Bagnall
James Cosmo..........Crazy
Colin Carstairs (ser.1)
Ray Winstone...........Stubby
Collins (ser.1)
Diana Weston...........Jill
(ser.2)
Carl Chase................Lennie
(ser.2)
Gary Cady.................Paul
(ser.2)
John Nettleton...........Smith
(ser.2)
Michael J. Jackson....The
Cobra (ser.2)
EPISODE GUIDE:
Series One:
1. A Chap Worth Following
Mon. 22-Oct-84 8.30pm
2. Operation Charm
Mon. 29-Oct-84 8.30pm
3. Romance - Plughole
Mon. 5-Nov-84 8.30pm
4. The Pulses Quicken
Mon. 12-Nov-84 8.30pm
5. Eight Bods, Need More
Mon. 19-Nov-84 8.30pm
6. When The Talking Had
To Stop
Mon. 26-Nov-84 8.30pm
Series Two:
1. I've Got A Job For You
Mon 1-Sept-86 8.30pm
2. Odd Chaps, Women
Mon 8-Sept-86 8.30pm
3. This Could Be Extremely
Dangerous, Sir Mon 15-Sept-86 8.30pm
4. One Mistake, Whole Caboosh
- Plughole Mon 22-Sept-86 8.30pm
5. Ever Tried Making Love
To A Marxist? Mon 29-Sept-86
8.30pm
6. You're Going To Be A
Hero, Harry
Mon 6-Oct-86 8.30pm
7. Treacherous Chaps, Causes
Mon 13-Oct-86 8.30pm
Off-site Links: http://www.phill.co.uk/comedy/fsarmy/index.html
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