The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - s01e06 - A Frenchman, Welshman, Scotsman and an Italian
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- The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Season One Episode Six - 13 Oct 1976
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. - Zábava
Best comedy character acting (in a single tv episode) I have ever seen! Thank you for uploading this absolute diamond of comedic performance.
That job interview had me in tears. Great acting, even better script-writing. "Do you drink?" "Only to excess sir."
I've been using this quip for many years, only realising after watching this episode again after nearly half a century where it came from. Also "Tempus is fugiting away", coined by Jimmy in episode two. Unconscious plagiarism, which I'd imagine we are all guilty of.
It started me thinking, 'I didn't get where I am today by thinking'
The great thing about this is the line from 1980 " They can't afford to live hear". When on my apprentice salary a house was 3 times my annual. Now it would be 15-20 times apprentices annual. Times, have just exacerbated the difference.
Not times, but governments.
The job interview is an absolute classic.
Wasn't he incredible?! Legend! Tysm for this series! Cheers yall, fr Nashville 😍
The greatest thing in comedy ever grottish power my new energy company thank you divine
priceless series on our take of what is and whats bullocks and how we have to way it up.. timeless
“It’s Fate! No it’s not, it’s the midnight movie!” LoL
Superb clever comedy
He looks amazing in anything! Sounds great too! Gold absolute gold!! ✔💯👏👏👏👏
The actor who played Ms. Pershore, Charmian May, also played Mrs. Councillor Nugent in "Keeping Up Appearances."
All around Brilliance
Brilliant comedian
11:06
"Philosophy doesn't get the washing-up done."
lol
So much relevance today.
absolutely no relevance to today whatsoever but yeah
@@martinworld7214 -yeah but no but.... I don’t agree, the struggle of people caught in the daily grind of life and daydream about escape seems to be very much in todays climate
Lots of relevance to today because so many wish we could get of the treadmill and be free to travel and lead our life as we please. This is not really an option with cash being eroded in society and technology logging our every move, not to mention the plandemic.
@@martinworld7214Perhaps you might understand it if you grow up, get a job and a family (however unlikely we may hope that to be)
@@LeeGee i have encompassed all of those examples you provided . Also , I have had the very same job for 34 years and Reggies thoughts and desires have never remotely entered my mindset . Nice try though .
Great, Super.
In 1976 it was easy to leave your former life and move on. All you needed was cash. Today in 2018 it is very different. All the crap we have, iphones, wifi, credit cards, online services, so much harder.
just dump them. use a phone just for phone calls, and use cash only . escape the madness. Ps dont bother with TV licence thats the biggest waste of money
Sorry... read as former wife at first... “all you needed was cash” 🤨🤨
Re-read.... very true..
hardly what would happen if he wanted a job or the dole and had to produce his ni number not to mention his p port ane bank account
Dare I say brilliant?
his new disguise looks like Andy Sugden off Emmerdale
"a pigment of her imagination" 😂😂
All that's missing is Miss Jones!!
reminds me of Peter Sellers with his ability to become different people.
13:03 Wow. ❤
Bedsit has striking resemblence to Rising Damp series, I am not sure which came first.
This was 76 and rising damp was 74
Leonard 'Reginald Perrin' Rossiter reminds me of Graham 'The Galloping Gourmet' Kerr, in his looks, speech and mannerisms.
yes! fond childhood memories of that spastic epicurean lunatic!
Sad really , Reggie tried to be anonymous yet missed his wife.😰😆
Very rising damp...
The opening shots of this episode were taken in Frome Somerset during 1976 ..... note the river running down through Cheap Street
I was convinced that Jean Timpkins was played by Fiona Richmond
I didn't get where I am by thinking either...
Is that the cliff in series Broadchurch?
Yes,it’s West Bay in Dorset.
"nice little town, might live here" So where was that filmed?
The sea at the start of the credits is West Bay on the Dorset Coast. The pub scene 5 minutes in is also the Dorset Coast. The Dorset Coast is where you go to find yourself, as Reggie did in this.
The first town with the gutter down the middle of the street is Frome
Why the hell didn't the daughter just tell the mom? It doesn't make sense writing wise? What is the motivation? Nope. I just checked out believability wise.
Watch the next episode.
did people used to use cliched idioms 'like talking to a brick wall' 'its an ill wind,,,' etc all the time in their speech or is the writer being lazy or is it part of the comedy another caricature of mundane mindless routine?
They did use this speech back then, still do actually.
The last, I think.
Idioms are two a penny in most English people's conversation. Call me a stick in the mud but I think it's a breath of fresh air to hear people branching out into pastures new in their language.
@@tessaoshea5697 That comment had me in stitches to the point my head fell off and I split my sides!
@@tessaoshea5697not my cup of tea. 😜
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"