The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - s01e07 - The Memorial Service
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- The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Season One Episode Seven - 20 Oct 1976
Calling himself Martin Wellbourne, an alleged friend of the deceased newly arrived from Brazil, and sporting a curly beard, Reggie gate-crashes his own memorial service where a vague vicar plugs Mark's new play and people seem to miss Reggie less than he had hoped. Elizabeth is engaged to Henry but recognizes Reggie immediately. She allows him to romance her and plays along with his deception, finally agreeing to marry him, as Martin. Linda has also seen through the disguise but Elizabeth tells her to say nothing as Reggie is clearly much happier in his new skin. He even... - Zábava
This is about as good as British comedy gets. It's so good it's delicious and no surprise that it was compulsive viewing for this 13yr old during in that dusty, scorched summer of 1976. I think I had something of a 'schoolboy' crush on Mrs. Perrin! Such a treat to see that I'm on only video no. 8 of 56 in this playlist. Loads more great episodes yet to re-watch!
I would have been about 10 or 11 and it aired in NZ - late for me - after 9pm but I wouldn't have missed it for the world. So funny.
76-77 was my first year at Uni and a couple of us shared your crush and I can still see why.
Pauline Yates is such a beautiful woman. I love both her looks and her very lovely voice.
Yes, why did Reggie fancy Joan?
This is quite an underrated comedy show….maybe due to a certain surrealism about it.
"I sequested myself in Brazil following an amorous disappointment in Sutton Coldfield". I love that line. :D
Deeply moving torment and angst, biting hilarity, the faces of the comic.
There are some surrealistic elements such as nobody recognising Reggie when it's very obvious who he is. But it's a harmless conceit. The show is better now than it was then, and compared to the shallowness of most modern comedy, it's courageous and full of truth.
Ross that is the problem with today's so called comedy, that's just it, it isn't comedy in any way shape or form.
True
Wonderful series and the picture quality is as good as the day it first aired!
"I didn't get where I am today, without knowing it's no fun to get where I am today". Wow
Probably have to be middle aged then, and now, to appreciate this fully. Much funnier now I find than it was when I used to watch it when new.
This is one of the funniest shows that I've seen, and this episode is 100% genius.
another brilliant programe showing how crap telly is today
Pauline Yates shines in this episode. It's as though the character of Elizabeth was made for her.
Good thing im wearing my glasses my eyesight is rather blury now i couldnt read these messages without my reading glasses.As far as BBC comedies go this one hits the mark preaty well.Classic comedy from the bbc. The classic Art of Comedy.I can't get enough of these great comedys that are so well made by the bbc. Yes and i do like Pauline Yates very nice attractive lady. RIp Reggie happy to have found you again in this comedy .These are special happy days are here again.
This is far and away the best comedy series ever made, in my opinion.
And Ricky Gervais says
Brilliant writing. Much darker than I remember when I saw it broadcast originally.
Have you read the book? It paints a very dark picture of Reggie's mental state up to this point. I'm not much older than Reggie is here and I have to say, some of it feels a bit too real for comfort. Oh, the joys of the midlife crisis. Does anyone know when the next train to Dorset is?
@@leopold7562 "I didn't get where I am today by knowing when the next train to Dorset is."
@@BarryAllenMagic Super!
@@leopold7562 I've checked your Dorset train. It's going to be 11 Minutes late.....seasonal staff shortages at Nine Elms.
@@BarryAllenMagic Well, at least it's not as bad as the last train I got. 17 minutes late. Fallen swan at Sevenoaks.
Gerald Sim played a clergyman perfectly.
This and the last two episodes BRILLIANT (or triple ACE!!!!) as we used to say .
With the beard n disguise, Rossiter resembles Sir Nigel Hawthorne
I will have to check out the second series too. Gosh Pauline Yates was pretty by the way.
She was indeed!
Pauline yates also makes for a wife, a man or rather even a woman, would die for !
Indeed Rafia.
MsDjessa yes. There were several very good looking actresses then. Kendall, Hampshire. Etc
Rafia Khan just a man
My favourite lines from the whole series is in this episode culminating with:
What's it like in Brazil in the winter?
- Chile!
😂 mine too
Thanks so much for the upload
David Nobbs genius
Great episode
Great series!
Reggie's wife was adorable! He must have been crazy to leave her. Such a beautiful feminine personality is so conspicuous by its absence in todays society!
Thanks
The gumboots you ordered madam!😂
Peter MacKriel as the Waiter had his scenes end up on the cutting room floor. However, Peter still remains credited in the end-credits despite not appearing in the programme.
The mixing up of South American countries was a very funny bit that I never got all those years ago.
Extremly funny still. And the messsges? Totally relevant today? WTF is the point of materialism but kindness and people matter. I got this back in 75 and have never been remotely materialistic. Maybe that why at 14 I loved this show. Its surprising there are not more Reggie's. Aaaaaarrg.
Well said, sir! This comedy will never go out of date.
I'm afraid I find the disguise conceit not remotely convincing, even with a willing suspension of disbelief; but I suppose it's Odyssean.
Funny how his wife knows and is just toying with him
Any chance of “The Goodies” ??
Reggie’s problems are alive and well.
Does Gerald Sim play a Vicar in everything he appeared in?
But isn’t he the best vicar 😂?
18:28 So but for his daughter, despite her hippie family, having a ridiculous middle-class Tory sense of "pride", Reggie never needed to go back to CJ. Did not need the money !
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 ?"