The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

Season 2

This story concerns a middle-aged middle manager, Reginald "Reggie" Perrin, who is driven to bizarre behaviour by the pointlessness of his job at Sunshine Desserts.

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7 Episodes

Remarried and Back at Sunshine Desserts
E1
Remarried and Back at Sunshine DessertsReggie has returned from his wanderings disguised as his old friend Martin Wellbourne. He has remarried Elizabeth and gone back to Sunshine Desserts. Clearly this situation cannot last for ever.
Elizabeth's New Admirer
E2
Elizabeth's New AdmirerReggie is reduced to working at a pig farm. Elizabeth decides to get a job, gaining a new admirer and becoming the bread winner but isn't keen to let Reggie know where, leading him to suspect she is having an affair.
Jimmy's Offer
E3
Jimmy's OfferReggie confronts CJ and hatches a plan for a very unusual shop after talking to Jimmy.
The Unusual Shop
E4
The Unusual ShopReggie asks CJ for a start-up loan to establish his shop Grot which becomes a huge success selling all sorts of useless products.
Re-Involvement
E5
Re-InvolvementSunshine desserts goes bankrupt and Reggie hires his old coworkers and boss to Grot.
The Four Untrustworthy Men
E6
The Four Untrustworthy MenReggie is bored with his success and plans to destroy Grot by hiring totally unsuitable personnel.
Extreme Solution
E7
Extreme SolutionDesperate to kill off Grot, Reggie goes to extreme lengths, such as insulting chat show hosts on whose television shows he appears. He also insults a job applicant who mistakenly believes he is making a pass at him so he pretends to be gay when visiting the branch manager, only to find that he is gay and is attracted to Reggie. He dresses in drag in public but by now everybody is used to Reggie's eccentric behaviour and sees it as the norm. Finally he and Elizabeth go back to the beach and fake a double suicide, only to discover that they have set a trend and scores of people are following suit in order to reinvent themselves.