The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

Fantastically funny

Created by David Nobbs

On BBC One

A darkly comic satire of suburban malaise and existential despair dressed in the costume of a sitcom, where a man's rebellion against meaninglessness becomes its own absurd trap.

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.