EPISODE DESCRIPTIONS

SERIES 1 | 2 | 3

SERIES 1
* Number in parentheses at end of program description is BBCWA library tape number.

1. Reggie suffers through one dreary day after another and finally decides that he must break out of the confining box that has become his life. He starts the process with an unusual order: three courses of ravioli at his favorite Italian restaurant. (1)

2. After yet another unsuccessful attempt at making love, Elizabeth suggests that Reggie needs a long holiday. His boss, C.J., agrees and offers to give Reggie the afternoon off. (2)

3. While Elizabeth is away, Reggie summons his assistant Joan to his house on the pretext of needing her secretarial help. To his great surprise she is most eager indeed - to go to bed with him. (3)

4. Elizabeth is away again, and Reggie decides to continue with plans for an elaborate dinner party. When the hungry guests arrive Reggie has a surprise for them. Instead of plying them with delicacies he has sent a donation to Oxfam. (4)

5. Reggie’s speech to the British Fruit Association degenerates into a disastrous drunken tirade. On the way home Reggie leaves the car, dons a disguise and leaves a little pile of his clothes on the beach. He is gone. (5)

6. Having faked his disappearance the week before, Reggie is now traveling to assorted small towns in various new identities. He is alternately a bearded Welshman, an Italian tourist, an architect and a peer of the realm. (6)

7. Reggie is disguised as one Martin Wellbourne and is sitting in on the memorial service in honor of the late Reginald Iolanthe Perrin. As the Vicar says, "Reggie Perrin is here with us in this very time." (7)

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SERIES 2
1. Tired of carrying on his masquerades, Reggie tells Elizabeth who he really is. When C.J. gets wind of what has been going on, he gives Reggie the sack. (8)

2. Reggie can now only find work as a pig-man. Elizabeth is offered a job by C.J., but she does not tell Reggie she has gone to work for Sunshine Desserts. (9)

3. Reggie is made an offer he can all too easily refuse, and inadvertently is given the very idea that will transform his life forever. (10)

4. Reggie opens GROT (Gifts You Love to Give People You Hate). The idea is to stock things that are of no value whatsoever and sell them at high prices to people who will find them of no possible use. (11)

5. Perrin Enterprises is going from strength to strength. Reggie employs C.J. and all his old colleagues as GROT makes its move on Europe. (12)

6. Now that the enterprise he created to fail is such a wild success, Reggie decides to destroy GROT. He employs four men ideally suited to the task, but they only succeed in making the company more prosperous. (13)

7. Since he cannot undo GROT, Reggie decides that it is once again time for him to take his leave. This time he talks Elizabeth into coming with him and they fake a double suicide on a lonely sea shore and don new identities. (14)

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SERIES 3
1. Reggie is once again finding success in business turning sour. So he decides to form a commune in which there will be no competitive spirit whatsoever. (15)

2. The new staff have been trained. The doors of their community center are wide open. But where are the public? (16)

3. The slow trickle of people into the community center becomes a fast flow. The treatment the clients receive is truly amazing - and so are the results. (17)

4. PERRINS is in full swing, and communal social evenings produce scenes never before witnessed in the surroundings of Oslo Avenue, Botchley. (18)

5. Reggie’s latest venture has become yet another enormous success, but how long can it all last? Already there are ominous signs. (19)

6. The community is under attack from within and without. It seems that nothing will be able to stop the rot. (20).

7. Reggie is offered a position with Amalgamated Aerosols, but even here the sweet smell of success still eludes him. (21)