What are the best episodes of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin?

The best rated episodes of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin are: Amalgamated Aerosols - S3E7 rated 8.3, The Four Untrustworthy Men - S2E6 rated 8.3, Timebomb - S3E5 rated 8.3, Elizabeth's New Admirer - S2E2 rated 8.3, The Unusual Shop - S2E4 rated 8.2, Jimmy's Offer - S2E3 rated 8.2

What are the worst episodes of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin?

The lowest rated episodes of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin are: Remarried and Back at Sunshine Desserts - S2E1 rated 7.3, Hippopotamus - S1E1 rated 7.5, Nightmare in the Park - S1E2 rated 7.5, The Bizarre Dinner Party - S1E4 rated 7.7, Jinx - S3E6 rated 7.7, The Sunday Extraordinary Business Meeting - S1E3 rated 7.7

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Episode Rating Graph

Sep 1976 - Nov 1996

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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Episode Rating Chart

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Best Episodes of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

Amalgamated Aerosols
S3 Ep7
8.3
24th Jan 1979
Perrin's closes and everyone says their goodbyes. Reggie gets a new job but finds himself again working for C.J. and his brother F.J. Is the coast calling again?
The Four Untrustworthy Men
S2 Ep6
8.3
26th Oct 1977
Reggie is bored with his success and plans to destroy Grot by hiring totally unsuitable personnel.
Timebomb
S3 Ep5
8.3
3rd Jan 1979
Money and jewelery begin to disappear at Perrin's and a female guest starts to be suggestible with the male staff.
Elizabeth's New Admirer
S2 Ep2
8.3
28th Sep 1977
Reggie 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.
The Unusual Shop
S2 Ep4
8.2
12th Oct 1977
Reggie asks CJ for a start-up loan to establish his shop Grot which becomes a huge success selling all sorts of useless products.
Jimmy's Offer
S2 Ep3
8.2
5th Oct 1977
Reggie confronts CJ and hatches a plan for a very unusual shop after talking to Jimmy.

Worst Episodes of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

Remarried and Back at Sunshine Desserts
S2 Ep1
7.3
21st Sep 1977
Maintaining his identity as Martin Wellbourne becomes more wearing for Reggie. Revealing his true identity to CJ does not go down well...
Hippopotamus
S1 Ep1
7.5
8th Sep 1976
46-year-old Sunshine Desserts sales executive Reginald Iolanthe Perrin is clearly suffering a midlife crisis. Though not unhappily married to Elizabeth, he calls her mother a hippopotamus and is finding no enthusiasm for marketing his boss C.J.'s latest line: exotic ices. He wants something better for his life, but is unsure what.
Nightmare in the Park
S1 Ep2
7.5
15th Sep 1976
Life is beginning to get on top of Reggie as he begins dictating abusive letters. Perhaps he needs a nice peaceful holiday. Unfortunately, his daughter Linda asks him to take her and her family to a safari park, as her husband Tom has crashed their car. Being cooped up in a hot car in a safari park is too much for Reggie, who gets out for a walk and has to be rescued from the lions.
The Bizarre Dinner Party
S1 Ep4
7.7
29th Sep 1976
Still at her mother's, Elizabeth rings Reggie to remind him that she planned a dinner party but Reggie doesn't cancel. Instead he asks C.J. and his wife, young colleague David who toadies to C.J., the well-endowed Davina from the custards department and his rude uncle Percy, who makes sexist comments about Davina.
Jinx
S3 Ep6
7.7
17th Jan 1979
Perrin's loses face in the community as McBlane attacks a Salvation Army woman and there is a backlash against his "Peacekeeping Force"
The Sunday Extraordinary Business Meeting
S1 Ep3
7.7
22nd Sep 1976
Elizabeth has gone to stay with her sick mother so Reggie seizes the opportunity for some afternoon delight with his glamourous secretary Joan, who proves to be up for it. Sadly, just as they're about to unleash their passions, Reggie is visited, first by his layabout son, resting actor Mark, and then by Elizabeth's right-wing, scrounging brother Jimmy, seeking food.

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Episode Guide

Hippopotamus
S1 Ep1
7.5
8th Sep 1976
46-year-old Sunshine Desserts sales executive Reginald Iolanthe Perrin is clearly suffering a midlife crisis. Though not unhappily married to Elizabeth, he calls her mother a hippopotamus and is finding no enthusiasm for marketing his boss C.J.'s latest line: exotic ices. He wants something better for his life, but is unsure what.
Nightmare in the Park
S1 Ep2
7.5
15th Sep 1976
Life is beginning to get on top of Reggie as he begins dictating abusive letters. Perhaps he needs a nice peaceful holiday. Unfortunately, his daughter Linda asks him to take her and her family to a safari park, as her husband Tom has crashed their car. Being cooped up in a hot car in a safari park is too much for Reggie, who gets out for a walk and has to be rescued from the lions.
The Sunday Extraordinary Business Meeting
S1 Ep3
7.7
22nd Sep 1976
Elizabeth has gone to stay with her sick mother so Reggie seizes the opportunity for some afternoon delight with his glamourous secretary Joan, who proves to be up for it. Sadly, just as they're about to unleash their passions, Reggie is visited, first by his layabout son, resting actor Mark, and then by Elizabeth's right-wing, scrounging brother Jimmy, seeking food.
The Bizarre Dinner Party
S1 Ep4
7.7
29th Sep 1976
Still at her mother's, Elizabeth rings Reggie to remind him that she planned a dinner party but Reggie doesn't cancel. Instead he asks C.J. and his wife, young colleague David who toadies to C.J., the well-endowed Davina from the custards department and his rude uncle Percy, who makes sexist comments about Davina.
The Speech to the British Fruit Association
S1 Ep5
7.8
6th Oct 1976
A nervous Reggie is to address the British Fruit Association and mixes Dutch courage with sedatives, resulting in a disaster and he has to be dragged off. Now at his breaking point, Reggie tells C.J. that blood will flow.
Trying a Frenchman, Welshman, Scotsman and an Italian
S1 Ep6
7.7
13th 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's seeing an old flame.
The Memorial Service
S1 Ep7
7.8
20th Oct 1976
Under the alias 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'd hoped.