Product Details

• Actors: Leonard Rossiter, Pauline Yates, John Barron, Sue Nicholls, Trevor Adams
• Directors: John Howard Davies
• Producers: John Howard Davies
• Format: Box set, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 3
• Studio: Bfs Entertainment
• VHS Release Date: November 11, 1998
• Run Time: 210 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0773399372
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #275,625 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ever been unsatisfied with life? You need to watch this., December 30, 1998

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[e-mail] (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin (Collection Set 1) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Anyone in their forties of fifties who has ever been laid off from a white collar job and watches "Reggie," will find this a humorous but piercing satire about modern industrial life. Given the seemingly endless corporate downsizing of the 1990s, the series is more relevant today than it was in 1977. The Reginald Perrin character is the Everyman of corporate America: looking for perfect security at work and perfect happiness at home. Also interesting is that the series (particularly Part 3 which is not yet available) can be viewed as a comment on the vacuity of modern life in the absence of any spirituality, perhaps a result utterly unintended by the writer. One lasting benefit: view this a hundred times and it remains a gem of wonderful acting, intelligent humor, and characters one will never forget.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I didn't get where I am today by not liking this series, March 12, 2002

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Andrew Top (Belmont, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin (Collection Set 1) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The Rise and Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin was the original "Falling Down." Middle age is hard enough when you're middle aged, though, even 6 years into the working world, I find myself relating so powerfully to Reggie that I'm repeatedly moved to tears of laughter, tears of frustration, and tears of compasion. However, unlike "Dilbert" to engineers, this series is funny whether you're living through it or not.
Leonard Rotisser's scalding performance of an unlikeable, useless, and yet unfinitely pitiable middle-age middle-manager is so fulfilling and applicable to almost all modern middle-class walks of life, it seems as valid now as it was when the series was first released. If you have the time, patience, and inclination, I highly recommend watching the series in it's entirety following at least the preamble to "The God's Must be Crazy." You may never work again -- abandoning the drudge of everyday life for a loincloth or a trench coat, walking forever into the sunset of possibilities.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still Crazy After All These Years!, November 3, 2001

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Gary, Esq. (Swannanoa, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin (Collection Set 1) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The first (and last) time I saw this series was on South Carolina Educational Television in the late 1970's. And it's still as funny and, in a way, as sad as it was back then. As all of us middle-age folks know, life has indeed become more pressured in the last twenty or so years. So we can all feel a kinship to Reginald Iolanthe Perrin. One wishes to laugh and cry all at the same time. Perhaps this series was the subconscious inspiration to simplify my own life in recent years. Although I hardly went as far as Reggie :):)The British indeed have a a knack for being serious, silly, and sad all at the same time. The cast do an excellent job, and it really is sad that Leonard Rossiter is no longer with is.Enjoy!