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.
Writer: David Nobbs
Air date: 1977-09-21
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Maintaining his identity as Martin Wellbourne becomes more wearing for Reggie. Revealing his true identity to CJ does not go down well...
Writer: David Nobbs
Air date: 1977-09-28
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: David Nobbs
Air date: 1977-10-05
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Reggie confronts CJ and hatches a plan for a very unusual shop after talking to Jimmy.
Writer: David Nobbs
Air date: 1977-10-12
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Reggie asks CJ for a start-up loan to establish his shop Grot which becomes a huge success selling all sorts of useless products.
Writer: David Nobbs
Air date: 1977-10-19
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Sunshine desserts goes bankrupt and Reggie hires his old coworkers and boss to Grot.
Writer: David Nobbs
Air date: 1977-10-26
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Reggie is bored with his success and plans to destroy Grot by hiring totally unsuitable personnel.
Writer: David Nobbs
Air date: 1977-11-02
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Reggie's plan fails. He tries more extreme tactics which also fail. Only one more thing left to do...
