The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - title sequence

[LegionOfTheSun]

Worked for me ;)

[hellier0898]

PS... The camera doesnt dip. There is a really sharp drop on the shingle beach that gives that impression, but it's actuallY leonard Rossiter dipping out of site because it's such a sharp decline on that beach

[hellier0898]

That's West Bay near me in Dorset, right at the start you'll see a cliff behind him. I was up the top of that cliff last week with my son!

[EASYTIGER10]

Does anyone know why the camera dips at 0:15? We've already seen his bum, so its not that. Is it to hide the fact its actually a stunt-Reggie doing the swim?

{8^O

[kisbie]

@EASYTIGER10 You are correct. The dip is to mask the moment where Rossiter disappears and a stunt Reggie pops up and goes in the freezing water (you can see that the transition is not totally seamless, but is partly helped by the fast speed the sequence is played at). And he turns back round to shore at 0:31.

[syrka2000]

I still remember this music, though I haven't heard it for 20 years...

[Vincent777Legion1]

I prefer'd this stuff to cartoons, all the oldies ... can't beat them, real golden era of true genius.If fry would get of his horse he could write plenty, his the last of the great minds for me and does not seem to really make use of it.His to fixed on social networking sites trying keep with the youth.

In about 20 years or less it going to be so dire, so far worse then it is at the present.

[perrin6]

I've been where they shot this sequence - It's 'West bay' in dorset where I did a Reggie-type thing - On a 9-day fossil hunting expedition with my Dad, I got food poisoning after a curry & threw up all night in the hotel there. It blocked the sink up & I stained the duvet turmeric yellow !

[perrin6]

R.I.P (middle name 'Iolanthe') was my boyhood hero. He just couldn't put up with the (inevitable?) b******t of civilised society anymore and almost went mad trying to find a way to cope. This music sounds so tragically sad to me now, I feel on the verge of tears.

[TheLastYogurt]

@perrin6 Have you seen the film My Dinner with Andre (1981)? If not, I recommend it.

[perrin6]

@TheLastYogurt YES I HAVE ! - and I remember enjoying it, a long time ago though. It seems to be one of those good movies that are no longer shown on TV because it doesn't have guns and bombs going off every 5 seconds, silly romances or pathetic comedy. Zelig is another that comes to mind and there are many many more, I'm sure. My last yoghurt was a plain one from sainsburys - v. dissapointing compared with the lovely creamy Devon yoghurt I used to get in my organic veg box.

[lushaaloma]

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[Vincent777Legion1]

A great era of comedy ..... this was clearly my favourite, as a kid it was comedy over cartoons every time.

[Kelly14UK]

Remember seeing this as a wee boy in the 70s as i'm getting ready for bed, but there's a man taking his clothes off and jumping into the sea, not his bed. Thought WTF? But if i'd said it i'd have got belted. And so on.

[TheWhupper]

@danpetley - I'm certainly not hallucinating, I didn't get where I am today by hallucinating, I'll have you know.

[3replybiz]

The remake with lardy arse Clunes was utter shit.

[TheWhupper]

Oh for goodness sake. Why is there 60 seconds of blank footage in this video ?

[danpetley]

@TheWhupper There isn't, you must be hallucinating!

[MegaDave1973]

leonard rossiter was a fantastic actor

[Parrambusties]

Great! We saw that brilliant show in Spanish TVE as "Caída y auge de Reginald Perrin".

[CelticCymru]

cottonwhiskersuk, this is just a title sequence. In the actually episode, he doesn't strip off and run into the sea.

[cottonwhiskersuk]

If Reggie only ever intended to fake his suicide, WHY BOTHER stripping naked and getting into the water?

[stevestoner13]

@cottonwhiskersuk

It's a metaphor.

[cuuldude1]

PLEASE!!!

Does anyone know where I can get sheet music (preferably free) for this????

I really need some!

[jagarrin]

I got it!!!!

Please, put here your mail and I'll send to you....

[SplitIllusionOnline]

did anyone else know this is the same beach where the "its" man from monty python flying circus says his line before the opening credits

[ShahOfBlahII]

They are close both were  filmed in Dorset, Monty Python was Lulworth cove and The Fall and Rise... was Burton Bradstock

[NoodlesTux]

@ShahOfBlahII actually that sequence is filmed in West Bay, not Burton Bradstock. Close but no cigar ;)

[Edenhyde246]

most fitting theme music ever

[Backintime90stv]

A super clip of The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin title sequence danpetley.

Yes they used a double called Ken Barker for the bit where Reggie goes for a swim shobley.

[shobley]

You know, the more I watch this, the more I think that they substitute Rossiter for a double when the camera dips low...

Assuming that the first person really is him of course. I don't think he'd have had a problem getting his kit off for TV...

[CharlotteElisabethx]

I can play the theme of this on the french horn!

Laaave it x

[damoopies]

Reggie Perrin rules OK!

[bobgrantsbus]

Classic comedy with a brilliant performance from Leonard Rossiter

[germenmavg]

una de las mejores y mas inteligentes series de humor

[banneradders]

That was filmed at West Bay in Dorset. Also where they made Harbour Lights. I remember walking my dog along that cliff, there was a golf course along there then.

[Earth2JL]

omfg lol that's so funny!!!

heart heart dF

[perrin6]

he threw up in the ladies......didn't have time to reach the gents......ahhh laughs out loud on the bus to school......copy of FRRP book slightly urine-stained from wetting the bed. 'twas an epiphany for an 11 year old me.

[EASYTIGER10]

This always used to fascinate me as a child, because it's virtually impossible to tell when he turns round and starts swimming back. I used to watch avidly trying to work it out.

That was before mum sent me to the asylum of course.

[heartandhumour]

I still do that every time I watch it. Thought it was just me....see you in the asylum.

[kevintheshedend1976]

@heartandhumour save me a seat. . . with a sea view



[7777blues]

@EASYTIGER10  hope you have been released

[jigglebop99]

why dont we make sitcoms anymore? i can think of only one on at the moment thats english. discuss

[danpetley]

i think there are enough classic british sitcoms that crap all over american stuff, we have already proved ourselves, our legacy is cast in stone!

[toiletduck23]

"My Family", yeas, a classic...2 pints etc, keeping up apperances.....

[amyparking]

I hate every version of *The Office* (except for the French Canadian one, called La Job - this one is so egregiously, spectacularly hideous that it's brill), but some say it is really good; and there are *Peep Show* and Chris Morris's brilliant and underestimated *Nathan Barley*, which, for me personally, is the greatest Brit sitcom since *The Young Ones*... so there!

[toiletduck23]

"I hate every version of *The Office*"..Really? peep show is class, nathan barley had its moments, "inbetweeners" on Channel 4 is best ting in long while but what is so shit bout the Office, pray tell...

[DavidXBrunt]

You can't trust anyone who thinks there haven't been any good sitcoms since the Young Ones. I mean...Father Ted for starters.

[toiletduck23]

Father Teds "Old grey whistle theft" is one of the best ever, "fup off ya blastard predophile"....as for the yanks, Frasier, Cheers, Curb yer enthuism, Irish series called "Bachelors walk", if english sitcoms are so great why the need to remake shittier versions? they should stay well the fuck away from Blackadder, Faulty Towers, Folls n Horse etc

[DavidXBrunt]

There's nothing wrong, in principle, with a remake. In twenty years time there may well be remakes of todays best sitcoms. Still Game 2029 anyone?

[runescape3279]

make sure no body catches his willy thinking its a crock fish

[raven22290]

Old baldy hump....

[urchinlad]

nobbs lol

[rainbowspitt]

Aaah! Butts!