Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!qubix!msc From: msc@qubix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.tv Subject: Reggie Message-ID: <406@qubix.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Aug-83 23:57:21 EDT Article-I.D.: qubix.406 Posted: Tue Aug 2 23:57:21 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Aug-83 07:55:02 EDT Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, Saratoga, CA Lines: 27 I have just been watching Reggie. Sadly it is a *pale* imitation of the original (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin for those who don't know). The laugh track seem particularly grating and phony. Richard Mulligan just didn't manage the same kind of manic craziness that Leonard Rossiter infused Reg Perrin with. The rest of the cast also seemed very weak compared to the original. I should say that I am a big fan of tFaRoRP. It is one of the best comedy shows the BBC has ever made. It ranks right along with Monty Python, Steptoe and Son, Hancock's Half-Hour and Porridge. Fawlty Towers, funny as it is, is not quite in this class. The disappointment was not unexpected. Sanford and Son wasn't a patch on its original: Steptoe and Son. All in the Family wasn't as good as 'Till Death Us Do Part. Three's Company, however, managed to come close to Man About the House. Reggie is almost as much of a disaster as the copy of Butterflies (I've forgotten the copy's name) that NBC made a year or two ago. They showed one episode as a "Pilot: not on NBC's announced fall schedule". -- Mark Callow, Saratoga, CA. ...{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl! ...{ittvax,amd70}!qubix!msc decwrl!qubix!msc@Berkeley.ARPA