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From: msc@qubix.UUCP
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Subject: Reggie
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Date: Tue, 2-Aug-83 23:57:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  2 23:57:21 1983
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	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.
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