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¹ The original set of DVDs was 'lost by lending'. (Someone had put Reggie on YouTube, but it was flipped right to left, and otherwise not of good quality, or any pleasure to view.)
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² The intended weekly instalment for this meltdown autumn / winter.
'Bad' managers (or 'bad' employers), quite often, perpetuate the past - in a largely unreflective way*.
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* I.e. They don't recall why they do what they do - maybe trained to treat staff as David Nobbs' CJ does, with his 'I didn't get where I am to-day [by / without]...' guff ? pic.twitter.com/ZIAlfPrqJ3
'Smelly tea' was Earl Grey - one clearly had such airs and graces ! ;)
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As for wimps having lunch, let's think, instead, of the manager who has 'Never had a day sick in my life' = the rod to lay to others' backs (but mebbe disguising 'duvet days' as unscheduled meetings... ?).
* Those names run together as meaninglessly as in a firm called Harold Pinter, where former partners of those names survive (at best) only to draw on the profits - Tim Harold and Bob Pinter. https://t.co/Akj8rQYdCw
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The 'Yes'* men of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (original Leonard Rossiter, bien sûr), or the collaborative screenwriting (with Harvey Keitel) of Paolo Sorrentino's Youth** (2015)... :https://t.co/KGiN100zhF
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* Great ! or Super !
** La giovinezza pic.twitter.com/5DKJsgHREO
Ahead of its time, in 1976, with a dinner-party with no dinner ?
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Leonard Rossiter tells his deliberately ill-assembled guests what they would have eaten and that he's instead sent £20 to Oxfam :
Episode 4 of the first (original) series of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.
The pub to which Miss Pershore (Charmian May) hopes to lure fellow lodger Donald Potts (Reggie, in disguise) is The Clytemnestra Arms.
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* Then again, in the names of Elizabeth and Reggie's grandchildren, there's that early reference to antiquity / Everyman with Adam and Jocasta.
Reginald Iolanthe Perrin - perhaps Leonard Rossiter's finest hour ?
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Ditch-maintenance division of the local council ? https://t.co/zZ7weyhfnO pic.twitter.com/gLOEGA0Rmm
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
