msc@qubix.UUCP (08/03/83)
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".
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Mark Callow, Saratoga, CA.
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decwrl!qubix!msc@Berkeley.ARPAzz1sm@sdccsu3.UUCP (Shane) (08/05/83)
I saw the first 15 minutes or Reggie last night, and thought it was so bad, we switched to Simon & Simon (That's pretty bad). I never saw the Reginal Perrin shows from the BBC, but they must have been a whole hell of a lot better than this junk. Shane