Reggie

1 9 8 3 (USA)
6 x 30 minute episodes

This 1983 sitcom from ABC/Fox starring Soap star Richard Mulligan as Reggie Potter, was an unsuccessful adaptation of the brilliant 70s UK series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.

Middle-aged Reggie worked at the Funtime Ice Cream Company in Little Neck, Long Island, and was completely unhappy with his lot – especially with his incredibly overbearing young boss, C.J. (Chip Zien), and his luscious secretary, Joan (Jean Smart) – about whom he had been having sexual fantasies for years. Unknown to Reggie, she had been having the same fantasies about him.

He worried about his sexual prowess with his wife, Elizabeth (Barbara Barrie), worried about his daughter, Linda (Dianne Kay), and her obnoxious husband, Tom (Timothy Stack), lusted for his son Mark’s (Tim Busfield) girlfriend, and confided his darkest secrets to Monty, a large stuffed toy fox attired in English hunting garb.

Unfortunately, the humour did not translate well across the Atlantic, and the show flopped.

Reggie Potter 
Richard Mulligan
Elizabeth Potter 
Barbara Barrie
Joan Reynolds 
Jean Smart
C.J. Wilcox 
Chip Zien
Mark Potter 
Tim Busfield
Linda Potter Lockett 
Dianne Kay
Tom Lockett 
Timothy Stack

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