Peter Cartwright
Reggie's neighbour, fellow train passenger and hayfever sufferer. Always finishes The Times' crossword before Reggie.
Morris Coates
Advertising
executive, Crumley
Advertising. Sent to Sunshine Desserts to think up some promotional
campaigns
for the Exotic Ices project. Later employed by Grot to do the same.
Esther Pigeon
Market researcher
and statistician,
employed by Sunshine Desserts to gauge market demand for Exotic Ices.
Later
employed by Grot to do the same for the Grot products.
Jocasta Patterson
Tom and Linda's
daughter.
Prone to wetting her pants when in the back of Reggie's car. In The
Legacy
of Reginald Perrin was said to be touring Asia with friends.
Adam Patterson
Tom and Linda's son.
Prone
to telling everyone when he'd filled his pants with 'big jobbies' and
when
his sister had wet her pants. Working for the BBC in The Legacy of
Reginald
Perrin.
Mark Perrin
Reggie and
Elizabeth's son.
Budding thespian, though only successful in TV commercial for
fishfingers
and a Brechtian mime play in Kentish Town. In Series Two was said to be
touring Africa, playing 'No Sex Please, We're British' to the Masai.
Mr. Campbell-Lewiston
Sunshine Desserts'
sales
representative in Germany. Came to Reggie's office to be briefed on the
new Exotic ices range. Remembers Reggie 'Goofy' Perrin from his college
days.
Davina Letts-Wilkinson
Sunshine Desserts
employee,
in the Custards Department. Invited to Reggie's dinner party (without
food).
Wears a dress far too revealing for C.J. and gets drunk. Is chatted up
by Reggie's Uncle Percy.
Mrs. C.J. (Kate Jefferson)
Wife of C.J.
Uncomfortable
at social functions. Guest at Reggie's dinner party (without food).
Percy Spillinger
Reggie's Uncle,
lives at
Abinger Hammer. Argues with C.J. after he is nearly run down by him on
Reggie's drive. Makes lewd comments about Davina Letts-Wilkinson's
breasts,
legs and everything else.
Mr. Deacon
Reggie's landlord at
Garstang
Rise when living as Donald Potts. Advises Reggie that the lights go out
when his wife watches BBC2 and not to be surprised if she calls him a
black.
Mrs. Deacon
Reggie's landlady at
Garstang
Rise. Under the delusion that everyone is coloured and accuses Reggie
of
being the same because he has a tan and can smell a scotch egg on his
breath.
Miss Pershore
Fellow tenant of the
Deacons
at Garstang Rise. Tries to chat Reggie up, but catches him kissing his
daughter goodbye and thinks he is in love with her.
Henry Possett
Elizabeth's
confidante after
Reggie's disappearance. An old friend from before she met Reggie, they
get engaged. Reggie reveals himself to Elizabeth just in time.
Mr. Pelham
Owner of Pelham's Piggeries. Employs Donald Potts as general labourer. Eventually discovers that Donald is Reggie Perrin and sacks him.
Wine Buyer
Grot's first
customer. Buys
Tom's unpalatable wine for his mother-in-law who he can't stand the
sight
of. Comes back for a dozen bottles.
Seamus Finnegan
Irish navvie
employed by
Reggie at Grot as his Admin Officer in the hope it will bring the
company
down. Turns out to be a genius and tells Reggie in Series Three that he
owns four companies.
Mr. Lisburn
Sent for by Reggie
to be
disgusted by Reggie's fake camp behaviour. Turns out to be gay himself
and invites Reggie to a discreet orgy.
Prue Harris-Jones
Wife of David. Is
employed
by Reggie at Perrins Community as crafts officer. One of the
beneficiaries
of Reggie's inheritance in The Legacy of Reginald Perrin.
McBlane
Chef employed by Reggie at the Perrins community when Elizabeth becomes unable to cope with being cook and secretary. He is Scottish, smelly, incomprehensible and covered in boil plasters. Threatening towards Reggie when dealt criticism. Good cook, though.
Mr. Babbacombe
Perrins Community's
first
customer. An undertaker, feels that he can't get on with anybody.
Realises
he is the first guest and flees in panic.
Thruxton Appleby
Northern textiles
tycoon
and guest at Perrins. Obnoxious and tyrannical, thinks he's not liked.
Cured by the staff and leaves £1,000 as payment.
Bernard Trilling
Guest at Perrins.
Head of
Comedy at Anaemia Television, but lost sense of humour. Doc Morrissey
'cures'
him by realising how ironic his predicament is.
Clive 'Lofty' Anstruther
'Sleeping partner'
in Jimmy's
secret army, but disappears with all the funds. Becomes guest at
Perrins
to be cured but robs everybody.
Deborah Swaffham
Guest at Perrins. A
'femme
fatale' among the staff. Seduces all the men, including C.J. and Doc
Morrissey
into her bedroom.
Geraldine Hackstraw
Solicitor at firm of
Hackstraw,
Lovelace and Venison. Executor of Reggie's will in The Legacy of
Reginald
Perrin. Final judge of absurdity as ordered by Reggie's Testament. Is
proposed
to and wined and dined by C.J., Tom and Doc Morrissey, but ends up
bedding
Jimmy.
Hank Millbeck
Joan's boyfriend,
then husband
in The Legacy of Reginald Perrin. A City whizz-kid, made redundant for
being too old and joins the BROSCOR campaign.