With Reggie Perrin David Nobbs perfectly captured the “What Ifs?” we all wonder

What was the meaning of Reginald Perrin? That was the question that often occurred to David Nobbs’ abiding comic creation himself – Reginald Iolanthe Perrin, senior sales executive at Sunshine Desserts, driven mad by the boredom of life in suburbia, by analysing figures for sales of crumbles, hallucinating at the mention of his mother-in-law and dumping a tanker-load of loganberry essence into a river to terrorise his boss (to whom he had finally promised “blood will flow”).