The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - s01e05 - The Speech to the British Fruit Association

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Season One Episode Five - 6 Oct 1976 A nervous Reggie is to address the British Fruit Association and mixes Dutch courage with sedative pills, with the result that the speech is a disaster and he has to be dragged off the stage. He is now at breaking point and tells C.J. that blood will flow. C.J. takes this literally when Reggie empties a lorry load of loganberry juice into the river where C.J. is fishing. Next Reggie leaves his clothes by the edge of the sea to fake his suicide and considers which false identity to assume.