PRATT A MANGER

THE CUCUMBER MAN

It is 1957. The Suez Crisis has been and gone. Henry Pratt has completed his National Service and having abandoned an unsuccessful career as a cub reporter in Thurmarsh, he is determined to find a role in life which will also help to make the world a better place. Who would have thought that working for the Cucumber Marketing Board might help him to achieve this?

THE FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN

Meet Reginald Iolanthe Perrin, a man on the brink, in this comedy classic Fleeing across England in a fruit shaped van, attending his own wake and shouting the word 'parsnip' at inopportune moments wasn't exactly what Reginald Perrin had planned. But for Reggie, nothing in life is really going to plan. This brand new dramatisation of David Nobbs's hilarious classic novel follows the adventures of a middle-aged, middle-of-the-road, middle management dessert salesman, as he decides he's finally had enough. Part 1: The Fall - Reginald Perrin is having a crisis; he's not only lost his drive at work and in the bedroom but also his grip on reality. Parsnip, anyone? Part 2: The Rise - Reggie decides that faking his own death is the only way to find freedom and become a new man, but there's an unexpected problem... Also included here is a bonus interview programme, 'Laughed Off the Page', in which David Nobbs tells Janice Forsyth about his most famous creation, the wonderful Reggie Perrin.

PRATT OF THE ARGUS

Henry Pratt, back home from National Service, is a man at last. Eager to prove it, he is thrown in at the deep end in his chosen profession - cub reporter on the Thurmarsh Evening Argus. Nothing ever goes quite right for Henry. So when the scoop of a lifetime finally comes his way it threatens to upset his family and complicate further his ever-hopeful love life.

SECOND FROM LAST IN THE SACK RACE

Growing up in south Yorkshire in the Thirties and Forties, Henry Pratt is a podgy schoolboy who is no good at games and not brilliant at work. By the creator of Reggie Perrin, this is a comic tale of two nations and of a boy who doesn't fit in anywhere.