Immediately, he was nicknamed 'Reggie' by the British press, and the Pompey fans, after the character Reginald Perrin from "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin".
Perhaps this is why the railway station here was famously used as a location for the British sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.
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Theresa Watson (born in Essex) is an English actress who played Prue Harris-Jones in the third series of the BBC television sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin alongside her husband Bruce Bould.
He played the politically correct Tom Patterson in the first two series of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976–77) and The Legacy Of Reginald Perrin (1996) and also had a role in the Doctor Who serial "Planet of the Daleks" (1973).