Tripper's Day Tripper's Day Tripper's Day is a British television sitcom produced by Thames Television for ITV. The plot involved Leonard Rossiter as Norman Tripper, a northern manager assigned to a London supermarket with a problematic staff. The programme is largely remembered for the negative critical reviews it received, and mainly for the fact that it was Rossiter's final television work, the actor dying between the broadcast of the second and third episodes. The series was brought back two years later with Bruce Forsyth in the lead role, under the new title "Slinger's Day". In Canada and United States the series had
John Barron (actor) and Gaiters", "The Saint", "Department S", "Doomwatch", "Timeslip", "Potter", "To the Manor Born", "Whoops Apocalypse" and "Yes Minister". Although he had long-running roles in popular dramas like the police series "Softly, Softly" (where he played the assistant chief constable between 1967–69), his best known role was in the situation comedy "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin", which began in 1976, and starred Leonard Rossiter as the title character. Barron's character, CJ (Charles Jefferson), was Perrin's overbearing boss, famous for the catchphrase "I didn't get where I am today by...". He even used this in a TV commercial filmed for