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
David Nobbs Dawson and "The Two Ronnies". Nobbs was the creator of the sitcom "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin" (1976–79), adapted from his own "Reginald Perrin" novels, which "told the story of a man living an escapist fantasy in response to the mundanity of his daily commute". The TV series starred Leonard Rossiter as Perrin. Nobbs also wrote the comedy/drama series "A Bit of a Do" (1989) and the Henry Pratt series of novels, the fourth of which, "Pratt à Manger", was published in 2006. His novel "It Had to be You" was published in 2011. A passionate humanist and