British comedy writer David Nobbs, who "struck gold" in 1975 with his novel The Death of Reginald Perrin and went on to write "a series of sometimes interconnected novels and scripts chronicling changes to British life across the decades," died August 9, the Guardian reported. He was 80. A popular TV adaptation, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, ran between 1976 and 1979, followed in 1996 by The Legacy of Reginald Perrin and Reggie Perrin in 2009.
