The Perishers Card Game, A Pepys Game
First Published: 1974, A Pepys Game by Castell Larby Ltd. Deer Park Road, London
Illustrator or Designer: Dennis Collins/Maurice Dodd
Contents: 42 Cards + 2 Rules Cards
7 sets of 6 cards. Each set of 6 features a Perishers character with their own colour background, Wellington - Blue, Marlon - Green, Grumpling - Dark Orange, Maisie - Pink, GB Calcutta - Light Orange and (Old) Boot - Red. (Old) Boot's cards all have the same image, the other characters have 7 different images.
The Perishers was a Daily Mirror comic strip that first appeared in 1959. For most of its life it was written by Maurice Dodd and drawn by Dennis Collins. For an excellent history of the strip see this archived page. for a visual bibliography of the many Perishers books visit Tony's Trading .
The copyright notice © DMN/FILM FARE refers to Daily Mirror Newspapers and FilmFair. The former owned the Daily Mirror where The Perishers were published and the latter the film company who produced The Perishers animated series. I imagine that FilmFair was misspelt and under-spaced because somebody got the name confused with Fine Fare a major British supermarket chain of the time.
If the game was intended as a TV tie-in then Pepys must have been disappointed, The Perishers animations weren't screened on the BBC until 1979, five years after the game's release.
Game & Version Details
 | The Perishers - Card Back |
 | The Perishers - Rules Card 1 |
 | The Perishers - Rules Card 2 Games Advertised: Sylabex Fred Bassett Animal Snap Wildflower "Sevens" Noddy Snap Woody Woodpecker Round the World Speed Jaques Snap Famous Five Tom and Jerry Snap Jaques Happy Families Woodland Happy Families Woodland Snap Goal WiId Life Little Grey Rabbit British Birds |
 | The Perishers - Box Back |
 | The Perishers - Box Top |
 | The Perishers - Box Side Left |
 | The Perishers - Box Base |
 | The Perishers - Box Side Right |
 | The Perishers - Box Back With Flap |