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⚫ | This is a '''list of episodes''' of the [[British sitcom]] '''[[One Foot in the Grave]]''', written by [[David Renwick]]. The show ran for six series plus eight specials including one short for comic relief, this was from [[4 January]], [[1990]] to [[20 November]] [[2000]] on [[BBC 1]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/18644 |title=One Foot in the Grave| publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |accessdate=2008-04-14}}</ref> |
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⚫ | This is a '''list of episodes''' of the [[British sitcom]] '''[[One Foot in the Grave]]''', written by [[David Renwick]]. The show ran for six series plus |
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The series features the exploits of Victor Meldrew, played by [[Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)|Richard Wilson]], and his wife, Margaret, played by [[Annette Crosbie]], in their battle against the trials of modern life.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/o/onefootinthegrav_7774990.shtml |title=One Foot in the Grave |publisher=[[BBC Guide to Comedy]] |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20050417222957/www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/o/onefootinthegrav_7774990.shtml |archivedate=2005-04-17 |accessdate=2008-04-14}}</ref> All episodes are 30 minutes unless stated otherwise. |
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==Overview== |
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|align="center"| [[4 January]]–[[8 February]] [[1990 in television|1990]] |
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|align="center"| [[4 October]]–[[8 November]] [[1990 in television|1990]] |
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|align="center"| [[2 February]]–[[8 March]] [[1992 in television|1992]] |
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|align="center"| [[31 January]]–[[7 March]] [[1993 in television|1993]] |
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|align="center"| [[1 January]]–[[29 January]] [[1995 in television|1995]] |
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|align="center"| [[16 October]]–[[20 November]] [[2000 in television|2000]] |
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|align="center"| Specials |
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|align="center"| 1990 Christmas Special - [[27 December]] [[1990 in television|1990]] |
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1991 Christmas Special - [[30 December]] [[1991 in television|1991]] |
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Comic Relief Special - [[12 March]] [[1993 in television|1993]] |
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1993 Christmas Special - [[26 December]] 1993 |
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1994 Christmas Special - [[25 December]] [[1994 in television|1994]] |
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1995 Christmas Special - 25 December [[1995 in television|1995]] |
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1996 Christmas Special - 26 December [[1996 in television|1996]] |
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1997 Christmas Special - 27 December [[1997 in television|1997]] |
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==Series 1 (1990)== |
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| style="background:white" colspan="6"| At the age of 60, Victor is retired from his job as a [[security guard]] to be replaced by a box and a recorded message. As he contemplates his future, he gets a visit from Nick Swainey's charity for the elderly and decides to go for a job interview. |
| style="background:white" colspan="6"| At the age of 60, Victor is retired from his job as a [[security guard]] to be replaced by a box and a recorded message. As he contemplates his future, he gets a visit from Nick Swainey's charity for the elderly and decides to go for a job interview. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="6"| Victor's cousin Geoffrey, who had also just taken early retirement at the age of 60, dies. The Meldrews attend his [[Atheism|atheist]] funeral and receive a visit from what Victor calls "the [[Jehovah's Witnesses|Jehovah's Witness]] police". As fog descends on suburbia, Victor wakes up thinking he's dead. |
| style="background:white" colspan="6"| Victor's cousin Geoffrey, who had also just taken early retirement at the age of 60, dies. The Meldrews attend his [[Atheism|atheist]] funeral and receive a visit from what Victor calls "the [[Jehovah's Witnesses|Jehovah's Witness]] police". As fog descends on suburbia, Victor wakes up thinking he's dead. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="6"| While photographing a sunset, Victor is mugged and [[graffiti]] is sprayed on the Meldrew's house. These events lead to Victor heading a [[Neighborhood Watch|Neighbourhood Watch]] meeting. Meanwhile, there's a strange smell by the sideboard, a problem with the central heating, an old woman in the loft and a [[cat]] in the [[freezer]]. |
| style="background:white" colspan="6"| While photographing a sunset, Victor is mugged and [[graffiti]] is sprayed on the Meldrew's house. These events lead to Victor heading a [[Neighborhood Watch|Neighbourhood Watch]] meeting. Meanwhile, there's a strange smell by the sideboard, a problem with the central heating, an old woman in the loft and a [[cat]] in the [[freezer]]. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="6"| Victor is trapped in his shed for three hours thanks to a swarm of belligerent [[bee]]s, stuck in the [[optician]]s for a day with his eyes shut then spends another day babysitting some unpleasant children. |
| style="background:white" colspan="6"| Victor is trapped in his shed for three hours thanks to a swarm of belligerent [[bee]]s, stuck in the [[optician]]s for a day with his eyes shut then spends another day babysitting some unpleasant children. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="6"| Margaret is pleased when Victor takes up [[painting]], but regrets her encouragement when she discovers that he has been painting a [[Model (art)|nude model]], Doreen, and giving her a lift home afterwards. |
| style="background:white" colspan="6"| Margaret is pleased when Victor takes up [[painting]], but regrets her encouragement when she discovers that he has been painting a [[Model (art)|nude model]], Doreen, and giving her a lift home afterwards. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="6"|Victor and Margaret are preparing for a holiday in [[Athens]]. However, they must first cope with Victor's [[fear of flying]], Mrs Warboys' [[Foodborne illness|food poisoning]], having their [[electricity meter]] read and an escaped [[snake]]. |
| style="background:white" colspan="6"|Victor and Margaret are preparing for a holiday in [[Athens]]. However, they must first cope with Victor's [[fear of flying]], Mrs Warboys' [[Foodborne illness|food poisoning]], having their [[electricity meter]] read and an escaped [[snake]]. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| The Meldrews return from their holiday to find that their baggage has been sent to the other side of the world and their house has been demolished following a terrible fire. Six months later they move into a new house, and attempt to cheer themselves up by holding a house warming party. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| The Meldrews return from their holiday to find that their baggage has been sent to the other side of the world and their house has been demolished following a terrible fire. Six months later they move into a new house, and attempt to cheer themselves up by holding a house warming party. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| While beginning to sort their new house out, the Meldrews are entrusted to look after a [[tortoise]] for Margaret's goddaughter Jennifer. However, disaster awaits when Victor decides to burn some garden rubbish. Meanwhile, someone been using [[TCP (antiseptic)|TCP]]. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| While beginning to sort their new house out, the Meldrews are entrusted to look after a [[tortoise]] for Margaret's goddaughter Jennifer. However, disaster awaits when Victor decides to burn some garden rubbish. Meanwhile, someone been using [[TCP (antiseptic)|TCP]]. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor writes a script for a new [[situation comedy]]. Unfortunately nobody else finds it very funny. Margaret also catches dramatic fever and joins an [[Community theatre|amateur dramatic society]]. Victor feuds with a litterbug, and the news that Margaret is in [[Kettering]] leads to the Meldrews being invited to a [[Bergerac (TV series)|Bergerac]] party given by local thespian Desiree Gibson. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor writes a script for a new [[situation comedy]]. Unfortunately nobody else finds it very funny. Margaret also catches dramatic fever and joins an [[Community theatre|amateur dramatic society]]. Victor feuds with a litterbug, and the news that Margaret is in [[Kettering]] leads to the Meldrews being invited to a [[Bergerac (TV series)|Bergerac]] party given by local thespian Desiree Gibson. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor and Margaret meet their new neighbours Patrick and Pippa for the first time. Victor has problems with a [[toy]] [[dinosaur]] salesman and Margaret befriends a lonely elderly blind man, Albert (played by [[Jimmy Jewel]]). A charity concert gives Victor the chance to air his [[Ventriloquism|ventriloquist]] skills. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor and Margaret meet their new neighbours Patrick and Pippa for the first time. Victor has problems with a [[toy]] [[dinosaur]] salesman and Margaret befriends a lonely elderly blind man, Albert (played by [[Jimmy Jewel]]). A charity concert gives Victor the chance to air his [[Ventriloquism|ventriloquist]] skills. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| The Meldrews are on holiday, staying with old friends Vince (played by [[Stephen Lewis (actor)|Stephen Lewis]]) and April (played by [[Georgina Hale]]) in their [[boarding house]] on the south coast. However, during the weekend a set of unfortunate coincidences leave the couple thinking the other is being unfaithful, and Victor ends up with a glass of beer super-glued to his head. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| The Meldrews are on holiday, staying with old friends Vince (played by [[Stephen Lewis (actor)|Stephen Lewis]]) and April (played by [[Georgina Hale]]) in their [[boarding house]] on the south coast. However, during the weekend a set of unfortunate coincidences leave the couple thinking the other is being unfaithful, and Victor ends up with a glass of beer super-glued to his head. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor is unable to sleep and thus ensures that Margaret cannot either. Things get so desperate that Victor contemplates opening Ronnie and Mildred's Christmas present from last year. This episode is set entirely in the Meldrews' bedroom. It also reveals that Victor and Margaret had a son called Stuart who died as a child. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor is unable to sleep and thus ensures that Margaret cannot either. Things get so desperate that Victor contemplates opening Ronnie and Mildred's Christmas present from last year. This episode is set entirely in the Meldrews' bedroom. It also reveals that Victor and Margaret had a son called Stuart who died as a child. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor has entered a wrong number in a catalogue order column which leads to the accidental delivery of 263 three-foot tall garden [[gnome|gnomes]]. Meanwhile, he becomes acquainted with an agnostic vicar and has a crisis of conscience. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor has entered a wrong number in a catalogue order column which leads to the accidental delivery of 263 three-foot tall garden [[gnome|gnomes]]. Meanwhile, he becomes acquainted with an agnostic vicar and has a crisis of conscience. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor and Patrick's feud has continued and they now communicate via [[post-it note]]s. Pippa is expecting a baby, while Victor is keeping an allotment and buys some [[Radioactive decay|radioactive]] [[Horse Manure|horse manure]]. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor and Patrick's feud has continued and they now communicate via [[post-it note]]s. Pippa is expecting a baby, while Victor is keeping an allotment and buys some [[Radioactive decay|radioactive]] [[Horse Manure|horse manure]]. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor and Margaret return from a shopping trip to discover that the house has been burgled, and his neighbours helped out. Victor decides not to replace the [[television]] to give them more opportunity to get out of the house. However, an evening trip to the [[public house|pub]] results in a disconcerting experience with an old friend. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor and Margaret return from a shopping trip to discover that the house has been burgled, and his neighbours helped out. Victor decides not to replace the [[television]] to give them more opportunity to get out of the house. However, an evening trip to the [[public house|pub]] results in a disconcerting experience with an old friend. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| In a coffee shop, Mrs. Warboys tells the story of how Margaret went missing following a series of haunting dreams in which she murders someone who looks exactly like Victor. Also, Mr. Swainey evades Victor's attempts to nail the fence closed and invites the Meldrews round to see his [[Dove|pigeons]]. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| In a coffee shop, Mrs. Warboys tells the story of how Margaret went missing following a series of haunting dreams in which she murders someone who looks exactly like Victor. Also, Mr. Swainey evades Victor's attempts to nail the fence closed and invites the Meldrews round to see his [[Dove|pigeons]]. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Patrick and Pippa fear the worst when they ask Victor and Margaret to look after their house whilst they are on holiday. Victor's nerves are also on edge when his absent-minded brother, Alfred, comes to stay. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Patrick and Pippa fear the worst when they ask Victor and Margaret to look after their house whilst they are on holiday. Victor's nerves are also on edge when his absent-minded brother, Alfred, comes to stay. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| A day out turns into a nightmare for the Meldrews and Mrs. Warboys when the [[Bank Holiday]] traffic comes to a standstill on the [[motorway]] and they are trapped in their car staring at a horse's backside for four hours. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| A day out turns into a nightmare for the Meldrews and Mrs. Warboys when the [[Bank Holiday]] traffic comes to a standstill on the [[motorway]] and they are trapped in their car staring at a horse's backside for four hours. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Mr. Swainey returns from holiday with an evil present in the form of a gift [[Paperweight collecting|paperweight]]. Victor is astonished when he receives a phone call from the thieves who burgled his house asking for a manual to help program his [[Videocassette recorder|video recorder]]. Patrick and Pippa attempt to sell their house, but strangely prospective buyers are put off when they encounter Victor. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Mr. Swainey returns from holiday with an evil present in the form of a gift [[Paperweight collecting|paperweight]]. Victor is astonished when he receives a phone call from the thieves who burgled his house asking for a manual to help program his [[Videocassette recorder|video recorder]]. Patrick and Pippa attempt to sell their house, but strangely prospective buyers are put off when they encounter Victor. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor is delighted when he finally gets a decent job as the [[Doorkeeper|doorman]] at an expensive [[hotel]]. However, after being insulted by a guest in an obvious [[toupee]] he decides that retirement is the best option after all. Meanwhile, Mrs. Warboys organises a trip to the [[BBC]] and it's desperate times when Ronnie and Mildred come calling. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor is delighted when he finally gets a decent job as the [[Doorkeeper|doorman]] at an expensive [[hotel]]. However, after being insulted by a guest in an obvious [[toupee]] he decides that retirement is the best option after all. Meanwhile, Mrs. Warboys organises a trip to the [[BBC]] and it's desperate times when Ronnie and Mildred come calling. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor decides that Patrick's [[cherry|cherry tree]] is the cause of his [[garden]] being dry and enlists a [[Neanderthal]] gardener to cultivate the stray roots. However, only after an argument with the gardener does he learn that the pit could have a secondary use. Meanwhile, tragedy strikes for Margaret when she learns of the death of her mother. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor decides that Patrick's [[cherry|cherry tree]] is the cause of his [[garden]] being dry and enlists a [[Neanderthal]] gardener to cultivate the stray roots. However, only after an argument with the gardener does he learn that the pit could have a secondary use. Meanwhile, tragedy strikes for Margaret when she learns of the death of her mother. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Margaret collapses from nervous exhaustion, which has been building up for the past 35 years. After a few days being looked after by Victor she decides to go back to work in order to get some peace and quiet. Andrea Temple (played by [[Helen Lederer]]), a lady Margaret knew as a girl visits Margaret with a baby that has a mysterious fondness for garden gnomes. However, Victor soon uncovers a disturbing truth about her. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Margaret collapses from nervous exhaustion, which has been building up for the past 35 years. After a few days being looked after by Victor she decides to go back to work in order to get some peace and quiet. Andrea Temple (played by [[Helen Lederer]]), a lady Margaret knew as a girl visits Margaret with a baby that has a mysterious fondness for garden gnomes. However, Victor soon uncovers a disturbing truth about her. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| The Meldrews, Mrs. Warboys and Mr. Swainey take a trip into the [[Rural|countryside]], but nothing seems to go according to plan, ending in Mrs. Warboys being [[concrete|concreted]] to Victor. While going for help, Victor stumbles upon an old people's home where the residents are being abused by the staff and hatches a plot for their liberation. The significance of the rabbit hutch at the end is a metaphor, displaying that the OAPs are free ( the live rabbit) and the toy rabbit is locked inside the hutch (the staff members). |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| The Meldrews, Mrs. Warboys and Mr. Swainey take a trip into the [[Rural|countryside]], but nothing seems to go according to plan, ending in Mrs. Warboys being [[concrete|concreted]] to Victor. While going for help, Victor stumbles upon an old people's home where the residents are being abused by the staff and hatches a plot for their liberation. The significance of the rabbit hutch at the end is a metaphor, displaying that the OAPs are free ( the live rabbit) and the toy rabbit is locked inside the hutch (the staff members). |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| After Victor returns from holiday with sunburnt feet, Margaret is annoyed at his grumbling and meets up with Ben, an acquaintance that she made on holiday, and finds herself contemplating the possibility of having an affair. However, she is surprised to find another woman in her bed when she returns home. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| After Victor returns from holiday with sunburnt feet, Margaret is annoyed at his grumbling and meets up with Ben, an acquaintance that she made on holiday, and finds herself contemplating the possibility of having an affair. However, she is surprised to find another woman in her bed when she returns home. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor spends a day at home on his own while on call for [[Jury|jury service]]. He contemplates his various ailments, receives a letter from a disgruntled Jehovah's Witness, tackles a difficult [[crossword]], and struggles to save himself from an account of Mrs Warboys' holiday in [[Cork (city)|Cork]]. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor spends a day at home on his own while on call for [[Jury|jury service]]. He contemplates his various ailments, receives a letter from a disgruntled Jehovah's Witness, tackles a difficult [[crossword]], and struggles to save himself from an account of Mrs Warboys' holiday in [[Cork (city)|Cork]]. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| The Meldrews invite Patrick and Pippa round for a friendly meal, but Patrick is distinctly worried about what horrors might befall them. Meanwhile, Victor now has a new job as a lollipop man and is busy preparing for a meeting of his magician's club, although he keeps getting hoax calls from the fire brigade. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| The Meldrews invite Patrick and Pippa round for a friendly meal, but Patrick is distinctly worried about what horrors might befall them. Meanwhile, Victor now has a new job as a lollipop man and is busy preparing for a meeting of his magician's club, although he keeps getting hoax calls from the fire brigade. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor muses about life while in the [[Bathing|bath]]. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor muses about life while in the [[Bathing|bath]]. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| The Meldrews and Mrs. Warboys embark upon a hellish holiday to [[Portugal]]. After an entanglement with the [[police]], they finally arrive at their unpleasant villa. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| The Meldrews and Mrs. Warboys embark upon a hellish holiday to [[Portugal]]. After an entanglement with the [[police]], they finally arrive at their unpleasant villa. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| The Meldrews plays host to a suicidal stranger from the past, Mr Foskett (played by [[Brian Murphy (actor)|Brian Murphy]]), who they know only because they stayed in the same guesthouse 17 years ago. Meanwhile, someone has been tampering with Victor's [[Christmas cracker]]s, and the Meldrews are annoyed when their unreliable stolen car is returned. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| The Meldrews plays host to a suicidal stranger from the past, Mr Foskett (played by [[Brian Murphy (actor)|Brian Murphy]]), who they know only because they stayed in the same guesthouse 17 years ago. Meanwhile, someone has been tampering with Victor's [[Christmas cracker]]s, and the Meldrews are annoyed when their unreliable stolen car is returned. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Mrs. Warboys stays with the Meldrews while her flat dries out after a [[flood]]. Victor tries a bit of [[reflexology]] and has a run-in with a [[chimney sweep]]. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Mrs. Warboys stays with the Meldrews while her flat dries out after a [[flood]]. Victor tries a bit of [[reflexology]] and has a run-in with a [[chimney sweep]]. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Mrs. Warboys has a [[Wax museum|wax model]] of herself made as the prize from a competition. Meanwhile, Millicent (played by [[Barbara Windsor]]), the local [[greengrocer]], takes a fancy to Victor and attempts to lure him to her house when Victor misses a [[football (soccer)|football match]]. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Mrs. Warboys has a [[Wax museum|wax model]] of herself made as the prize from a competition. Meanwhile, Millicent (played by [[Barbara Windsor]]), the local [[greengrocer]], takes a fancy to Victor and attempts to lure him to her house when Victor misses a [[football (soccer)|football match]]. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| The Meldrews suffer a long wait in their solicitor's waiting room. There Victor observes the bizarre habits of the other visitors, fidgets impatiently, and finally attacks a dog with a cake. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| The Meldrews suffer a long wait in their solicitor's waiting room. There Victor observes the bizarre habits of the other visitors, fidgets impatiently, and finally attacks a dog with a cake. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| In an attempt to get Victor and Patrick to bury the hatchet, the two share an unpleasant experience in an [[Armenia|Armenian]] [[restaurant]]. Victor experiments with [[seafood]] cookery and restores a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[marionette]], much to the displeasure of Margaret. Meanwhile, the Meldrews have their [[loft]] converted. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| In an attempt to get Victor and Patrick to bury the hatchet, the two share an unpleasant experience in an [[Armenia|Armenian]] [[restaurant]]. Victor experiments with [[seafood]] cookery and restores a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[marionette]], much to the displeasure of Margaret. Meanwhile, the Meldrews have their [[loft]] converted. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Mr. Swainey invites Tania, his mother's [[nurse]], out for a date. Meanwhile Victor takes a job as a [[chauffeur]] but rapidly destroys his employer's (played by [[John Bird (actor)|John Bird]]) beloved fleet of expensive cars. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Mr. Swainey invites Tania, his mother's [[nurse]], out for a date. Meanwhile Victor takes a job as a [[chauffeur]] but rapidly destroys his employer's (played by [[John Bird (actor)|John Bird]]) beloved fleet of expensive cars. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| When cousin Ursula dies, Victor and Margaret have to clear her house in the country. But before they go, a [[Witchcraft|witch]] predicts Victor will come to an untimely end. Meanwhile, Patrick and Pippa are preparing to finally move away from the Meldrews. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| When cousin Ursula dies, Victor and Margaret have to clear her house in the country. But before they go, a [[Witchcraft|witch]] predicts Victor will come to an untimely end. Meanwhile, Patrick and Pippa are preparing to finally move away from the Meldrews. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| The Meldrews return home to find a man living in their [[shed]] (played by [[Ray Winstone]]), who it later turns out is a [[drug]] taker. Victor has a new job as a [[gardener]] working for Patrick's new boss Fenella Fortune (played by [[Rula Lenska]]). However, it seems that [[Herbicide|weedkiller]] has become an appropriate title. Meanwhile, Mr. Swainey's mother is claiming that she is being abducted by [[Extraterrestrial life|aliens]] every night. [[Mr. Tambourine Man]] by [[The Byrds]] is used in the closing credits. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| The Meldrews return home to find a man living in their [[shed]] (played by [[Ray Winstone]]), who it later turns out is a [[drug]] taker. Victor has a new job as a [[gardener]] working for Patrick's new boss Fenella Fortune (played by [[Rula Lenska]]). However, it seems that [[Herbicide|weedkiller]] has become an appropriate title. Meanwhile, Mr. Swainey's mother is claiming that she is being abducted by [[Extraterrestrial life|aliens]] every night. [[Mr. Tambourine Man]] by [[The Byrds]] is used in the closing credits. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| The Meldrews are trying to make an effort to get on with their pleasant new neighbours, Derek (played by [[Tim Brooke-Taylor]]) and Betty McVitie. Matters are complicated when the two couples go on holiday in the same rented cottage, Victor buys a [[Ghost|haunted]] [[Recreational vehicle|caravan]] and then accidentally kidnaps the [[India|Indian]] mother of a [[millionaire]]. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| The Meldrews are trying to make an effort to get on with their pleasant new neighbours, Derek (played by [[Tim Brooke-Taylor]]) and Betty McVitie. Matters are complicated when the two couples go on holiday in the same rented cottage, Victor buys a [[Ghost|haunted]] [[Recreational vehicle|caravan]] and then accidentally kidnaps the [[India|Indian]] mother of a [[millionaire]]. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor has a new job as a window-cleaner. Meanwhile, Patrick's plans for a quiet birthday are ruined after an unfortunate misunderstanding involving a [[modern art]] painting and Pippa finds herself in an adulterous affair. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor has a new job as a window-cleaner. Meanwhile, Patrick's plans for a quiet birthday are ruined after an unfortunate misunderstanding involving a [[modern art]] painting and Pippa finds herself in an adulterous affair. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor is angry at the poor job builders have made of his new [[barbecue]]. Meanwhile, their new car needs to have its obscene [[Vehicle registration plate|number plates]] changed, and Victor has a health scare, perhaps brought about by playing an amateur-dramatic [[vampire]]. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor is angry at the poor job builders have made of his new [[barbecue]]. Meanwhile, their new car needs to have its obscene [[Vehicle registration plate|number plates]] changed, and Victor has a health scare, perhaps brought about by playing an amateur-dramatic [[vampire]]. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor regrets hiring an attractive cleaner to help around the house as he inadvertently gets Mrs. Warboys [[tattoo|tattooed]]. Meanwhile, Mrs Warboys finds a deep-fried [[finger]] in her [[French fries|chips]] and a large plastic [[fly]] is delivered. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor regrets hiring an attractive cleaner to help around the house as he inadvertently gets Mrs. Warboys [[tattoo|tattooed]]. Meanwhile, Mrs Warboys finds a deep-fried [[finger]] in her [[French fries|chips]] and a large plastic [[fly]] is delivered. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| After a powercut on a the hottest day of the year, Victor has nothing better to do than complain. Later the Meldrews play host to an [[Incontinence|incontinent]] visitor (played by [[Roy Hudd]]). |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| After a powercut on a the hottest day of the year, Victor has nothing better to do than complain. Later the Meldrews play host to an [[Incontinence|incontinent]] visitor (played by [[Roy Hudd]]). |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor's new fishing hobby leads to an unfortunate encounter with a [[Fly-tipping]]. Meanwhile, a visit from Patrick's gay twin brother leaves Pippa feeling mentally and physically exhausted, especially when Patrick sits on a [[Stopper_(plug)|cork]]. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| Victor's new fishing hobby leads to an unfortunate encounter with a [[Fly-tipping]]. Meanwhile, a visit from Patrick's gay twin brother leaves Pippa feeling mentally and physically exhausted, especially when Patrick sits on a [[Stopper_(plug)|cork]]. |
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| style="background:white" colspan="5"| After a disappointing reunion dinner, Victor is killed in a [[Car accident|road accident]]. Afterwards, Margaret faces up to life without him, but receives another shock when she discovers that Victor's killer is her new best friend Glynis (played by [[Hannah Gordon]]). What she then does is left ambiguous. |
| style="background:white" colspan="5"| After a disappointing reunion dinner, Victor is killed in a [[Car accident|road accident]]. Afterwards, Margaret faces up to life without him, but receives another shock when she discovers that Victor's killer is her new best friend Glynis (played by [[Hannah Gordon]]). What she then does is left ambiguous. |
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Revision as of 03:30, 18 April 2008
This is a list of episodes of the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave, written by David Renwick. The show ran for six series plus eight specials including one short for comic relief, this was from 4 January, 1990 to 20 November 2000 on BBC 1.[1]
The series features the exploits of Victor Meldrew, played by Richard Wilson, and his wife, Margaret, played by Annette Crosbie, in their battle against the trials of modern life.[2] All episodes are 30 minutes unless stated otherwise.
Series 1 (1990)
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At the age of 60, Victor is retired from his job as a security guard to be replaced by a box and a recorded message. As he contemplates his future, he gets a visit from Nick Swainey's charity for the elderly and decides to go for a job interview. | |||||
Victor's cousin Geoffrey, who had also just taken early retirement at the age of 60, dies. The Meldrews attend his atheist funeral and receive a visit from what Victor calls "the Jehovah's Witness police". As fog descends on suburbia, Victor wakes up thinking he's dead. | |||||
While photographing a sunset, Victor is mugged and graffiti is sprayed on the Meldrew's house. These events lead to Victor heading a Neighbourhood Watch meeting. Meanwhile, there's a strange smell by the sideboard, a problem with the central heating, an old woman in the loft and a cat in the freezer. | |||||
Victor is trapped in his shed for three hours thanks to a swarm of belligerent bees, stuck in the opticians for a day with his eyes shut then spends another day babysitting some unpleasant children. | |||||
Margaret is pleased when Victor takes up painting, but regrets her encouragement when she discovers that he has been painting a nude model, Doreen, and giving her a lift home afterwards. | |||||
Victor and Margaret are preparing for a holiday in Athens. However, they must first cope with Victor's fear of flying, Mrs Warboys' food poisoning, having their electricity meter read and an escaped snake. | |||||
Series 2 (1990)
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The Meldrews return from their holiday to find that their baggage has been sent to the other side of the world and their house has been demolished following a terrible fire. Six months later they move into a new house, and attempt to cheer themselves up by holding a house warming party. | ||||
While beginning to sort their new house out, the Meldrews are entrusted to look after a tortoise for Margaret's goddaughter Jennifer. However, disaster awaits when Victor decides to burn some garden rubbish. Meanwhile, someone been using TCP. | ||||
Victor writes a script for a new situation comedy. Unfortunately nobody else finds it very funny. Margaret also catches dramatic fever and joins an amateur dramatic society. Victor feuds with a litterbug, and the news that Margaret is in Kettering leads to the Meldrews being invited to a Bergerac party given by local thespian Desiree Gibson. | ||||
Victor and Margaret meet their new neighbours Patrick and Pippa for the first time. Victor has problems with a toy dinosaur salesman and Margaret befriends a lonely elderly blind man, Albert (played by Jimmy Jewel). A charity concert gives Victor the chance to air his ventriloquist skills. | ||||
The Meldrews are on holiday, staying with old friends Vince (played by Stephen Lewis) and April (played by Georgina Hale) in their boarding house on the south coast. However, during the weekend a set of unfortunate coincidences leave the couple thinking the other is being unfaithful, and Victor ends up with a glass of beer super-glued to his head. | ||||
Victor is unable to sleep and thus ensures that Margaret cannot either. Things get so desperate that Victor contemplates opening Ronnie and Mildred's Christmas present from last year. This episode is set entirely in the Meldrews' bedroom. It also reveals that Victor and Margaret had a son called Stuart who died as a child. | ||||
Christmas Special (1990)
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Victor has entered a wrong number in a catalogue order column which leads to the accidental delivery of 263 three-foot tall garden gnomes. Meanwhile, he becomes acquainted with an agnostic vicar and has a crisis of conscience. | ||||
Christmas Special (1991)
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Victor and Patrick's feud has continued and they now communicate via post-it notes. Pippa is expecting a baby, while Victor is keeping an allotment and buys some radioactive horse manure. | ||||
Series 3 (1992)
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Victor and Margaret return from a shopping trip to discover that the house has been burgled, and his neighbours helped out. Victor decides not to replace the television to give them more opportunity to get out of the house. However, an evening trip to the pub results in a disconcerting experience with an old friend. | ||||
In a coffee shop, Mrs. Warboys tells the story of how Margaret went missing following a series of haunting dreams in which she murders someone who looks exactly like Victor. Also, Mr. Swainey evades Victor's attempts to nail the fence closed and invites the Meldrews round to see his pigeons. | ||||
Patrick and Pippa fear the worst when they ask Victor and Margaret to look after their house whilst they are on holiday. Victor's nerves are also on edge when his absent-minded brother, Alfred, comes to stay. | ||||
A day out turns into a nightmare for the Meldrews and Mrs. Warboys when the Bank Holiday traffic comes to a standstill on the motorway and they are trapped in their car staring at a horse's backside for four hours. | ||||
Mr. Swainey returns from holiday with an evil present in the form of a gift paperweight. Victor is astonished when he receives a phone call from the thieves who burgled his house asking for a manual to help program his video recorder. Patrick and Pippa attempt to sell their house, but strangely prospective buyers are put off when they encounter Victor. | ||||
Victor is delighted when he finally gets a decent job as the doorman at an expensive hotel. However, after being insulted by a guest in an obvious toupee he decides that retirement is the best option after all. Meanwhile, Mrs. Warboys organises a trip to the BBC and it's desperate times when Ronnie and Mildred come calling. | ||||
Series 4 (1993)
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Victor decides that Patrick's cherry tree is the cause of his garden being dry and enlists a Neanderthal gardener to cultivate the stray roots. However, only after an argument with the gardener does he learn that the pit could have a secondary use. Meanwhile, tragedy strikes for Margaret when she learns of the death of her mother. | ||||
Margaret collapses from nervous exhaustion, which has been building up for the past 35 years. After a few days being looked after by Victor she decides to go back to work in order to get some peace and quiet. Andrea Temple (played by Helen Lederer), a lady Margaret knew as a girl visits Margaret with a baby that has a mysterious fondness for garden gnomes. However, Victor soon uncovers a disturbing truth about her. | ||||
The Meldrews, Mrs. Warboys and Mr. Swainey take a trip into the countryside, but nothing seems to go according to plan, ending in Mrs. Warboys being concreted to Victor. While going for help, Victor stumbles upon an old people's home where the residents are being abused by the staff and hatches a plot for their liberation. The significance of the rabbit hutch at the end is a metaphor, displaying that the OAPs are free ( the live rabbit) and the toy rabbit is locked inside the hutch (the staff members). | ||||
After Victor returns from holiday with sunburnt feet, Margaret is annoyed at his grumbling and meets up with Ben, an acquaintance that she made on holiday, and finds herself contemplating the possibility of having an affair. However, she is surprised to find another woman in her bed when she returns home. | ||||
Victor spends a day at home on his own while on call for jury service. He contemplates his various ailments, receives a letter from a disgruntled Jehovah's Witness, tackles a difficult crossword, and struggles to save himself from an account of Mrs Warboys' holiday in Cork. | ||||
The Meldrews invite Patrick and Pippa round for a friendly meal, but Patrick is distinctly worried about what horrors might befall them. Meanwhile, Victor now has a new job as a lollipop man and is busy preparing for a meeting of his magician's club, although he keeps getting hoax calls from the fire brigade. | ||||
Comic Relief Special (1993)
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Victor muses about life while in the bath. | ||||
Christmas Special (1993)
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The Meldrews and Mrs. Warboys embark upon a hellish holiday to Portugal. After an entanglement with the police, they finally arrive at their unpleasant villa. | ||||
Christmas Special (1994)
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The Meldrews plays host to a suicidal stranger from the past, Mr Foskett (played by Brian Murphy), who they know only because they stayed in the same guesthouse 17 years ago. Meanwhile, someone has been tampering with Victor's Christmas crackers, and the Meldrews are annoyed when their unreliable stolen car is returned. | ||||
Series 5 (1995)
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Mrs. Warboys stays with the Meldrews while her flat dries out after a flood. Victor tries a bit of reflexology and has a run-in with a chimney sweep. | ||||
Mrs. Warboys has a wax model of herself made as the prize from a competition. Meanwhile, Millicent (played by Barbara Windsor), the local greengrocer, takes a fancy to Victor and attempts to lure him to her house when Victor misses a football match. | ||||
The Meldrews suffer a long wait in their solicitor's waiting room. There Victor observes the bizarre habits of the other visitors, fidgets impatiently, and finally attacks a dog with a cake. | ||||
In an attempt to get Victor and Patrick to bury the hatchet, the two share an unpleasant experience in an Armenian restaurant. Victor experiments with seafood cookery and restores a Dutch marionette, much to the displeasure of Margaret. Meanwhile, the Meldrews have their loft converted. | ||||
Mr. Swainey invites Tania, his mother's nurse, out for a date. Meanwhile Victor takes a job as a chauffeur but rapidly destroys his employer's (played by John Bird) beloved fleet of expensive cars. | ||||
Christmas Special (1995)
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When cousin Ursula dies, Victor and Margaret have to clear her house in the country. But before they go, a witch predicts Victor will come to an untimely end. Meanwhile, Patrick and Pippa are preparing to finally move away from the Meldrews. | ||||
Christmas Special (1996)
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The Meldrews return home to find a man living in their shed (played by Ray Winstone), who it later turns out is a drug taker. Victor has a new job as a gardener working for Patrick's new boss Fenella Fortune (played by Rula Lenska). However, it seems that weedkiller has become an appropriate title. Meanwhile, Mr. Swainey's mother is claiming that she is being abducted by aliens every night. Mr. Tambourine Man by The Byrds is used in the closing credits. | ||||
Christmas Special (1997)
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The Meldrews are trying to make an effort to get on with their pleasant new neighbours, Derek (played by Tim Brooke-Taylor) and Betty McVitie. Matters are complicated when the two couples go on holiday in the same rented cottage, Victor buys a haunted caravan and then accidentally kidnaps the Indian mother of a millionaire. | ||||
Series 6 (2000)
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Victor has a new job as a window-cleaner. Meanwhile, Patrick's plans for a quiet birthday are ruined after an unfortunate misunderstanding involving a modern art painting and Pippa finds herself in an adulterous affair. | ||||
Victor is angry at the poor job builders have made of his new barbecue. Meanwhile, their new car needs to have its obscene number plates changed, and Victor has a health scare, perhaps brought about by playing an amateur-dramatic vampire. | ||||
Victor regrets hiring an attractive cleaner to help around the house as he inadvertently gets Mrs. Warboys tattooed. Meanwhile, Mrs Warboys finds a deep-fried finger in her chips and a large plastic fly is delivered. | ||||
After a powercut on a the hottest day of the year, Victor has nothing better to do than complain. Later the Meldrews play host to an incontinent visitor (played by Roy Hudd). | ||||
Victor's new fishing hobby leads to an unfortunate encounter with a Fly-tipping. Meanwhile, a visit from Patrick's gay twin brother leaves Pippa feeling mentally and physically exhausted, especially when Patrick sits on a cork. | ||||
After a disappointing reunion dinner, Victor is killed in a road accident. Afterwards, Margaret faces up to life without him, but receives another shock when she discovers that Victor's killer is her new best friend Glynis (played by Hannah Gordon). What she then does is left ambiguous. | ||||
References
- General
- Richard Webber, "The Complete One Foot in the Grave", Orion Books, 2006
- Specific
- ^ "One Foot in the Grave". British Film Institute. Retrieved 2008-04-14.
- ^ "One Foot in the Grave". BBC Guide to Comedy. Archived from the original on 2005-04-17. Retrieved 2008-04-14.