One Foot in the Grave

Victor Meldrew is a retiree who attracts bad luck. If he's not driving his long suffering wife Margaret crazy with his constant moaning, he's fighting with neighbours.

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Cast:Richard Wilson , Annette Crosbie , Doreen Mantle , Owen Brenman , Angus Deayton , Janine Duvitski , David Renwick , Gordon Peters , Valerie Minifie , Damaris Hayman , Christopher Ryan , Michael Robbins , Cecily Hobbs , John Rutland , Nick Maloney , Louise Duprey , Laura Cox , Hilary Mason

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Alive and Buried

Thu, Jan 4, 1990

At the age of 60, Victor Meldrew is retired from his job as a security guard to be replaced by a box and a recorded message.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ The Big Sleep

Thu, Jan 11, 1990

Victor's cousin Geoffrey, who had also just taken early retirement at 60, dies; the Meldrews' local keep-fit class takes a deadly turn.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ The Valley of Fear

Thu, Jan 18, 1990

While photographing a sunset in Blue Bell Wood, Victor is mugged and graffiti is sprayed on the Meldrews' house, so he decides it's time to call a Neighbourhood Watch meeting.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ I'll Retire to Bedlam

Thu, Jan 25, 1990

Victor gets trapped in his shed for three hours thanks to a swarm of belligerent bees, has a prolonged sojourn at the optician's, then must babysit Iris's unruly kids.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ The Eternal Quadrangle

Thu, Feb 1, 1990

Margaret is horrified when she discovers Victor has been drawing a naked woman in his art class and giving her lifts home.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ The Return of the Speckled Band

Thu, Feb 8, 1990

The Meldrews are getting ready for their annual holiday, but the way to Athens may be slippery when Victor returns home from the local garden centre with something extra.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ In Luton Airport No-One Can Hear You Scream

Thu, Oct 4, 1990

The Meldrews return from their holiday to find that their baggage has been sent to the other side of the world - but as they soon learn that is the least of their problems.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ We Have Put Her Living in the Tomb

Thu, Oct 11, 1990

After decorating their new house, the Meldrews are entrusted to mind the pet tortoise of Margaret's young goddaughter.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Dramatic Fever

Thu, Oct 18, 1990

Victor writes a script for a new situation comedy, but nobody else finds it very funny. Margaret also catches dramatic fever.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Who Will Buy?

Thu, Oct 25, 1990

Victor and Margaret get worried when a couple named Patrick and Pippa seemingly come to stay as they have no idea who they are.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Love and Death

Thu, Nov 8, 1990

The Meldrews are on holiday, staying with their old friends, Vince and April, in their seaside boarding house.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Timeless Time

Thu, Nov 15, 1990

Victor and Margaret endure a sleepless night.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Monday Morning Will Be Fine

Sun, Feb 2, 1992

To relieve the boredom after their TV set is stolen, Margaret and Victor head to the local pub.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Dreamland

Sun, Feb 9, 1992

Mrs Warboys recounts the murderous tale of a recurring dream had by Margaret.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ The Broken Reflection

Sun, Feb 16, 1992

Victor's brother visits all the way from New Zealand.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ The Beast in the Cage

Sun, Feb 23, 1992

Margaret and Victor get stuck in the Bank Holiday traffic.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Beware the Trickster on the Roof

Sun, Mar 1, 1992

The Meldrews receive a bad luck charm from Mr Swainey.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ The Worst Horror of All

Sun, Mar 8, 1992

The Meldrews attend the filming of a TV sitcom. Victor begins his new job as a hotel doorman.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ The Pit and the Pendulum

Sun, Jan 31, 1993

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.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Descent Into the Maelstrom

Sun, Feb 7, 1993

Margaret collapses from nervous exhaustion which has been building up for the past 35 years.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Hearts of Darkness

Sun, Feb 14, 1993

The Meldrews, Mrs. Warboys, and Mr. Swainey take a trip to the countryside.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Warm Champagne

Sun, Feb 21, 1993

Margaret's annoyance at Victor's incessant grumbling lures her into considering an affair with Ben, a holiday acquaintance. She meets him for drinks and returns home to find another woman in her bed.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ The Trial

Sun, Feb 28, 1993

While on call for jury service, Victor spends the day home alone.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Secret of the Seven Sorcerers

Sun, Mar 7, 1993

The Meldrews invite Patrick and Pippa round for a friendly evening meal, plus Victor hosts an eventful meeting of his local conjurers group before beginning his new job as a lollipop man.

1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ The Man Who Blew Away

Sun, Dec 25, 1994

The Meldrews get a surprise visit from Mr. Foskett, whom they know only because they stayed in the same guest house 17 years ago.

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ Only a Story

Sun, Jan 1, 1995

Mrs. Warboys stays with the Meldrews while her flat dries out after a flood. Victor tries reflexology and has a run-in with a chimney sweep.

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ The Affair of the Hollow Lady

Sun, Jan 8, 1995

Local greengrocer Millicent takes a fancy to Victor and attempts to lure him to her house when he misses a football match.

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ Rearranging the Dust

Sun, Jan 15, 1995

In their solicitor's waiting room, Victor and Margaret muse about life and observe the other visitors' bizarre habits.

5Season 5

S5.E5 ∙ Hole in the Sky

Sun, Jan 22, 1995

Pippa and Margaret send their husbands to an Armenian restaurant to try to work things out; instead they have a harrowing experience that makes things worse.

6Season 5

S5.E6 ∙ The Exterminating Angel

Sun, Jan 29, 1995

Mr. Swainey takes a fancy to his mother's nurse and Margaret encourages him to ask her out. Victor takes a job as a chauffeur, only to rapidly destroy his employer's beloved fleet of expensive cars.

1Season 6

S6.E1 ∙ The Executioner's Song

Mon, Oct 16, 2000

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.

2Season 6

S6.E2 ∙ Tales of Terror

Mon, Oct 23, 2000

Victor has a health scare and the Meldrews try to get their new car's obscene number plates changed.

3Season 6

S6.E3 ∙ The Futility of the Fly

Mon, Oct 30, 2000

Victor hires an attractive cleaner to help around the house and inadvertently gets Mrs. Warboys tattooed. Meanwhile, a large plastic fly is delivered, and something's going on at the local takeaway.

4Season 6

S6.E4 ∙ Threatening Weather

Mon, Nov 6, 2000

After a power-cut on the hottest day of the year, the Meldrews play host to an incontinent visitor.

5Season 6

S6.E5 ∙ The Dawn of Man

Mon, Nov 13, 2000

A visit from Patrick's gay twin brother leaves Pippa mentally and physically exhausted, especially when Patrick sits on a cork.

6Season 6

S6.E6 ∙ Things Aren't Simple Any More

Mon, Nov 20, 2000

Margeret finds it hard to cope after the death of Victor, but what will she do when she is face to face with his killer?