One Foot In the Grave

As retirement throws more problems for Victor Meldrews retirement, including a next-door neighbours noisy party, a disturbing and puzzling rash and an atheist funeral, has Victor bitten the bullett?

After being stuck in the shed for over three hours, then forced to spend an entire day with his eyes closed after a visit to the optometrist, Victor cannot bear the trials of babysitting.

Following a food poisoning incident, problems with the electricity man, the Meldrews embark on a well deserved holiday, however this is only the start of their problems?

The Meldrews are given the responsability of looking after their god-daughters tortoise.

While Pippa believes that Victor may have murdered an elderly blind man, Victor uses a benefit concert to re-introduce his ventriloquist act.

A variety of bizarre factors, including a dead hedgehog, keep Victor awake. And if Victors awake, Margaret isnt going to get much sleep either.

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Margaret is having a recurring dream about murdering someone who looks like Victor. However, its Margaret who is starting to irritate Victor. That is, until she disappears.

The Meldrews and Mrs Warboys get stuck in Bank Holiday traffic.

Even a shed falling on him cannot upset Victor when he finally gets a new job. However, before starting work he must first contend with some unwanted visitors and a trip to the BBC organised by Mrs Warboys.

Margaret falls ills to nervous exhaustion that has been building up over the last 34 years. She has little chance for peace and quiet in which to recuperate, especially with Victors problems with gorilla suits and the waste disposal system. She is however cheered by a visit from an old friend.

Victor returns from holiday with sunburnt feet. His mood doesnt improve, thanks to rows with the neighbours and the addition of a streetlamp to his bedroom furniture. This gives Margaret a dilemma when she is contacted by Ben, a pleasant man who she met on holiday.

Victor is preparing for a meeting of his magicians club. He now has a job as a lollipop man, but is being bothered by hoax calls from the fire brigade. Patrick and Pippa are due to visit the Meldrews for a reconciliation meal, but Patrick isnt looking forward to the experience.

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Mrs Warboys is staying with the Meldrews following the flooding of her house and is starting to irritate Margaret. However, Victor is a lot calmer than usual thanks to the reflexology treatment that he has started receiving.

When Victor and Margaret visit their solicitors in order to make a will they discover precisely why a waiting room is so-called.

Romance is in the air for Mr. Swainey when he finally invites Tania the nurse out for a date. Victor takes a new job as a chauffeur but rapidly wipes out his employers beloved fleet.

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In Mr. Swaineys production of Nosferatu The vampire, the actor who was supposed to play the vampire doesnt show up so Nick asks Victor to take the part. He did. Later, blood was found in Victors digestive system during a test - after fearing the worst, the doctors discover that the blood was from an undercooked black pudding that was earlier given to Victor by Mrs. Warboys! later that week, whie on their way to visit the dreaded Ronnie and Mildred once more, Victor and Margaret are shocked to discover that Mildred has killed herself while playing a game of Happy Families - they are even more shocked to discover that her body is still hanging outside the house!

During a power cut, Victor realises that he had been right through the middle of an area affected by a siege as it happened. Making the power cut worse, it occurs on a hot Summer night. Victor had the misfortune to have a light fitting drop right on to his privates, a cigarette stubbed out on his cap and a mysterious pain that leads him to think that he had been shot as he passed the siege that morning. Things were made worse by the arrival of the incontinent, fat and irritating elderly neighbour, Mr. Smedley.

In the very last episode of One Foot in the Grave, Victors decision to attend a school reunion unwittingly delivers him into the hands of fate. Margaret deals with the aftermath with the help of her new friend, Glynis.