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One Foot in the Grave is a BBC television sitcom series The series features the exploits of Victor Meldrew and his long-suffering wife, Margaret. The programmes invariably deal with Meldrew's battle against the problems he creates for himself. Living in a typical household in an unnamed English suburb, Victor takes involuntary early retirement. His various efforts to keep himself busy, while encountering various misfortunes and misunderstandings are the themes of the sitcom. The series was largely filmed on location in Walkford, near New Milton in Hampshire, although several clues show that the series may have been set in Hampshire – possibly Winchester. Despite its traditional production, the series supplants its domestic sitcom setting with elements of black humour and surrealism.

Genre:Comedy
Network:BBC One

Lowest Rated Episodes Summary

The worst episode of "One Foot In the Grave" is "Rearranging The Dust", rated 7.4/10 from 144 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Rearranging The Dust" aired on 1/15/1995 and is rated 0.1 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Alive and Buried".

  • Rearranging The Dust
    7.4/10 144 votes

    #1 - Rearranging The Dust

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 1/15/1995

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Alive and Buried
    7.5/10 215 votes

    #2 - Alive and Buried

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/1990

    Victor Meldrew, 60 years old, is at last retiring from the rigors of his security guard job at Watson-Mycroft. Replaced by a talking machine, Victor soon discovers that retirement will give him just as many reasons to be grumpy.

    Director: Susan Belbin

    Writer: David Renwick

  • The Big Sleep
    7.6/10 189 votes

    #3 - The Big Sleep

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/11/1990

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

    Director: Susan Belbin

    Writer: David Renwick

  • The Eternal Quadrangle
    7.6/10 167 votes

    #4 - The Eternal Quadrangle

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/1/1990

    Although Margaret is glad that Victor finally has a hobby to occupy his time, she is less pleased to discover that it involves painting nudes.

    Director: Susan Belbin

    Writer: David Renwick

  • The Valley of Fear
    7.7/10 183 votes

    #5 - The Valley of Fear

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/18/1990

    After being mugged whilst photographing badgers, and having his house sprayed with the phrase 'The Man Who Lives Here Is A Turd', Victor decides to hold a crime prevention meeting.

    Director: Susan Belbin

    Writer: David Renwick

  • The Executioner's Song
    7.7/10 128 votes

    #6 - The Executioner's Song

    Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 10/16/2000

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Threatening Weather
    7.7/10 130 votes

    #7 - Threatening Weather

    Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 11/6/2000

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • I'll Retire To Bedlam
    7.8/10 174 votes

    #8 - I'll Retire To Bedlam

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/25/1990

    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.

    Director: Susan Belbin

    Writer: David Renwick

  • The Return Of The Speckled Band
    7.8/10 161 votes

    #9 - The Return Of The Speckled Band

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/8/1990

    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?

    Director: Susan Belbin

    Writer: David Renwick

  • We Have Put Her Living In The Tomb
    7.8/10 152 votes

    #10 - We Have Put Her Living In The Tomb

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/1990

    The Meldrews are given the responsability of looking after their god-daughter's tortoise.

    Director: Susan Belbin

    Writer: David Renwick

  • Dramatic Fever
    7.8/10 167 votes

    #11 - Dramatic Fever

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/1990

    Victor discovers a new talent - writing comedy. However, his views of comedy are somewhat different from everyone elses, and he finds himself without support.

    Director: Susan Belbin

    Writer: David Renwick

  • Timeless Time
    7.8/10 160 votes

    #12 - Timeless Time

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/15/1990

    A variety of bizarre factors, including a dead hedgehog, keep Victor awake. And if Victor's awake, Margaret isn't going to get much sleep either.

    Director: Susan Belbin

    Writer: David Renwick

  • Tales Of Terror
    7.8/10 127 votes

    #13 - Tales Of Terror

    Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/23/2000

    In Mr. Swainey's production of 'Nosferatu The vampire', the actor who was supposed to play the vampire doesn't show up so Nick asks Victor to take the part. He did. Later, blood was found in Victor's 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!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • In Luton Airport No One Can Hear You Scream
    7.9/10 170 votes

    #14 - In Luton Airport No One Can Hear You Scream

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/1990

    When Victor and Margaret return from their holiday, they discover that their luggage has been sent to the other side of the world, and that their house has been burned down.

    Director: Susan Belbin

    Writer: David Renwick

  • Who Will Buy?
    7.9/10 165 votes

    #15 - Who Will Buy?

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1990

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

    Director: Susan Belbin

    Writer: David Renwick

  • Monday Morning Will Be Fine
    8.0/10 153 votes

    #16 - Monday Morning Will Be Fine

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 2/2/1992

    After a burglary Victor decides not to replace his television set in order to give him and Margaret more opportunity to get out of the house. However, a trip to the pub results in a disconcerting experience with an old friend.

    Director: Susan Belbin

    Writer: David Renwick

  • Dreamland
    8.0/10 151 votes

    #17 - Dreamland

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 2/9/1992

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

    Director: Susan Belbin

    Writer: David Renwick

  • The Broken Reflection
    8.0/10 152 votes

    #18 - The Broken Reflection

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 2/16/1992

    Alfred, Victor's accident prone brother, is making his first visit from New Zealand for 25 years. Victor is not looking forward to his stay, preferring to act as a neighbourhood vigilante.

    Director: Susan Belbin

    Writer: David Renwick

  • The Trial
    8.0/10 176 votes

    #19 - The Trial

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 2/28/1993

    Victor has been selected for jury service. He hasn't been required in court yet, but he is on call so he is stuck in the house all day and must somehow beat his boredom.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Only A Story
    8.0/10 127 votes

    #20 - Only A Story

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 1/1/1995

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Hole In The Sky
    8.0/10 141 votes

    #21 - Hole In The Sky

    Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 1/22/1995

    Patrick is looking forward to his trip to stay with Pippa's brother after an embarrassing visit to an Armenian restaurant in order to attempt to make up with Victor. Meanwhile, the Meldrews are employing a pair of very strange workmen and Margaret is getting jealous of a marionette.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Exterminating Angel
    8.0/10 142 votes

    #22 - The Exterminating Angel

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 1/29/1995

    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 employer's beloved fleet.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Beware The Trickster On The Roof
    8.1/10 149 votes

    #23 - Beware The Trickster On The Roof

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 3/1/1992

    Mr Swainey has brought Victor a present back from his holiday - an unlucky charm. Victor thinks that Mrs Stebbings's tv aerial is laughing at him and his resulting misfortune. Meanwhile, Patrick and Pippa are having problems trying to sell their house.

    Director: Susan Belbin

    Writer: David Renwick

  • The Beast In The Cage
    8.2/10 175 votes

    #24 - The Beast In The Cage

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 2/23/1992

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

    Director: Susan Belbin

    Writer: David Renwick

  • The Pit and the Pendulum
    8.2/10 164 votes

    #25 - The Pit and the Pendulum

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1/31/1993

    Victor is employing a workman in the garden, although he never seems to do any work. On the other side of the fence, Patrick has acquired a pet daschund called Denzil.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A