One Foot in the Grave

Victor Meldrew 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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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?

Victor and Margaret return to catastrophe.

Victor and Margaret take in an unusual charge.

Victor and Margaret make a foray into amateur dramatics.

The unrequested arrival of door-to-door salesmen and a deluge of junk mail arouse concern.

Victor and Margaret go on holiday.

The trials and tribulations of a sleepless night.

Victor returns from the supermarket to find the house has been burgled.

Relations between Victor and Margaret are unusually strained.

Victor's brother Alfred arrives from New Zealand on one of his regular 25-year visits.

Victor and Margaret embark on a day out but the outing turns into a nightmare.

The Meldrews battle to rid their home of an evil curse.

Victor is involved in a nasty case of vermin control.

The hole being dug at the bottom of Victor's back garden becomes a tunnel to hell.

When Margaret collapses from exhaustion, Victor patiently nurses her back into a gibbering nervous wreck.

A day out on the river leads Victor and Margaret into very sinister murky waters.

The Meldrews return home from a horror-filled holiday in the sun, only to face a series of disasters which almost sends Margaret over the edge. Deciding she can take no more, she embarks on a reckless adventure.

Victor is summoned for jury service and ends up as the man on trial.

A meeting of Victor's conjuring group ends in chaos when one of the tricks goes horribly wrong.

The Meldrews set out for a routine visit to a garden centre little imagining the good luck that fate has in store for them. But their fortune is short-lived: a phone call is about to turn their world upside down.

After Mrs Warboys's flat is flooded, she becomes something of a fixture in the Meldrew house - rather like woodworm. Fortunately, Victor and Margaret manage to get away for an evening. They return to find chaos, but Victor, recent graduate of a course in stress relief, is the picture of serenity.

The Meldrews decide to step up security on their home. But when the new locks jam Victor is confronted with a problem: how to break out of the house in time forthe European Cup game at Wembley. Meanwhile, red-headed Millicent Miles , widow from the local greengrocer's, arrives on the scene with designs on Victor that are more animal than vegetable.

Victor and Margaret visit a solicitor to discuss a separation. An eventful wait then brings more misery.

Victor's latest culinary adventures bring chaos to the Meldrew household.

Margaret tries to organise an unlikely love affair after Victor takes to the road.

A dispute with the Meldrews scuppers Patrick's plans for a a quiet birthday.

Victor is alarmed when a routine medical test turns out to have sinister implications

Victor begins to regret hiring a cleaner to help around the house.

Plunged into darkness after a power cut on a sweltering summer night, Victor and Margaret reflect on their lives, hopes and fears.

Victor's new hobby of fishing leads to an encounter with humanity at its most primitive.

After Victor dies in a road accident, Margaret faces up to life without him.