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One Foot in the Grave

“Who would have thought retirement could be so chaotic?”

199030m / epComedy

First aired

January 4, 1990

7.7

TMDB Score

77% match · 92 votes

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Alive and Buried

Series 1 · Jan 4, 1990 · 29m

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Jan 18, 1990 · 29m

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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.

About the Series

Comedy

Synopsis

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. Despite its traditional production, the series supplants its domestic sitcom setting with elements of black humour and surrealism.

CreatorDavid Renwick