One Foot in the Grave - Season 1 (1994) Review

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(More customer reviews)Meet Victor Meldrew, who seems to notice everything annoying in life and feels the need to constantly comment on it, and his long suffering wife, Margaret, who is weary of Victor's diatribes. Along with the Meldrews, you meet a host of friends and neighbors that add to the side splitting fun. If you have never seen this Britcom before, you've truly missed a masterpiece. This is definitely one to add to your collection. For those interested, here is an episode guide:
EPISODE GUIDE
1.Alive and Buried.
Victor Meldrew, upon turning 60, is forcibly retired when he is replaced by a talking machine.
2.The Big Sleep
Rampant hypochondria brings on a near death experience for Victor.
3.The Valley of Fear
Victor finds himself the victim of a mugging and a vandalism attack so he decides to hold a crime prevention meeting.
4.I'll Retire to Bedlam
Victor encounters a day of one trial after another when he is locked in the shed for three hours, forced to keep his eyes closed all day after an appointment with the optometrist, and then forced to babysit!
5.The Eternal Quadrangle

Margaret is displeased when Victor takes up a hobby - painting nudes.
6. The Return of the Speckled Band

After helping Mrs. Warboy's through a food poisoning attack and having problems with the electricity man, the Meldrews feel they have earned a relaxing vacation? But will they get one?!


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The BAFTA-nominated series about the growing pains of growing old is finally on DVD! Forced into early retirement, Victor Meldrew optimistically tries to adjust to years of leisure with his wife Margaret. If only events -- coincidences, misunderstandings, bureaucratic inefficiencies and sheer bad luck -- didn't conspire against him.

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One Foot in the Grave - Season 2 (1998) Review

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(More customer reviews)What a treat, the first two seasons of One Foot in the Grave released on the same day! Season two continues to follow the misadventures of cranky curmudgeon Victor Meldrew and his distraught wife, Margaret as they journey through retirement encountering one disaster after another. For those interested, here is an episode guide of season two:
EPISODE GUIDE
1.In Luton Airport, No One Can Hear You Scream
Victor and Margaret return from their holiday to find their house destroyed and their luggage floating somewhere around the world.
2.We Have Put Her Living in the Tomb
Naturally, disaster ensues when Victor and Margaret are asked to look after their God-daughter's pet tortoise.
3. Dramatic Fever
Both Victor and Margaret are bitten by the dramatic bug when Margaret joins an amateur acting society and Victor takes up comedy writing.
4.Who Will Buy?
Victor decides to revive his old ventriloquism act while Margaret befriends a lonely old blind man.
5.Love and Death
Victor and Margaret decide to visit some friends on the South Coast with hilarious results.
6.Timeless Time
Victor spends a sleepless night filled with bizarre happenings.
Also includes the hour long 1990 Christmas Special, "Who's Listening?" in which Victor finds himself without the holiday spirit thanks to several factors including Mrs. Warboys' nativity play, 263 garden gnomes, and a hostage crisis. But Victor meets a little boy with a bigger problem.
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The BAFTA nominated series about the growing pains of growing old is finally on DVD! Life continues to throw more slings and arrows at Victor as he and Margaret move to a new house. Next door, the cheerful but terminally boring Nick Swainey seems intent on disturbing Victor's peaceful retirement, while on the other side Patrick and Pippa's lives are made a misery from the moment they first meet the Meldrews.

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One Foot in the Grave: Season 3 Review

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(More customer reviews)I just love this show! I found it by accident when purchasing other British comedies on Amazon. It's a comedy along the lines of Fawlty Towers, The Thin Blue Line and Blackadder. Yet, One Foot in the Grave is distinctly unique. It covers an overlooked segment of the population (the recently retired & aging segment).
If you have never saw One Foot in the Grave, start at season 1 and work your way up. The show and characters are more enjoyable watched in order, as many times they will work off something that occured in a previous show. Season 3 is perhaps the best of the series, so far, with the characters having grown and really filling out their roles.
An overview of the story (starting at Season 1), is about a 60 year old man (Mr. Victor Meldrew) whom is forced into retirement and has his whole life turned upside down. As he battles against a world that now longer makes sense, trouble seems to find him at every corner. Richard Wilson plays Victor Meldrew and Annette Crosbie plays as his wife Margaret Meldrew. Both Crosbie and Wilson are hysterical & believable. Victor being on the brink of a breakdown all the time, and his wife the voice of sanity, that brings humor to every situation. Or is Victor the sanest of them all? The older I get the more I identify with grumpy ole' Victor Meldrew.
Great show that gets funnier every season. If you are a fan of British comedy this is a must see!


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People, in Victor Meldrew’s view, were created to annoy him. And Victor annoys them too, provoking them to extremes. Sharing the misery, nightmares and confusion are his long-suffering wife Margaret (she’ll never forget the day she found Victor buried up to his neck with a flowerpot over his head), friend Mrs. Warboys (she’ll never forget that country walk with her foot cemented to Victor’s), and neighbors Mr Swainey and his bedridden mother Pippa (she will never forget the pile of radioactive manure on her drive) and Patrick (who will never forget the hideous experience of having a crab surgically removed from his genitals).DVD Features:Audio CommentaryTV Special

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One Foot in the Grave: Season 5 (2008) Review

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(More customer reviews)If you're considering Season 5, then you already know what a great show this is. I just felt the need to negate another very misleading review. Firstly, the comedy is very, very broad (not dry) yet all reasonable in context. The storylines are interwoven so brilliantly that everything, perversely, makes sense. Secondly, Victor is not a grumpy old man; he's actually a lovely, pleasant man who's constantly baffled and frustrated by an inconsiderate, vulgar world; his mistake is that, instead of ignoring this world, he chooses to confront it in hopes of making change. Thirdly, this series is most certainly not especially for older people. I began watching it just after it began. I wasn't old then, and I'm not even middle-aged now. This is a series for people who love farce and appreciate great writing and acting. And unlike so many comedies, you really won't see what's coming until it's there and you're howling with laughter. Great, great, great show.

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One Foot in the Grave: Season 6 (2008) Review

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(More customer reviews)As a fan of the series as it was broadcast on Public Television, I was greatly disappointed at this version of the final episode. My favorite scenes have been altered from the broadcast version. The cabaret scene from Victor's reunion has been completely cut, and the final song used has been substituted with an insturmental selection. I can only assume that these changes were made for legal reasons, as the cabaret performers are still listed in the closing credits. I deducted 4 stars because I was so happy to be able to own the series and feel betrayed. Can you believe it?!

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The exploits of irascible retiree Victor Meldrew continue in Season Six and he fights misfortune, misadventure and sheer bad luck that life just loves to throw at him. The grim reaper finally gets to Victor Meldrew. He may not arrive in the form of a strangely-shaped unordered parcel, as a workman with the intellect of an orangutan, or even as Meldrew-fixated ex-neighbor Patrick, but he better be prepared to listen: Victor might have a few complaints to make!

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One Foot in the Grave: The Complete Series (2009) Review

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(More customer reviews)One Foot In the Grave is one of the most cleverly written and funniest sitcoms you are ever likely to see. The main character Victor Meldrew is an iconic figure in British comedy. While on the surface he seems to be just a grouchy old man he is in fact a very deep thinker who tries his best to do what is right in a world he doesn't generally agree with. Sometimes things go his way but usually the result is disaster. The supporting cast are all brilliant, his neighbors Patrick and Pippa are forever catching him in awkward situations and are convinced he is insane. His feud with Patrick is one of the most hilarious parts of this show.
I don't personally know anyone else who is familiar with this show, I don't think it has ever been shown on PBS in my area although I know it has been show in other parts of the country at some point. One Foot is a show which I believe deserves a huge cult following here in the US if it were just more well known. In a way you could compare it a bit to Seinfeld in that there are usually several storylines in an episode that converge in the end, again usually adding up to disaster for Victor.
There are so many zany, surreal moments in this show that I couldn't start to list them here. My advice is just buy it and see for yourself. If you appreciate British humor you will in no way be disappointed. I might add that the theme song is written and performed by the legendary Eric Idle of Monty Python fame, he also guest stars in one episode.
One word of advice, if you own a multi-region dvd player try amazon.co.uk for the region two version of the box set as it is much, much cheaper than the region one version, this is true of almost all BBC dvds as well.

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The exploits of irascible retiree Victor Meldrew continue in Season Six and he fights misfortune, misadventure and sheer bad luck that life just loves to throw at him. The grim reaper finally gets to Victor Meldrew. He may not arrive in the form of a strangely-shaped unordered parcel, as a workman with the intellect of an orangutan, or even as Meldrew-fixated ex-neighbor Patrick, but he better be prepared to listen: Victor might have a few complaints to make!

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