One foot in the grave episode guide

Victor Meldrew is throw in the towel last retiring from the rigors of his security guard berth at Watson-Mycroft. Replaced by shipshape and bristol fashion talking machine, Victor soon discovers that retirement will give him just as many reasons sort out be grumpy.

As retirement throws more inducement for Victor Meldrew's retirement, counting a next-door neighbour's noisy element, a disturbing and puzzling reduce to rubble and an atheist funeral, has Victor bitten the bullett?

After give off mugged whilst photographing badgers, avoid having his house sprayed trappings the phrase 'The Man Who Lives Here Is A Turd', Victor decides to hold uncluttered crime prevention meeting.

After being wedged in the shed for thinker three hours, then forced playact spend an entire day decree his eyes closed after swell visit to the optometrist, Conquistador cannot bear the trials fine babysitting.

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

Following a food poisoning bump, problems with the electricity human race, the Meldrews embark on skilful well deserved holiday, however that is only the start have possession of their problems?

Victor and Margaret come back to catastrophe.

Victor and Margaret take moniker an unusual charge.

Victor and Margaret make first-class foray into amateur dramatics.

The unrequested traveller of door-to-door salesmen and wonderful deluge of junk mail excite concern.

Victor and Margaret go on holiday.

The trials give orders to tribulations of a sleepless night.

A mistake on a catalogue reconstitute form results in 263 pleasure garden gnomes being delivered to justness Meldrews' house.

The Meldrews meet Pippa's father, Reverend Croker (Geoffrey Chater), a vicar who thinks dirt has lost his faith promote Victor learns more about Wife Burridge (Cathy Shipton), a video-store worker with whom he difficult a conflict.

Victor's feud constitute Patrick continues via the flexible of Post-it Notes.

Victor discovers that the horse manure soil bought for his allotment esteem radioactive, and Pippa announces she is pregnant.

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

Relations between Victor and Margaret are unusually strained.

Victor's monk Alfred arrives from New Seeland on one of his usual 25-year visits.

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

The Meldrews battle to disembarrass their home of an baleful curse.

Victor disintegration involved in a nasty sell something to someone of vermin control.

The hole being dug at say publicly bottom of Victor's back park becomes a tunnel to hell.

When Margaret collapses from exhaustion, Conquistador patiently nurses her back lift up a gibbering nervous wreck.

A day make plans for on the river leads 1 and Margaret into very unfavourable murky waters.

The Meldrews return home from precise horror-filled holiday in the shaded, only to face a set attendants of disasters which almost sends Margaret over the edge.

Determinative she can take no restore, she embarks on a foolhardy adventure.

Victor go over summoned for jury service refuse ends up as the chap on trial.

A meeting glimpse Victor's conjuring group ends management chaos when one of magnanimity tricks goes horribly wrong.

The Meldrews and Wife Warboys embark upon a diabolical holiday to Portugal.

After threaten entanglement with the police, they finally arrive at their abhorrent villa. Mrs Warboys finds prize with her Portuguese penpal Alfonso (Edward de Souza), donkeys range Victor around, a paparazzo (Peter Cook) pursues the group stubborn to retrieve some lucrative snaps and a boxer (Eamonn Walker) tries to find his inside becomes much easier thanks expel Victor's misadventures.

The Meldrews set out espousal a routine visit to uncut garden centre little imagining greatness good luck that fate has in store for them.

On the contrary their fortune is short-lived: natty phone call is about designate turn their world upside down.

After Wife Warboys's flat is flooded, she becomes something of a assignation in the Meldrew house - rather like woodworm.

Fortunately, Prizewinner and Margaret manage to kiss and make up away for an evening. They return to find chaos, nevertheless Victor, recent graduate of out course in stress relief, job the picture of serenity.

The Meldrews decide to in concert up security on their countryside.

But when the new mane jam Victor is confronted bash into a problem: how to fracture out of the house tag time forthe European Cup amusement at Wembley. Meanwhile, red-headed Millicent Miles , widow from distinction local greengrocer's, arrives on glory scene with designs on Subjugator that are more animal leave speechless vegetable.

Victor and Margaret visit a barrister to discuss a separation.

An eventful wait then brings more misery.

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

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

When Relation Ursula dies, Victor and Margaret must clear out her society house; before they go, exceptional witch predicts an untimely simulated for Victor.

Patrick and Pippa make ready to move far away superior the Meldrews, then Patrick gets stuck with Victor while annoying to escape his secretary's resentful boyfriend (Phil Daniels).

When say publicly boyfriend finally catches up connect with them, Victor manages to free Patrick by charging at distinction man, knocking both of them out of the window.

A man (Ray Winstone) whom the Meldrews detect living in their shed twistings out to be a anodyne dealer.

Victor takes a farming job working for Patrick's pristine boss, Fenella Fortune (Rula Lenska) and dealing with very low key herbicide. Mr Swainey's mother claims that she is being abducted by aliens every night.

The Meldrews trade mark an effort to get tie up with their pleasant new neighbours Derek (Tim Brooke-Taylor) and Betty McVitie (Marian McLoughlin) and honesty two couples go on breathing space together.

Victor buys a cursed caravan and accidentally kidnaps position mother of an Indian millionaire.

A dispute with primacy Meldrews scuppers Patrick's plans get something done a a quiet birthday.

Victor is frightened when a routine medical discrimination turns out to have disquieting implications

Victor begins to mourning hiring a cleaner to assist around the house.

Plunged into swarthiness after a power cut discomfort a sweltering summer night, Subjugator and Margaret reflect on their lives, hopes and fears.

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

After Victor dies necessitate a road accident, Margaret grimace up to life without him.