One Foot In The Grave. Image shows from L to R: Margaret Meldrew (Annette Crosbie), Victor Meldrew (Richard Wilson). Copyright: BBC
One Foot In The Grave

One Foot In The Grave

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC One
  • 1990 - 2000
  • 42 episodes (6 series)

The grumpy complainer and accident prone Victor Meldrew takes early retirement and finds he has far too much time on his hands. His long suffering wife and neighbours just have to grin and bear it. Stars Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Doreen Mantle, Owen Brenman, Angus Deayton and Janine Duvitski

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Series 5, Episode 3 - Rearranging The Dust

Victor and Margaret visit a solicitor to sort out some legal matters. But a long, non-eventful wait then brings more misery.

Further details

Victor and Margaret are bored in their solicitor's waiting room so Victor passes the time by counting the leaves on the plastic plant. Moreover, his testicles become trapped in the elastic, and he discovers a spider in his flies. Victor paces around the waiting room bored out of his brains, and when Margaret tells him to sit down and behave, so he accidentally wrecks a glass table when he puts hit feet up on it.

Victor gets up and complains about the amount of dust on the window ledges, and finds a bird nest on the inside of it. He also wrecks the blind when he plays with it. Victor then spends some time philosophising about dust and death. As Victor looks out of the window, he sees a dog urinating on his car so he throws a meringue at it, then argues with the owner out of the window. He goes to the toilet next door but the trickling noise can be heard very loudly indeed in the waiting room, much to Margaret's embarrassment. A solicitor comes into the waiting room not to invite Victor in but to hand him an assault charge regarding the meringue and dog incident!

Broadcast details

Date
Sunday 15th January 1995
Time
9pm
Channel
BBC One
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Saturday 16th July 2011 10:30am Gold
Sunday 17th July 2011 9:00am Gold
Sunday 31st July 2011 10:30am Gold
Sunday 31st July 2011 2:25pm Gold
Tuesday 2nd August 2011 11:20am Gold
Tuesday 2nd August 2011 4:40pm Gold
Wednesday 19th October 2011 10:00am Gold
Wednesday 19th October 2011 4:40pm Gold
Sunday 20th November 2011 7:35pm Gold
Saturday 28th January 2012 9:20am Gold
Friday 24th February 2012 12:40pm Gold
Friday 24th February 2012 6:40pm Gold
Wednesday 9th May 2012 1:00pm Gold
Wednesday 9th May 2012 7:00pm Gold
Saturday 23rd June 2012 1:05pm Gold
Friday 7th September 2012 12:20pm Gold
Friday 7th September 2012 6:20pm Gold
Wednesday 5th June 2013 3:40pm Gold
Thursday 6th June 2013 9:40am Gold
Thursday 31st October 2013 5:20pm Gold
Friday 1st November 2013 11:40am Gold
Thursday 12th December 2013 6:20pm Drama
Saturday 8th March 2014 12:10pm Gold
Sunday 9th March 2014 9:15am Gold
Saturday 15th March 2014 5:00pm Drama
Sunday 16th March 2014 4:20pm Drama
Tuesday 29th April 2014 5:00pm Gold
Wednesday 30th April 2014 9:40am Gold
Tuesday 27th May 2014 1:00am Gold
Tuesday 27th May 2014 7:00pm Gold
Saturday 16th August 2014 8:20pm Yesterday
Wednesday 12th November 2014 6:40pm Gold
Saturday 28th February 2015 1:20pm Gold
Saturday 28th February 2015 8:20pm Gold
Monday 27th April 2015 12:40pm Gold
Monday 27th April 2015 7:40pm Gold
Saturday 12th September 2015 5:20pm Drama
Monday 19th October 2015 2:00pm Gold
Wednesday 20th July 2016 10:45pm Yesterday
Thursday 21st July 2016 9:25pm Yesterday
Monday 12th December 2016 10:40pm Yesterday
Tuesday 13th December 2016 8:40pm Yesterday
Wednesday 8th February 2017 10:00am Gold
Wednesday 8th February 2017 1:20pm Gold
Tuesday 7th March 2017 8:00am Gold
Tuesday 20th June 2017 9:00pm Yesterday
Wednesday 21st June 2017 3:40pm Yesterday
Wednesday 27th September 2017 10:40pm Yesterday
Thursday 28th September 2017 10:40am Yesterday
Monday 29th January 2018 6:00pm Drama
Tuesday 6th March 2018 12:20am Yesterday
Tuesday 6th March 2018 9:40pm Yesterday
Tuesday 6th March 2018 10:20pm Yesterday
Monday 9th April 2018 11:00pm Yesterday
Tuesday 10th April 2018 9:00pm Yesterday
Wednesday 19th September 2018 11:00pm Yesterday
Thursday 20th September 2018 9:00pm Yesterday
Saturday 26th January 2019 8:15am Gold
Wednesday 24th March 2021 12:20am Yesterday
Wednesday 24th March 2021 10:20pm Yesterday
Saturday 10th July 2021 8:00pm Yesterday
Saturday 6th November 2021 2:20pm Drama
Sunday 28th November 2021 9:40pm Yesterday
Saturday 8th January 2022 8:40pm Yesterday
Saturday 8th January 2022 9:20pm Yesterday
Saturday 19th March 2022 3:20pm Drama
Saturday 16th April 2022 11:20pm Yesterday
Saturday 25th June 2022 10:40pm Yesterday
Thursday 18th August 2022 7:00am Drama
Thursday 18th August 2022 6:00pm Drama
Saturday 15th October 2022 10:05pm Yesterday
Saturday 7th January 2023 11:20pm Yesterday
Saturday 24th June 2023 11:20pm Yesterday
Saturday 14th October 2023 11:20pm Yesterday
Saturday 20th January 2024 11:20pm Yesterday
Saturday 30th March 2024 11:20pm Yesterday

Cast & crew

Cast
Richard Wilson Victor Meldrew
Annette Crosbie Margaret Meldrew
Guest cast
Antony Sher Businessman
Damaris Hayman Receptionist
Valerie Minifie Woman
Laura Cox Woman
Writing team
David Renwick Writer
Production team
Susan Belbin Director
Susan Belbin Producer
Mark Lawrence Editor
Linda Conoboy Production Designer
Laurence Williams Production Designer
Richard Winter Costume Designer
Vanessa White Make-up Designer
Chris Kempton (as Christopher Kempton) Lighting Designer
Eric Idle Composer
Ed Welch Composer

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