List Of One Foot In The Grave Episodes
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One Foot in the Grave ''One Foot in the Grave'' is a British television sitcom written by David Renwick. There were six series (each consisting of six half-hour shows) and seven Christmas specials over a period of ten years from early 1990 to late 2000. The first fi ...
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, created and written by David Renwick and produced by the
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, broadcast on
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throughout its run. The series features the exploits of
Victor Meldrew Victor Meldrew is a fictional character in the BBC One sitcom ''One Foot in the Grave'', created by David Renwick and portrayed by Richard Wilson. The character epitomised the archetypal grumpy old man. Meldrew is a foil for the bothersome aspec ...
, played by Richard Wilson and his wife, Margaret Meldrew, played by
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, in their battle against the trials of modern life. Supporting cast includes
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as Jean Warboys, Angus Deayton as Patrick Trench,
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as Pippa Trench and
Owen Brenman Owen Brenman (born 17 December 1956, in London) is an English actor best known for his role as next-door neighbour Nick Swainey in the multi-award-winning BBC sitcom '' One Foot in the Grave'', which ran for ten years (1990–2000) and was wri ...
as Nick Swainey. The series is regularly repeated on subscription channel
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and has also been screened on
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. While the programme has always been shown after the 9pm watershed on the BBC, other channels have sometimes broadcast it in earlier slots, with minor edits. It is available to stream on both BBC iPlayer and
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. In addition, there were also two short specials (under ten minutes in length) for
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, one of which featured Richard Wilson (Victor Meldrew) alone, though it included at one point the voice of
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. The
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special in 2001 was set after Victor's death. Though Richard Wilson appeared, Margaret did not interact with Victor's ghost, being unaware of his presence, although she briefly complains about "cold air" beside her. Some of the episodes did not feature the regular intro with the tortoise, such as "The Trial", "One Foot in the Algarve", "Rearranging the Dust", "The Wisdom of the Witch", "Starbound", "Endgame" and "Threatening Weather".


Series overview


Episodes


Series 1 (1990)


Series 2 (1990)


Series 3 (1991–92)


Series 4 (1993)


Series 5 (1994–95)


Christmas Specials (1996–97)


Series 6 (2000)


Other media


Comic Relief special (1993–2001)


Clip shows


Radio series (1995)

A series of remakes originally broadcast on BBC Radio 2, with Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Owen Brenman and Doreen Mantle reprising their TV roles. Its original run coincided with the broadcast of TV series 5. All episodes are 30 minutes long and produced by Diane Messias. They were subsequently issued on audio cassette, CD and audio download.


References

General *Richard Webber, "The Complete One Foot in the Grave", Orion Books, 2006 Specific


External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:One Foot in the Grave episodes BBC-related lists Lists of British sitcom episodes